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561. Benefits of Developing & Maintaining a Database By DeAnna Spencer
     A database is more than a simple list of names and addresses. What turns a list into a database is the additional information, coupled with your ability to select names from or report on the list using any combination of data elements.In this report, you'll see some examples of the benefits of developing and maintaining a database. Then, the specific information that a database can contain will be detailed. BENEFITS OF A DATABASE By maintain…



562. Color Part 1: Accuracy By Erin Ferree
     Color is one of the most difficult parts of a design to show accurately to a client.Color perception can be affected by many factors, including:Human perception:The way each person sees color can vary, depending on the structure of the individual's eye. This is particularly true in the range of the color blue. Colorblindness is another factor in an individual's perception of color, which can be either very slight (and almost unnoticeable to …



563. Census Data Mapping for Small Business By Lance Winslow
     When studying the demographics of an area for a business venture or expansion you need to not only understand all the data, but what it means to your individual business model. Census data and Census projection charting for MSDA’s has become very accurate over the years. One company that uses ESRI’s ARC Info has data, which it sells called Tiger Files (Census Blocks). This is data by 650 household areas. Tiger files are the estimated growth …



564. Are You Guilty Of Interruption Marketing? By Don Pooley
     You muted the commercials on the TV last night because you were fed up with interruption marketing. Ditto if you went through your mail to find most of it is junk. Ditto again, if a stranger phoned you (usually at dinner time) asking you to answer a survey, or give to yet another worthy cause.Interruption marketing does just that. It interrupts you, and steals your time.And it is the darling of mass marketing, which is the child of the …



565. Creative Marketing: Just Your Style By Sara Pedersen
     You've enlisted some of the traditional marketing methods to sell your services: you received some publicity in your local paper; your website is up and running; and you're listed in the Yellow Pages. So why isn't the phone ringing off the hook? Maybe you're marketing strategies need to get more creative!Creative marketing will allow you to attract new clients, as well as remind past clients that you're still around. You'll also stand ou…



566. Provacative Research Works By Henry DeVries
     If you want to double your business, then you need to get inside your client's head through proprietary research and provocative results.By conducting proprietary research, you obtain special information that prospective clients can't find elsewhere. The foundation of client seduction is to give away useful information that demonstrates to clients you have the expertise to help them. Giving away general problem-solving information is good, but …



567. Facts About Catalog Printing
     A catalog is being used to promote the products and services of a business or company. It displays various purchasable items and their corresponding prices. It also includes photos of these items for consumers to perceive the kind of product that they’re going to purchase. When a business or company starts to grow, you’ll definitely look for the catalog printing options available to you.When you are considering catalogs for your marketing campaig…



568. 8 Ways to Fill a Workshop in a Bum Economy By Suzanne Falter-Barns
     Yes, you can fill a workshop when spending is down and buyers are wary. If your topic is clear, your marketing materials well-done, your product solid and your title catchy, success shouldn’t be tough. The fact is that people are as hungry as ever for the inspiration and stimulus a workshop provides, even when they’re nervous about money. And even though most bum economies recover over time, you may find the following tricks helpful enough to k…



569. How to Profit from Your Expertise (Part 1 of 2) By Kelly O'Brien
     Are you looking for a natural way to market your professional services? What if you could exponentially multiply the number of motivated, pre-qualified prospects you reach in a fraction of the time that networking and referrals require?Now what if you could be the person in a crowed room with whom everyone wants to talk about your services? And no, they don’t want to sell you something…they want to buy what you’ve got.Too good to be true? Not i…



570. Give me a Referral any Day - the Power of Networking By Keith Watson
     I nearly panicked recently! Well, maybe a slight exaggeration but here was a situation I had not been in for some time. The freezer had broken down and the dilemma I faced was – a speedy solution was necessary BUT I did not know anybody who repairs freezers. For the first time in some years I nearly reached for the Yellow Pages – a pristine copy that never sees the light of day – but sense prevailed and I consulted my wife. She rang her friend …



571. Maximizing Your Yellow Page Investment By Lisa Packer
     Yellow Page users are the hottest of all prospects – someone who has made the decision to buy, and now is looking for a place to do it. Does your ad convince them that your business is that place?It doesn’t have to be the biggest, although that can certainly help. And if you do it right, it won’t even matter if your business is listed first. What matters is that your ad is the most persuasive.“But, Lisa!” you’re saying in your most shocked whis…



572. What Not to Display on Display Signs By Jay Conners
     If you are promoting a product and you are doing some advertising with displays, don’t allow for your customer to know everything. Otherwise, they won’t have a reason to call you, or come visit you.For instance, when I was working in the banking industry, we displayed our rates on a fancy looking board in the middle of our main lobby.Customers would come in, take care of their business, glance at the rate board, and walk out the door.Than one d…



573. Reasons Why You Should Niche Your Business By L A Parmley
     Caution! After reading this article, you may need to adjust your product or service, your advertising, your website, or your target audience a little (or all of them). Fortunately, none of these are set in stone and can usually be changed quite easily.I'm sure you realize it's impossible to meet everyone's needs. So you need to select a target group and attempt to appeal to them and them alone.This may seem simple at first glance. But, take…



574. Promotional Bags - Your Company Details on Parade
     The trick to a good promotion is to attach your company details to something useful. Now, there is 'private useful' like the promotional toothbrush you use in the privacy of your own bathroom, and there is 'public useful' that you use out there where everyone sees you inadvertently parading the promotion.This is where promotional bags come in. Few of us can get people to wear sandwich boards for us without paying them, but easily collocated promo…



575. FREE Means MORE Business By Bette Daoust, Ph.D.
     Why give freebies?We have all seen freebies at trade shows and we have all probably seen the person that goes from booth to booth collecting as much of it as possible. There is always someone that only goes to get the free stuff, but then again there are also people that go there to learn about new products or services. These people may be genuinely interested in what you have to say. Even if they are, there must be an element of what is in it …



576. Blog And Ping To Build Links
     Just What Is Blogging and Pinging?There is a new partnership in cyber-town called Blogging and Pinging. It is not a new comedy team or even a singing group, but a new way to build links and attract visitors to your website and to make more money. Blogging and Pinging is a marketing tool that can help anyone build their online business.Let’s start with a definition of a blog.Blog is short for weblog. A weblog is a journal that is frequently update…



577. Corporate gifts with logo is mileage for money
     Corporate gifts with logo are perhaps the most popular and widely used of all corporate gift ideas. Of course, it makes perfect sense. If your company wants to give its employees or customers a gift, then obviously you want them to remember you. What better way to make your company stand out in your customers' memories than to give them a corporate gift sporting your company's logo? Corporate gifts with logos are an excellent idea for almost a…



578. Marketing Planning - Preparation and Accountability By Kevin P. Dervin
     We all know the saying, “Failing to plan (prepare) is planning (preparing) to fail.” I truly believe in this statement and I hope you do as well. Building your service business, including marketing it must be planned and does take work.I don’t happen to believe that there really are magic bullets or black magic boxes. My advice – quit looking. This stuff does take work, but you can certainly do it.If you’re like most people I meet, then plannin…



579. Turbocharge New Sales with a Marketing Database By Lori Feldman
     What is the most valuable asset your company owns? Inventory? Equipment? Employees? If you’ve got customers, your number one asset is your customer list.You’ve heard the old adage, “It’s 5 times easier to sell an existing customer than to find a new one.” Selling an existing customer is easy because you’ve got the right message at the right time going to the right customer. There are two proven ways to do this. First, you position yourself as…



580. Prepare Your Communications For Growth By Robert Warren
     As the American economy emerges from recession, many businesses are now reexamining their marketing materials and realizing that their communications are outdated, ill-prepared for the return of a robust, competitive, growing economic environment. Strategies developed to survive hard times are often the wrong ones for profiting in good times.Here are five strategies for ensuring that your marketing is fully prepared for the economic recovery:Pr…



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