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661. Tradeshow Booth Cures - Living Color By Patty Stripes
     Feng Shui is the Ancient Chinese practice of configuring home or work environments to promote health, happiness, and prosperity. By utilizing elements such as light and color, Feng Shui Masters used their skill to promote the flow of “chi”, or vital energy , to protect and enhance the prosperity of the Imperial Dynasties. Widely practiced today, Feng Shui theory focuses on methods to manage the flow of energy and with skillful application, ca…



662. Are Your Prospects Walking Out on You? By Ed Gandia
     After 11 years in sales, I’ve put together and delivered more sales presentations, briefings, and demos than I care to remember. But the nice thing about repetition is that after a few dozen presentations you get very good at reading body language.You can easily tell when the audience is engaged, when they’re confused, when they are bored, uninterested -- even angry and inpatient. (And that’s a good thing because you can quickly switch gears …



663. The Six-Step Process That Grows Your Business By Marcia Yudkin
     1. Examine your clientele and define your ideal client. Of all the customers you’ve served in the last couple of years, who are the ones you most enjoyed working with and found most profitable? Create a profile of the client characteristics that, for you, define heaven on earth. These characteristics might include income, age, lifestyle, attitudes, motivation, profession, geography, etc. Before going on to step 2, make sure that you’ve crystall…



664. Private Practice Marketing: 3 More Things I Wish I Knew When I First Started By Jeff Herring
     1) Create systemsCreate systems for everything you do, especially those things you do on a regular basis.My members and mentees ask me all the time how do I manage to get so much done. There are many reasons, and one of the biggest reasons is creating systems for things you do regularly.Think of it in this way: SYSTEM stand forSaves You Some Time Energy Money2) Have two work modelsThe work model that most people are familiar with is "work once,…



665. Mortgage Broker Marketing - Sell Problems, Not Solutions By Jeffrey Nelson
     Are your marketing messages to Realtors® guilty of these promises?- To render great customer service… - To close loans on time… - To offer the best competitive rates… - To help them make more money… - To deliver referrals or free leads… - To co-market services… - To qualify all buyers through a diversity of programs…Guess what…Realtors® have heard this before. So much so, that they’ve become immune to listening. Your message is competing with …



666. The Best Website Traffic Sources
     You have to search a lot to find what is most likely to work for your web site. Once you get an understanding for each type of advertising then you can put it to work.Website directories: Helpful for one way links to your website to increase link popularity. Do not expect a lot of clicks.Free Classified ads: Expect what you pay for. Nothing!Safe lists: Stay away!Opt in email lists: Terrific! But you need traffic to build your list of opt-in subsc…



667. SEO: When Being Optimized Can Hurt
     It’s a marketing dream come true: A potential customer, looking for what you have to offer, types a few words into her favorite search engine and voila! She is led directly to your website where she can go from “prospect” to “customer.”The best part is, it didn’t cost you anything (except time and elbow grease) to get to the top of her results. Unless, of course you paid for someone else’s time and elbow grease. Even so, you’ve got a sale and you…



668. Getting instant traffic to any website - from marketing to nursing to pink elephants it really can be done
     Many webmasters will be driven to despair with the mass of information surrounding the area of SEO [ search engine optimization ]. We all read the latest articles and information and it seems that the best methods seem to be out of date within months or even weeks of us gaining this new found knowledge. Well don't despair becaue there is one method that is constant and can help just about any webmaster regardless of his topic, Tea,nursing,sea foo…



669. Five Mistakes Absolutely Guaranteed to Drive Away Your Best Clients By Cathy Goodwin, Ph.D.
     We all work hard to attract even one paying client. In fact, we work hard to attract serious inquiries. Yet amazingly, many business owners seem determined to drive away business! Every example cited here is based on true, thoroughly documented experiences, with both newbie business owners and five-star marquee players.1. Defensive plays. Client tries to order a product, only to be thoroughly buffaloed by a confusing form. Client writes a …



670. Niches - The Path to More Profits By Denise Ryder
     Hey, as business owners we CAN'T be all things for all customers. I mean it would be fantastic if we could, however, you just can't meet the needs and wants of everyone, you would run yourself ragged trying :o(BUT ... that doesn't mean you throw your hands up in dispair and give up ;o) Stick with me for a few minutes and we'll go over a few ideas that come to mind and see if they get your creative juices flowing.Firstly, what the heck is a "Nic…



671. Make More Money with Marketing Metrics By Jeremy Cohen
     Do you know how effective each of your individual marketing tactics is? Many small business owners market in a vacuum. They spend money on brochures, advertisements and web sites with no real way to tie specific results to specific endeavors.If you are unable to associate leads and sales with the specific marketing efforts that generate them you have no way of knowing what is working as an effective marketing mechanism and what is not.The mone…



672. Market Yourself as the Expert By George Torok
     As a small business how do you compete with the big guys and their big budget advertising campaign? The big guys don't read this magazine so we can share these low budget yet high-impact marketing secrets with you.Use these tips to market yourself as the expert in your field.Write tips sheets - for your clients, prospects and the media.Write and publish articles in magazines, newsletters and newspapers.Write letters to the editor expressing opi…



673. Business Cards and Business Etiquette By Ray Smith
     One of the very basic conditions of being a successful businessman is to get people (your existing or prospective customers) to like you and a very basic requirement for being liked by people is to have proper business etiquette. We all like to be in companionship of well-cultured people and etiquette is one of the most important components of culture.Understanding business etiquettes help you to deal confidently with your customers and busines…



674. Promoting Your Local Business #1 - Preparation By James Deibele
     Own a small business? Want more customers? It’s easy, fast and very inexpensive to promote your business on the internet.Things that you should have ready:#1: accurate, current information on your business. Much of the data online about local businesses comes from phone books. The phone books are either scanned and optical character recognition (OCR) used to read it or the pages are physically or via a scan to low-wage parts of the world. There…



675. Get No-Cost Publicity With Audience Hot Buttons
     Media is constantly giving away free publicity. Every time you see a business mentioned in your local newspaper, or on TV news, or in an ezine, you can bet their sales jump.Media editors almost never give free publicity just because they want you to sell more products or services. Instead, they use your story when you offer one of the things their audience is interested in.Here are three top hot buttons readers, listeners, and viewers respond to:…



676. 23 Ways To Use An Ad Tracker
     The ad tracker was originally developed to provide a record of all hits to a site resulting from ad placements. This article shows a host of different ways to utilise an ad tracker.FOR AFFILIATES#1. The Long Url ProblemHave you ever seen an ad where you are asked to click on an affiliate URL so long that it stretches over 2 lines, like thishttp://www/anysite.com/cgi-bin/dir1/dir2/.cgi?code=123RT&type=10235&subid=89715Do you think your reader will…



677. To Web or Not to Web? By Stuart Ayling
     Do I need a web site? That is the question often asked by business owners. The answer will usually depend upon the type of product or service offered and what the business is trying to achieve. Some products/services are more suited to the web than others. Plus, a well designed web site can be a superb tool for communicating with customers, prospective customers, suppliers and the wider community. For most service businesses, I'd say "Yes, yo…



678. Top 5 Tips For Media Selection By Harry Hoover
     Marketers have a wide variety of media at their disposal. Most of us think first of the advertising troika of newspapers, magazines and TV. But there are a number of other options depending upon what you are trying to accomplish.1. Create a sense of urgency. Direct marketing offers that contain a deadline for consumer action can create that sense of urgency that motivates your customer to buy now.2. Fill in the blanks. Brochures are a great veh…



679. Stop Searching - Joint Ventures are the Solution to Doubling Your Business By Wendy McClelland
     First, define the end user (or ideal client) of your product. Many times when I ask people who their ideal client is they will tell me “oh everyone can use my product!”. Actually the only two things that EVERYONE uses are air and water, SO narrow your focus – really key into WHO your customers are. What are their age, gender, hobbies, interests, etc. By refining your focus you can better serve your customer and become “THE” supplier of choice i…



680. 7 Ways to Evaluate Your Marketing Plan By Stuart Ayling
     Business owners often find it difficult to know whether their marketing tactics are working. This can be especially tricky when you use a combination of marketing activities simultaneously, or if using personal-contact tactics such as networking. No matter what business you're in, your marketing should be accountable. So here's a few ways to evaluate how well you're doing. 1) Look at your sales (or fee income). They should be going up! But be…



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