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681. How To Make More Money By Stephen Fairley
     The biggest crime in small businesses today goes unnoticed by most outsiders. It is not reported in the media. There are no police reports filed and companies do not even mention it on their websites. People don't talk about it on the street and employees often overlook it. Even though this crime is rampant among small businesses, it's presence is so subtle that many business owners fail to recognize when it is happening! Unfortunately, this cr…



682. Small Business Marketing Tip #7: Annoy Your Competition And Make Money In The Process By Jimmy Vee
     If you aren’t annoying your competition you’re not doing a good enough job.What???You heard me…you should be pissing off your competition on a regular basis.Here’s why…If you are annoying your competition you must be doing something they don’t like. One thing you are probably doing is taking their customers.Hey, that’s a good thing.People generally don’t get annoyed with other people if they are minding their own business and business people ge…



683. Why Prospects Don't Buy By Rich Harshaw
     Understand "The Educational Spectrum" and You'll Increase Your SalesDo you ever notice that when you're in the market to buy a car, you notice almost every advertisement for cars on TV, radio, and in the paper? You even notice all those cars with prices shoe polished on the windshield in supermarket parking lots. You buy Consumer Reports and Auto Trader and read classified ads. You become the expert on whichever car you're interested in.After y…



684. Is Your Marketing Missing The Cookie Factor By Sean D'Souza
     Is your marketing pouring some serious money down the drain, because you don’t have a cookie factor? Just what the heck is a cookie factor anyway? And, how can you apply this simple marketing strategy and psychological principle to rake in some big bucks? You Buy $30 Takeaway, You Get Free Coke and WontonsMy smile was bigger than the Great Wall of China the first time this happened. We were regulars at this Chinese food takeaway, but this time …



685. Nice Guys Finish First By Keith Thirgood
     Volunteering your services can be an excellent way to form new business relationships and raise your business’s profile while lending a hand to a good cause. However, unless you take care, it can also become all-consuming, with little return (besides creating good karma).There is nothing wrong with good karma, or better yet, feeling good about lending a hand in the community. The whole point of volunteering should not solely be to expand y…



686. Five Reasons You Should Market Online
     If you’ve got a website you’ll need to let the world know about it. This is called internet marketing. Believe me, it wasn’t too long ago that I didn’t know a single thing about this concept. However, ever since I committed myself to learning about the ins and outs of online marketing, my sales have dramatically increased. Marketing online is a completely different challenge than offline marketing but it has its benefits. If you want to take you…



687. The Advantages of Full Color Brochure Printing By Max Bellamy
     A brochure can be a great promotional tool, whether it is for is a real estate listing, a trade show handout, a data sheet, or another application. The most professional and eye-catching brochures are usually those that are full color.Full color brochure printing usually means standard four-color printing, and is now offered at almost every brochure printing company. Four-color printing is also referred to as standard color printing and employ…



688. Sell More Online By Offering a Big Fat BONUS! By Alexandria K. Brown
     I don't know about you, but I secretly love watching infomercials. I enjoy dissecting how they sell, how they get people excited, how they entice people to take action now and pick up the phone and order something they completely don't need!As you know, these programs always offer a huge bonus or multiple bonuses for people who buy. Often the bonus is worth even more than the featured product itself. You know what I mean... they're selling you …



689. Get Results: Start with Your Marketing Message and Objective By Kevin Gold
     Recently I was talking with a very bright traditional marketer on the value of integrating Internet marketing into an enterprise’s marketing mix. Personally, I have witnessed significant and measurable increases in the online results of an enterprise when they include traditional marketing strategies like direct mail, radio, television or publicity with their internet marketing strategies.Although he did not disagree with the concept, he re-fo…



690. What Color is Your Goldfish? Marketing to the Masses By Shonika Proctor
     Oprah. Timberland. Starbucks. Phat Farm. Survivor. LiveStrong. Consciously or subconsciously it is estimated that people see over 5,000 marketing messages each day, this according to the “Father of Guerrilla Marketing”, Jay Conrad Levinson. These messages can range from a logo to a retail storefront. Regardless of your business type, marketing is by far one of the most critical skill sets that one must master in order to build a successf…



691. How To Increase The Link Popularity Of Your Web Site.
     Link Popularity is the term used to describe how popular your web site is by examining how many other web sites link to it.For example, if you only had one other web site linking to your site, then your link popularity would be one. In other words link popularity is a measure of how may other sites are willing to 'vote' for your site by adding a link to it.Is Link Popularity Important?Yes. Search engines have a hard job when it comes to deciding …



692. Marketing Strategy - What's Your System? By Kevin P. Dervin
     Where Do Most of Your Clients Come From?Is it from your marketing and sales system?When I meet people for the first time and they understand that I'm a marketing consultant, I'm frequently asked, "Where do most of your clients come from?" Many times I believe the question is asked innocently enough. But, quite often I feel like the person asking wants to know if I have a magic answer that might work for them.Most small business owners are passi…



693. The Lone Wolf is Blind By Dan Nichols
     When Advertising, it’s not always better to be the lone wolf.Before using a certain medium to advertise, consider those that went before you. If you are thinking of advertising in a newspaper for example, consider how many of your competitors are in the same paper. If you don’t see any competitors at all, there may be a good reason for it.Don’t think for one moment that your the first guy to think of using this particular medium to advertise. …



694. Bedroom Marketing By Len Dozois
     Hopefully we are all adults here, so let's talk about sex for just a minute. No, I'm not talking about porn sites, I'm talking about taking a look at what I call 'Bedroom Marketing' and applying the same principles to Internet marketing.I don't care if you're a female or a male. Play this scenario out in your head:You walk in the door and yell "Honey, I'm home. Take off your clothes and jump into bed because I really want you and I know that yo…



695. Your Business Card Should be Your Best Salesman By Rick Hendershot
     One of the most important building blocks of a good marketing plan is your business card. It is far and away the most likely item to find its way into the hands of your most important business contacts. And it is the one thing that is likely to remain when all your other marketing materials are long gone.In other words, your business card is much more than just a piece of paper with your name, address and phone number printed on it. It is a pow…



696. Know Thyself and Thy Business By Joanne Victoria
     I recently interviewed a prospective client. I asked her to briefly describe what she did. She said it was complicated, she did so many things. I asked who her clients were. She said she couldn't define them, that she dealt with everyone. I then asked how her business was growing and she said she was losing money, clients and had no referrals.You get the picture.If you can't describe yourself, your ideal client and your business in brief, sim…



697. Market Planning -- Getting the Word Out By Bill Willard
     “There are those who get things done and those who think about getting things done.” --Col. Wesley L. Fox, USMC (Ret)Marketing cannot be hit or miss; it must be part of your business model. Formal market planning systematically addresses getting profitable new business while maintaining and increasing the profitability of your current business (busy people often overlook opportunities that are right in front of them).That means, if selling is r…



698. GUIDE IN THE PROMOTION PROCESS
     A promotion is a marketing activity aimed at boosting sales. That is why, business promotion should not be taken for granted and should be implemented with correct and effective promotional strategies. To start with, there should be a plan of action which a company should follow. The plan of action must be made ahead of time and must be executed at once. Procrastination has no place in business marketing. The business marketing plan should includ…



699. Micropersuasion - Get The Biggest Bang For Your Small Business Marketing Buck By J D Moore
     "How the heck can my little local gym afford to buy an ad on TV?" I got this question yesterday from a nice lady that works for a web development company. The answer is that new technology allows most cable providers to place commercials into specific zip codes. Because the ad isn't going out to wider audience, it's less expensive - and affordable for many small businesses.This is the beginning of micro-persuasion. Putting your marketing messa…



700. The Marketing Plan and the Four P’s By Dave Lavinsky
     The Marketing Plan section of the business plan demonstrates how a company will penetrate the market with its products and services. The Marketing Plan should include “the four P’s” – Product, Promotions, Price, and Place.Products and/or ServicesThe first “P” stands for Product, but includes all products and services that the company offers. This section of the business plan should detail all the features of the products and services, how they …



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