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61. Peddling Your Own Wagon Through Local Exposure By Bonnie Jo Davis
    In my e-book "Articles That Sell", I've shared the secret of marketing your business on the Internet. If you've been active in your efforts, you've been writing and publishing free reprint articles.Guess what? I've got another incredible marketing secret for you.While online marketing has unlimited potential it often misses a valuable mark. This missed mark is your own local area. You could be missing out on immediate opportunities to market yo…



62. Three Ways to Put Fresh Spins on Old Marketing Concepts By Michele Pariza Wacek
    Are you struggling to find a new twist for old advertising or marketing campaigns?   If you're a small business owner or a copywriter/coach/other creative professional, you know exactly what I'm talking about. Having to come up with new ideas for a long-term client (or even your own business) can be overwhelming.   As much as you love those long-term clients or established products, because of their longevity, it gets harder and harder to come…



63. Produce More Sales from your Email Promotions Five Ways - Part 1 By Judy Cullins
    Do sales come from your ezine regularly? How many well-written articles do you submit per week to opt-in online ezines? How often do you send thank you's and follow up messages to your different email groups? If you answered not many, then you need to re-evaluate. The answer to online success is the same as traditional success--promotion, promotion, promotion. Use these easy ways to boost online credibility and sales: 1. Market and Make your…



64. Small Business: Your Pricing Strategies By Caroline Jordan
    Think the best way to get more customers is to have the lowest prices in town? Think again. Think the best way to create a successful business is to try to appeal to everyone? Wrong again.The only good thing about having the lowest prices and trying to appeal to everyone is that you’ll fail quickly and be out of your misery.This is a really hard concept for many business owners to come to grips with. Small business owners can really struggle wi…



65. Misrepresentation - Through Silence! By Azriel Winnett
    We're back to the subject of ethics, more specifically, business ethics.But unlike ethical dilemmas we've discussed in the past - when people are confronted with bizarre, freak circumstances they had never planned for, and then face agonizing choices regarding how to react - I'm now talking about cases where people willfully and proactively steer events in a certain direction.Take the case of the owner of a $32 million business whose daring ent…



66. Gravitational Marketing For Small Businesses - Fifth Law: The One Thing That Must Be Present In All By Jimmy Vee
    When someone is shopping for your product or service today, they have 1000 options.All the other competitors in town plus all the options online.With so many options, why in the world would a customer choose you?99% of all small businesses and independent sales professionals can't answer that question.And if you can't answer it, how can you expect your customers to answer it?You have to create a reason. We call this reason a GPS or Gravitationa…



67. Common Exhibit Marketing Mistakes: Ten Tips on How to Avoid Them By Susan Friedmann
    The key to great exhibiting is marketing. But marketing is a very inexact science that leaves room for a multitude of errors to occur. The following are 10 of the most common marketing mistakes that exhibitors often make. Learn to avoid them and you will increase your chances for a successful tradeshow.1. Have A Proper Exhibit Marketing PlanHaving both a strategic exhibit marketing and tactical plan of action is a critical starting point. In or…



68. Good Marketing is Like a Bad Habit By Stuart Ayling
    You know those bad habits we get. Like raiding the chocolate biscuits during late night TV shows. Or slouching we when we sit. Or biting our fingernails. Before we know it we’ve let a new behaviour creep into our routine. Now we’re a slave to the bad habit. It’s hard to resist. We’re tempted. We get that short-lived surge of satisfaction when we do it. Well, marketing is pretty much the same. Except you can get into good marketing habits th…



69. The Top 10 Ways to Market your Business or Professional Practice Without Networking By Philip E. Humbert
    While focused, strategic networking is usually the most efficient way to build your professional practice, there are many other ways to market your business. Personal networking may not be appropriate in some areas, or for certain types of services, and some people simply don't like to do it. The following are the Top 10 methods my clients have used to increase sales and grow their practices without networking:1. Newsletters. There are many i…



70. Tradeshow Booth Cures - Knick-Knack Knockouts By Patty Stripes
    Okay, we were kidding about the smoke, but not about the mirrors. Mirrors are exceptionally useful Feng Shui devices, especially in regards to manipulating the flow of energy. In addition to their reflective qualities which help brighten up your booth, they are capable of deflecting negative energy. Strategically positioned mirrors can also be used to reflect your product, and this is an effective way of “increasing” your display space. If …



71. Marketing Strategy and Template for Independent Professionals By Catherine Franz
    Having a marketing strategy and marketing approach is very important. Thus, instead of recreating the wheel, here is a short, sweet, easy-to-understand marketing strategy template to help you place your ducks are in a row in designing your marketing strategy. MARKETING STRATEGY FOR INDEPENDENT PROFESSIONALS ...coaches, consultants, accountants, lawyers... GENERAL OVERVIEW Business Strengths Our extensive knowledge of the adventure travel…



72. Improve Your Marketing Results With These Simple Steps
    What if there were things you could start doing now that could help you to market more successfully in the future? Even if you didn’t have your marketing act quite together over the past year? Well, there are. Review your past marketing resultsTake some time to review all of your marketing activities and try to understand which ones worked best. And when I say “worked best” I mean, which ones resulted in more clients, more customers, more sales,…



73. How to Keep Your AdSense Account From Being Nuked by Google
    There have been whole AdSense accounts bringing in $5000 per month banned for life from Google because of fraudulent clicks. If Google catches you clicking on your own AdSense ads, they can shut you down.You won't get canned just for a single click, but if you're like me and tweak your site a lot it's only a matter of time before you click on one of those things by accident.The way I keep this from happening is I temporarily block the domain name…



74. Standing Above The Crowd By Kelley Robertson
    In today’s highly competitive business environment it is critical to find ways to separate yourself from the other companies who sell the same – or similar – product and/or service. Here are several strategies that can help you accomplish this:Help your clients achieve their goals. Virtually every business person has specific goals they are striving to achieve. These can include everything from increasing their market share and sales, to reduci…



75. Sage Advice from a Marketing Expert! By Paul Shearstone
    An international hair-cutting chain opened a new store directly across the street from the small town’s only barbershop owned and operated by a man affectionately known to the locals as ‘ol’Joe’.Joe and his barbershop were fixtures on Main Street for over twenty-eight years where he had enjoyed the privilege of trimming the hair on every man and boy in the community. Life was good for ol’Joe back then, but the new ‘Haircuts-R-Us’ across the str…



76. Looking for Sky In All The Wrong Places By Kim A. Castle
    Ever sit with a single puzzle piece of clouds and wonder how you will ever put the entire sky together? Life as an entrepreneur is often just like that-- lots of the little pieces, creating products, taking care of clients, wrestling with computers, finances, taxes, etc.-- and a whole lot of sky. The big open space where you create a successful and enjoyable business. There were many pieces of 'puzzle sky', I was drowning in an ocean of sk…



77. Who are Those People You're Selling To? By David Rosam
    If you're in the IT business, that's an important question.Most marketers are keen to profile their prospects. For some products and services, these may be 'people with a large lawn', 'married couples over retirement age' or 'students living away from home'.What about your targets? Perhaps 'businesses running Microsoft Exchange', 'people running an e-commerce Web site that require more advanced visitor analysis' or 'telcos offering an increasin…



78. Private Practice Marketing: 3 Secrets I Wish I Knew When I First Started Out By Jeff Herring
    I don't know about you, but I am still waiting for my first class in graduate school about how to develop, market, and run a private practice.I'm also still waiting for my father to have a discussion with me about the facts of life.My wife and I have 2 kids, so I guess I figured it out for myself. Just like I had to figure out for myself how to market and build a practice.So here are three secrets I wish I knew when I first started my practice.…



79. Successful Event & Meeting Planning: How to Boost Attendance By Marian Calvin
    Consider the fact that the annual meeting is the single largest source of non-dues revenue for most associations. Also consider the fact that most exhibitors view a sizable base of interested, qualified buyers as the linchpin of a successful trade show. Consequently, it’s in the best fiscal interest of your organization to ensure that as many delegates as possible turn out for your event. Meeting planning should include promotion which is the k…



80. Making Networking Work By Cathy Stucker
    Several years ago, "networking" was the hot buzzword. Everyone was talking about building their network, because this was the secret to becoming incredibly successful. Well, yes, networking is a great way to build a business, but not necessarily the way a lot of people went about it.Networking is still one of the best ways to get new customers, and maintain relationships with existing customers. But you have to do it effectively.Going to every …



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