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941. Optimal Online Visibility: Focus Your Web Pages
     Nowadays your online visibility on the Internet will depend on your ability to provide trustworthy, organized and updated information, and to have a clear focus for your website. The clear focus is needed for your visitors and for your chances to obtain good registration in search engines and indexes. It will also increase people's want to make links back to your site. Let us imagine you publish or just sell: - a magazine on classic cars, - a ma…



942. 10 Ways to Make More Money in Business By Chet Holcomb
     Don’t you just love Paul Simon? The lyrics to his songs are not only pleasing to the ears, but can be inspirational. Imagine yourself enjoying the warm autumn sunlight while listening to Paul's song, “50 Ways to Leave your Lover”. Now, stretch your imagination just a bit and think about how many "Ways" you can come up with for saving and/or making more money in business...“The problem is all inside your head She said to me The answer is easy …



943. For Ongoing Success, Make Marketing a Habit By Wendy Maynard
     Make Marketing a Must, Not a MaybeWhen business is booming, it’s easy to put marketing on the back burner. Why focus attention on getting new customers when you already have all you can handle? The reason is simple: when things slow down, you want to have new clients in the pipeline. Make marketing part of your habit. The most efficient way to do this is to create structure around your marketing efforts. Here are some tips: 1. Make time for mar…



944. Promotional Bags: Your Company Details on Parade By Cindy Carrera
     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 pro…



945. What Our CAT Taught Me About Marketing! By Cathy Bryant
     Toby is one of our two family pets (both cats). He is quite astute, and he has learned one of the most basic tenets of selling - stick with what works!Many of Toby's days are spent perched on the top of my monitor as I work here on my computer. As a matter of fact, he's here right now as I write this article. Toby is a very personable creature. He enjoys being in the company of humans, and he knows just what buttons to push to get us to do what…



946. Testing Your Way To Prosperity By Shawn Meldrum
     I have always enjoyed talking to a Realtor friend of mine about his Father-in-laws business.  His business is Gold Mining and he has been involved in it full time for nearly his whole life.  My friend has a good relationship with his Father-in-law and often spends time helping him in this business and has learned a lot about prospecting and mining and the other facets of this extremely risky industry. One of the interesting things that I learn…



947. Put Your Marketing To The "So What?" Test
     Want to get Better at your Marketing today?For many service business owners, marketing can be a real mystery. We don't really know exactly how it works. We're not real sure about what works best for us. And probably because of some past frustrations, we're not even sure where to start.Most seem to at least have a notion of what's involved in marketing...a web site, Yellow Pages advertising, brochures, direct mailings, networking, seminars, trade …



948. Get FREE Web Tips From Your Competition By William Hanke
     I knew this one would get your attention. How can you, the savvy business entrepreneur, get FREE ANYTHING from your competition? The answer is simple: Google!Yes, there are many things that Google can solve. As listed above, they are providing their users with endless utilities to help you in your web search. So how can they help you with your site? Watch this: Go to Google (http://www.google.com) and type in the following, exactly as shown, us…



949. Spike TV - Know Your Audience By Nick Smith
     What do Klingons, giant rubber bands, and monster trucks all have in common? They hold the fascination of every male on the planet - and they make frequent appearances on Spike TV. Spike TV, which totes itself as a network for men, is the perfect example of the power of knowing your audience and giving them what they want.In one week of watching Spike TV you can expect to see poker, ultimate fighting, demolition derbies, cop shows, kung fu movi…



950. Sponsorship: A Key to Powerful Marketing By Susan Friedmann
     Sponsorship is the fastest growing form of marketing in the U.S. It is still very much in its infancy, especially in the trade show arena. With this in mind, you can find unlimited opportunities to broaden your competitive advantage by increasing your credibility, image and prestige in sponsoring events attracting your target market.Some trade show promotional opportunities include sponsorship of the press room, an international lounge, a speak…



951. Promote Your Article
     Promote Your BlogWell, you've joined the others and have created a blog. It is time to tell the world about your online journal. Most blog services generate an RSS feed. If your blogging software does not create an RSS feed, consider using software like FeedForAll http://www.feedforall.com to create an RSS feed. Like blogs, RSS is growing in popularity and is a great way to spread the word about a new blog. Syndication is conceptually simple. It …



952. PowerPositioning: WillYouAcceptThisRose.com By Peter Andersen
     Positioning is a powerful concept in marketing. To illustrate, have you ever visited a fast food restaurant, and, in a rush to complete your order asked for a coke when you "perhaps" meant to order some other soft drink? The Coke brand and its owners have achieved a top of mind awareness. Their brand name has become synonymous with a commodity that has a strong demand. A lot the brand's success may be attributed to being the first suc…



953. Leaving the Perfect Message
     Leaving the Perfect MessageWhen selling your product face to face with a customer, they have no choice but to hear you out completely. Ask yourself this question, If they were listening to you describe your product on their personal voice mail, would they hear you out, or would they delete you?Never leave someone a message just to leave them a message. Your goal should be to get them to call you back.In the twenty first century, there are very fe…



954. Networking, iNetworking, What Is The First Rule? By Catherine Franz
     Networking on the Internet is the same as networking in person, or is it? Let’s take a conversational tour together on this topic.At an in-person networking event you wouldn't just attend not to network. Or would you? Normally everyone is there for a purpose, even if they haven't totally defined that purpose, they have a vague idea why they are there. Wouldn't that work the same for iNetworking? Yep.Yet...Weekly I receive emails and phone …



955. How to Magnetize Your Business By Margie Fisher
     Do you ever wonder how some businesses always seem to be doing so much business? And how they seem to do all that business without really trying that hard? Most of us would like to have business come to us, rather than chasing it. Think of a magnet – pulling business towards your company, effortlessly and naturally. Sounds good, right? But how do you actually become a company like that? Here are some ways.1. Have a clear vision. What d…



956. Using Purchased Leads By Brian Beshore
     A little advice about using leads that you purchase from another source;These are not opt-in leads per-say, that you have gathered using lead capture pages.They might join your list, but initially this is a whole different animal.First, some basic advice;1.) Make sure these leads are ‘fresh,’ no more then a month old. A week is best.2.) Make sure your leads come with complete data;First and last names, Home address, Phone number, Date and time …



957. Small Business Marketing Tip - Focus on a Niche or Target Market By Rikki Arundel
     I think selling and marketing today often feels a bit like talking to a brick wall and that in interesting metaphor to help grasp the importance of niche marketing especially when it comes to small business marketing. Imagine for a moment that you are attacking that brick wall with a hammer, randomly hitting it everywhere. What would be the effect? Practically no effect at all. You might knock off a few chips but come back a day or so later, t…



958. 25 Ways To Get More Business By Paul Lemberg
     Special Requirements for Reprint: we ask only that you include Pauls name and resource box, and keep all hyperlinks as live links. Complete Article with Resource Box at end: Need more business? Who doesnt? Thankfully, new business is pretty easy to get, but you do have to do something to get it. Usually something you aren't currently doing. Here are 25 ways you can bring in more business, and if you do things right, more profits.…



959. What's The Shelf Life Of Your Marketing? By Charlie Cook
     Your marketing information is perishable like a loaf of bread. Leave it on the shelf for longer than 7-10 days and it's stale as far as the majority of your prospects are concerned.I was talking with David, a client from Arizona who owns four physical therapy clinics in the Tucson area. I asked him how business has been since we talked two weeks ago. He said three of his clinics were booked solid but the fourth was suffering from a lack of clie…



960. Internet Marketing Tip - Go For The Bronze
     Go for the bronze.Repeat...go for the bronze.That's right, NOT the gold.Lets look at this another way. If you are learning how to read, will you start off by reading difficult philosophy?Certainly not! You will begin by reading short, simple books with small words.Lets apply this to your Internet Marketing career. Too many times I have seen Internet Marketers trying to 'Go for the gold' when they are simply not ready to do so.If I may steal a li…



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