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1161. Budget Your Branding By Dev Bhatia
      It is very important to regularly monitor your advertising activities in the process of brand building, to realize how much they are contributing to the bottom line. Expediting marketing expenses wouldn’t generally lead to a stronger brand name. Neither is it necessary that they will give you voluminous sales nor a good market name. Though, when the communication is hay wired it might get ruined!The marketing objectives for the undertaken activ…



1162. Want To Be A Stronger Marketer? Work Your Marketing Muscles! By Kevin P. Dervin
      You want to be more flexible? You have to stretch your muscles. Want to be physically stronger? You have to find a way to workout and build your muscles. Want to be a stronger marketer? You’ve got to work your marketing muscles.Just as an athlete needs to workout to stay in shape, if you want to get stronger at marketing, you need to work your marketing muscles. So how do you work marketing muscles?1. Read Regularly. There is no shortage of res…



1163. Are You Marketing Backwards? By Charlie Cook
      Marketing is like rowing a boat. When you know how the pointed bow moves smoothly forward through the water encountering the least amount of resistance. Rowing backwards, the square stern of the boat pushes against the water, requiring more effort and increases the risk of having a wave come over the transom (back) and swamping it. Yet most people market backwards, trying to grow their business while pushing against the greatest level of resis…



1164. The 7 Areas of Marketing Waste - Are You Committing These Marketing Sins? By Debbie Jenkins
      If you want to reduce waste and grow your business it can be useful to know where to look. Marketing waste is usually most apparent in these 7 key areas:1. Activity (over production)2. People (over capacity)3. Processes (over complication)4. Waiting (poor communication)5. Excessive Communication Costs6. Trial and Error7. Excessive Lead Costs1. Activity (over production)Too many people doing too many different things. Thousands of brochures prod…



1165. Let Your Words Speak for You: Increasing Expert Credibility in Your Industry or Profession By Laura Orsini
      One of the quickest ways to increase credibility in your industry or profession is by writing about it. Yes, writing.Writing is inordinately undervalued by professionals in virtually every industry and profession. People who rely exclusively on the truism, "a picture is worth a thousand words," are missing out on vast amounts of business and credibility opportunities, because words are the things that really sell. Whether it’s Web copy o…



1166. Packaging Trends You Cannot Overlook (part #1): By JoAnn Hines
      1) People are buying in smaller quantities. Our busy lifestyle keeps many people from eating at home on a daily basis. Gone are the days of the sit down dinner with the entire family. When these occasions due occur it’s usually a holiday or a special occasion.What this means to you: People are looking for smaller sized packages and are willing to pay a premium. An example is the 3-pack baking potato; quality potatoes in a three pack that c…



1167. Media's Dirty Little Secret By Chuck McKay
      I’m constantly amazed by all of the media reps from all of the different media outlets that can help your advertising to “reach the right people.”Why am I amazed?Because they all reach the same people.Don’t believe me? Start with radio - there’s more information available, and the radio reps are eager to share it.Ask ‘em for exclusive cume figures. (Cume is the cumulative total of different people who tune in to the station each week. Exclusive…



1168. Feature Your Benefits By Janice D. Byer
      Sales Copy… eventually every small business owner must consider what needs to be included in order to produce a successful advertisement or piece of marketing material.You begin with a fancy graphic, your company logo, a slogan, and perhaps a special offer. However, more needs to be included in your sales copy to actually get your customers to buy. You need to include some your product’s features. But, more importantly, you have to list the ben…



1169. Your Company Need More Marketing? Or Just Better Marketing? By Mitchell Gooze
      Many sales problems can be solved by improved marketing. Selling harder is often not the solution. More . . . or just better . . . marketing may be what's needed. Marketing presents a special problem for any company that has not yet developed a professionally staffed marketing department. This article looks at the various marketing functions. It describes some successful approaches to determining when to add "more" marketing to your company.In …



1170. Painless Methods for Getting a Constant Stream of Referrals By Leslie Sprankling
      When I was selling Encyclopedia Britannica door-to-door many years ago, it was an obligatory part of the job to ask for referrals. And I hated it. It made me nervous and shaky just to think of it. Is this how you feel too?I hated to ask for fear I was imposing on my prospects, or even destroying my chances of a sale, so I left it almost until I was out the door, like an afterthought. As I didn’t make many sales, I didn’t seem to get many referr…



1171. Do You Get Attention With Your 30-Second Introduction?
      I went to a networking event the other day where the meeting leader said, “We’re going to skip doing the 30-second introductions today because mine’s so bad and it doesn’t work that it nauseates me.” I thought to myself, WOW! I’d skip the next networking meeting until I’d worked out a new introduction.Do you get attention with your introduction? Are you prepared to introduce yourself at your next networking event or for when someone ask, “What do…



1172. Eight Steps To A Great Marketing Plan By Sue And Chuck DeFiore
      Step 1: Where Am I Now? Before you decide where you want your marketing plan to take you,you need to find out where you are now. How have you positioned your business in the market? How do your customers see you? You may want to ask some of them for feedback. Write four or five paragraphs that summarize your business. Be sure to  include philosophy, strengths and weaknesses.  Step 2: Setting the Goal(s) Once you decide where you are, you c…



1173. Have Something Good To Say By Rich Harshaw
      If you don't get this right, you can just forget about everything else...your advertising will fail miserably if you don't have something good to say. The great business philosopher Jim Rohn probably summed it up best in his lecture about communications. He was talking about personal communications, not about advertising, but I think the principle holds true. He says to be a master communicator, all you've got to do is follow this three-step pr…



1174. Marketing Strategies: What Choices Do You Have? By Stuart Ayling
      Most business people want to see improvements in sales and profits. But how do you get there? What choices do you have?To build your business there are four strategic options that must be considered:1) Sell existing products to existing customers.2) Develop new products to sell to existing customer groups.3) Expand existing products into new market segments.4) Develop new products for new market segments.Each one of these choices carries with i…



1175. Home Based Internet Business: Researching for Niche Markets
      So you have decided to start a home based business on the internet and want to find niche markets to promote to. If you are like many people you probably are not sure how to do the research. Nor are you sure if a niche market is open to additional competition and has a sizeable demand, or if the niche is closed off to new entry. The bottom line is there is almost always demand in niche markets, and if you feel the demand is being met then there …



1176. Marketing Niches, Is It for You? By Fred Farah
      In marketing, a niche refers to a service or product that's a special area of demand. It is that small corner in the market that accounts for a certain kind of specialty concerning an un-met customer need. To be able to attract a strong, solid market, the choice of niche products must ultimately complement your website theme. It is this way that you can generate a specific market for the niche product you are trying to sell.--Interesting Side …



1177. What The Heck Is a Meme And Why Is It Important To Small Business Marketing? By J D Moore
      I wrote the phrase, "Irusha likes cake" on my brand new whiteboard and left it there for a couple of weeks. I was consulting a large financial company, and Irusha was the name of the guy that sat next to me - and a good friend of mine. The company had a brand new office space - and I thought a clean whiteboard is a sin, so I wrote the phrase as a joke.In the two or three weeks it was up many people stopped by and looked at the whiteboard and pu…



1178. Does The Market Really Want It? By Joe Love
      At the very heart of any successful marketing strategy is the determination of what your present and prospective customers need, want, and desire. You have to find out what they want before you try to sell it to them. Never make the mistake of investing a lot of money into a product or service you want to sell before you understand how much demand really exists on the part of the customer.If you want to be successful in business you have to pro…



1179. Why Great Companies Survey: Martian Logic! By Harald Anderson
      If an alien civilization from Mars was planning a friendly takeover of our planet they would seek to make sure they understood our way of life and our way of thought.The only way they could accomplish their objective would be by asking questions which they could genuinely understand and then plan a strategy accordingly. Although this idea may seem outlandish in my humble opinion it is also what separates the great companies on our planet fro…



1180. What is a Marketing Plan Anyway? By Charlie Cook
      Building a business that grows steadily in size and profits is like building your dream house. First, you identify what kind of home you want, then you and your architect plan and create blueprints for your house, then you'd build it, move in and enjoy it.Now imagine that you didn't have the time to plan your home but went ahead and hired a builder to get started. How would he know what to build? Without a plan, the result would be unlikely t…



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