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1281. When Designing Postcards, Aim for "Refrigerator Door Mindshare" By Martha Retallick
      If you want to design effective marketing postcards, then aim for "Refrigerator Door Mindshare." By this, I mean that you should create a card that someone would be proud to display on his or her refrigerator door.The image on the front of your postcard should be simple, but attractive. I?ve found that brightly colored cards pull a better response than dark, moody cards. Save your artistic angst for some other medium. You should also create an …



1282. Itchin' For Some Nichin' By Ken Nadreau
      The whole idea of Niche Marketing is exciting! The possibilities are endless, as there are literally millions of people surfing the web, the vast majorities of whom are here for two reasons . . .Namely, to learn something or to buy something!The trick, for a salesperson, is to find out what it is they're looking for and get it into their hands.Niche marketing narrows down the whole process of supply and demand. It enables you to pinpoint the pr…



1283. The First Rule of CRM for Financial Services By Kelly O'Brien
      Things have to change. Cross selling is not going to happen simply by installing new CRM technology. A corresponding movement from a transaction mentality to the underlying CRM principle of focusing on the long-term relationship is required. What does this mean for financial services? Stop pushing products and start building relationships.The Consumer's PerspectiveLet's take a look from the consumer's perspective. Financial illiteracy is alive …



1284. Discover the Winning Marketing Strategy Secrets of Donald Trump Apprentice Wanna-bes By Adam Urbanski
      The highly entertaining Donald Trump’s search for an apprentice turned into a hit reality TV show captured attention of millions of Americans and week after week delivered great insights into leadership, business and marketing savvy.In one of the episodes Trump challenged the two opposing teams of apprentice wannabes (Apex and Mosaic) to put together a bridal gown sale.Each team had to contact vendors, secure inventory, and most importantly, at…



1285. Optimizing Your B2B Marketing By James Peggie
      Marketing your products or services to other businesses offers many different challenges that marketing directly to consumers. Here are some steps to help you optimize your B2B marketing efforts.Understand your target market. Make sure you clearly identify your audience and customers. Find out who are the key decision makers. You can waste a lot of time and effort by trying to sell to those who do not have the power to make buying decisions…



1286. Mortgage Marketing: 3 Power Tools that Secure Leads from Realtors By Jeffrey Nelson
      Some real estate agents will never be loyal to one loan officer, instead they give their potential homebuyers three business cards of lenders for them to select from. What do you do if you’re not getting a ringing endorsement from the agent? How can you beat the competition, so you get every lead each time the agent gives out your card and two others belonging to competitors?Here are three specific tools that give you an edge over the competiti…



1287. 7 Proven Tips To Market Your Cleaning Business By Khali S.
      Marketing your cleaning business is something that you will already have an idea about when you start your business plan. Nothing is better for an emerging cleaning business than a really good marketing strategy. This is when all of your research will work to your advantage. Cleaning business or any other type of service business cannot survive without a proven marketing plan, In order to build a good marketing strategy you must first:1- Correc…



1288. The Marketability of Brochures
      Brochures are generally used to give clients or customer some necessary information regarding the products, services or events of a business or company. They can describe the benefits in buying something from a company and can also present pictures for better understanding. Similar to the other advertising materials, they are also designed to generate more sales and profits for a business, and create interest among consumers.Basically, there are …



1289. Optimizing Your Email Marketing By Ted Prodromou
      Email CampaignsEmail marketing can be a tremendously valuable tool for web businesses. Because it is so fast, cheap and easy, and because it is everywhere, email lends itself ideally to direct marketing. In this day and age, to say that the whole world is on the Web is not a stretch. Hundreds of millions of people plug into the Web on a regular basis.Most regular internet users have an email address. Now that access to the Internet is available…



1290. Five Steps to a Web Site That Sells By Adam Urbanski
      I’m always amazed that people would spend months to develop their web site, pay thousands of dollars to have it put together and then... they just let it sit in the cyber space without generating any new leads.Listen, if you hired a sales person for your business and they didn’t perform what would you do? You would fire them faster then they could say “but, I tried”, wouldn’t you? So why do you put up with a web site that doesn’t sell?Right now…



1291. Top 7 Ways to Get Your Products in the Hands of Celebrities By Thomas King
      Celebrities are the tastemakers that drive brand awareness and usage. Celebrities drive the direction of trends. For example there has been a huge resurgence in the Pabst Blue Ribbon brand. They are the second fastest growing beer in the US and they have not spent a dime on advertising. How did they resurrect this brand without spending a fortune on re-branding efforts? Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer has risen to the top through celebrities using the b…



1292. What's the Difference Between Successful Businesses and Struggling Businesses? By Jane Hendry
      Have you ever noticed how some businesses seem to do extremely well, and go from strength to strength, whilst the majority just seem to muddle along?Since starting my own business I've met many small business owners and what I've noticed is that the vast majority of them seem to just about get by, but few reach the level of success that they're actually capable of. Some of them end up failing altogether, some lurch from project to project, and …



1293. Communicating Our Attitude By Alicia Smith
      The goal of successful marketing is to create long lasting relationships with your prospects by marketing your business with passion. When you’re not excited about what you’re doing, no one else will be either. Our passion for what we do in business is communicated through our attitude. Our attitude comes shining through in a variety of ways. How can you create an attitude that paves the way to success for you and your business?1. You are …



1294. Small Business Marketing Tip – Putting the Customer First. By Rikki Arundel
      I am a great believer in the keeping to the basics – the totally obvious things that we all learn in Running Your Business 101, and then promptly forget. I often have people come up to me after a speech and say, “This is all blindingly obvious, just common sense.” And they are right, but my immediate response is always the say, “So are you doing it…?”This question is usually followed by a moment of silence before they explain they have moved …



1295. Contact Management: Gain Control of Your Marketing Efforts and Assure a Steady Flow of Clients By Julie Chance
      When it comes to marketing, do you ever feel like you are at the mercy of the tides – following up on a referral here, chasing a lead there and more often than not ending up battered and bruised by the rocks along the shoreline? There is a simple solution. It is a solution that will put you in control of your marketing efforts and help assure a steady flow of prospective clients: develop and use a contact management database.Now what could b…



1296. To All Internet Marketers - How To Get My Business? By Jeff Casmer
      More and more people are realizing that the Internet offers great potential to set up a healthy business for pennies on the dollar. This is good news for internet marketers - but it also means that they need to lift their game.Why? Because the would-be "netpreneur" has access to way more training than ever before. It's possible to get up to speed very quickly on what is needed to get started online. This, in turn, means that people quickly reco…



1297. Do You Get Attention With Your 30-Second Introduction? By Kevin P. Dervin
      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 …



1298. What's Your Selling Sentence? By Mike McDaniel
      What's your Selling Sentence? If you have a business, you need a selling sentence.Sometimes called the Defining Sentence or the Secondary Statement, the Selling Sentence is the group of words that clarify and refine the the nature of your business when seen or heard with the name or logo of your business. You tell ‘em what you do for them' with your Selling Sentence.The Selling Sentence clearly differentiates your business in the eyes of your c…



1299. Registration Forms: How to Make them Irresistible with Follow-up By Bill Flagg
      By continuing to sell to your registrants after they sign-up, you can eliminate "buyer's regret", decrease no-shows, and increase your referral business. Use your confirmation and reminder correspondence as an opportunity to make your registrants feel GREAT about deciding to register for your event.Help your registrants feel AWESOME…Express sincere appreciation for choosing your event. Convey more enthusiasm about the benefits of your event. Pr…



1300. Go Fishing This Weekend! By Fabienne Fredrickson
      OK, so you’ve figured out where your best clients have come from and where your Ideal Clients can be found in large numbers, and inexpensively. It’s time to create a marketing plan that has you focusing on “fishing where the fish are.” The more focus you have, the better the results.When coaching clients to do this in private sessions, I ask them to draw a large circle on a blank sheet of paper, and draw 4 lines to create a pie with 8 slices.Th…



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