5 tips for holiday promotions

While sending holiday greetings and thank you’s are important this time of year, you also want to shake up your marketing tactics. Here are a few tips to consider as part of your holiday marketing plans: Even though your marketing efforts should be a year-round effort you might want to consider shaking things up for […]

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7 tips to propel your business into the next realm

Marketing — and tracking the results of it is an on-going task, but the results will pay off! Growing a business is not an overnight process. It takes time, but there are people who are able to make a lot of money in a short period of time; for those people, though, they are not […]

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Secret of Successful Entrepreneurs Revealed

While everyone of us aspire to be Bill gates or Steve Jobs, very few achieve a fraction of their success. So what’s the key behind their success that has evaded you? It seems the key is the risk taking ability. According to a study, entrepreneurs who take risky business decisions are more likely to achieve […]

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Are you utilizing your most valuable "real estate"?

Sending out an email newsletter? Take advantage of that electronic ‘real estate!’ “Location, location, location,” it’s the real estate agents’ mantra but did you know that every business owner has “real estate” that needs to be utilized to its fullest? It is your email; whether you send out email fliers, email newsletters or simply correspond […]

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Is my marketing paying off? 7 ways to figure it out

You’ve taken the steps to implement a marketing plan. Is it working? Are you tracking your results? To be effective, you have to! True, it’s not always easy to tell which avenues of your marketing efforts are bearing fruit, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try, right? If you’re spending money on brochures or print […]

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5 tips to make your on hold message work for you

Rather than letting your customers become bored and lose interest while they’re waiting for you to pick up, use a message that keeps them riveted and wanting to know more when you do pick up. Gone are the days when you want your customers – and potential customers – waiting on hold on your business […]

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5 tips to being a successful sales person

As a business owner you may not label yourself a sales person, but you are every entrepreneur is in his or her own way. Running a business for a living requires a consistent amount of persistence because obstacles loom on a regular basis. Speaker Brian Tracy wrote that, “a person will face the most challenging […]

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Build brand awareness in 5 steps

If you’ve built a powerful brand that’s aimed at your ideal customer or prospect you can convince them to stay around your site and see what else you have to offer. A weak, or nonexistent brand, will be forgotten once they leave your site and head to the next one. Is branding your business a […]

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5 tips to work sustainability into your business’s budget

Moving your sustainability efforts from internal to external will involve communication through social media and other outlets, such as press releases, blog posts and by word of mouth to your customers. It’s that time of year when businesses are putting together their budgets for 2011 and what better time to write in some line items […]

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