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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Word of mouth marketing
- 'Word of Mouth' is still one of the most effectivemarketing techniques, online or offline.Joe arrives at your website and he likes it. In fact,he'd like to tell Fred about it. It's just the thingFred's been looking for. What if Joe could recommendyour website to Fred by sending him an email straightfrom your website?Well, he can...if you have an 'email to a friend'script installed on...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Seven secrets for building customer loyalty in your restaurant
- Imagine how much your sales and profits would increase if each of your customers come back just one more time a week or a month. You would boost your sales by 50%. Getting your existing customer base to visit more often is easier than you think. This is because, unlike a prospective customer who has never dined at your restaurant, your existing customer has already tried your food and service and ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Six ways to attract new customers to your restaurant
- Without new business, your restaurant won't be able to grow. You need a constant stream of new customers to replace those you lose as a result of customers relocating, switching jobs, or changing dining habits. Here are six strategies for getting more customers through your doors. 1. Market Your Restaurant In Hotel RoomsBusiness travellers and people on holiday may not be familiar enoug...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Writing guarantees that sell
- "This offer is good but can you guarantee it."Why write a guarantee for your product or service? It reduces the risk in the eyes of your customers, enough to turn a cynical customer into a convinced customer.So, what makes a good guarantee? Besides the obvious, "I guarantee it," strong guarantees include elements that not only ease the customers' fears but also re...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 20 tricks to help get that envelope opened
- When your envelopes aren't opened, you can't make money! Beforeyou can get an order, the recipient of your mailing package mustfirst open the envelope. Unfortunately, many recipients ofdirect mail simply discard the material without opening theenvelope. Because of the high costs of printing, envelopes, and postage,your mailing package represents a sizable investment. You...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to discover your primary market and where to find them
- Whether you market online or offline, you already know the shot-gun approach to marketing brings few results. You will sell more products and services when you step back and set up a strategy to reach your targeted market. Approaches That Set you Up to Pull Customer Orders One: Develop a Specific Customer Profile It's good to know whether your customers are primarily women o...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to get new business
- Market, Market and then market some more. So many small and home-business owners do what we call spot marketing. They market hard for their business, get a response then stop marketing. Marketing must be an ongoing process. Let's repeat that...Marketing Must Be An On Going Process. In addition, you should have multiple marketing strategies. For example, we market on the internet through ne...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Marketing tips- who are you competing with?
- Before you can market, you need to know who you are marketing to. Who is your customer? How will you market? Will you cold call, mail, set appointments or employ a walk in approach? Be careful with the walk in approach as many businesses do not permit soliciting. You might just want to drop off information and follow up with a telephone call. In order to determine who your market is look at...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Your 30 second commercial
- This tip is so simple, that many people we've talked with never bother using it, but it is highly effective. Prepare a 30 second verbal commercial about what your business offers. This should be 50 words or less, and practice saying it until it becomes second nature. End it with phrases such as "I'd love to have you as a client" or "I'd like to do business with you". For example, my 30 seco...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Produce more sales from your email promotions - part 2
- Do sales come from your ezine regularly? How many well-written articles do you submit per week to 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 o...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How can i get name recognition?
- Some of the ways in which to get your "name out there" are to call your local television and radio stations, and ascertain whether there is a medium you can get your name in. A very good source are public stations that hold auctions, at which you can donate your services. Talk shows, both radio and television. Do something to get yourself noticed and send it to them. For example, we sent a fax to ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Produce more sales from your email promotions five ways - part 1
- 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 ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Promote your business and products through submitting articles to top web sites
- Articles submitted to online publishers bring your site new visitors and increase your ezine subscribers. You can also get these benefits by submitting your articles to top Web sites that not only promote your products, but also your services. Here's how to get your articles on Web sites that have 1000-500,000 visitors each day. 1. Run a search on the top search engines to find the t...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Marketing tips 101 - where can i get clients from?
- The following tips have come from a wide variety of sources; some from other successful businesses we know, some from our Home-Based and Small Business Support Group meetings and some we've developed by trial and error. Some of the ways to get clients are: contact previous employers; mailing lists; cold call your target market; attend group meetings and seminars for your target market (conv...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - A jack of all trades is often the master of none
- You've heard variations of that saying your entire life. Consider: a marketer to all markets . . . is often a master ofnone. Personally, I take this risk: as a marketing consultant, I movefrom one market to the next frequently, and I am often involvedin "mass-marketing" - such as with infomercials selling weightloss or cosmetics. But I definitely prefer niche m...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The money making secret of the toll booth position
- I'm a marketing consultant and at one of my client-companies, acompany that, in less than 10 years, has gone from a $10 millionto a $100 million dollar business one of the people I work withfrequently has jokingly given herself the title, 'Vice President,Back-End.' Although that clearly opens her up to be the butt of many jokes,it does very accurately describe her very, ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Marketing worksheet
- Even the world's best marketing strategy won't work for you if it's not well-planned, and the best way to do that is to develop a customized work sheet for each client. Here's how to start: First, list each company's top executives, products, and services. Make sure your marketing effort is aimed at the right individual. Second, describe the products or services that you thin...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The 10 cornerstone principles of marketing
- There are four parts to a marketing system and they rest on ten cornerstones. Marketing results are only as powerful as your marketing systems. To build your marketing system you need to be able to do four things: attract, convert, leverage and retain. With these four accomplishments and the practice of the 10 Cornerstone Principles of Marketing, success will come. Here are the 10 Cornersto...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Slogans: creating and using them in life, career and business
- Information is coming at us from all directions nowadays. This pace requires us to demand that we receive it fast and predigested in order to inch ahead of the game. This also requires a new filing system method for storing the bites and bytes. In this article, we will go into greater details on: * Why slogans are important in today's society fast-pace information systems. * W...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - One-two-three punch marketing
- Printed material is just as important today as it was before the Internet. With sp*a*m getting out of hand, it's a wise choice to rev up, update or create printed material, ads, catalogs, direct mail, press releases, letters, templates and the like. You will notice that I didn't add brochures to this list. Brochures are not a good investment for a first piece. When someone asks for a brochu...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Knock, knock. whos there? your target market, are you listening?
- Have you ever had a conversation with a person who wasn't listening to anything you said? This one-way communication experience is a big turn-off and many times frustrating to cope with at the time. Is this occurring in your marketing? Oops, no one wants to think of their business as turning a deaf ear to their market. Yet it can be easy to do since most of us have a jammed packed li...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Creating assets: spark your thinking with these 16 comprehensive questions
- Here are some questions to get your thoughts and cash flow moving that will also keep your product creating aligned and focused. Find your gold mine in your surroundings by looking at any promotional literature you have created, audio or video tapes you have produced, press releases or articles about or by you, your product catalog or list and even your business card. 1. What is the ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 19 ways to attract higher paying clients
- Some people have little difficulty attracting and maintaining clients who have higher discretionary funds to spend for solutions. Others can't get to first base. If you are one of those and want clients that can pay more and you currently aren't attracting them, here is a list of 10 barriers that might be interfering. Higher paying clients are easier to work with, appreciate your work more,...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How a tiny 10 year old girl can throw a 20 stone man - 3 key lessons in the gentle art of business
- Half my immediate family trained in Judo and excelled in competition. I was always fascinated by the way in which my younger brother and sister (who were small for their age) were able to throw much bigger opponents with seemingly little effort.I remember vividly watching a training session where my sister easily threw another student flat on his back. What staggered me though was the size ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 5 steps to help fail-proof your growing service business
- Business startup and failure rates are scary...In The USA...- Every Year Over 1 Million People Start A Business- By The End Of The First Year 40% Of Them Will Be Out Of Business- Within 5 Years More Than 80% (800,000) Of These Businesses Will Have Failed(Source: The eMyth Revisited, Michal E Gerber, US Department of Commerce)In The UK...- 2003 Saw 4...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Three ways to put fresh spins on old marketing concepts
- 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...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Five tips to make your marketing more creative
- Same old same old just doesn't sell anymore. To make your marketing stand out, you need to get creative. Below are five tips designed to get your creative juices flowing. Some are brainteasers or are what Michael Michalko in "Thinkertoys" calls Linear Thinkertoys. Others fall under intuition or Intuitive Thinkertoys. Some tips may appeal to you more than others. My suggestion...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Explode your sales with free & exclusive content
- Offering free and exclusive content to ezine publishers and webmasters is one of the best ways you can increase exposure for your products and services. There are several effective methods you can use to employ this marketing tactic and subsequently boost your sales.I personally suggest exploring the following two methods to increase your exposure:1. Create exclusive content for webs...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Why your sales copy should be written as if it will never be read at all!
- What is enthusiasm?Well, consulting good ol' Mr. Webster, you could stake a claim that enthusiasm is "an absorbing possession of the mind by an interest, study, or pursuit; [an] ardent interest."Isn't that a typical Webster's dictionary for you? It gives you the literal meaning of the word, but fails to actually convey its true essence.When I think of 'enthusiasm', I immediate...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The power of thank you
- Sometimes we loose site of the small things in life that are incredibly important. As a child growing up in America, most people are taught from a very young age to say Thank You in appreciation of a courtesy extended by someone.Your parents, your teachers in school, your minister or teachers in church, your youth group leader and others all attempt to teach this civilized and courteous beh...