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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Are keywords destroying the flow of your seo copy?
- With all the shuffling that's been seen in the search engine world within the last year, the issue of obvious optimizing has become a hot button. The current line of thinking is that most engines (especially Google) are on the lookout for sites that purposely make an effort to optimize their pages in order to get high rankings. While this theory has not been proven, I agree that obvious optimizati...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 7 cheap & easy ways to get prospects
- Here are some quick techniques you can put into place on your web site or in your advertising to gather new prospects. There is practically no cost for most of these strategies yet they have proven to be extremely effective in any number of different venues. Use one, two or all of these strategies for a quick shot in the arm. Offer a free report or article that's sent by email from your...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Marketing is a long-term investment
- "Dig your well before you're thirsty" is the title of a wonderful book by Harvey Mackay. It is smart advice for investing your money, "Save your money before you need it", or growing your business, "Market today for tomorrow".When times are tough some businesses stop marketing. They reason, 'No one is buying so why should I advertise?' The other time some businesses stop marketing is wh...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Blowing your own horn
- Opportunity Assistance Business Resource Center http://www.opportunityassistance.comAt first you must think that with a title as above that this article must be about something other than marketing; however, what this article is about is marketing, specifically affiliate marketing.Affiliate marketing is much more than s...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to make more money
- The biggest crime in small businesses today goes unnoticed by most outsiders. It is not reported in the media. There are no police reports filed and companies do not even mention it on their websites. People don't talk about it on the street and employees often overlook it. Even though this crime is rampant among small businesses, it's presence is so subtle that many business owners fail to recogn...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Want to impress customers, win clients and influence people?
- Remember the baseball cards kids traded while chewing their way through kilos of noxious bubblegum, all for about a nickle a pack? No? Then ask your Dad. Are you familiar with the latest digital CD Cardz that look like traditional sports trading cards and play interactive video, triva, bios, stats, music, as well as desktop goodies? ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Behold the power of the tip
- You are an expert. You have lots of content - even more than you deliver from the presentation platform or in your consulting engagements. But how do you package that content for the web, without giving away the store? One of the most effective methods for delivering your content is in small chunks. In a speech you do this with quotes, tips to remember, and short items. In print you write a...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Build your trade show - virtually
- Virtual trade shows are gaining momentum as a way to encourage participation in the event - both live and online. Here are a few ideas to help you expand your trade show - virtually. 1. Provide a map of the show floor that matches the live show. Link each booth on the map to the vendor's virtual booth. 2. Have each online show visitor register. Give them an ID number to make it easy ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to start with absolutely nothing and create wealth online in 30 days or less.
- Without a doubt, if you asked me, Shane if there was only 1 marketing strategy that you could use on the Internet, what would it be? Without hesitation I would say joint Ventures. Joint Ventures are easily the most lucrative Marketing Strategy ever invented and if you learn to do it right, will likely be the ONLY marketing strategy you will ever need to use. A Good Internet Joint Venture is...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The marketing funnel: simple, effective marketing strategy
- No matter if you're publishing your first book or producing your first invention, you need a simple, effective marketing strategy. So, hiring a marketing agency to develop and implement that strategy will bring raving fans flocking to stores or your website to buy your incredible offering, right? Well, maybe. Maybe not! There is a very simple ? yet amazingly potent ? marketin...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - A simplified marketing plan that works!
- When I started my first business in 1981, I researched business plans and marketing plans. I looked at all of the formats and read a lot about the purpose of creating a business plan. But I never got enthused enough to do it. When I launched my speaking business in 1997, I reconsidered a business plan and a marketing plan. Again, they looked too complex - like a lot of "overkill" for my one...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Do i need an rss feed?
- RSS has been around for more than 10 years but has only recently become popular. RSS provides headlines and summaries of information in a concise and standardized way.Benefits for Publishers1.) Avoid Spam FiltersStatisticians estimate that 70% of the email transferred each day is spam (unsolicited email). With that statistic, even opt-in users risk losing valuable messages in ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Business marketing strategies
- For many small business managers, finding the time and commitment to develop business marketing strategies is difficult. There are so many other obligations vying for our attention it is tempting to push formal strategy development to the back burner. Giving into that temptation, however, means putting your business at a disadvantage. Marketing strategies help point you toward the best marketing p...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The anatomy of hype
- On a copywriting board I frequent, someone expressed bafflement that several respected marketers criticized the tone of a sales page he wrote. "Why did they apologize to their subscribers while linking to my pitch? This approach sells," he said.Hype was the problem. If you use the following tactics, many educated shoppers cringe and go elsewhere:Overblown claims. "If You Can Write Yo...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Nine advance networking skills for seasoned networkers
- A seasoned networker knows the real meaning of networking -- being organized, efficient, effective, and, of course, work the event to its fullest. Attending networking groups after so many years can tire and drain anyone's excitement. Especially since these situations are not social events. It is easy to have one foot in the event and the other some place else. A major challenge for all networkers...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 15 ways to promote elearning programs
- Pre-note: In this article, teleclass is an example used to illustrate one type of eLearning market. The tips work the same for other eLearning programs, including, but not limited to, teleseminars and ecourses.In the mid-1990s, the teleclass format began and was named, distance learning. During these early years, learning institutions, particularly universities, were chief users of this for...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to expand your target markets
- Are your products or services geared towards only one target market? You can increase sales and profits by increasing your target markets. Below are some creative ways to increase your target markets by using your existing products and services you're selling right now. REDESIGN You can increase your target markets by redesigning your products and services. For example: you're selli...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The dare-to-be-different in marketing checklist
- There is a big payoff in being different. When you accept "what is" you place yourself in the category of "sameness," and people don't buy sameness. Why should they? They can do sameness themselves. If your prospects aren't seeing the value you offer, you may be coming across as the same and not daring to be different. Dare yourself to be different in promoting yourself, your services or yo...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The illusion of print mail services
- If ever there was a lazy way to easy profits in mail order it hasto be the concept of letting someone else do all the work foryou. In theory, it works like this: You send a camera-ready circular or ad to someone who advertisesa print/mail service and they will print and mail it (along withmany others) to 1,000 to 25,000 names on their own list. Yousimply pay a on...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Target your share of the 50-plus market
- It's quite apparent that Americans are living longer--- and as people age, they request and require many more products and services than ever before. Now, as aging Boomers (born between 1946 and 1964) are coming of age, the fifty-plus population is over 77 million people and growing enormously all the time. And since they control 77% of all financial assets, your mature mark...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Are we there yet?
- Small business marketing is not like taking a family vacation.Did anybody take a family vacation this summer? Do you have children of your own, or do you remember what it was like when you were a kid taking a trip somewhere?I can still remember the family vacations as a youngster growing up. Our famous treks across America in the family station wagon or the rented RV, when the...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - You must get going if you want to get growing
- For many of service-based businesses out there, it's not that you don't know you should be marketing or don't want to get better at it. It's just that you don't.For some, it might be that you don't really know what to do, so you're doing nothing. And that includes not taking any action to learn more and find out what to do. If you were a car, you'd be stuck in PARK.For some, it's not...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Take the logo litmus test
- Here is your C.I.T.T. (pronounced "kit")[Color ? Illustrate? Type ? Test]COLOR. Color plays a major role in influencing particular moods and feelings about your company. Don't believe me? Look at Dove? soap. You'll find the shampoo bottles are white. White conveys purity, simplicity and a sense of cleanliness. It's strategic and makes sense doesn't it?! Have you noticed that you ca...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 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 adver...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Get free web tips from your competition
- 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 (...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Marketing gurus : do you need one?
- Its become fashionable to bash marketing "gurus" nowadays.There are some for whom the prospect of even looking at someone as a "guru" is a sin. They believe in being free-thinkers, unfettered by the bonds of guru-dom.Then there are those who try to score points by "proving" gurus wrong. They think they have achieved a new high in their field just by proving that a "guru" made a false...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - After the mailing is done, what happens next?
- If you're doing any sort of marketing effort, whether it's getting news coverage or sending a postcard, you must be prepared for what happens next. If you're sending postcards promoting your business, and you have people working for you, tell them that you sent the card. There's nothing worse than having your customers, postcards in hand, coming into your business and being greeted...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - After your postcard mailing: follow up with finesse
- I've heard a lot of people lament the fact that they just sent out a big postcard mailing, and, alas, no one called. Hey, it's happened to me. I've sent cards that I thought were so good that I was sure my phone would start ringing off the hook. And then my little Web and graphic design studio would be so busy that I'd be booked sold for the next three months. Hooray! But, i...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Budgeting for a postcard mailing
- If you've never done a postcard mailing, you're probably wondering, "What should I budget for?" Here are three items to account for: 1. If you're a designing woman (or man), then you'll need to get that great postcard design out of your computer and into the hands of the postcard printing company. If you have a high-speed Internet connection, you're in luck. You can just upload your files t...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Importance of endorsements and how to use them
- Customer endorsements are an inexpensive and easy sales tool, particularly for someone just starting out. Here are some tips on how to get them and use them: Send follow-up letters. Two to four weeks after working with a customer, send a survey letter or postcard. Be sure to leave space for them to write in their own words what they liked best about your company, product or service. ...