Saturday, October 8, 2011

9 Tools for Building Customer Loyalty

By Sean M. Lyden

Follow-up is extremely important to growing your homebased business. Like anything worthwhile, consistent follow-up requires a lot of effort, but over time you'll reap the benefits of a steady stream of repeat business and referrals. After all, it takes far less time and money to sell to an existing customer than a cold prospect.

Read his tools here
http://www.entrepreneur.com/sales/customerservice/article54792.html

Saturday, October 1, 2011

Stop Chasing Your Prospects

The Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto...
by John Kellerman Posted 9/13/09

If you’re just getting started in network marketing and are’nt sure how to proceed or if you’ve been in the industry for a while and want to make your business really take off, this report is for you. In The Attraction Marketers Manifesto, Sieg fills in the blanks for you and shows you how to generate massive amounts of leads online.

Read more here
http://www.onlineglobalbiz.com/the-attraction-marketers-manifesto-stop-chasing-your-prospects

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

33 Marketing Success Tips

By Al Lautenslager

Practice a few of these must-know marketing tips every day and build up your geurilla-marketing muscles. Part of the guerrilla marketing mindset suggests that you should be thinking about marketing all the time. Not just quarterly, not just monthly, not just weekly, but every single day. Really, it's not as hard as it sounds--there are quite a few ways you can incorporate marketing into your daily activities.

Read his tips here
http://www.ryze.com/posttopic.php?topicid=582785&confid=1022

Friday, September 23, 2011

Fueling The Idea - Marketing With Articles

by Bonnie Joe Davis

Excerpt:
'Writing and submitting that one article produced several paid speaking engagements. This new marketing intrigue fascinated me, so I fine-tuned my article submission process creating logs and checklists, and within a few months, my boss had accomplished his goal of publication in every magazine on his list!'

Read article here
http://www.ryze.com/posttopic.php?topicid=540958&confid=1022

Sunday, September 11, 2011

10 Heavy Duty Online Sales Grabbers

AUTHOR UNKNOWN

1. Give your prospects extra incentives so they will
order quicker. It could be free shipping, a faster
shipping option, free gift wrapping, etc.

2. Make your small business look big on the world
wide web. Design your web site using professional
graphics, ordering systems, organized layouts, etc.

3. Attract a lot more customers by giving them clear
ordering instructions. Give them all the information
they need so they can complete their order easily.

4. Give your customers buying incentives so they'll
make repeat purchases. Offer them discounts, free
gifts, bonus points, etc.

5. Tell people about your site whenever you get a
chance. Those people will tell other people and so
on. It's a cheap way to multiply your advertising.

6. Write and send press releases for your web site.
Use a strong headlines, make it newsworthy, and
tell the journalist why their readers would like it.

7. Use a lot of headlines on your web site and ezine.
Some types of headlines are free offers, questions,
problem solvers, sales, and statistics.

8. Design graphics, templates, buttons and banner
ads for other sites. Allow people to use them in
exchange for your web link on their home page.

9. Use time saving promotional software. You can
automate your search engine submissions, posting
to online classified sites, etc.

10. Advertise your online business by dressing in
clothes that are imprinted with your ad. It could be
a T-shirt, ball cap, coat, etc.

Saturday, September 10, 2011

10 Tips For Communicating With A Difficult Client

posted by Shay Howe

As a web designer you are bound and determined to at one point and time come across a troublesome client. There are know-it-all clients, the low-tech clients, the day-late clients, and many more. No matter what their nature may be they exist and seem to come by all too often. Learning how to communicate with these clients can immensely change the outcome of your day-to-day productivity as well as your overall success.

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http://ow.ly/15RmwZ

Monday, September 5, 2011

Free Marketing Webinar: Value of Social Media

Presented by Social Media Guru, Chris Brogan

This free webinar will cover:
How to show the value of social media to your boss
How to develop a social media strategy that aligns with key business goals

Tools and resources to help you start, manage, and measure your social media efforts

Sign up to download
http://www.hubspot.com/marketing-webinars/social-media-value-archive

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

10 Low-Cost Easy Ways to Promote Your Business

by Susan Ward

Business promotion is to running a successful business as practicing scales is to playing the piano well; it may not be a thrilling activity in itself, but you just have to do it! You should spend at least an hour a day on business promotion or planning how to promote your business (and more is better, if you can fit the time in)!

Read her article here
http://sbinfocanada.about.com/cs/marketing/a/bizpromotion.htm