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1). Are Your Sales Scripts Working For or Against You?
Copyright 2006 Joel Sussman
Sales scripts are a double edged sword. On one hand, they can help you present your selling points and sales rebuttals in an organized, strategic way. Used incorrectly, however, they can undermine your sales effectiveness and actually cause you to lose sales. Here’s a caveat worth considering: Although sales scripts may.
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2). 7 Marketing Ideas to Expand Your Customer Base and Profits
Copyright 2006 Joel Sussman
How do you grab people's attention, arouse their interest, trigger their desire, and motivate them to take action? Answer that four-part question correctly and you've identified the secret to achieving tremendous sales and marketing success in your chosen business or field. To complicate matters, however, the potential answers are as numerous and multi-faceted as the growing number of niche markets, products and services, and marketing trends in our culture.
Article tags: marketing plan, marketing ideas, marketing mix, marketing strategy, small business marketing, marketing tools, marketing trends, customer service, target marketing
3). What Marketing Can’t Do For You
I thought I would clear up some misconceptions about marketing in this two-part series: What Marketing Can Do For You and What Marketing Can't Do For You. This issue is about what marketing can’t do.
While there’s no question a solid marketing program can increase your business, it can’t fix everything. Below are 5 things marketing can’t do for you:
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Article tags: marketing, creative marketing, marketing ideas, marketing success, marketing strategies
4). Three Steps to Your Ultimate Marketing Message
Have you created a core marketing message to use throughout all of your marketing efforts?
I'm not talking about some catchy slogan or play on words using the name of your business or the service you provide. It's not some meaningless phrase like "we do it right" or "quality service you can trust." Anybody in business can say those things and they're really basic expectations anyway.
Article tags: small business marketing, marketing tips, marketing ideas, marketing strategy
5). Marketing Success – How to get over that first hill and start making some real money!
If you’re like a lot of newbie marketers you have heaps of great marketing ideas all the time. Problem is they just seem to fade into nothing without you ever doing a thing about them, Am I right? After a week you have forgotten all about that great new idea or you have that lingering annoying thought in your mind that you have let another great idea turn into nothing.
Article tags: marketing, money, business, marketing plan, marketing ideas, marketing mix, marketing strategy, small business marketing, marketing tools, marketing trends, customer service, target marketing
6). Education is the Key to Effective Referral Marketing
Copyright 2006 John Jantsch
One of the few complaints I hear from small business owners when it comes to generating business or leads by way of referral is that too many of the referrals they are offered aren’t a fit for the business. The referrals are either unqualified, don’t need the firm’s offerings, can’t afford the product or just don’t fit the typical profile of an ideal client for the receiving firm.
Article tags: referral marketing, marketing ideas, marketing system, marketing strategies, small business marketing
7). Continuously Moving Your Marketing Forward
Marketing is an ongoing journey for your business.
That might seem like an obvious statement, but the actions of many small business owners might indicate otherwise. For many you build a web site, or create a brochure, or go to a few networking events and then you wait for results to happen. Effective marketing rarely works like that.
It takes regular and consistent effort to keep your pipeline full of good high-quality leads that you can work on converting into paying clients.
Article tags: small business marketing, marketing tips, marketing ideas, marketing strategy
8). The Power of a Marketing and Sales System
Where Do Most of Your Clients Come From?
When I meet people for the first time and they understand that I'm a marketing consultant, I'm frequently asked, "Where do most of your clients come from?" Many times I believe the question is asked innocently enough. But, quite often I feel like the person asking wants to know if I have a magic answer that might work for them.
Article tags: small business marketing, marketing tips, marketing ideas, marketing strategy
9). Can You Market Effectively Without Purpose and Vision?
I went to lunch with a friend the other day to ask him about his company's marketing journey.
You see, I knew that he and his partner had hired a marketing coach a couple of years back. I wanted to find out what their experience was like and where they had challenges and successes along the way.
This particular company is very typical of the small, service-based businesses that I focus on in my own marketing practice.
Article tags: small business marketing, marketing tips, marketing ideas, marketing strategy
10). Marketing Infoproducts: Package Your Brain!
Copyright 2006 Marketing Maven
As long as you are providing a service, there will always be a ceiling on how much you can earn that is based on the number of hours you can work in a week. Even if you hire an assistant and/or raise your rates, you are only raising the ceiling a little higher. The way you can blast that ceiling sky-high is to package your brain into infoproducts and sell them online.
Article tags: marketing, marketing strategies, marketing tips, marketing ideas, online marketing, internet marketing, infoproducts, multiple streams of income, passive income, small business
11). Business Strategy: Clarify Your Purpose And Vision
Whether it's the beginning of a new year or we're half way through, you want it to be your best year ever. You are no doubt doing some planning for how to make that happen. You are doing some planning aren't you?
I'd like to recommend you take some time to really clarify your Purpose and Vision.
Clear purpose and vision are the keys to giving you a focus and direction.
Article tags: marketing plan, marketing strategy, small business marketing, marketing tip, marketing ideas
12). Your Greatest Marketing Assets
You might not think that you are a marketing and sales person, but if you own or work in a small business think again. When you're in business for yourself - whether you like it or not, feel like you're good at it or not - you are a marketing and sales person.
I tell my marketing clients and those that attend my various marketing presentations all the time that the two greatest assets you posses are your Attitude and Belief.
Article tags: small business marketing, marketing tips, marketing ideas, marketing strategy
13). What Marketing Can Do For You
I thought I would clear up some misconceptions about marketing in this two-part series: What Marketing Can Do For You and What Marketing Can't Do For You. We'll start with the positive.
Over the years, I've had dealings with some business owners who have a rather skewed perception of marketing. They think you throw a few ads out there, get a couple of press releases printed and voila! You’re a big success.
Article tags: marketing, creative marketing, marketing ideas, marketing success, marketing strategies
14). Do You Get Attention With Your 30-Second Introduction?
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 do you do?" Consider these tips for developing an attention getting introduction.
Article tags: small business marketing, marketing tips, marketing ideas, marketing strategy
15). Marketing Ideas Without Action Will Get You Nowhere!
You want to grow your small business, but how do you do that? Many of the small businesses I work with are not really sure what works best, or how, or where to get started.
We're all familiar with the term Marketing, but what in the heck is it really supposed to do for us?
* Build brand awareness
* Build name recognition
* Increase market share
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Article tags: small business marketing, marketing tips, marketing ideas, marketing strategy