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1). Let's Start! Create A Business Plan
Let's Start! Create A Business Plan
Article tags: business plan, marketing strategy, target market, competition, online advertising, pricing, shipping, delivery, fulfillment, payment methods
2). Four Surefire Ways to Price Your Decorative Painting Jobs
Imagine this nightmare scenario…
You’ve spent considerable time and energy putting together what you consider to be a fair proposal for a decorative painting job that you really want to land. You’re finally sitting in front of your client revealing each intricate detail of the finish that you want to create on their walls.
Your client seems excited and eager to get started.
Article tags: decorative painting, faux finish, painting, pricing, one stroke, proposals
3). Creating Cash Flow with Old Inventory
Being a retail consultant, there is a comment many business owners used. It is “I'm not giving away my inventory". It is most common among store owners that business is in bad shape. It is too bad that most retail owners don't understand about inventory. Inventory does two things. It eithers makes you money or costs you money.
You need to have sufficient inventory to be profitable.
Article tags: cash flow, inventory, small business, retail store, owner, pricing
4). High Tech Product Management
Copyright 2006 PJM Consulting
Product Management--what does this mean in a High Tech company? What is the function, and where does it belong? I've held permanent positions in a number of high tech concerns, as with PJM Consulting I have worked with many more in a consulting capacity.
Product Management is all over the map in High Tech. Most often it resides in the marketing department.
Article tags: business, management, software, technology, high tech, product management, marketing, pricing, promotion, product development, distribution
5). Higher Prices Lead To Higher Profits - Part 2 Of 2
In the first part of this series we looked at the effect prices have on profits. A change to the upside can have a wonderful effect on profits while reckless discounting and careless price reductions will surely have a disastrous one. If you don't fully understand the implications, or haven't read Part 1, go back and do so now. (http://www.paullemberg.com/higher-part1.html)
By now you may be asking yourself, "What should my prices be?"
Before you go start changing pric...
Article tags: business coaching, business coach, public speaker, pricing, sales, strategy, business plan, growth
6). Branding Cures Several Marketing Headaches
Are you trying to attract business with a no-name, no-differences-from-competitors company identity? Branding your company, when done well, not only helps you stand out in a field of similar choices, it also helps you avoid price-shoppers and deliver results to customers that inspire loyalty. Here’s why.
Headache #1: Competitors all seem the same
Put yourself in the mindset of a customer and go shopping for a company that provides what you sell.
Article tags: marketing, branding, naming, company names, business names, sales, image, identity, pricing, competition
7). A Testimonial is Worth 100 Cold Calls
If you hate cold calling, and even if you don't, you should start capitalizing on the work you’ve already done.
So often we don’t utilize one of the most persuasive selling components in our marketing materials – the words of our own clients. Many creative people have wonderful testimonials from clients, but never use them for fear that they are “bragging” or that it is “too self promotional.
Article tags: cold, calls, marketing, sales, selling, testimonial, freelance, design, fees, pricing, value, business, creative, success
8). Listing Your Property With To High of a Price
The biggest issue many homeowners face when listing their house for sale is the price. You want to get the most you can, but be careful when it comes to pricing it to high.
Listing Your Property With To High of a Price
For no particular reason, you have picked up the itch to sell your house. Maybe there are developments in your area that have caused massive appreciation and you simply want to cash out while the going is good.
Article tags: real estate, property, price, pricing, prices, home, house, comps, sale, sell, selling
9). Software as a Service
Copyright 2006 PJM Consulting
How should Software be delivered to users? Via traditional licenses? As “free” services supported by advertising? Or using a rental model referred to under several different labels such as Hosted, ASP, On Demand or SaaS. This has been very much in debate over the last few years. Back in the dot-com boom, the selling of software licenses was proclaimed to be dead.
Article tags: software, service, asp, internet, web, licensing, rental, traditional, pricing, tech, dot.com, on demand, saas, hosted, advertising
10). Should You Buy Real Estate Now?
As has been reported in the media lately, the real estate market has cooled off dramatically. This raises the question of whether you should buy now or wait for a bit for prices to fall further.
Should You Buy Real Estate Now?
First off, timing anything in the financial arena can be a bit of a misnomer. History has shown that real estate is a good investment over time regardless of when you buy.
Article tags: real estate, timing, homes, houses, property, seller, buyers, foreclosures, prices, pricing, trends
11). Overcoming Hesitation as a FSBO Seller
One tends to hesitate when trying anything for the first time. In the case of selling a home by owner, overcoming this hesitation can save you a bundle of money.
Overcoming Hesitation as a FSBO Seller
If I asked you to go skydiving with me, you might be incredibly enthusiastic or look at me like I was insane. Skydiving is, of course, an extreme activity to say the least.
Article tags: fsbo, homes, real estate agent, sell, selling, for sale by owner, contracts, pricing, commission
12). Paying Referral Fees to Designers as a Creative Subcontractor - Should You Do It?
Kirstin,
I am a faux finisher and I do some murals, too. When my clients ask me for referrals for designers, I give them names of people whom I think can help them. Should I let the designer know that I referred them?
- Arlene, Baltimore, MD
Arlene,
Not only should you let the designer know you referred someone to her, you should also ask for a referral fee or a percentage of the contract if she gets the client.
Article tags: referrals, sales, selling, marketing, designer, refer, fee, pricing, affiliate, value, client, customer, interior, decorate, creative, professional
13). What Is Marketing?
To too many people marketing equates to one of two things:
- Selling: with all that entails such as the dreaded double-glazing or financial salesman.
- Advertising: with all that entails such as the slick young creative and smarmy account person.
Of course marketing also encompasses these functions – though, hopefully not as in the stereotypes that are in so many minds – but marketing is about a great deal more than just selling or advertising.
Article tags: marketing, branding, pricing, advertising, selling
14). Profitability - Pricing Strategies To Make Money
At a meeting the other day, a marketing consultant opened her talk by asking the group, "What are you worth?" She went on to discuss all the different ways we minimize our worth or discount our value in desperate attempts to close the sale. After all the pitfalls of pricing and selling were laid out, she closed the talk by asking again, "What are you.
Article tags: profitability, pricing, pricing strategies, appreciate your worth
15). A Price-Value Matrix - A Cool Tool for Finding Your Just Right Pricing Strategy
While developing your pricing strategy, it is important to remember that there is an implicit relationship between price and value. We expect to pay more for gourmet food than for fast food and for a luxury car than for an economy model. At the same time, value is a matter of opinion, not fact. I prefer a new Subaru to a '95 Cadillac; my husband prefers the opposite.
Article tags: pricing, strategy, matrix, value, business, marketing