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By Daniel Wadleigh - 4/3/2009

As stated before, the two ways to increase market share are: 1) Lower your price, or 2) Add value. How to add value is described in the "Main Manual" as well as "Advanced Marketing", but, here is the field experience numbers of how many potential customers are swayed by price or by valu...

Success or Failure - the Choice is Yours!

By Cheryl Vallejos - 4/3/2009

How many times do you have to fail at something in order to succeed? Did you know that Thomas Edison failed 10,000 times while trying to invent the light bulb? He certainly had a learn and do attitude! He was able to turn each failed experiment into a successful way not to invent the light bulb. ...

Don`t Sell Yourself Short

By Chris W James - 4/3/2009

One of the most common mistakes made by new business owners, entrepreneurs and managers is underselling their products. You figure if you offer the cheapest product everyone will buy from you, period. This may be the case for a one time customer, but to build a lifelong relationship with a customer ...

Network Marketing Is Definitely A Relationship Business

By Kirk Bannerman - 4/3/2009

Heavily branded websites like amazon.com are household names and carry an implied trust with visitors. However, the vast majority of websites are not well known and are found and visited as a result of search engine searches. In these instances, the visitor is probably arriving at the website for...

What`s More Important: an MBA or Experience?

By Ioan Hepes - 4/3/2009

Experience is definitely one of the most important factors in a recruiting process. Actually, enough work-experience is also a requirement for all good MBA programs. The MBA is the certification that you have also learned all the important tools that are necessary for a management position. Of cours...

Budgeting for a Postcard Mailing

By Martha Retallick - 4/3/2009

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 co...

Secret Shoppers

By Marcus Peterson - 4/3/2009

Secret Shoppers are people hired by companies to evaluate the quality of work and customer service in a particular industry. A secret shopper works freelance and anonymously, posing as a normal everyday shopper, and submit a report to the management at the end of the day. Secret Shoppers are usually...

Is Over Lunch a Good Time to Interview?

By Don Monteith - 4/3/2009

Here are my answers -- sometimes - never - maybe - it all depends. You may think that`s an indecisive response, but few things have concrete, no diversion, answers, especially when it`s your future and financial security. You will assume this is a great time to interview. It begins by think...

Workplace Conflict: FAQs -- An Interview with Judy Ringer

By Judy Ringer - 4/3/2009

Does conflict disrupt your workplace environment? Read on! Judy Ringer answers some commonly asked questions on the subjects of workplace conflict, difficult people, and how to manage them more effectively. Q. What are some typical breakdowns in the workplace? JR: I wouldn?t call them breakdowns, b...

How To Tell Your Utility Company...You`re Fired!

By Bob Lansburg - 4/3/2009

CFO.com reports that ?high fuel costs are the number one concern reported by CFOs.? Yet in spite of this, few have taken steps. In a survey conducted by OPEN, the small-business unit of American Express, two-thirds of small and medium-sized businesses are reporting that higher energy costs have had ...

Business to Business Direct Mail Offers that Say Free

By Alan Sharpe - 4/3/2009

In direct mail, the offer is the incentive or reward that you dangle in front of your prospects to motivate them to respond to your mailing, either with an order or with a request for more information. Offers follow a ?you do this and we?ll do that? format. For example: ?Place your order before June...

How to Write a Winning PR Release

By Douglas Hanna - 4/3/2009

The best rule to follow in writing a release is to put yourself in the shoes of an editor who is thinking about picking up your release. First, it does have to be ?news.? Second, there must be something the editor thinks would be of interest to his or her readers. Here`s an example. I recently wrote...

Create Your Own Business Cards, Part 1

By Jane Fulton - 4/3/2009

In this lesson, we will create a business card, using Microsoft Word. I created a new template for my business card. It can be viewed at: http://janes-place.com/bus_card.htm Choose the information you want to place on your card before b...

CEO Pay VS Rank and File

By Lance Winslow - 4/3/2009

Many complain that CEO make too much money, as the average is some 300% more than the rank and file. If the companies were doing well that is no problem, yet if the company is rolling in the profits it would make sense and the shareholders might agree that this is a good policy, as it is a reward fo...

Stress Management Tip ? Progressive Relaxation

By David Tomaselli - 4/3/2009

Negative thoughts and feelings can significantly contribute to the tension we experience in our bodies. Most of the time we are unaware of the tension in our bodies until it manifests as a physical condition such as muscle tightness in the body, headaches and even stomach ulcers. Progressive relaxat...

Your Traffic Building Checklist: 15 Ways to Get More Visitors Who Are Ready to Buy (Part 2)

By Alexandria K. Brown - 4/3/2009

<< Part 2 of 2 >> When many of my clients first come to me for coaching, they share that one of their biggest challenges is getting enough visitors to their site. Attracting traffic isn`t a cut and dry process ? there isn`t one perfect way to do it. But there are many ways that, when used collaborat...

Where to Look for New Donors for Your Fundraising Letter Appeals

By Alan Sharpe - 4/3/2009

Have you ever studied your best donors and wished you could clone them all? Maybe you can, with a bit of creative thinking. 1. Friends of current supporters The first place to look is friends, family and colleagues of your current supporters. The odds are good that your most generous and faithful do...

Advertising Your Holistic Business

By Jennifer Shapiro - 4/3/2009

The most basic answer is the same answer as to the question, how does advertising work? Advertising works through repetition, and Holistic Hometown offers you that repetition. What all successful companies know is that advertising it a process. It?s been stated in marketing files for over 50 years...

Publicity - Use This System to Track Publicity Progress

By Ned Steele - 4/3/2009

Tracking your correspondence with reporters, via phone or email, is important for two reasons. First of all, promises to follow-up can slip between the cracks of daily business and cost you a change at free publicity. Second, you don`t ever want to contact a reporter twice about the same story. You ...

Advertise Where It`s Forbidden To

By Valerian Dinca - 4/3/2009

The most common way to drive people to your business site is advertising. You cannot succeed without advertising, this is a fact.

You should advertise almost everytime and almost everywhere using a very pleasant, smart and persuasive manner if you want to accomplish your final target: Makin...

The Seven Second Race: How to Draw Attention Your Ad

By Rhonda Winn - 4/3/2009

You`ve decided to launch your advertising campaign but you have no idea what would inspire others to buy from you. Or maybe you`ve already run some ads to no avail. How do you make your ad the one that stands out? After all, consumers receive thousands of marketing messages everyday. What makes what...

Private Equity Deals Offer Alternate Exits to IPOs

By Sramana Mitra - 4/3/2009

WSJ article "IPO Obstacles Hinder Startups" offers a good coverage of how IPOs are becoming tougher for small venture-backed companies. This raises the question, what should CEOs and early-stage VCs do, once a company has reached $100 M+ in annual sales? (Below this threshhold, it is absolutely unde...

Time Wasted Is Opportunity Missed

By Ramon Greenwood - 4/3/2009

How much time do you waste every day on your job? If you are an average worker, the answer is 2.09 hours per workday, according to a new survey by America Online and Salary.com> The survey shows "that employees are wasting about twice as much time as their employers suspect." According to Salary.c...

Diamonds are Forever

By Michael Hanna - 4/3/2009

In October 2005, Egg asked the Social Issues Research Centre to investigate the trends that would define the ?Noughties?. They found that many people thought of the period as the ?Decade of Fear?, due to the immense media coverage of 9/11, the tsunami and the War on Terror. As a result, people are i...

Marketing-Minded Financial Planners Piggyback on "Topic A" to Get Free Publicity

By Ned Steele - 4/3/2009

That big story the media pursue each day is what I call Topic A. And even if it doesn`t seem to have anything to do with financial planning, it often lead to huge media visibility for you. Often, Topic A has a controversial element, such as when tax cuts or Social Security is being discussed. The la...

The Nine Warning Signs that You Need a Sales Video

By Marie-Claire Ross - 4/3/2009

Corporate videos are an important sales tool that can often be overlooked in marketing budgets. We look at the top nine tell-tale signs that indicate whether your company is in need of an innovative and effective way to promote itself. 1. No strong corporate ?look and feel? You?re in a highly compet...

For All Those People Who Struggle With Benefits and Features

By Keith Longmire - 4/3/2009

For Everyone Who Has Ever Struggled Sorting Out Benefits From Features - "SWAT Them!" SWAT is not actually an acronym. It is a compaction of the question "so what?" You see, one of the biggest problems that even experienced copywriters and marketers fall into is being clear on what benefits their pr...

Effective Meetings Begin With a Real Agenda

By Steve Kaye - 4/3/2009

Everyone knows that an agenda is the key to an effective meeting. But an agenda that consists of a list of nouns, such as budget, software, and picnic, is useless. Here?s how to prepare a real agenda that puts you in control of the meeting. 1) Goal. Every real agenda begins with a goal that descri...

Fear Of Change: Nervous About Changing Jobs?

By Carl Mueller - 4/3/2009

Here are some suggestions when you are considering changing jobs (including if you are actually considering a job offer) but are starting to get cold feet and question whether or not you should switch jobs:

1. Remember why you want to leave your current position. Chances are good that the rea...

What Do Your Ads Say?

By Mike McDaniel - 4/3/2009

Make a list of everything you think should be included at one time or another, in one of your ad, be it radio, newspaper or Little Jimmie`s class play program. Everything. Experience, staff, facility, product. The list will be quite long. Take the time to do it now, before you read the rest of this ...

Hispanic American Trucks

By Lance Winslow - 4/3/2009

What do you call trucks from Mexico which come into the United States and pollute the air and do not comply with air quality or EPA rules for trucks? What do you call a truck from Mexico, which is not mechanically sound and may have many equipment violations including faulty brakes? What do you call...

Five New 5 P`s!

By Jaruda Boonsuwan - 4/3/2009

NO! When I say "5 P`s", I`m not talking about the big 5 P`s of marketing everyone`s familiar with. Here I`m NOT referring to Product, Price, Place, Promotion and Package! But I`m talking about the FRESHEST 5 P`s I believe will be extra useful for your websites and newsletters. Are you ready to disco...

Celtic Jewelry, A Lovely Gift For Almost Anyone!

By Michael Russell - 4/3/2009

Celtic Jewelry possesses an irresistible charm and appeal to men and women of all ethnicities. Created in all shapes and sizes, Celtic Jewelry makes a lovely gift for anyone that likes jewelry. Celtic knots add a particularly interesting flavor to any Celtic jewelry piece. The intricate designs cr...

Knowledge Management - Creating a Sustainable Yellow Pages System

By Chris Collison - 4/3/2009

How can I "know who knows" None of us can personally know more than around 250 people, yet we want our companies to be smart, learning organisations where it`s easy to find the right person to talk to. This is why many organisations create "yellow pages" applications, which enable employees to fin...

Make More Money with Marketing Metrics

By Jeremy Cohen - 4/3/2009

Do you know how effective each of your individual marketing tactics is? Many small business owners market in a vacuum. They spend money on brochures, advertisements and web sites with no real way to tie specific results to specific endeavors. If you are unable to associate leads and sales with the ...

Do You Make These Ten Management Mistakes?

By Chris Anderson - 4/3/2009

As a busy executive, you face some extremely difficult challenges like creating and dominating new markets or finding and keeping the best people.� But then, like many executives, do you find yourself spending too much time solving everyday problems (that only you can solve, right?), which prevent y...

Checks And Balances

By Sintilia Miecevole - 5/9/2008

Checks are basically written for the transfer of funds from the account of a check holder in a bank or any other depository institution. The purpose of checks is similar to that of money, easing transactions. One needs to keep in mind certain things to avoid problems on a later date. Take care th...

Are You in Control of Your Practice or Does it Control You?

By Shaun Kirk - 5/7/2008

One of the most common complaints that business owners have today is that they feel their practice is running them and that they?re being pulled in every direction instead of really running the business themselves. Well, I?d like to tell you, when I was in practice I experienced the same thing. ...

Keeping Your Sales Team Motivated

By Frank J. Rumbauskas, Jr. - 5/5/2008

Sales managers frequently approach me for advice on how to keep salespeople motivated, especially when sales reps get into a rut - and seem to keep slipping deeper into it. Telling managers what not to do usually solves the problem. Most managers do things to de-motivate salespeople without even kno...

Things Your Mother Never Told You: Closing Costs

By Elaine VonCannon - 4/22/2008

Buying or selling a home can be one of the most life changing decisions a consumer makes. Being educated about the real estate process and investigating things you don?t understand is essential. Working with trustworthy and communicative real estate professionals is important. A lot of money is o...

Office Machines

By Dakota Caudilla - 4/19/2008

Finding office machines can be a real problem is the budget is tight. But the problem can be solved when you shop smart. And let?s face it, furnishing an office and finding high quality office machines on budget can be a little bit of a challenge. But with a little more effort, nothing?s impossible....

Your IR is Essential to Your Market Position

By Kathleen Gage - 5/15/2007

Often people look for the latest and greatest bells and whistles to market their company. Fact is, one of the most powerful marketing strategies is one that many folks overlook. Something that can make or break a person?s reputation and their ability to gain and maintain strong position is their IR ...

Work from Home

By Adrian Austin - 5/5/2007

So you want to work from home. First you need to determine your expenses. You`ll have household expenses, insurance, car, loans, food, clothes, and luxuries such as vacations and hobbies. On the positive side, you can look at how much you`re saving if you work from home. You can save on childcare(if...

Freelance Photography: How to Begin Your Career

By Colin Hartness - 5/1/2007

Photography is a vast world. There are many different types of photography and many different kinds of people that enjoy it. It?s a hobby that be relatively inexpensive or one that you can invest a lot of money on. Photos are so special because they give us memories of times and places and events in...

How to Market and Protect Your New Ideas

By Neil Armand - 4/30/2007

The intellectual property transfer market is now estimated to be worth over $100 billion. If you have a new idea, a patent or an invention, you may be able to license it or sell it for millions of dollars. Many Fortune 500 companies are now making their intellectual property available for sale or l...

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