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GOT MEME? How to Attract Your Clients' and Customers' Attention

No "meme" isn't a typo and Got Milk, the more commonly know phrase, is actually a marketing meme. If you've opened up a magazine or watched TV in the last ten years you've seen the fun and memorable Got Milk ad campaign using celebrities with a milk mustache. Chances are it got your attention and. . .

Use Photos as Part of your Marketing Arsenal

Photos should be important parts of your marketing. The photos are useful to document your offers to achieve positive acceptance of what you are displaying to function as eye catchers to bring the buyers in a general positive mood to create identification with the use of your product.In such a wa. . .

Email Marketing Best Practices

Permission-based Email Marketing is one of the most powerful ways to build your business. As a business owner you realize the importance of staying in front of your customers and prospects. By deploying a timely e-newsletter to touch base with your customers and prospects, you stay fresh in their. . .

The Most Profitable Internet Marketing Strategy Ever

So what's the most profitable internet marketing strategy you can apply to your business right now and start profiting from it for years to come?It's having your own responsive mailing list.Here's how it works:You CAN start today by collecting the names and email addresses of people who's interes. . .

Build Credibility, Value and Trust on a Shoestring

Setting priorities in your business? Your first job is to sell. Selling is - writing the orders; receiving the cash; feeding the beast. If you don't sell; the beast, (your business), dies. The impact of selling is immediate. You may love it, but it is a beast. You need to feed it and control it. . . .

7 Ways to Get More Mileage from Your Free Reprint Articles

Do you have old free reprint articles gathering dust? Transform and re-submit them to give your business, product or service another boost!Here are 7 ways:1. Transform your article. You can transform your article in several ways: Give it a bullet or number format. Give it a Q and A format. Give i. . .

Removing Obstacles to Sales

During the summer Olympics I watched the men's and women's hurdles. I'm always impressed by these athletes' ability to run at full speed and leap the hurdles without breaking stride. But each time I watch this track event, I have the same reaction. If they just went out on the track and removed t. . .

How Can Multimedia Work For You?

Multimedia here and multimedia there. Is it just a flashy thing you don't need or the reason why your competitors are getting ahead? Today's reality is that people live on a fast pace so their time is important. They watch tv going from one channel to the other, get a satellite dish so they can w. . .

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 tact. . .

How to use Testimonials as an additional Marketing Tool

It's been said before that one unsatisfied customer will go out and tell 10-20 of their friends and family about their unsatisfactory experience, but the opposite doesn't seem to occur. Your customers, vendors, suppliers and associates might think you walk on water, but they won't seem to tell ev. . .

5 Free Online Advertising Channels For Your Business

What a wonderful invention it is, this thing we call the Internet!If you would just take your time to know your way around, you could discover a lot of premium products and services being offered for free. What's best is that there is a seemingly endless number of these wonderful finds, what wit. . .

How To Get More Visitors To Your Web Site

When you were five or ten years old you may have played the game of hide and seek where the object was to avoid being found. The longer you could stay hidden and the harder it was to be discovered the better. As a business owner or someone responsible for marketing a business you want to do the o. . .

Which is Better: Digital or Offset Printing?

As technology continues to improve, the quality of digital prints also improves. Technology advancements have also made it easier for more and more businesses to enter the printing industry. Good digital printers cost a few thousands dollars…good offset printing presses may cost a few million dol. . .

10 Surefire Ways to Add Sizzle to Your Brochures

Businesses rely on brochures as their front line in communicating their products or services. Yet according to Shannon Cherry, APR, many find them not as successful because they underestimate the skills and resources necessary to publish attractive and effective materials. “Most people forget a b. . .

How "Available" are YOU?

The internet can be pretty scary at times. Do you realise how easy it is to access your personal information? Your phone number, name, address? Even get driving instructions on how to get to your location (if you`re in the USA)??Did you know that www.google.com works as a telephone directory?? If. . .

Business Goal Setting and Then Following Through

Your business can't go according to plan if you have no plan.What do you want to achieve this year? More new customers per week? Higher average order amounts? Better customer service ratings? No matter what it is you are shooting for, goal setting is one of the most important things that you w. . .

Positioning For Success:

According to military historian David Chandler the campaigns of Napoleon Bonaparte consistently rose above the expected. For more than 20 years Napoleon showed genius and skill as a general on the field of battle.To what did Chandler attribute Napoleon’s great string of successes? First, he was . . .

Moving Beyond Marketing Rituals to Increase Profits

You're at a networking meeting and someone asks for your business card. You hand them a fairly typical card with your company's name, your name and title, and contact information on it. What happens next? Do they get in touch with you? Do they become a client? Nine times out of ten, the conversat. . .

LookSmart Not Small Business Friendly

There is a firestorm of negative press regarding LookSmart's recent marketing stumbles via numerous discussion groups, including two of the oldest and most influential, I-Search and I-Advertising Digests. Most of the critiques center on LookSmart's inability to develop viable programs for SMB/SME. . .

How To Generate Leads And Grow Your Business

If you are an independent professional or small business owner, building the list of prospects you market to should be one of your core marketing activities. The more people who are interested in your products and services, the better your chances of growing your sales.Wouldn't you like to have t. . .

Growing Your Business With Your Marketing Priorities

None of us have enough time in the day to get everything done, but small business owners and entrepreneurs like you are particularly pressed. You wear so many hats; there is a seemingly infinite list of tasks to accomplish each day, from providing services to clients, managing product distributio. . .

Does Your Marketing Plan Need Changing?

Change is good, right? Not always. But when is it bad? Is it a question of good or bad? Sounds philosophical. Maybe it is.Philosophize on this…why would one take something that is going good – no.. great – and change it? Obvious answer is to make it better. Not!In business or in marketing, change. . .

Marketing Wine on the Internet

The Australian Wine industry is experiencing a tough time as oversupply of product is creating downward pressure on prices. Large producers have had their well publicised problems, leading to merger and takeover activity. Small and medium producers are feeling the pinch.Over the past twelve mon. . .

Benefiting From a Regular Exhibiting Workout

How often do you exercise your exhibiting muscles? Do you have a regular workout designed to increase your tradeshow dexterity and boost your results? Whether you’re looking for strength training to increase your competitive edge, flexibility to improve your marketing strategy, or just general ov. . .

MLM Cyanide Pills: Top 5 Sure-fire Ways to Kill Your Network Marketing Business

If I walk down the street today, telling people about my network marketing opportunity, and someone asks me "Isn't that a pyramid scheme?", then that guy is bound to get a hard knock on the head. Network marketing, since many years ago, have come out of the closet and it's somewhat 'shady' a. . .

Build Relationships

Personal marketing makes it easier to sell, by building relationships nurtured on awareness, value and trust. Make your relationships more fruitful by making them personal. Use these powerful yet simple tips from the book, Secrets of Power Marketing; Canada's first guide to personal marketing for. . .

Absolute Top Five Search Engine Marketing Myths Uncovered!

It’s no secret that Search Engine marketing can drive significant amounts of very qualified traffic to a web site – as 85% of Internet users utilize search engines to find/research for goods and services. The problem for many companies is the difficulty they face sifting through confl. . .

As a Realtor, How Do I Attract Listings?

Have you ever noticed that despite the massive number of Realtors in your area, only a hand full are making a fortune selling real estate? Regardless of who these realtors work for; GMAC, Century 21, REMax, they are extremely successful where others in their office are barely scraping by. What . . .

New Sources for Targeted Web Site Traffic

Qualified traffic is the lifeblood of any web site today, especially for ecommerce sites that are selling goods or services online. But, many media buyers and/or owners of web sites are paying too much for traffic by relying on top tier PPC ("pay per click") search engines like Overture or Google. . .

How To Get To The Top Of The Marketing Food Chain

Are you tired of living off handouts from big-name marketers, earning meager affiliate commissions? If you truly want to live and breathe the rarefied air of the super-marketers, what you need is not a change in method, but a change in attitude and mindset.You need to start thinking like a top gu. . .

Explaining What You Do in 15 Seconds

You're in the elevator and your friend John introduces you to Barbara who is the CEO of one of the companies you'd like to do business with. Barbara asks, "What do you do?" Here is your chance to make a connection with a prime member of your target market. You want to get her attention, make a po. . .

How to Set (and Get) the Right Prices

Which product feature of yours is every buyer keen to know about? Which sales tool closes prospects instantly? Your price. Yet, despite the far-reaching consequences of a company’s pricing, I’m surprised at how little time small business owners spend on it. Here are a few ways to bring pricing to. . .

People Pleasing Postcards

Why are more retail jewelers turning to full-color postcards as a key form of promotion? The biggest reason is the simplest: You don’t have to open a postcard. It won’t get lumped in with all the direct mail envelopes that people toss without opening.If the postcard shows a very glossy, well-phot. . .

Are You Marketing and Selling What People Buy?

Do you ever wonder if you’re speaking a different language than your prospects? You may have recently launched a business, designed an innovative process or purchased state of the art equipment that leaves the competition in the dust, but no matter what you say or do, you aren't attracting as man. . .

Increasing Your Web Site’s Visibility Through Improved Positioning

One of the greatest challenges facing website owners is marketing their website. Many believe that they need deep pockets in order set their site apart from the rest, but that is not the case. If you are willing to work hard at it, marketing on the web can garner great results at a minimal cost.W. . .

The Power of Buzz

How did Hotmail gain over 12 million subscribers in 18 months? How did the very low budget movie “The Blair Witch Project” become such an incredibly successful phenomenon? The answer lies in the power of “buzz.” Buzz or word-of-mouth marketing influences more people to buy, or not to buy produ. . .

Image is Everything!

Marketing is an integral part to any business, especially for a Virtual Assistance who has to rely on a professional and creative image. How you get the word out about your VA service can have a tremendous impact on the success of your business. Just throwing together a business card or brochure . . .

Marketing – Like a Game of Chess

Have you started thinking about your Valentines Day Promotion yet? It may sound like a strange question on the day before Thanksgiving but it really isn’t. When scheduling your promotions it is like a game of chess. You should always be thinking at least 3 moves ahead. In this case each "move" sh. . .

Why Marketing Fails: Situational Marketing 101

There is a nuclear-strength “secret” weapon that 90% of self-employed professionals are missing out on as they try to build their businesses. It’s amazingly simple, amazingly powerful – and – amazingly overlooked!It’s called “Situational Marketing,” and it can revolutionize your business.As profe. . .

When the Clock Strikes Twelve!

I just finished reading another sales copy ending with the Deadline Marketing!And it's the sixth I see today saying "If you order by midnight, blah blah blah...."I'm sure you've seen it. And I'm sure you're getting (if not very) a little bored.The deadline trick has proven itself to be overwhelmi. . .

Postcards: Effective Marketing Tool

When you're having a hard time choosing which print media to use for your products and services, then think of postcards. Postcards are one of the marketing tools that can effectively deliver your message to your target clients.So why postcards? Here are ten reasons to market with postcards:10. T. . .

How To Earn Money Without A Website

I will tell you right here and now you do not need to have a website to be successful in internet marketing.There are some essential tools you will need, but a website needn’t be one of them.Ok, a website is useful, even more so if you sell your own products. But if you are an affiliate salespers. . .

Avoid the Top 10 Network Marketing Mistakes

Just completed this for the December Noni Pearls Magazine, thought I would share it with all of you. Hope you enjoy it. Avoid the most common mistakes Here are the 10 most common mistakes that networkers make. These mistakes are often ones of attitude, missed judgment calls, or misinformation. Co. . .

Give Me $1 And I'll Have A Powerful Marketing Weapon

One of my most powerful marketing weapons actually costs me less than $1. I buy it once and it lasts me a lifetime. I use it over and over again and it never leaves my side. What on earth could it be? Well, it's my trusty notebook! It is where I store all of my ideas. Let me give you some example. . .

Britney Spears Branding

How would you like to sell as much in one year as Britney sells in one day or in one hour? Have you put much thought into how marketing empires are created? If you're selling anything then you're a marketer and you should study the biggest successes to follow in their footsteps.We've all heard of. . .

The Building Blocks to Effective Marketing

The Building Blocks to Successful MarketingIt’s More than Sales and AdvertisingBy Julie ChanceWhether you’re a Fortune 500 company or a one person shop, to be successful, you must have a marketing strategy and you must implement it consistently. However, it doesn’t have to cost a fortune and you. . .

Is Procrastination Holding You Back?

When you look at your marketing to-do list, do many of the items on it look all too familiar? Have entries like "call Donna Sanchez" and "follow up with Floyd Corp." been copied from a previous week? Putting off unappealing tasks may be human nature, but for an entrepreneur, procrastination can b. . .

The Top 10 Wild and Wacky Ways to Market Yourself for Big Visibility

In today's competitive world of business, it takes moxie and pizazz to sell a great product, idea, or service. This list will provide you with ten unusual and creative marketing strategies which will help you to stand apart from the competition and to increase your visibility.1. Celebrate the Wac. . .

Develop a Foundation Second to None

Looking to start a new business? Starting a new business can be a complex, exciting time. There are many aspects to explore. Consider this startling statistic approximately 97% of small businesses fail or under perform. There are certain areas that need to be addressed and it may be overwhelming . . .

Comprehensive Marketing Details Not Found in Beginner Books

If this is the first marketing article you are reading, go find some other more basic articles that I have written and then come back. This data is for the intermediate to advanced marketers.I want to go over a three-step outline for your marketing which are: Surveys Getting Attention PostageMar. . .

How To Measure Your Website's Perf0Rmance

Do you know how to get the numbers you need to accurately evaluate the performance of your company's website? Before selling one of my early sites, I had no idea.In the late 90s I had a web site I'd developed that was getting well over a million 'hits' and over three hundred thousand 'page views'. . .

Joint Venture 101 - The Quickest Way To Build Your eBusiness - PART 1

This article reveal the same techniques that many Internet marketing experts uses every day to make millions of dollars in profits - no kidding! In my own opinion it is the most profitable and powerful concept ever used on the Internet field. So, stay close and read it carefully. Joint Venturing . . .

E-Mail Newsletter Marketing Essentials

If Gutenberg were alive today he would be in publishing heaven! Forget the printing press, the web has fast-forwarded self-publishing in ways that are evolving so rapidly it's becoming difficult to integrate technology and process to leverage the opportunities. Any company, regardless of their si. . .

Network Marketing

When a person knows and knows not that he knows. Teach him.When a person knows and knows that he knows. Follow him.I have read a lot about Network Marketing and MLM and I have learnt a few things which you might like to know. And the one thing that I know for sure is that network marketing sells.. . .

WHERE TO FOCUS YOUR MARKETING

Imagine that you ran an ad, mailed a brochure, or sent an email ad to a new list of people who fit your target market profile and everyone who saw it responded right away and made a purchase. Has this ever happened to you? Of course not. The first time people hear about your products or servic. . .

Cause-Related Marketing

Altruism. Corporate responsibility. Philanthropy. These are often used to describe cause-related marketing, an activity in which businesses join with charities or causes to market an image, product, or service for mutual benefit.Embracing a cause makes good business sense. Nothing builds brand lo. . .

Developing Your Own Pitch

If you have surfed any of the exchanges for credits, you have seen them; countless affiliate web pages for all the different programs available.When you decide to sign-up for a money-making affiliate program, you are usually given one or more web pages to promote that program. These affiliate pag. . .

Personal Branding Techniques for Real Estate Agents and Brokers

A key principle of marketing is to find something unique about what you offer as the basis of your sales message. Even if what you offer is a commodity, there is always one thing unique in your business -- you. A big error made by many Real Estate Agents and Brokers is to try to develop an instit. . .

The Nuts And Bolts Of Traffic Exchanges

Traffic Exchanges. What are they? How do they work? What do they do?First of all, a "Traffic Exchange" is exactly that, a way to exchange traffic, a way to get visitors to your site. This happens by you visiting sites, in exchange for pageviews to your site.There are LOTS of Traffic Exchanges out. . .

Promote Me Now!

The key to having people visit your site is for them to know that your sites exist. For a potential customer to know that your site exist you have to let them know about your website. So here are a few key principles that will help you to boost your daily traffic.Link exchanges: This is a fast wa. . .

Which Of These Words Attract Your Clients

Whether it's your business card, tagline, article title, web site title and description or ad, just the difference of a few words can either pull in prospects and clients or push them away. Getting it right can determine whether your phone is ringing off the hook or you are twiddling your thumbs . . .

Marketing Strategy

With the plethora of websites online and hundreds added each day, how are you going to separate your website from the others? When I began my first online venture I was so excited to have my website up and running and I remember thinking “wow, the toughest part is behind me”, referring to finally. . .

The Right Tools for Your Marketing Job

Time is money; undoubtedly one of the oldest clichés in existence. Have you ever thought about what it really means though? Is bending over to pick up a penny worth your time? Maybe, but would it still be worth it to cross the street for the same penny. Maybe not. Your time has value. You can cho. . .

Building Web Pages That Move People To Buy

The purpose of your marketing is to attract prospects and help them make a series of decisions that lead them to purchase your products or services. The sequence of information you provide on your web site and its visual presentation can drive clients to contact you about your services or buy you. . .

How Laws of this Universe can Skyrocket your Sales...

Most people follow a fixed formula for selling online. They create a product, try fervently to market it and then get frustrated at the results. If you happen to fall into this same pothole, do not get frustrated because you're not alone! In fact, hundreds to thousands of products and websites ev. . .

Resource Allocation

So here you are…a business owner. Bravo!You’ve got a catchy name, you’re equipped with all the right tools, your website is up, and now you’re ready to do business. So you start to network online, join the right groups, check out search engine adwords, subscribe to applicable newsletters for insi. . .

The 8 Biggest Newsletter Marketing Mistakes

Newsletter publishing has always made a lot of sense. It makes sense for firms to target their advertising dollars to clients and prospects that have expressed interest in their products and services.However, for many, newsletter marketing has been more a source of frustration than sales. This is. . .

Three Brand Identity Myths That Will Bring Your Business Down

Three Brand Identity Myths That Will Bring Your Business DownTo begin, let’s define “Brand Identity,” which is the combination of consistent visual elements that are used in your marketing materials. A basic Brand Identity Kit consists of a logo, business card, letterhead, and envelope. It can be. . .

How to "Really Get Your Customers"

What Really Makes Your Postcard Mailing Successful?The biggest single factor in the success of your postcard mailings is who you send your postcards to.You need a list of people or businesses to send your postcard offer to.This can be a list of existing customers or prospects who have inquired as. . .

The Top Seven Marketing Mistakes

In my view, nearly all government statistics about reasons for business failures are nonsense.Undercapitalization, inexperience, or poor management are usually blamed for all business disasters.Of course, there can be one or several more causes that result in a business going "belly up."However, . . .

The 4 Ps of Marketing Do Not Include Philanthropy!

When you are in the start-up stages of your business, you will need to spend 85% of your non-producing time (when you’re not actually providing your service or creating your product) MARKETING! Yes, I said 85%. We will talk more about what that includes, but what it doesn’t include is bookkeepi. . .

The Magic Three Ingredients for Web Marketing

Who doesn't want more web traffic (targeted traffic) to come to your site to eventually buy your product or service?Maybe you are a newbie or non-techie like me, and while this sounds good, you have some resistance. You aren't sure who to trust, who to believe.Will I have to spend a lot of money?. . .

Marketing Trends from the Digital Frontlines

The web and ways to market on the web continue to evolve at warp speed - we see some positive and negative changes occurring - our observations du jour:1. Publishers are finally starting to charge for branded content. It's still difficult to do, but we are seeing many newsletter publishers chargi. . .

When Times Get Tough... or When to Really Advertise

The Pundits say the economy is slowly, but surely, recovering. Maybe not at the rate of the mid-90s stock boom, but recovering nonetheless.It must be true, because ad agencies are running Help Wanted ads. So, ad budgets are getting bigger. Tsk tsk. They have been missing out. Actually, for maveri. . .

How To Use Direct Response Card Decks To Fine Tune Your Marketing...

Market research specialists have discovered a new tool which enables them to quickly identify target market cells, measure buyer acceptance, test new product or service concepts quickly and inexpensively and survey market characteristics...the Direct Response Card Deck.For two to four cents per c. . .

“The 9 WORST Internet Marketing Mistakes

Have you ever wondered how can you possibly figure out how to market your Internet business when you’re bombarded with so much conflicting information? Lots of “how to” advice applies to many online businesses.But avoiding common marketing mistakes will work for EVERY business. If you make even O. . .

How To Get New Business

Market, Market and then market some more. So many small and home-business owners do what we call spot marketing. They market hard for their business, get a response then stop marketing. Marketing must be an ongoing process. Let's repeat that...Marketing Must Be An On Going Process. In addition, y. . .

Warning! The Person Doing Your Marketing May Not Even Know How to Market Themselves!

As a business advisor I work with clients helping them gain visibility within their market. Without sounding too arrogant or bold I can safely say I have earned the right to do this. The primary reason is because the very strategies I teach my clients are the same tactics that have afforded me a . . .

TiVo is just a DVR – How Direct TV and Others Packaged A Product for Success

Studying the way Direct TV packaged and positioned TiVo for success in a competitive market can indicate principles for successful marketing for small or home businesses. This article looks at TiVo’s success and discusses the marketing principles that made it work.TiVo, the poster child of techno. . .

5 Ways to Mine Gold From Your Testimonials

One often-overlooked asset of your business is the testimonials you receive from happy, satisfied customers. Most businesses receive favorable customer comments and testimonials, but few translate these powerful marketing weapons into additional sales.Testimonials work because customer comments a. . .