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- Five Lessons from 5 Top-Converting E-Commerce Websites - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeThere are so many exciting new tools available on the Internet for businesses to do marketing with that it is no wonder that most businesses, even the smallest ones, are doing at least a portion of their business on the Internet. There are so many opportunities available that is only makes sense ...
Views: 450 - 5 Laws Of Online Lead Generation You Shouldn’t Violate - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeIn order to get sales, you need to first have leads, which as we all know are prospective customers that you want to do business with. But, contrary to what many entrepreneurs and marketers think, leads are not the only important aspect of the sales process. You also need to know how to take ...
Views: 460 - 5 Great Ways to get traffic to your website - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeIt is important to generate plenty of back links if you really want to see results on search engines for your website. Keywords are used by consumers looking for various things, and you need to make sure that you are using the right keywords in your advertising to have your articles appear on ...
Views: 465 - 5 Great Conversion Tips For Your Website - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeIt is pretty important to make sure that your website is getting plenty of traffic, but unless a lot of the traffic can be converted into actual paying, long-term customers, it is not going to do you a whole lot of good. Conversion is extremely important, and it is not something that just ...
Views: 445 - 5 Goals You Must Have For Your Article Marketing Campaign - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeIn order to promote your website, you need to have a presence on the Internet, which means having informative articles out there that will entice people to visit your website. And, you must also promote these articles in order to get them noticed. There are many great ways that you can do this. ...
Views: 471 - 5 Elements of a Super Converting E-Commerce Site - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeIt is so important to have a landing page that is going to help direct potential customers to your website. To have a landing page, you need to be able to create one. You can do this either by using web designing software, or by hiring a professional web designer for the job. If you are doing ...
Views: 502 - 4 Ways To Improve Your Blog and Make It Really Work For Your Business - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeThese days, it seems that everyone has a blog. Some people have blogs simply to document the events of their days. Others use them for other reasons, including to promote their businesses. When you use a blog to promote a business, you are utilizing an excellent tool that is effectively giving ...
Views: 446 - 4 Undeniable Reasons Why LinkedIn Works For Your Business - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeIt is so important that businesses take advantage of all that the Internet has to offer, and one of the best tools to use today is LinkedIn. This is an awesome networking website for businesses, where you can get all kinds of great marketing leads, make new contacts, and keep in touch with ...
Views: 503 - 4 Tips For Link Building To Help You Earn More Profits - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeEvery business needs to have a website these days, but unless there is effective marketing to drive traffic to these websites, they are just fancy brochures suspended in cyberspace. After all, it doesn't really matter how great your website is if you are not getting people to visit it and see ...
Views: 492 - Why Marketing with Brochures may be hurting your business - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeMany businesses rely on using brochures and similar literature as their main form of marketing. Brochures can be a good thing in many cases, but they can also be dangerous things to use, and they could actually hurt your business more than help. You may be surprised to learn this, but studies ...
Views: 728 - How Disrespecting Customers Puts You Out Of Business - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeHuman contact is important for everyone, and it is especially important in the world of business. Even though there are millions of people doing a lot of their business over the Internet these days, most of these people still like to have that interaction with an actual human being as well. So, ...
Views: 1848 - Top 5 Secrets Revealed to Revamp Your Customer Service - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeThe most important thing to remember when you operate a business is that your business would not be successful if you did not have great customers. In order to find and retain customers, you must be willing to offer the absolute best customer service you can. When you are not treating your ...
Views: 2781 - Smart Ways To Leverage Your Marketing Efforts - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeYou have many responsibilities as a small business owner, and marketing is always going to be one of those responsibilities. You should try to find ways to save yourself time and money with your marketing, or in other words, find ways to leverage your marketing. If you can set things up so that ...
Views: 514 - Networking...A Necessary Evil For Many, but Also a Skill Small Business Owners Need - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeWhen it comes to owning a business, nothing is more important than advertising and promoting your business. Of course, we all know that one of the best ways to promote a business is through networking. But, even though its importance, networking is not something that comes easily to everyone. ...
Views: 551 - Million Dollar Networking Habits To Pump Your Success - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeThere are many skills one needs to be a successful entrepreneur, and one of the most important skills is the ability to network, and to be able to turn that networking into profits. This is something that a lot of entrepreneurs unfortunately don't do, because they simply do not realize the ...
Views: 569(1 vote) - 5 Ways Channel Development Aids In Lead Generation - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeThere are some really different things you can do to generate new leads for your business. Really, it is all about being creative and trying to find any way possible to do the marketing you need to do while saving as much money as you can in the process. One thing that many of the larger ...
Views: 684 - 5 Tips For Writing a Press Release That Converts - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeDo you know what it takes to create a really successful press release? Although it may seem like a pretty simple thing, a press release is actually a very important document that should include important information that is going to capture the interest of your reading audience. There are ...
Views: 834 - 5 Sure-fire Teleselling Skills While Calling Customers - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeTelemarketing, just the mere word sends shivers of fear through many people. A lot of people consider this to be a pretty thankless job, but it is still one that has to be done. If you have a business, you have customers, as well as potential customers, and you probably have a calling list. It ...
Views: 2208 - 5 Superb Ways to Make Your Customers Buy More - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeWhat is the most important goal for any small business owner? To make money of course. And how do you make this money? By getting out there and making sales. In order to get those sales, you need to have customers, and you need to find ways to get your customers to buy even more from you. There ...
Views: 512 - 5 Great Ways To Make Your Cold Calling Work - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeIf there is one thing that terrifies most people, especially small business owners, it is cold calling. This can be a pretty scary prospect, especially for those who do not feel that their sales skills are quite up to scratch, but, once you get the hang of it, it is a truly great way to get all ...
Views: 486 - 5 Reasons Why You Might Not Be Developing Leads While Meeting or Calling Customers - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeDeveloping new leads is something that is always on the minds of any small business owner, but unfortunately, they are not always as successful with their lead generating endeavors as they expected. Is this something that you are having difficulties with? It is not always easy getting out there ...
Views: 644(1 vote) - 5 Quick Ways To Garner Offline Leads For Your Business - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeIf you are an entrepreneur, then you probably already know how important it is to be taking advantage of all that e-commerce has to offer. After all, if you are not on the Internet, there is probably no way that you are ever going to be able to keep up with the competition. While it is very ...
Views: 497 - 5 Excellent Ways to Make Your Classified Ads (Yellow Page Ads) Work For You - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeEvery entrepreneur is always looking for the best ways to advertise, and something that every small business owner should take advantage of are local classified ads or Yellow Page ads. This is a fairly easy way to advertise, and one of the least expensive ways. This type of advertising is going ...
Views: 579 - 5 Effective Ways To Attract Repeat Customers For Your Business - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeGetting customers is a hard enough thing to do, but it can be even more difficult to actually keep your customers. Once you actually get a customer, you must really work hard to retain them as long term customers. It takes a lot of commitment to keep your customers happy and loyal, and you not ...
Views: 747(1 vote) - 4 Terrific Facts About Word Of Mouth Marketing For Your Business - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeIt is a well-known fact that word-of-mouth advertising is one of the best ways to market any business, no matter if the business is large or small. It is thought that this is the easiest way to go about marketing, because you can sit back and let others do the work for you. Well, it is not ...
Views: 1505 - 4 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Depend on Sales Scripts - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeNo two people are alike, so it only stands to reason that no two sales scripts should be alike. You are going to meet a lot of different people when you are a small business owner, and you will find that you will probably be dealing with each of them in a slightly different way. You will not ...
Views: 431 - Unnecessary Expenses Every Business Should Get Rid Of - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeEveryone knows that in order to make a profit when you own a business, it really helps a lot to keep expenses to a minimum. Although this is wonderful in theory, it is not always the easiest thing to do. After all, you always have expenses, not to mention all of the little unexpected expenses ...
Views: 1037 - Three great reasons Why Customer Relationship Management Software will help your business - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeWhen you are an entrepreneur, you will often be wearing many different hats. You and you alone are responsible for all of the work, unless you are able to afford to hire employees. One job you will have to tackle is lead generation, and after a while, getting and keeping track of your many leads ...
Views: 513 - Lessons Businesses Can Learn From Recession - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeNo pain, no gain. At least that's what they say in the world of weight lifting. Actually, this is a motto for a lot of things in life, especially when it comes to learning. A lot of people learn more from the school of hard knocks than they every did while in school, and they learned all of ...
Views: 450 - How to Write Effective Headlines Like a Professional Copywriter - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeEveryone is born with a natural sense of curiosity, and as an entrepreneur, you can use this to your advantage for your marketing campaigns. For example, having an article with an interesting headline that hints at something great to come, people are going to read that article. So, you need to ...
Views: 1026 - How To Stop Avoiding Your Business Development Efforts - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeThere really is only one way to make a business a successful one, and that is by working hard. Unfortunately, many entrepreneurs just don't realize how hard they have to work, and the often do not bother doing everything that they could be doing. If you are an entrepreneur, you need to do ...
Views: 531 - How to Pump Up the Number of Transactions Per Customer for Your Business - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeThe more transactions you make, the more profits your business is going to earn. It's as simple as that, and it is something that every entrepreneur knows. Unfortunately, not every entrepreneur knows how to pump up the number of transactions per customer, which is very important. It is true that ...
Views: 566 - How to Market Like a Soldier during a Recession - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeJust because we are going through a recession doesn't mean that it has to affect your business negatively. You just need to know how to market effectively during a recession. No matter what, you must always be focused on your marketing efforts, and it is even more important when there is a ...
Views: 511 - How To Make Your Employees Feel Like Working For You - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeIf you have decided to become an entrepreneur, it may be that you are the sole proprietor of your business, and that you have no employees, at least at first. There is probably going to come a time when you do need to hire people, and it takes a little bit of work to find the right employees for ...
Views: 1181 - How To Make Your Customer Swear By Your Business - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeIt makes sense that the more customers a business has, the more income it should have. But really, what you want to have instead of a really huge customer base is a customer base that may be a bit smaller, but one’s that are lifetime customers who return to you again and again to do business. ...
Views: 548 - How To Make Your Cost Cutting Stick Like Glue - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeThere is nothing more exciting for an entrepreneur to see themselves actually making profits. There is a business profit equation which is revenue minus expenses equals profit, but it takes a lot of work to get this equation just right. Unfortunately, there are an awful lot of expenses involved ...
Views: 534(1 vote) - How To Make the Law Of Attraction Work For Your Business - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeThere are all kinds of different strategies that business owners use to make sure that their businesses are successful. One of these strategies is being able to make the law of attraction work for them. Basically, the law of attraction states that when you really want something, and you think ...
Views: 460 - How To Leverage Your Lead Acquisition through Others’ Efforts - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeIn order for any entrepreneur to really achieve success, it is important to try and leverage as much as possible. There are many ways you can leverage your business, including leveraging your lead acquisition. In fact, you can use the efforts of others to leverage your lead acquisition, which is ...
Views: 482 - How To Knock Your Audience Out at Business Presentations - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeIf you have been to a number of business presentations, you know just how boring many can be. When a business presentation is boring and dry, it is not going to have the intended effect. In fact, you may even find that those who you are presenting to are actually not paying the least bit of ...
Views: 778 - How to Get the most out of Your Business Cards - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeThere are many small business owners who treat their business cards as just ways to provide people with contact information. This is really a waste of money if this is all that they are being used for, since there are ways that you can turn business cards in to really great marketing tools. If ...
Views: 574 - How to Get Referrals you Can Profit From - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeYou may be getting out there and finding all kinds of sales leads for your small business, but if you are not converting these leads into sales, what are you wasting your time getting them for? They are useless to you. There are three things that you can expect from customers. They buy or they ...
Views: 473 - How to Get Better At the Art Of Sales In Your Downtime - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeIf you are an entrepreneur, and you want to ensure that you always have great sales, you must learn to never stop trying to sell, even on your own personal time. This doesn't mean that you have to go out on your day off and start knocking on doors looking for sales. But, there are a number of ...
Views: 611 - How to Do Business Like a Star During The Low Season - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeEvery business goes through its slow periods, and when they do, it is important that business owners take steps to improve on their marketing. Even during times of a tough economy, people will still spend money if they need something and are getting value for their money. But, you may have to ...
Views: 882 - How To Develop A Marketing Strategy That Cannot Fail - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeYou probably already know all about how important it is to have a great marketing plan for your business. But, do you know what it takes to create a really great marketing plan? You need to sit down and really do your homework. Figure out what is going to work for your business, and how to best ...
Views: 424 - How to Achieve Credibility While Meeting Prospects - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeIf you really want to create a great relationship with your customers, you have to do things to make them trust you. No one wants to do business with someone they can't trust. To get the trust you need, it is important that you do things to push it along, such as establishing your credibility ...
Views: 485 - How Timid Marketing Leads To Timid Profits - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeAre you doing all that you can when it comes to marketing your business? You can't just sit back and take a wait and see approach to marketing. You need to get in there and get that sale. According to Mark Joyner, an Internet Marketer and author of the best selling book, Mind Control Marketing, ...
Views: 473 - How Growing Big Can Hurt Your Business - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeThere are many people under the misconception that the only truly successful businesses are those that are huge and employ hundreds, even thousands of people. Sure, there are plenty of businesses that do this, as well as branching out into other businesses, and that is fine for some. But just ...
Views: 480 - 6 Ways To Cut Costs In Your Business - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeWhen you are a small business owner, you need to find as many ways as possible to cut costs. Of course, the best thing is to be able to increase your sales volume, thereby increasing your revenue, and of course, finding ways to eliminate or at least reduce many of your costs so that you increase ...
Views: 475 - 6 Reasons It Would Hurt an Entrepreneur to Remain Conventional - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeThere are a lot of people who feel that the best, and only way to operate a business is to do it the old fashioned way. They do not believe in thinking outside of the box, and they use techniques that have been used by business owners for decades and decades, just because the formula has always ...
Views: 467 - 6 Insightful Ideas to Fortify Your Business - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeA lot of people who really want to start their own businesses never try because they think that it is going to be way too much of a financial risk. But, when you have things well planned and have your goals set, there really is nothing that you can't achieve, including running your own business. ...
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