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- How to Make Social Media Work For You As Well As Direct Marketing Does - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeOne of the greatest things about today's technology is the Internet. Not only do people have access to any information they want right at their fingertips, it is also a great way to do business, and many people are making a lot of their purchases online. Today, everyone is using social ...
Views: 510 - 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: 509 - 6 Top Marketing Trends You Can Adopt Immediately For Explosive Profits - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeMarketing really has come a long way in the last few years. During the industrial revolution we had Push marketing. From there, we went through a rather long phase of Pull marketing. Today, the trend is Permission marketing, and consumers have access to all of the information that they are ...
Views: 509 - The Real Truth Behind 4 Great SEO Myths - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeThere are a number of things that one can do to generate traffic to their website. One of the most economical things is to use SEO (Search Engine Optimization). When this is performed properly, you will find that you are getting all kinds of traffic to your website. The key to using SEO is ...
Views: 506 - 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: 505 - Entrepreneur’s checklist: Are you cut out for the Big Game? - by Submitted on Feb 15, 2011 from Andrew McCombeEntrepreneurship is something that can be very rewarding for many people, but not everyone has what it takes to be a business owner. There are certain qualities that a person must possess if they want to be successful in operating their own business. Now, this doesn't mean that anyone without ...
Views: 503 - 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: 500 - Reworking your Mindset to Do Business Better - by Submitted on Feb 15, 2011 from Andrew McCombeHard work may be an important part of running a business, but if you are looking to be truly successful as an entrepreneur, you need to have the right mindset. If you do not have a positive attitude, you are not going to achieve the results you want. You need to figure out what it is that you ...
Views: 500 - 5 Myths About Business Debunked - by Submitted on Feb 16, 2011 from Andrew McCombeThere are so may things that often hold many people back from starting their own businesses, even when it is something that they really want to do. There are always going to be some fears, but when people are hearing so many myths about entrepreneurship, they don't go any farther than that. Or, ...
Views: 497 - 5 Profit-Pulling Ideas for Marketing on Facebook - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeIf you are not using Facebook to market your website, you are missing out on the chance to potentially reach millions of people, and gain a whole new customer base. There are 400 million Facebook subscribers, so just imagine how many people you can reach with your marketing if you use this ...
Views: 497 - Five Great Blogs to Follow For Social Media - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeOf course you are probably going to read more than five blogs on a regular basis, most of us do. Let's face it. We are addicted to information. But, just reading a few blogs is not exactly going to make anyone an expert on any subject. If you really want to be an expert on anything, you have to ...
Views: 496 - 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: 495 - 5 Strong Considerations to Keep In Mind for Your SEO Strategy - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeIf you are marketing on the Internet, the best way to ensure that you are going to get traffic to your website is by making sure that you are using SEO (Search Engine Optimization) marketing. A Neilson Online survey shows that approximately 85% of all traffic to your website will get there ...
Views: 493 - Passion + Crazy + Bold + Desire+ Planning = Business Success - by Submitted on Feb 15, 2011 from Andrew McCombeNot everyone is cut out to be an entrepreneur, and it is very true that most new businesses do fail within their first year of operation. Most entrepreneurs start out with the same ideals and goals, but a lot don't do all that they can to be able to achieve all of their goals. Why is this? ...
Views: 493 - 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: 492 - 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: 492 - 5 Industries That Will Never Say No To New Businesses - by Submitted on Feb 15, 2011 from Andrew McCombeIf you are thinking about starting up your own business, there are many things to consider. One thing to think about is that not all business ideas are great for all people, and not every industry is friendly to new businesses. It is probably a good idea to do a little bit of study first, and ...
Views: 490 - 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: 488 - 5 Pointers To Peep Into The Life Of An Entrepreneur - by Submitted on Feb 15, 2011 from Andrew McCombeOne of the funny things about being an entrepreneur is that you start your own business to get away from the daily grind of your old job, only to find that you are working a whole lot harder than ever to be a success. Thank goodness being an entrepreneur can be such a rewarding thing for so many ...
Views: 487 - 5 Ways to Make A Sizzling Offer - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeAlthough it is not something that you should be sneaky about, marketing is basically a way of getting your customers to believe that they really need the products or services you are offering, even if they really do not. There are many ways that you can go about your marketing to achieve the ...
Views: 487 - 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: 485 - 5 Ways to Increase Your Margins - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeIf you run a business, obviously you realize that the only way to stay in business is by making a profit. There are actually more ways to do this than just by making sales. You can cut back on expenses, which you probably have many of that are unnecessary. You can lower your prices to get more ...
Views: 482 - 5 Mistakes To Avoid When You Are An Entrepreneur - by Submitted on Feb 16, 2011 from Andrew McCombeThe main reason people go into business for themselves is to be able to earn an income while being their own boss. As long as a person is realistic about their business goals, there should be no reason for them not to succeed. Unfortunately, many people make certain mistakes in business that ...
Views: 481 - 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: 480 - 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: 477 - 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: 477 - 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: 476 - 5 Superb Ways to Bust Your Business Blues - by Submitted on Feb 15, 2011 from Andrew McCombeWhen you are an entrepreneur, don't expect everything to always be peaches and cream. There are many wonderful things about business ownership, but there are all kinds of downfalls too, and you just have to ride them out. There are going to be days when you feel like everything is just too ...
Views: 475 - 5 Really Quick Ways to Pump in Leads for Your Business - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeWhen you are a small business owner, nothing is more important than getting out there and generating new sales leads. After all, without sales, you wouldn't be able to remain in business, would you? There are way too many small business owners who do not get out there nearly as much as they ...
Views: 473 - 5 Quick Tips To Attract Quality Back links - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeWhen you have a website for your business, you must do whatever it takes to make sure that it is actually working for you. Just having a website isn't enough. You need to be able to promote that website to as many people as possible if you want to generate traffic to your website. One great way ...
Views: 472 - 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: 472 - 7 Fabulous Offers You Could Be Making To Attract More potential customers - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeWhen you want to get sales, you must make offers that potential customers will not be able to refuse. This may take time to figure out exactly what is going to work, but if you can find the right offers, this is really going to work for you. If this is interesting to you, here are seven offers ...
Views: 471 - 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: 469 - 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: 463 - 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: 462 - The Life of an Entrepreneur...Is It For You? - by Submitted on Feb 16, 2011 from Andrew McCombeA lot of people think that running their own business is a lot easier than working for someone else. What they don't realize is that all of the little things that they never have to worry about when they are employees are going to be waiting for them as entrepreneurs. There is a lot of work ...
Views: 460 - 5 Creative Ways To Stretch Your Marketing Dollar - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeOne of the most important things for any business, no matter what the size, is marketing. Without the right kind of marketing, how else are companies going to get the word out to the public about the products or services they are offering? The only problem with marketing is that it can get ...
Views: 459 - 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: 458 - 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: 454 - 5 Testing and Measuring Tips to Maximize Conversions - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeIn order to see what is working and what is not for any business, metrics are incredibly important. Sadly, there are many business owners who don't have a clue what to do with their metrics and how to use them to their advantage. You need to create a great system so that you can have maximum ...
Views: 453 - 5 Tricks To Accelerate Your Lead Generation Efforts - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeThere are few things that are as difficult for a lot of business owners than getting up the gumption to get out there and generate new leads. But, getting leads is also one of the most important things for a business owner, at least if he or she wants to see any profits. Yes, lead generation can ...
Views: 452 - 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: 451 - 5 Metrics You Should Keep an Eye On To Drive Your Sales Up - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeOne of the best ways to know how you are doing with your sales is to be able to measure them. Metrics are very important to every business, and by using them properly, you can really start working to increase your sales and profits. If you have a business, you more than likely have a website, ...
Views: 451 - 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: 450 - Why Content Marketing Is A Great Way To Do Marketing - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeThese days, consumers are not as easily fooled by fancy advertising as they once were. Because of the tight economy, they are looking for as much information as possible about the products and services they are buying to ensure they are getting the best deals. A lot of people are actually quite ...
Views: 447 - 5 Cost-Cutting Tips For Business Owners - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeEveryone needs to find ways to save money, and nowhere is this more true than in the business world, especially for small businesses. There are so many expenses involved with running your own business, and sometimes, these expenses can get pretty overwhelming. When you have too many business ...
Views: 437 - What Entrepreneurs Shouldn’t Be Doing on Social Media - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Andrew McCombeSocial media is really a terrific way to get the word out about your business, and best of all, you can do this type of marketing for free. Remember though, when you use social media, you are opening yourself up to the entire world, and you will have to be diligent about answering questions and ...
Views: 437 - 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: 434 - How To Leverage Your Lead Acquisition though 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: 432 - 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 ...
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