Eleven Ways that Social Media can Help Your Business

Small businesses are using social media to help reach current and prospective customers allowing them to compete with larger companies with bigger marketing budgets. The low cost and relative ease of social media marketing has evened the playing field for small businesses. Eleven Ways that small business are using social media: They consistently add content to their blogs, twitter, LinkedIn and facebook...

5 Tips to Building Business Relationships

The old adage is that it takes seven touches to prospects before they began to recognize your business. Before you can turn a prospect into a customer, you must first build a relationship with your prospects. The goal is to use those seven touch points to build a relationship with prospects and turn them into to customers and then into loyal referring customers. How do you go about creating touch...

B2B Marketing Accountability: 5 Ways To Prove Your B2B Marketing Efforts Are Paying Off

Your boss wants to see evidence that the money and resources invested in the company’s business-to-business marketing activities are really paying off. You start to sweat. Relax. It is surprisingly easy to prove that B2B marketing is contributing to your company’s bottom line. Here’s how. Show the relationship between your marketing and your revenue Start by looking for sales and...

Think You Cannot Afford to Hire Help, Well Think Again

I was reading an article last night on the Freelance Folder Blog about Talent vs. Skill and it got me to thinking. When you are a solo operator or run a very small business, you are forced to wear many different hats. The problem with wearing so many different hats it that it takes you away from doing the thing that you love to do and the reason you started your business. Most business owners of very...

110 great Business, Marketing, PR, Sales and Writing Blogs

This is a list of 110 great Business, Marketing, PR, Sales and Writing Blogs. If I have missed any, feel free to email me and let me know.   These are just some of the blogs that I think are doing a great job of informing and interacting with readers.   If I have a blog listed a wrong category, I apologize. If you are still angry, then bite me.   Business http://altitudebranding.com http://lgbusinesssolutions.typepad.com/solutions_to_grow_your_bu/ http://brainsonfire.com/blog http://www.chrisbrogan.com http://www.churchofcustomer.com/ http://www.conversationagent.com/ http://www.entrepreneurs-journey.com http://freelancefolder.com http://www.ifreelance.com/ 10. ...