Writing:Guest Writers Needed
I am looking for guest writers for my blog. If you cover the topics of marketing, public relations, blogging, content marketing, inbound marketing, social media, social media marketing, campaign planning or writing, I would like to offer you the opportunity to write for my blog. Please respond with topic and article length. Original posts only please. Post should be no longer then 750 words. If you...
August 27th, 2010
Open Mic: Has Social Media Marketing or Networking Helped Your Business?
marketing Everyone seems to be into social media these days. Whether its LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Google Buzz or the hundreds of other sites available, everyone seems to be doing it. Think about where you spend your social media marketing or networking online. Here are today’s Open Mic questions: Has social media marketing or networking helped your business? What is your favorite social...
August 26th, 2010
Marketing: 10 Great Tips to Growing Your Prospecting List and Finding New Clients
Amber Weinberg wrote a great article on “How to Find Your First Client,” on Freelance Folder that is a great read. I would like to add some tips on prospecting and finding clients that you may find helpful and easy to implement. 10 Tips to Growing Your Prospect List and Finding New Clients: Develop a list of potential clients that include the prospects email address, snail mail address and phone...
August 25th, 2010
Content Marketing: 18 Sure-Fire Ways Article Writing Helps Your Business
Competition is fierce. We are in the information age and everyone is on information overload. The internet has made it easy for buyers to research your company, products and services before they buy. Buyers are spending more time making a decision before making their purchases. They are checking websites, reading blogs, asking questions on social networks and comparing your prices against your competitors....
August 23rd, 2010
Sales: Inquiries Eventually Become Sales
Research from dozens of studies on sales, leads and inquiry handling point to the same conclusion: although almost 25% of inquiries convert to a sale within half a year, most sales are longer-term. Consider one study which Reed Business Information undertook about inquiry handling. They examined forty thousand inquiries from advertisements and magazine press releases focused on manufacturing businesses....
August 17th, 2010
Marketing: 6 Tips to Defining Your Ideal Clients
The internet has moved us into a global market place and it is very important to understand and reach your ideal clients. Trying to reach any and every one will be a waste of time and money. Now is the time to define your marketing niche and target the markets that are ideal for your business. Here are some tips to understanding your ideal clients: Define your target market: Whom are you ideally...
August 10th, 2010
Marketing: Credibility – The 4 Letter Word of Rags-To-Riches Marketing Promotions
I’m going out on a bit of a limb here, but I’ve got to say it today. As I’ve watched the marketing campaigns of dozens of Internet marketing entrepreneurs, there is one aspect of growing a business that I almost never hear addressed. I’ve been in live events, teleseminars, social media, and blogs that have mega-traffic but this one concept is rarely (if ever) mentioned. It’s...
July 28th, 2010
Marketing Campaigns: Tracking, Monitoring and Measuring Your Marketing Activities
This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Market Planning This is the last part of a three part series on creating a marketing campaign. Part one covered Defining your Marketing Goals, Objectives and Tactics. In the second part of the series, we covered Creating Your Marketing Calendar. Today we are going to talk about tracking, monitoring and measuring your marketing activities. Tracking, Monitoring...
July 7th, 2010
Marketing Campaigns: Creating Your Marketing Calendar
This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Market Planning In the first article we determined are marketing goals, objectives and tactics. In this article, we are going to create our marketing calendar. If you read the first article, you know that my marketing goal is to sell informational marketing products. My strategy is to increase my blog readership and I listed ways I will go about increasing my...
July 2nd, 2010
Marketing Campaigns: Defining your Marketing Goals, Objectives and Tactics
This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Market Planning You know you need to market your business but you just don’t know where in the hell to begin. You have read dozens of books and articles on creating a marketing plan and all they did was overwhelm you and make you tired. You know there has to be an easier way to do this, but how? I feel your pain. I have experienced this myself and have heard...
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