In today’s world, social media marketing is a must for any business. However, as competition online increases, it demands more time than in the past to connect with potential customers and clients. Sadly, that often means that – especially for very small businesses and solopreneurs – it simply doesn’t get done as often as it […]
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Why doesn’t selling work long term? First, let’s define “selling”: For the purpose of this article, “selling” means using sales techniques to get people to buy, regardless of whether they need what you offer or not, or whether it will be a good fit for them or not. Here are 4 reasons why selling doesn’t
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Regardless of what you offer, you will need to convince people to buy from you. Doing a “hard sell” is not for everyone, and personally we don’t like to do it. So, when you want people to buy from you or employ your services, how do you convince them to do business with you? In
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If you have been in business for any length of time, you probably have one or more of them: The perfect (or ideal) customer. People who do business with your regularly, and do so in amounts that make a difference to your bottom line. Not to mention that they are so happy with their client/customer
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Marketing is about convincing those who find value in your product or service that you are not only the best choice, you are the only real choice to provide a solution to their situation. Let’s break that down: Marketing is about convincing: At the end of the day, effective marketing is about converting prospects into
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Choosing a social media site for your marketing can be challenging. Many small startups fall into the trap of “trying to be everywhere”, and eventually giving up altogether. Being everywhere requires spending a lot of time online, and most small companies cannot dedicate that amount of time. Many experts agree that, instead of trying to
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Can you increase marketing output without substantially increasing the cost? In some cases you may not have a choice. However, even if you do have a choice, it makes sense to squeeze the most possible value from your advertising spend. Here are three ways to increase marketing output without linear cost increases: 1.
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Using a graphic designer to create graphics can be expensive. However, in this day and age of social media marketing, the graphics you create have a huge impact on how many people see and interact with your content. Aside from pictures shared on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, there is also the matter of the “open
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For many small business owners, inbound marketing is just something you do. You just spend as much money and time as you can on content, video content, Graphics, and ship it to social media. Then you hope that some of it works. What if you change your thinking about inbound marketing? Inbound marketing addresses the situation
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For many business owners, cold calling and hard selling have been the method of choice which many are trained to believe is the way to generate new leads or sales. There is, however, a totally different marketing model – which professionals refer to as inbound marketing, it is also referred to as pull marketing or
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