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7 Smart Steps to Make This Your Best Year Ever

Every year at this time, everyone is talking about resolutions and goal making. While those two activities may have merit, by themselves they are largely ineffective and a waste of your time, energy and focus. Instead by following the surefire, smart (and simple) steps here you are guaranteeing the realization of step one in the…

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How to Use The 7 Laws of CLIENT Attraction: Marketing Made Easy

There are 7 Laws of Client Attraction that when you adhere to them and play by them, you will find your business growing by leaps and bounds. On the other hand when you ignore any given one of them, your business will be diminished, your profits less and your passion for your business challenged. Use…

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Creative Cash Flow Generators: How to Generate Green When You Are Seeing Red

Any time you find yourself in a cash crunch, get creative! There are a million and one ways to get cash flow in the door quickly whether through business means or a personal sale. The cash doesn’t care how you raise it, you just need cash so here are 7 creative ways to go from…

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Marketing Strategies: How to Make Your Business Unforgettable

Have you ever noticed that you remember the beginning and the end but tend to forget the middle of something? It could be an event, a project, a relationship, a trip. The middle is the part that just sort of speeds by as we approach the end. This can be leveraged in your business. Start…

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Lead Generation: 5 Proven Places to Find Your Ideal Client

The first obvious challenge most business owners have is defining their ideal client. Nailing down who your ideal client and target market is, is your first step to business success.  And the key is to select no more than three primary targets, not 23 and definitely not 53. Scattered efforts yield scattered results. Once you’ve…

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Facebook Marketing Strategy: 5 Fast and Effective Ways to Engage Your Fans on Facebook

Facebook may be fun for personal interaction but it requires strategy, tools, and shortcuts to be effective for your business. Engagement with your fans on a consistent and persistent basis is vital and it definitely is about being social, not just businesslike. People do business with people they KNOW, LIKE, and TRUST and that means…

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7 Reasons I Suck at Marketing

As I deleted another day of over 600 junk mails from my junk filter, wrapped up skimming through 3K unread deletes in case I missed anything critical (is anything critical anymore?), it struck me that I suck at marketing. Oh sure, I’ve read about it, learned about it at live events and virtual classrooms, been…

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Marketing Strategy: How to Get the Stinky Stuff Out of Your Business

We all have it, stinky stuff in our business. What do I mean? Well look closely and you will find at least one and likely several long neglected actions you meant to take to move things forward. These are the things that nag at you every day in the back of your mind. They send…

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Why You Are a Better Marketer than Either Candidate: Election 2012

With all of the billions (yes, I did just write billions) that has been thrown at the presidential election in the last year, it is astounding to me that there is no clear front runner. Essentially from a business perspective, this comes down to marketing. And, of course, it is never about who throws the…

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Create and Sell Information Products: 8 Information Product Success Secrets

As a small or solo business owner you undoubtedly have a wealth of knowledge and expertise that others need and want—probably more than you realize. Many of you may have purchased downloadable e-books, home study courses or other information products in order to learn about some aspect of business or marketing. Information products remain a…

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