Marketing & Sales
The Irrelevance of Social Media: Chasing Nothing
A couple of week’s ago I got a long awaited invitation to pinterest. (Oh and if you’ve no clue what that is, it is a social media network devoted solely to sharing images, sans text.) I say long awaited because when I first discovered the site through creative colleagues, it informed me I needed an…
Touch My Senses, Get Your Sale: Retail Strategies for Success
Recently I was scouting for furniture and checked out two big box retailers. Both have great looking furniture, both are well crafted. One was clearly higher priced than the other, though not necessarily a better value, they did give a better experience. Here’s why . . . they touched all of my senses. You read…
Marketing Strategies: Where Everybody Knows Your Name
What is the sweetest sound you can hear? Your name. That’s right, it’s personal and real and in today’s age of communication overload, used far too little. Think about it, you don’t often use someone’s name in a text message, almost never in a Tweet, only if you are tagging them in a Facebook update,…
5 Rules of Marketing You Must Know Now
Recently I visited a series of Designer Showhouses. The point of these showhouses is threefold: To sell the house. To sell the designer. To sell the furnishings, accents, accessories, lamps and more. In this case, the marketing company that put this together did their level best NOT to sell anything! It was truly one of…
5 Steps to Boost Your Business and Referrals
Melissa Galt, Prosper by Design, discusses how an incentive or a marketing gold nugget can work with your business model. Take a look at the five ideas to boost your business and referrals and see how many of them you can fit into your business quickly and easily.
The Handicap of Hiring Others to Do Your Social Media
While this sounds like a no-brainer idea to many small business owners and even big business owners, hiring someone else, like a marketing firm, to interact in social media for you isn’t necessarily a very good idea. The reality is that people do business with people. A brand is only as good as the people…
Stop the Email Madness and Sell More Now
Recently I participated as an affiliate with a top drawer marketer who is known as the Queen of Sales Conversion. She is really, really good at sales techniques. But I got an eye opening email from a subscriber during this time that made me realize that even the best have something to learn. You see,…
5 Simple Ways to Boost Your Business and Referrals
Have you ever gotten an unexpected goody from a vendor or supplier? How about a special savings because you are a VIP customer? I know you’ve probably availed yourself of the benefits of credit card or frequent flyer points. Well what have you done like that in your own business? Oh, I get it, you…
3 Must Haves for Success with Social Marketing
Yes, this is still a big question for far too many people and, more importantly, far too many business owners and professionals. The answer is far simpler than you imagined, and it doesn’t involve being cloned, hiring a team of social media experts to do your Tweeting, Facebooking, and more for you, or being on…