Sales and Marketing
Traveling to Conventions and Conferences: Smart Travel Tips
Traveling for work purposes like traveling to conventions and conferences can be quite a hassle, especially when you have to travel without advance notice. Last minute plans of traveling can make you forget essential items in a hurry or can even make you reach the airport late.
How Graphic Designers Are Missing the Boat on Branding
Graphic design firms have for years neglected a key space that can bring them a significant new stream of revenue. Most of this missed opportunity is due not understanding the opportunity of branding. For far too long, graphic designers have called developing logos “branding.”
Belief and Confidence: Critical for Sales Success
To be successful as sales professionals we have to believe in ourselves. We have to have confidence in working with our customers, in our abilities to bring value to and influence our customers.
Facebook Offers: What Small Businesses Need to Know
Looking for a way to reach more prospects and bring more customers into your store? Facebook’s ‘Offers’ platform might be an advertising solution you need. Brands with at least 400 likes can promote deals, coupons, and discounts to their target markets.
This Is Why We Blog
With many ways to grow your small business, blogging might be low on your list of marketing initiatives. However, a well-executed blog can nicely complement your greater organizational objectives. Here are 4 reasons why a blog can help your business attract and engage a loyal consumer following.
The 4 Best Ways to Maintain a Business Partnership
Starting a business all on your own can prove to be one of the more difficult occupation paths to take on. Thankfully, new entrepreneurs will find that the more people they add to their team from investors to employees and partners, the easier it is to run a business.
Use Non-Aggressive Upselling to Gain and Keep Customers
Upselling is the art of helping a customer understand that they can’t live without something they didn’t know they wanted. It’s about awakening the sleeping giant of desire with a non-aggressive, gentle nudge instead of an obnoxious air-horn.
7 Ways to Successfully Utilize Social Media
Today, many of us spend more time on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Instagram than any other sites—and do so several times a day, even while we’re working. And that’s OK! Given social media’s incredibly wide appeal and pervasiveness, most businesses are several years into their “social media” strategies.
VIDEO: Taking the Mystery Out of Getting on Google
An important step of marketing your business is to make it easier for people to find your website on Google. But how to do that sometimes seems ridiculously complex. Forget tricks and instead focus on creating the kind of content Google is looking for.
We Have to Earn Our Audience’s Attention
Too many businesses believe that social media networks are simply places they need to put a placeholder in. Like a flag that says, “Look, we exist here too,” and then go to some autopilot shout into the abyss mentality. The core idea behind Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+ or any of the other networks out there is connection.
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