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Pay Per Click Advertising-What Are You Scared Of?

If you sell goods or services through your website, then you already know that the holy grail of Internet marketers is achieving a high search engine ranking on Google, Yahoo, and the like. But doing so can be extremely difficult, which means that average people who don’t know how to…


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Does Your Message Match Your Market’s Wants?

I had been reading a Dave Barry article recently about his trip to China to cover the Olympics there. He shared a story about going to the Great Wall of China and seeing a T-shirt vendor. Every few seconds, she would look at Dave and yell, “Hello! T-shirt!” He would…


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Do You See Opportunities or Obstacles?

I get up with the radio every morning, as I’m sure most of you do. For years, my wife wanted to set the station to music, but I’ve always held out for talk radio. I don’t really expect you to care about my radio alarm habits. I bring this up…


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Do You Know What Your Clients Want?

We all make assumptions, sometimes really big ones. For example, we assume we know why our employees work for us. (It’s the paycheck, right?) We assume we know what our clients want and why they work with us. That is a huge assumption. The only way to really know what…


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Three Keys to Business Development Success

Are you looking for success in your technology or software business? Do you want your company to not just survive, but thrive in these difficult economic times? What were your dreams when you started your business? Did you anticipate how difficult it would be if the market turned downward, as…


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To Increase Word-of-Mouth…Give’em Something to Talk About!

In a recent issue Prospecting Weekly, I dared you to become “legendary.” To be legendary is to become the “stuff that tales are made from.” This is a theme that warrants further attention. In my book Prospect & Flourish, I devote an entire chapter to the subject of outstanding service….


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How to Identify Your Ideal Client

In a previous post I talked about the need to identify your ideal client when you start to target market. Generally speaking, most people can see that makes sense. If you’re going to target a specific segment of the market, you need to know who you are appealing to. However,…


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Using Target Marketing in the New Economy

In the previous blog, I discussed how to get to know your technology or software business’s target market. In this part, I’ll talk about why how much you know makes a difference. Different things appeal to different people. Different people buy the same product for entirely different reasons. For example,…


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Are you keeping up with lead generation strategies?

Market Leadership Journal is conducting a lead generation survey to uncover what’s changing in lead generation. Changing times call for changes in how you find your best clients and how they find you. Our survey will uncover how many SMB businesses are finding new clients. This survey will cover the…


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Your 10 Keys to Copy That Sells!

We’re introducing a new guest blogger today. Alexandria “Ali” Brown runs an Inc 500 company. She has some great tips and strategies for helping small businesses compete with larger organizations. Let us know if you enjoy the article. We can post additional material by Ali. Don’t forget to take the…