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…
You know, people with great connections don’t have them by accident. Indeed, when you come across another person who has lots of connections in different places, that asset of “human capital” was built at a price. Someone had to work to build that asset. This perspective was shared with me…
I’ve worked on a lot of surveys with my clients. We used surveys to determine what customers were thinking of buying, features they wanted, and how much they were willing to spend for the final product. Those surveys prevented a lot of marketing errors in our final result. Many of…
I’m always reading books, websites, articles, looking for the issues and challenges you, the reader, are facing. From everything I’ve seen, lead generation is a big topic of interest. In just a cursory search on Google using the keywords lead generation, I found the following searches took place in the…
There’s so much noise around the Internet and social media today. The challenge for many technology businesses is what to do first and what to do to support your internet marketing efforts. This blog post starts at the beginning of your marketing efforts and focuses on how to use the…
How would you like to know more about your potential clients and partners before you invest your time building a future relationship? I have found that many of my smaller clients invest a significant amount of time chasing the wrong clients. It’s not hard to see why. In changing economic…
by Keith F. Luscher Author, Prospect & Flourish We all know that happy customers are great for prospecting for new ones–through referrals and introductions, and also through getting testimonials that you can use in your customer communication materials. But there is one medium that I have yet to see leveraged…
This week Keith F. Luscher, Author, Prospect & Flourish takes on the challenge of what do you do once your identify a potential client that appears to be online but really isn’t. Currently, more than 60 percent of U.S. Twitter users fail to return the following month, or in other…
How well do you understand your customers? How well do you know their business and how you can help them be more successful? The fact that you’ve developed a software solution to their problem means that you probably understand their business extremely well. Are you sharing that knowledge with your…
I spent the afternoon reviewing several tech clients’ marketing plans in preparation for meetings later this week. As the economy continues to inch forward, many of my clients have become overly dependent on one or, maybe, two ways to grow their IT business. I thought I’d share some of the…