Very exciting news this month: My first iPhone app (“Sales Calls On Fire”) the weekend of March 11th elbowed its way into the #8 position in the App Store Business Category. It’s now steady in the top 200 in the iPhone “business” section and surging here and there popping into the top 100.
This is like watching your book climb in the Amazon rankings. I labored over the app (with superb help from JacApps doing the programming and many beta testers) for many months, whipping it into shape and waiting for the Apples approval to dive into the wonderful new world of app sales that has exploded like five hundred sticks of dynamite .
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Take advantage of the many resources at your fingertips and learn more about your competitors. Use the information you find to outwit even the most formidable competitor in their own backyard. Have fun hunting, spying and discovering.
Tags: Competitors Weakness, computer, phone, research, salespeople, spying
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Ideas from networking and joint venturing to honoring and doing simple math. Most of these ideas can be done with your investment of time and effort.
Tags: customer service, events, Fundraisers, low cost marketing, marketing math, networking, teleseminars, webinars
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Posted by Sandy Barris in advertising, business, direct marketing, information, knowledge, learn, learning, marketing, marketing plan, planning, sales, sales training, Salesmanship, sandy barris, target marketing, USP
e ten additional marketing ideas promise to help jump start your marketing and help you get everything you can out of all you’ve got…
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Why Read More Marketing Books?
 Why Not?
Being able to easily get and read more books is a great bi-product of the information age having access to ideas and input of many successful business thinkers and achievers for a nominal cost.
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Tags: business, marketing, marketing books, planning, reading, sandy barris, scientific advertising
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Swipe and use the tested headlines from the most popular publications. Publications like: The National Enquirer, People, Sports Illustrated and Games.
Tags: advertising, credibility, headlines, marketing, sandy barris, stories, storytelling, success, Thank You
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Most businesses profit more from additional sales than they do from a first sale. For that reason, it’s important to know whether you want a customer for the long term or if you’re making a one-shot sale.
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I hope you don’t mind me sharing a short story with you about what happened on July 5th, 1998.
While on a family vacation, my wife Amy and I with our four kids straggling behind made our way to see Mount Rushmore for the first time.
We had to park about a mile away because there were a ton of cars and couldn’t get any closer.
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Tags: 4th of July, america, appreciation, barris family, family vacation, fireworks, fourth of july, Fourth of July Celebration, memories, Mount Rushmore, patriotic, sandy barris, tears of joy, USA
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The Personal Sales Motivation and Metrics Mobile App for Sales and Marketing Professionals.
Calls On Fire will help millions of Sales and Marketing Professionals keep track of their personal sales activity/behavior and goals progress in real-time and positively motivate each one to reach their goals without all the typical confusion and frustration of using existing CRM tools.
Tags: action, business, marketing, sales, sales activity, sales behavior, Selling
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Posted by Sandy Barris in direct marketing, focus, headlines, How, learning, marketing ideas, motivation, planning, Proof, questions, relationships, repeat customers, research, testing, unique
How do you create emotional marketing?
Tags: business, decisions, direct marketing, ego and fame, emotional marketing, emotions, fears, greed, habits, incentive, insecurities, laziness, learn, learning, marketing, pain, pain (physical and emotional), questions, sandy barris, sex/love
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How important is it to you that your marketing reach your customers privately?Secret Direct Mail Marketing
Tags: action, direct mail, direct mail marketing, direct marketing, marketing, marketing plans, marketing secrets, privacy, sandy barris, scientific advertising, secrecy, stealth marketing, target marketing, united states postal service, USPS
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Is there a big event happening locally, regionally, statewide, nationally or even internationally that you could associate your business with? I am always considering how newsworthy events can be incorporated into my marketing.
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Posted by Sandy Barris in business, change, decisions, flexibility, help, lists, motivation, planning, purpose, self talk, Uncategorized
The way we manage our time is one factor that can make a significant difference in our success.
Tags: 2012, business, concepts, credibility, information, planner, planning, purpose, success, time, tips
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I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Actually, for me, simply waking up in the morning knowing family, friends and colleagues are close by, watching my back and motivating me forward are plenty to be thankful about.
What are your grateful for?
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Tags: action, planning, Thank You, Thanks, you
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How important is it to you that your marketing efforts reach your customers privately so that your competition has no idea what you are doing?
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Posted by Sandy Barris in advertising, business, decisions, direct marketing, education, flexibility, headlines, information, marketing, marketing books, marketing plan, planning, sandy barris
Claude Hopkins ”Perhaps the most brilliant marketing mind to ever walk the planet. He took the principles we all use to catapult our businesses to new heights. The difference is we are using technology, while he used the pen and paper. He was a mastermind marketer and one of the world’s most savvy advertisers. Everyone can learn a million lessons from reading and re-reading Scientific Advertising.
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”Perhaps the most brilliant marketing mind to ever walk the planet. He took the principles we all use to catapult our businesses to new heights. The difference is we are using technology, while he used the pen and paper. He was a mastermind marketer and one of the world’s most savvy advertisers. Everyone can learn a million lessons from reading and re-reading Scientific Advertising.
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Posted by Sandy Barris in advertising, business, education, headlines, How, knowledge, learn, learning, marketing, marketing plan, planning, questions
Perhaps the most brilliant marketing mind to ever walk the planet. He took the principles we all use to catapult our businesses to new heights. The difference is we are using technology, while he used the pen and paper. He was a mastermind marketer and one of the world’s most savvy advertisers. Everyone can learn a million lessons from reading and re-reading Scientific Advertising.
Tags: business, claude hopkins, marketing, marketing plans, offers, profits, scientific advertising
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Claude Hopkins—Perhaps the most brilliant marketing mind to ever walk the planet. He took the principles we all use to catapult our businesses to new heights. The difference is we are using technology, while he used the pen and paper. He was a mastermind marketer and one of the world’s most savvy advertisers. Everyone can learn a million lessons from reading and re-reading Scientific Advertising.
Tags: business, claude hopkins, information, knowledge, learning, marketing, marketing plans, sandy barris, scientific advertising
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”Perhaps the most brilliant marketing mind to ever walk the planet. He took the principles we all use to catapult our businesses to new heights. The difference is we are using technology, while he used the pen and paper. He was a mastermind marketer and one of the world’s most savvy advertisers. Everyone can learn a million lessons from reading and re-reading Scientific Advertising.
Tags: advertising, claude hopkins, marketing, marketing plans, sandy barris, scientific advertising
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Posted by Sandy Barris in advertising, business, decisions, focus, getting clients, headlines, information, marketing ideas, marketing plan, purpose, sales, self talk, Selling
If you want to get someone’s attention, then you have to create an interÂruption in his/her “self talk.” In fact, you have to keep on interrupting them, until you get their total attention.
Tags: business, ideas, insanity, interruption, marketing, marketing plans, self talk, talking
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It’s easy to become anesthetized to the onslaught of infomercials, email blasts, and radio spots from corporations and entrepreneurs alike.
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Is it my ego, or is it me… I don’t know which it could be…
In 1973, I had some friends who started a rock and roll band and wrote the line above for a song with the same title. The line has stuck with me forever. I may be the only person on Earth who has a cassette recording of that song. But it makes a good point.
As far back as I can remember, my parents and teachers tried to teach me over and over again to be humble, to not brag or boast. I didn’t listen. I have been called egotistical, arrogant, and several other unflattering things in my life. I always make it a point to say thank you to the person that does this name-calling. To quote Will Rogers: If you done it, ain’t bragging.
The point I want to make here is that I don’t understand why people won’t tell the world about their accomplishments. It’s not wrong to be proud, if you’ve produced something good! In fact, it’s very positive behavior to tell about your accomplishments. It helps prepare you to try other things in life. For example, when your marketing effort proves successful, then you will be more likely to try something else.
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Tags: accomplishment, action, bragging, business, ego, ideas, marketing, success
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Posted by Sandy Barris in business, business personality, decisions, learning, life time value, marketing, motivation, questions, reference, referrals, research, sales, sandy barris, solving problems, USP, Why This Marketing Blog
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