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Are YOU hurting your business?

It’s a tough question. One of the most significant factors in causing a business to fail is creating the product/service first, and the market (the need for the product/service) second. This is the opposite of what many people think needs … Continue reading

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Losing Clients Suck, Right?

Why Did You Lose Your Last Ten Clients? Continue reading

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What Business Is It Of Yours?

Are you really in the business of marketing and selling whatever it is that you sell? Or did you just create yourself a job with a lunatic as a boss? Continue reading

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Is being an entrepreuner a blessing or a curse?

Do you feel that being in business for yourself is a blessing? If not, stop and think about this: In what other part of your life can you go out on a limb, pursue your dreams, and meet your fears … Continue reading

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Is Your Business Doomed Before Your Get Started?

It’s a tough question. One of the most significant factors in causing a business to fail is creating the product/service first, and the market (the need for the product/service) second. This is the opposite of what many people think needs … Continue reading

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Joe Girard’s “Law of 250?

consistently built strong relationships with his customers and treated them fairly, it would make his job a lot easier in the long run. Continue reading

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How To Find Your Competitors Weakness…

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. Continue reading

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10 More Simple, Effective And Affordable Marketing Solutions For Sales Professionals

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… Continue reading

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Read More Marketing Books or Don’t…

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 … Continue reading

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What “Big News” do you use to promote your business?

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. Continue reading

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Is Time Really Your Most Valuable Asset?

The way we manage our time is one factor that can make a significant difference in our suc­cess. Continue reading

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Scientific Advertising Chapters 20 – 21

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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