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Who else thinks their first sale is the most important sale?

Get them in the door the first time. If you can do that and you add value to their lives, then you know they will return and you will profit in the future. So some of your marketing efforts should be designed to “hook” the first time buyer. Continue reading

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Sales Calls On Fire elbowed its way into the #8 position in the App Store

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 … 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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What do you do, to get your clients fired up?

How do you create emotional mar­keting? 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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How To Reproduce and Repurpose Your Profitable Marketing Ideas

Have you run newspapers and magazines ads? How about blog posts? Are there any articles that have been written about you, about your business, or about your products and services? People may be impressed when these articles and ads run the first time, but how many of them are ever seen again by the public?
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Will Your Marketing Battle Plan Survive First Contact With Your Competitors?

Marketing plans, advertising efforts, marketing calendars, logos and branding – even our products, services and ideas, themselves – are our weapons. And, collectively, we are always trying our best to make sure that our weapons and stratagem are bigger, better and stronger than those of our ‘enemies’.
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What Are Your Limits?

Can you name anything in life that has no limits? I didn’t think so. That’s exactly why all your marketing efforts should have some type of expiration date. A limited offer will “out-pull” and “out-sell” an open-ended offer almost every … Continue reading

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Who Will Buy Your Professional Services?

Discover exactly who will want to buy your professional services.
What the perfect future client will be. How to get to your perfect future client. And, a few simple marketing strategies and tactics and why the CXO can be your biggest help.
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5 Simple Secrets To Social Media Marketing Success To Grow Business

Discover how to use social media marketing to drive more targeted traffic to your websites and blogs. Also why building name awareness build your credibility in the marketplace. Continue reading

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7 Questions To Ask Before Writing Your Marketing Plan

Discover 7 simple questions to ask to help speed up creating your next marketing plan. The what, where, when, who and how you’ll want to know before you start your marketing plan. Continue reading

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Secret No. 30: Why You Should Save Your Love Letters?

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