Category Archives: research

Losing Clients Suck, Right?

Why Did You Lose Your Last Ten Clients? Continue reading

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What prevents You from doing power research?

What prevents business owners from using research is quite often a case of misplaced ego. Most business owners are entrepreneurs or small businesses. They tend to hold strong opinions (from experience or not) of what will or won’t work. Many are … 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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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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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 do you do, to get your clients fired up?

How do you create emotional mar­keting? 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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Higher Proof Will Help You Sell More Products, Services and Ideas

Proof Will Help You Sell More Products, Services and Ideas: Go ahead, take a few minutes today and look at every marketing message you are putting out… Ask yourself: Am I providing my reader, viewer and listener the proof and … Continue reading

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Secret No. 38: How Many Problems Can You Solve?

How many problems can you solve? How many times have you waste your time worrying about problems that already have been solved by someone else? Many other people have faced problems similar to the ones that you will run into. … Continue reading

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Secret No. 31: Creating YOUR Top 10 List To Help You Sell More Of Your…

Whats on your top 10 list. Continue reading

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Secret No. 27: What marketing campaigns are working for your competitors?

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Secret No. 13: How Much Information Do You Have?

How Much Information Do You Have? The first time that I really became aware of the vast array of information available to me for use in marketing my clients’ businesses, it blew me away. One of the best sources of … Continue reading

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