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Marketing Strategies from the Most Successful Small Businesses in America

Imagine practicing archery with your eyes closed or throwing a football with a blindfold on. In both cases, being prevented from seeing your target would make it nearly impossible to hit it. This concept can easily be applied to business, as well. Do...

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Qualifying Yourself as a Reliable Vendor

Marketing is a numbers game. This maxim is true, although it can be viewed from several angles. Proponents of bulk email advertising and traffic exchanges contend that if you expose your message to a vast number of people, only a small percentage of ...

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Are You Taking Care of Business

Too often, when we say we are "taking care of business", we think about the paperwork, the accounting, the inventory, etc... the trivial things that are important to get done in order for our business to run smoothly and efficiently. While necessary,...

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Creating a Postcard Marketing System

No doubt about it, creating nice postcards and sending them out to an appreciative audience is a lot of fun. But treating your postcard marketing efforts that way probably won't grow your business. Your cards will grow your business when you thi...

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Loyal Customers Take Commitment

Loyal Customers Take Commitment by: Patricia TwitchellIn today’s competitive world of retail, many stores are implementing external marketing programs designed to attract new business. Unfortunately, the cost can be very high with little retur...

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Your Dolphin E-mail Caught In Spam Tuna Net?

Your Dolphin E-mail Caught In Spam Tuna Net? by: Erwin StenekerLet me ask a couple of questions: If (potential) customers sends an e-mail to your company, do they want to receive an answer? If you, in return, e-mail your customer, do you expect ...

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Guerilla Marketing

The biggest reason why most new business startups fail today can be attributed to lack of marketing. No matter how great your product or service is, if you don’t promote your business, you won’t have customers. Fortunately, this doesn’t have t...

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Why You Must Build A Customer List To Prosper

If you run (or plan to run) an online business, it’s especially important that you maintain and add to a customer/prospect list. Unlike a store-front business, which can draw on pedestrian traffic, you’re only location is cyberspace. You must con...

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Three Ways to Get Repeat Sales With Follow-up Marketing

If you have customers, that's good. If you can sell them repeatedly over time, that's better! Actively pursuing repeat sales, also known as backend sales, is one of themost profitable things you can do for your small business.Here are three...

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4C The Future

4C THE FUTUREForesee the future, that’s what your customers expect, that’s what you need to deliver. In an ever increasing global marketplace, the degree to which companies can deliver ongoing value to their customers’ evolving needs, determine...

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