Tag Archives: Small Business

How To Know If You’re Ready To Put On You Own Live Events

If you’re thinking about hosting a live event or if you’re in the middle of marketing for one, how do you know if your list is right? Is your list big enough? Will your list be interested in attending a live event? If you have a good relationship with your list, and they all ready…

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Are You Overlooking This Passive Income Stream?… Like Most Business Owners

Do you want to make more money while working less?  We’re always looking for additional income streams in our businesses and ways to do things that generate money but don’t create more work.  You’re busy and have enough work to do between staff and everything you’re managing in your business. Think about this…is there a…

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Customer Service Lessons From An Airport Employee

Sometimes amazing things happen during our travels, but if you don’t take the time to notice and get excited about it, you might miss it. On a recent trip, something amazing happened. It was a long day. Up at 4:00am to leave for a long day of flying and connecting flights, no problems, until baggage,…

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Information Marketing and “The Cave Man”

Information Marketing has actually been around since the Stone Age.  Think about it…. The “first man” discovered that if he (or she) rounded the edges on a stone and rolled it, it would move much easier than an object that has square corners or any corners at all.  As this inventor worked on changing transportation…

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No Plan, No Direction, No Success

Many entrepreneurs think of themselves as spontaneous people.  Get an idea, act on it, and it will automatically become an overnight success.  Unfortunately, it doesn’t usually happen that way.  And, it probably won’t happen that way for you. Despite what you may have heard, most “overnight successes” took a lot of hard work and planning. …

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No Integration

Most business people and entrepreneurs think they’re running multi-pronged marketing programs, when what they’re really doing is the same type of single-pronged marketing over and over again.  You don’t want to forget there are many marketing methods you should be incorporating into every project. Many internet marketers are just now starting to branch out into…

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No Follow-Up

You just made some sales, whether it was from the platform, on a teleseminar, after sending an email or your online newsletter, or from a direct mail piece.  It doesn’t matter how you made the sales, you’re feeling pretty good about it.  Most marketers think this is the end of the road, that their work…

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Power Up Your Engines Your Business Spaceship, “MSS Info-preneur,” Is Ready To Blast Off!

What Would Happen If You Fell Into One Of The 10 Most Common Marketing Black Holes? Imagine that you get into your 2012 model “marketing spaceship,” named “MSS Info-preneur” and you point it straight at the million dollar solar-mass black hole, in the center of our info-galaxy. (Actually, there’s some debate about whether our galaxy…

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Book Review of “Win: The Key Principles to Take Your Business From Ordinary to Extraordinary” by Frank I. Luntz

You know when your kindle tells you you have 634 marks and notes in a book that you have gotten a lot out of that book, and that’s what mine says for Frank Luntz’s book “Win: The Key Principles to Take Your Business From Ordinary to Extraordinary.” There was indeed a lot about this book…

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The Importance Of Monetizing All Aspects Of Your Client List…Members And Non-Members Alike

Are you leaving money on the table? Have you thought about how you’re monetizing your business, and more importantly, who you’re monetizing in your business? If you have a membership program or site, a continuity program that has members paying you a monthly fee, a paid newsletter that you mail, or if you get on…

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