Consistency in your marketing and consistency in your business equals huge success. You want to always be top-of-mind. Always be dripping on your clients with information, with marketing, with what’s next. What’s the next thing that you would like for your clients to do? If you’re consistently there and your clients and prospects know you’re…
Marketing is the basis for everything you do in your business. Everything is marketing. Not all marketing is created equal. The best marketing builds authentic relationships with your clients and prospects. Many people think of marketing as manipulative or forcing people to do something they don’t want to do, or that’s not in their best…
One of the concepts that technology has sufficiently delivered on is speed. The communication that once took months to send over oceans and across lands now only take seconds in the form of an email. The ability to reach out to someone only takes a moment in pressing the ‘send’ button on our cell phones…
The concept of upselling is certainly not a new idea. The goal of upselling is to increase your profit. A great example of this is carried out by the cruise lines, specifically Carnival Cruise Lines. During a recent booking experience, a repeat customer mentioned how much they loved having a room with a balcony. Unfortunately,…
Would you like to see better response rates from your marketing? The number one thing to always look at is your headline. Now this could be any marketing. It could be direct mail, it could be your email marketing, or it could be in your sales letters. Anywhere you’re using a headline or a sub-headline,…
Video is the HOT new marketing medium and its popularity will continue to rise. People get to see you and connect with you on a deeper level than they do in print. It’s much easier for many people to build a relationship through video. Furthermore, video is a lot more FUN to create, than say…a…
Do you have a map? Not a map to get down the road. Not a GPS that talks to you and tells you which way to turn, but a marketing plan. Do you have a Marketing Automation Plan or MAP? Not having a MAP is the reason so many people think of marketing as troublesome. …
To put it simply, no one likes having to write checks…to spend or invest money. Writing checks means money is leaving your account, and no one likes money leaving their account. However, it becomes a little easier when you know the money is being well invested and, two, that you’ll be making the money back…
How do you make decisions? How do you make decisions in your business? Here is a philosophy that will serve you very well if you apply and use it… Say yes and figure out the details later. It’s also important to plan, but for most people if you apply say yes and figure out the…
It’s the end of your business day. That’s enough work for one day, and you’re turning off the lights in your office or your shop. You’re going home. Do you feel fulfilled? Do you feel as though you accomplished everything you wanted to do today? Or are you really not sure if you accomplished anything?…
