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Is Your Network Working for You?

14. April 2010

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By Sean Silverthorne Is your business network working for you? Here’s a simple test, borrowed from the work of Noshir Contractor, professor of behavioral sciences at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management On a piece of paper write down your most important business contacts — your personal board of directors — to whom [...]

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Marketing and Sales Must Work in Unison

7. April 2010

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Follow these tips for creating promotional materials that work as hard as you do. By Kim T. Gordon Great marketing materials lower the cost of selling and raise the return on your marketing investment. Does your new business have a family of sales and marketing tools you can be proud of? If not, you have to [...]

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3 Ways to Move Customers to Action

7. April 2010

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Why waste your marketing dollars on messages that don’t create a sense of urgency? By Susan Gunelius When do you want consumers to move to action after seeing or hearing your marketing messages? Now? Tomorrow? Next week? Next year? How about whenever it’s convenient? If you’re investing time and money into getting your marketing messages [...]

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POP! A book review

4. August 2009

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I am busy reading this book now. Anybody running his/her own business would appreciate it. It is not just a book, it’s a workshop and wll ask you to get envolved in the marketing/selling of your own products/services. Watch the introduction video! It is a wonderfull way of immediately connecting with your audience. Short and to the [...]

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What is and how to derive a Value Proposition.

31. July 2009

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What do you do better than anyone does? What does your company offer that competitors can’t match? Why would customers buy one company’s product or service as opposed to another’s? What is your competitive differentiation? These are all definitions of a critical business concept called “value proposition.” What’s the litmus test for [...]

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