Newsletter Archive: 2010
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Enough with Reindeer Games - Start Your Website. Looking for some motivation to get your new website or business started before the year ends? Here's an amazing offer from the leading global provider of website hosting! Verio has been consistently voted one of the best website hosting providers by consumers just like you for the last two years. When it comes to your website, go with someone you can trust. Date:2010-12-14 Doing A Better Job Of Connecting with Customers Demystifying better social media marketing often starts with doing a better job of connecting with customers. But how can you connect with customers if you don't know who they are? Date:2010-12-08 Understanding What Your Customers Want You To Know You know what you need, or would like, to know about your customers. First, basics, like addresses, correct names and titles, phone numbers, company description, and then much more. Date:2010-11-24 Are You Damaging Your Own Business Success? While he's fabulous at what he does his business has never really taken off. About a month ago I dropped him an email because I had a client who could use his services. Date:2010-11-10 30 Proven Internet Marketing Strategies As a savvy business owner, you know you should tap in to social media, ramp up your SEO efforts and work on your website and email marketing. But how do you grow your business online while still managing everything else in your company? Date:2010-11-01 Do You Have A Passionate Mission? Why are you in business? Is it just to make money? ...Or because you couldn't find a job? Or is there something more? Date:2010-10-27 Breaking The Cycle Of Perpetuated Marketing Myths Here is a synopsis of a really great post by Rob Rose, Chief Troublemaker at Big Blue Moose, 5 Marketing Myths The C-Suite Still Believes Because We Let Them. Date:2010-10-13 How To Successfully Replace Your Social Media Voice Yesterday's NY Times featured a cover story about an increasingly common problem of turnover that many Broadway musical productions are facing. Date:2010-09-29 3 Techniques for More Effective Email Campaigns As an entrepreneur, your primary goals include closing more sales, getting repeat business, and building lasting, profitable relationships with your contacts. And email marketing can certainly help you do that. Date:2010-09-20 Claiming Your Place Of Business Within Facebook Places Whether you see Facebook Places as a cool new way to find out where your friends are, another invasion of privacy from a company that builds its empire on the bones of your privacy, or a great way to find out who's home to rob, with half a billion potential users, it will be hard to ignore. Date:2010-09-15 Ready, Get a Site, Go Get What You Pay For... the Best Web Hosting from Verio! Date:2010-09-14 Provide Valuable Information That Nobody Else Does One of the most important things business owners often fail to do is to make their website remarkable. It really doesn't matter what industry you're in or how many other websites you're competing against, making your site stand out from the pack is absolutely essential. Date:2010-08-25 Take Control With an Online Certificate From Notre Dame Get the exceptional results you demand from yourself! Achieve the next level of success with expert-based training from Notre Dame, which is ranked among the nation's best business schools by U.S. News & World Report. Notre Dame offers on-demand executive certificate programs for today's in-demand topics: Date:2010-08-12 Do You Prefer Facebook Pages Or Google Places Pages? Over the weekend I was chatting to a hairdressing friend about his decision to set up a Facebook page for his salon. While he'd taken longer than many to set up the page, he saw it as essential marketing. Date:2010-08-11 Finding Innovative B2B Marketing Ideas From B2C If you have a business-to-business (B2B) Web site, you're probably tired of all the trite advice you see out there from experts who are clearly speaking to those in the business-to-consumer (B2C) industry. Date:2010-07-28 Talk to All Your Customers and Increase Sales Talk to all your customers, increase loyalty and watch your business grow. Send your customers coupons, sales announcements and newsletters with VerticalResponse. Date:2010-07-23 3 Techniques for More Effective Email Campaigns As an entrepreneur, your primary goals include closing more sales, getting repeat business, and building lasting, profitable relationships with your contacts. And email marketing can certainly help you do that. Date:2010-07-19 Giving Customers A Real Voice In Your Company Imagine you're havingsome big, high falutin' meeting. Perhaps it's a board meeting. Or, if you don't have a board, perhaps it's a management team meeting. Date:2010-07-14 LinkedIn Adds New Enhancements To Their Social Features Social networking today has revolutionized the way we communicate with our loved ones and friends no matter where they are. LinkedIn, one of the most recognized social networking websites in the world, has come up with new features in an effort to keep up with the changes the burgeoning industry is experiencing. Date:2010-06-30 Can Technology Solve the Project Execution Problem? Project management technology has been around for years now, so the problem of project execution must be basically solved, right? Wrong. The Standish Group has found that 68% of technology projects failed in 2009. Date:2010-06-16 Are You Using the Wrong Email System? Email is now rated as the most essential communication tool - with 97% of business users rating it as critical to their job. Do you have the right email system to ensure your messages are secure and protected? Date:2010-06-08 How To Become A Social Media Leader The headline is shared mostly in jest, but this topic is one worthy of serious attention. The question at hand is whether or not the general advice shared in popular blogs and books when designed to be snappy, shareable, and consumable, help or hinder the ability to learn critical and important lessons in social media. Date:2010-06-02 Conferencing Plans for Small Business With conferencing, you can talk to more people in more locations without spending the time and money it takes to travel. That's why businesses of all sizes trust InterCall to help them add to their bottom line. Date:2010-05-27 3 Techniques for More Effective Email Campaigns As an entrepreneur, your primary goals include closing more sales, getting repeat business, and building lasting, profitable relationships with your contacts. And email marketing can certainly help you do that. Date:2010-05-24 Put Email to Work for Your business - Free Trial Everything you need to get started with email marketing Date:2010-05-20 Connecting With Your Consumers On A Personal Level Ever get side tracked by people asking you questions online or coming to your facebook page and posting things that just don't seem to fit your product or business? Date:2010-05-19 Fax Online from Email, Web, or Smart Phone: Try MyFax for 30 Days Send and receive faxes from your email, the Internet, even your smart phone. As easy to use as email. Date:2010-05-13 Finding Employees To Be The Voice Of Your Brand You might have noticed a trend in more and more marketing, where large brands are featuring real people and actual employees in their ads. The end of the new Intel ads feature employees singing the well known "Intel bong" - the four note chime at the end of their ads. Date:2010-05-05 Using SEO As A Business Stepping Stone Last week in this space, I posed the musical question, "Are You Optimizing for Search Engines or for Customers?" Date:2010-04-21 Increase Your Mother's Day Sales with Email Marketing Promote your Mother's Day sales with email coupons, newsletters, sales announcements and more. Send your Mother's Day emails and increase your sales today! Date:2010-04-20 Limited Time Only: Low Postage Meter Rental Price The mailstation 2™ can help save your business time and money. We'll give you a 60-day FREE trial (an initial postage deposit of $30 is required). After the trial, rent the meter for $15.99 a month for one year plus the cost of postage, refills and supplies you use. If you are not completely satisfied, return the equipment during the trial period with no further obligation. Date:2010-04-14 Be Mindful When Commenting About Clients In Public Have you ever been sitting in a restaurant and heard someone utter something not so nice about one of their clients? I have. Way too often. Date:2010-04-07 3 critical elements your email marketing is missing Chances are...you've been using email marketing for a while. And you've undoubtedly seen some remarkable success. So, as a successful email marketer, why would your open rates suddenly begin to drop? Date:2010-03-29 Stop Discounting Your Products And Start Marketing No, I don't mean to take them off the shelves, or rip up your catalog. Yes, I know that if we don't sell things, we cease to make a living. Date:2010-03-24 Convert More Clicks Into Sales Leverage Marketing offers Pay Per Click Management & SEO Services for businesses that require the absolute highest Return on Advertising Spend. Our PPC Management services come with a 30 day free trial (for qualifying accounts) for the first month. We will increase the performance of your PPC Google Adwords, Yahoo & MSN accounts or you pay nothing! Date:2010-03-11 Using SEO and Social Networking To Gain Business Leads I had an interesting conversation over the weekend with Marvin, who called me to discuss Network Marketing. Date:2010-03-10 Big Discounts - Dedicated Servers without the Hassle Verio is proud to announce new, lower pricing on our popular Managed Private Server (MPS). MPS is perfect for multi-site hosting, large-scale hosted applications, dedicated use or as a testing environment. Now with discounts up to 44% off, you get the power of a dedicated server without the daily hassles of server and network maintenance. Date:2010-03-09 Taking Your Time To Build A Strong Blog Getting started with a blog can be exciting and nerve racking for some; just like learning to drive. Date:2010-02-26 Understanding And Utilizing Risk Management Risk management is an important topic for many organizations, especially those in financial services. Date:2010-02-17 Building Your Business Reputaton Slow And Steady HOPE is perhaps the single most lucrative thing to sell. There are so many people in need of direction, while so few actually want to do the work required to achieve the end goal. Date:2010-02-03 Slow Social Software Adoption Can Slow Productivity In my last blog post I hinted I will be putting together another entry where I would reflect on something that has been in my mind for a good number of months, if not years altogether. Date:2010-01-20 9 Proven Techniques to Double Your Sales This book is a powerhouse of information! Information that will grow your company quickly and profitably. The same techniques and tactics in this book have been used by hundreds of companies to easily double, and even triple their current sales. The book is free, but could be worth thousands, or even millions to your bottom line! Date:2010-01-18 Creating True Success For Your Business To make changes in your business and stay on track - so you are doing the right thing to reach your goals - rather than just being busy, you need an action plan. Date:2010-01-06
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