| 1531 | 3 Essential Tools for Email Marketers Preview: Marketing your business with email is an art. It's very easy to get accused of spamming nowadays. Add to that the filters ISPs are using, and your message may not get through. If you do it right, email marketing can become a very effective method of marketing your business. Before you consider this method, there are three tools I consider absol... (more) Published By: Jinger Jarrett Submitted: 24 June,2003 |
| 1532 | Tantalizing Headlines: Do's and Don'ts Preview: Put yourself in the position of a newspaper or magazine editor scanning the newswires and the day's email and faxes for relevant content. How would you rate the following headlines, actually found on the Internet: New Slaves in America HP Wheels Out Year-long Tour Bringing Digital Adventure Directly to Consumers Little Kids Re-introduces Sq... (more) Published By: Marcia Yudkin Submitted: 24 June,2003 |
| 1533 | Change Is Threatening Your Business Preview: Change Is Threatening Your Business Copyright 2003 Bob Leduc You cannot grow a business today by simply repeating what you did successfully in the past ...or even recently. Clever competitors and new technology are producing changes that will reduce the effectiveness of your current marketing efforts. These 3 strategies enable you to overco... (more) Published By: Bob Leduc Submitted: 25 June,2003 |
| 1534 | Even beginners can design web pages that stand out Preview: Web Sites That Stand Out by Carol A. The Wide World Web has information that some of us aren't aware of. Months ago, I needed help with designing my web site. One that would stand out. Well, it took awhile to find. I checked other pages by writers to get some ideas. Some web portals will help you design your own pages in minutes (which is... (more) Published By: Carol A. Submitted: 27 June,2003 |
| 1535 | The Building Blocks to Effective Marketing Preview: The Building Blocks to Successful Marketing It’s More than Sales and Advertising By Julie Chance Whether you’re a Fortune 500 company or a one person shop, to be successful, you must have a marketing strategy and you must implement it consistently. However, it doesn’t have to cost a fortune and you don’t have to be a creative genius. The key is... (more) Published By: Julie Chance Submitted: 28 June,2003 |
| 1536 | Stop Slacking and TAKE ACTION!!: tid-bit-tips for online success Preview: Stop Slacking and TAKE ACTION!! By: Anthony L. Davenport -------------------------------------------------------- Do you want On-line Success? If you want to succeed online, you have to do something. (Advertise, Market, Joint Venture, product development) Doing something and failing is a lot better than not doing anything at all. You see if yo... (more) Published By: Anthony L. Davenport Submitted: 29 June,2003 |
| 1537 | The Nuts And Bolts Of Traffic Exchanges Preview: Traffic Exchanges. What are they? How do they work? What do they do? First of all, a "Traffic Exchange" is exactly that, a way to exchange traffic, a way to get visitors to your site. This happens by you visiting sites, in exchange for pageviews to your site. There are LOTS of Traffic Exchanges out there. Some good, some bad, but most of them w... (more) Published By: Anna-Marie Stewart Submitted: 30 June,2003 |
| 1538 | It's Better to Ask than Assume (The Power of Market Research.) Preview: ©It’s Better to Ask than Assume. (The Power of Market Research.) No doubt about it. Smart marketing takes finesse. Nowhere is that truism more apt than in message definition. If you want to craft a compelling message, you need to understand your prospective buyer’s motivation. I had a boss once whose favorite saying was "Don't assume. It makes... (more) Published By: Claire Cunningham Submitted: 30 June,2003 |
| 1539 | GROW YOUR BRAND ASSETS Preview: Okay. Raise your hand if you think brand management is just for BIG companies (like Target, McDonalds or Ford.) Wow! That's a lot of hands! Well, guess what? You're all wrong. Brand issues are important to ALL companies for the simple reason that people buy from other people. People have personalities. Branding establishes and communicates a comp... (more) Published By: Claire Cunningham Submitted: 30 June,2003 |
| 1540 | 10 Beer Budget Event Marketing Tips Preview: Are you planning an event or participating in a trade show any time soon? If so, consider the following 10 low-cost marketing tactics before mailing your payment. Event Marketing Tactic #1 -- Is the purchase decision-maker attending the event? Are you certain? Let's say you sell gifts that help increase employee moral and you're considering exhi... (more) Published By: Sharron Senter Submitted: 30 June,2003 |
| 1541 | MLM, Pyramid Schemes, and Matrices Preview: Have you ever wondered what the difference is? MLM operators claim they're not operating a pyramid scheme. Matrix and "forced matrix" operators claim that what they have is better than MLM. So what are the differences? Pyramid Schemes: Pyramid Schemes are illegal in the USA, and probably abroad. We all know how these schemes work, or at least g... (more) Published By: Anna-Marie Stewart Submitted: 30 June,2003 |
| 1542 | MAKE YOUR WEB SITE WORK MORE SO YOU CAN WORK LESS Preview: Do you know how your web site fits into the overall marketing strategy for your business? Do you have a strategy for your web site as a marketing tool? If you're like many entrepreneurs I speak with, you probably don't. All over the world, small business owners are spending thousands of dollars on building and maintaining web sites without being... (more) Published By: C.J. Hayden, MCC Submitted: 02 July,2003 |
| 1543 | 6 Easy Ways to Promote Your Ezine Articles Preview: 6 Easy Ways to Promote Your Ezine Articles by Jinger Jarrett If you think you can't brand yourself because you're not a major corporation, think again. You can easily establish yourself as an expert by writing quality articles and submitting them to ezines and directories. Even if you think you aren't an article writer, you can still create qua... (more) Published By: Jinger Jarrett Submitted: 02 July,2003 |
| 1544 | MARKETING THE REAL YOU Preview: I often wonder how the practice began of pretending to be someone else in order to market your business. You know what I'm talking about -- it's the marketing face, the selling voice, that you often put on in order to attend a networking event or make a sales call. Who taught you to do that? I have a suspicion where we learn this behavior. Most... (more) Published By: C.J. Hayden, MCC Submitted: 02 July,2003 |
| 1545 | Drive People to Your Site to Buy Your Products Preview: Drive People to Your Site to Buy Your Products Judy Cullins © 2003 All Rights Reserved. Bring those visitors back for more, applauding you and saying BRAVO! They will create a buzz about your great site, and send you many more visitors through word of mouth. These visitors are your personal marketing force. If you are a non-techie like me, you m... (more) Published By: Judy Cullins Submitted: 03 July,2003 |
| 1546 | Importance of Marketing Offline Preview: Importance of Marketing Offline by Kara Kelso http://www.momsmarketonline.com The internet is a wonderful source of information and millions of people that could be your customer. Although we need to keep in mind that there are millions of others just like you fighting for that business. This is why it's important to tap into the offline world -... (more) Published By: Kara Kelso Submitted: 03 July,2003 |
| 1547 | 5 Deadly Effective Sales Letter Profit Boosters You Can Use Now! Preview: 1) ASK QUESTIONS YOUR TARGET PROSPECT CAN ANSWER "YES" TO Asking questions in your sales letter is a powerful way to truly engage your readers. It creates a need for an answer, and separates the buyers from the uninterested. Of course some believe that by asking questions you run the risk of someone responding "no", and therefore, they won’t r... (more) Published By: Grady Smith Submitted: 03 July,2003 |
| 1548 | 10 Tips For Getting More Traffic From Your Articles Preview: Here's a depressing fact if you sell anything on the web: the #1 reason people go online is not to buy things but to find free information. But that's great news - if you write free articles. It means you have a technique you can plug in and use whenever you need more traffic. Writing articles is still one of the quickest and easiest ways of ... (more) Published By: Michael Southon Submitted: 04 July,2003 |
| 1549 | Have You Ever Been to Nantucket? Preview: I don't know if you remember the television show "Wings" or not. It was a cute comedy show whose reruns are now being shown on the Nick at Nite Network about two brothers who ran a small plane service on the island of Nantucket. Anyway, the other night I had the show on and a girl was talking about how the travel business had risen 15% on Nantuck... (more) Published By: Pamela Geiss Submitted: 04 July,2003 |
| 1550 | 11 Secrets to Direct Response Marketing Preview: Here Are The 11 Secrets To Direct Response Marketing - How To Get More Business To Come To You In A Month Than Most Get All Year! Discover The Real Reason Virtually All Businesses Never Make The Money They Could…And Should Be Making! Secret #1: Marketing Is Everything...Here's Why! From the first day you got into business, you were taught that... (more) Published By: Andrew Wroblewski Submitted: 04 July,2003 |