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Five Solid Low-Cost Marketing Strategies05 March 2010  Marketing has been an essential part of business for as long as business has been around. No matter what youre trying to sell, its vitally important to spread the word and develop a customer base.Theres no better way to run a business than to get your name out there. Name recognition is everything, but in order for a name to be recognized, you must reach a broad base even if youre only catering to a niche market. In todays high-tech world, there are many advertising methods that are extremely effective. However, business owners are forced to pay high rates for many of these methods. But where theres a will theres a way, and in recent years, quite a few low-cost marketing strategies have been developed. Here are five of the best-working for Internet marketing purposes.
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Promotional Literature - How do you ensure it pays for itself?02 March 2010  There are a lot of people in the world that can write, but only a small percentage can do it effectively when it comes to business. If youre one of those people, then youve seriously lucked out and should thank your lucky stars.However, if you have to hire out and get a freelancer to do it for you, then you better make sure the product youre receiving is of a high enough quality to pay for itself in the long run. A basic business template - i.e. common sense - says to make sure the text is well-written, free of grammatical errors and to the point but theres a lot more to writing effective copy than keeping it short, simple and clean. Whether youll be trying to take on the writing duties or hiring out, youll need to know a few things about making promotional text pay for itself.
How Could Using A Virtual Office Be Useful For Your Business?23 February 2010  The majority of people looking to start Internet-based from-home businesses are doing so to stay out of the office. They dont want to make the commute day in and day out and share office space with others. The independence and freedom that comes with owning your own home business is one of the most attractive factors when deciding to step into the arena. However, there are sometimes no good alternatives for an office. This is where having a virtual office can really help your business along. If you're only selling eBooks, working to resell products on eBay or another type of business that youre handling on your own with the help of a mass mailer and a website or two, then a virtual office probably hasn't crossed your mind and doesn't need to. But if you're dealing with people through your business, juggling tasks and traffic and phone calls, a virtual office is a true blessing. A Few Ways a Virtual Office can help Your BusinessThink about something as simple as a phone call for a minute. Sure, you can purchase a cheap answering machine or leave a voicemail message, but studies show emphatically that people respond much better to a real person. If you're utilizing a virtual office, then there will always be a secretary on hand to take your phone calls.
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business solutions,
site-building tools,
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Why All Small Businesses Should Blog17 February 2010  In this day and age of instant information, no brand of media has a quicker turnaround and a larger readership than the blogosphere. Blogs are free to own and operate, apart from time, and theyve been known to turn regular Joes and Janes into famous bloggers. The trick: fresh, interesting content, regularly updated. Its the perfect way to advertise anything, and everything small business should be operating on the blogosphere for exposure. Five Reasons Your Business should be Blogging1: Show a real side of your business. Blogging allows anyone to express their thoughts and opinions, but not anything will do here, of course. You wouldnt want to alienate any potential customers by posting about religious or political issues. So, instead of making the blog personal to you, you can make it personal to your business yet still express a human side. Show people that there are real people behind your business. Inject some humor, professional insight, etc, into your posts. This ties directly in with the 2nd reason
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What are the steps to finding the right business partner?09 February 2010  Practical Steps to Take in the ProcessFinding a business partner is perhaps one of the largest steps youll take throughout the process of starting and effectively running a business. Finding any type of partner can be a difficult process, but with business, youre looking for someone to not only meet your expectations, but exceed them. Youre looking for a strong working relationship, trust, and many other attributes that will help this relationship grow stronger as time passes. The first step is perhaps the most important, and is to do with exactly what to look for in a partner for any business. Knowing what you want It may seem pretty straightforward and simple, but many people simply dont know what they want in a business partner. They choose based on qualifications or monetary purposes alone and end up in a bad partnership. So approach this step by listing out the values you seek in any partner.
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How to Write an Effective Follow-Up Sales Letter02 February 2010  Knowing how to write effective copy - or even how to get your hands on effective copy - is one of the many not-so-secret business tactics used by today’s most successful entrepreneurs.If you’ve already written the first sales letter, then you already know most of everything needed: good grammar, quick and clean rhetoric, professionalism, etc. However, the follow-up letter is a different monster entirely. This is where emphasis will be placed on your dedication and responsibility. When done correctly, a follow-up letter can be one of the most effective tools in the world of business, especially highly competitive e-businesses. The reasons to write a follow-up letter are numerous and include: providing detailed information and showing continued interest; recapping important product points; emphasizing benefits of a product or service; reminding customers/subscribers of current or upcoming offers; thanking someone for their business.
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We're Hiring, Master Web Developer ASP/PHP26 January 2010 Job DescriptionLady Luck Media Ltd is a new start-up company within the online marketing industry. Its activities range from managing web projects to developing new Internet ventures. Based in Greater London, Wimbledon, the projects have now grown significantly enough to require new staff to help maintain and develop existing and future projects. The role will involve supporting website projects and ensuring that their traffic and search campaigns are running smoothly, together with general webmaster duties and scope to learn additional technologies. You will be implementing new ideas and working on advanced search engine tactics as well as content provision, statistical analysis, data maintenance and management, copy writing and link strategies.
How to be Sure Your Advertising is Reaching Your Target Market26 January 2010  Marketing has been likened to putting a message in a bottle. You take your time to write it out, seal it up, toss it out into the ever-moving ocean and hope desperately that it reaches a target.With today’s multi-media basically running the world, the old bottled message way of thinking is now reversed. Now the message reaches everyone, but the recipient is so inundated with bottles that the message has to be something special to get them to show up to your island. In short, there are two basic ways to “reach” your audience. One is simple: having your market put eyes on your advertising and your business. The next way to reach someone is in more of a metaphorical way - reach, as in, get through to them and get their attention. And if you want to know if your business is doing that, there’s only one surefire way to tell.
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niche market,
multi-media,
conversion,
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Guerrilla Marketing Tactics for the New Millennium20 January 2010  There are many marketing tactics out there in Web Land that people use in order to become more successful with their businesses. Guerrilla marketing is one of the most popular right now. Basically, guerrilla marketing is a very unconventional system of promotions that rely on certain factors like energy, time and your imagination.It’s the poor man’s answer to big-budget marketing, so to speak. Guerrilla marketing involves a strong will and a vivid imagination. The idea is to engage your market and become interactive by creating buzz - going “viral.” The tactic has evolved in recent years, and the new millennium’s guerrilla marketing is just as popular as ever. There’s actually a book out now called “Guerrilla Marketing Tactics for the New Millennium,” written by the creator of this tactic, Jay Conrad Levinson. The basic idea behind Jay’s brilliance is something that was once thought to be common sense, and that is to show initiative.
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initiative,
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The Pitfalls of Web 2.0 for your Business Startup12 January 2010  Basically known as just the “Internet” today, Web 2.0 has a deeper meaning to those who witnessed its rise in the late 1990s. If you’ve ever taken part in information sharing, community-based websites, web hosting services, video/audio sharing sites, or any other type of social networking, then you’ve been to a Web 2.0 site. The applications that make use of this ever-expanding phenomenon are encompassing in this day and age of instant information, and many people decide to use Web 2.0 means to start up their respective businesses. The advantages are literally too numerous to name, and include the obvious like successful high-volume trafficking, conversion, repeat business, relationship forging, and a more hands-on approach with your clientele, not to mention the low startup costs of operating a website or a blog. But there are a few pitfalls - traps - involved with Web 2.0 that people rarely speak about.
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google video,
facebook,
twitter,
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