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It may come as a surprise to you to discover that customers don’t buy your products or services because they feel that you have a right to make a profit. In other words, their motive for doing business with you is not to help you buy the latest Jaguar or put your children through college. You think this is a joke? Recent research shows that something like 60% of businesspeople place more importance on what they will get from a transaction than on what their customers will benefit.

In essence, their profitability is more crucial to them than is customer satisfaction. And it shows.

If you are in any doubt about this, cast your eyes over the myriad of ads, brochures, websites and so on that major on the successfulness of their organisation, as opposed to the benefit their products or services might be to the customer. Read More »

Multimedia here and multimedia there. Is it just a flashy thing you don’t need or the reason why your competitors are getting ahead? Today’s reality is that people live on a fast pace so their time is important. They watch tv going from one channel to the other, get a satellite dish so they can watch their favorite show on a different time schedule after putting the kids to bed, go through mail as fast as you can count up to 3, surf on the web with an average of 55 seconds spent on a web page, read the newspaper by going through the big titles, etc. It is a matter of facts, today’s companies and entrepreneurs need to get the best out of every second a potential customer, or current customer, will spend paying attention to their offer. There are many ways to improve receptivity and develop time saving solutions such as using repetivity and faster technologies but how can multimedia work for you?

Have you ever noticed how easy children learn songs from commercials on tv? Do you really think they would learn as fast if all they could see was as static text on tv? As you know, the answer is no. The combination of dynamic images, music and narration improves the receptivity of any audience.

Imagine how more effective a digital business card could be versus the traditional piece of paper! Such a multimedia presentation of your company or services could make a difference between a sale and another time wasting meeting. Now imagine how a great interactive marketing campaign could support your professional multimedia presentation or multimedia portfolio! The repetivity effect of your multimedia production would improve even more the receptivity of your audience. In addition, your interactive marketing campaign could be used to generate valuable data from respondants, which would then allow you to filter those respondants and only target high potential customers with future multimedia presentations or direct marketing campaigns.

In the same path, interactive websites using flash animations can also improve receptivity if used the smart way. Remember how much time people spend on a web page in average? Taking that into consideration is an essential key to the success of a flash website. Don’t overload your flash animation or make your website navigation too complicated. The point here is to get visitor’s attention and keep them awake, not make them loose patience and leave your overloaded flash website!

In many ways, multimedia can help you improve the receptiveness of your message but it goes way beyond that. You can also save time to your customers by developping multimedia applications such as an interactive training or multimedia tutorial! Offering that kind of multimedia support to your customers could greatly improve their learning process and save them time. As you know, saving time to your customers and offering effective support is a step forward in your customer retention efforts.

Over years, multimedia and interactive marketing services got more affordable. Many multimedia companies are now offering solutions that even smaller budgets can make room for. Are your customers worth it?

A few days ago, I was signing copies of my book Climb Your Stairway to Heaven: the 9 habits of maximum happiness at the flea market. Nobody expects an author to sign books at a flea market. Some people sell a few worn-over books, but authors just don’t do book signings at flea markets. Especially not books about finding happiness.

I’ve never been afraid to be different, to take the road less traveled, to wander off the beaten path and run gleefully right over a cliff. Fortunately for me, the flea market is on low ground and I had the chance to learn a few things just watching people.

Pop Quiz: Is it best to wedge your booth between other booths piled with junk, where nobody even notices you are there? Or is it better to have a booth out in the open away from the clutter, where people can easily see you and get to your booth? Read More »

White space in newsletters is like pausing in conversation. Take a breath now and then to avoid overwhelming the reader.

It’s tempting to pack a business e-newsletter tight with content. After all, goes the rationale, the piece appears more substantial, more authoritative.

However, in the audio book, “Sound Advice on Publishing E-Newsletters,” author Michael Katz says that laying out text in big, chunky paragraphs creates an obstacle to effective communications.

Katz relates a recent experience with newsletters written by a professional services company. “What they had in place was actually pretty good – professional design, good content – and yet something was wrong.” The newsletters were difficult to read because the great content was too dense.

Katz sites three important reasons for inserting frequent paragraph breaks to increase white space.

First, it’s hard to read on screen. “By breaking up newsletter paragraphs into little pieces, you make it easier for your readers to get through the material.

Second, people like to skim. “Studies of online habits,” says Katz, “show that people jump around. Shorter paragraphs help readers pick out things of interest to them.”

Third, white space makes the text feel more conversational. “Think about the way dialogue in a book is laid out on a printed page. Lots of short, one or two sentence paragraphs. When your e-newsletter writing uses this same approach, it has a much more personal rhythm to it.”

“Pull Marketing” has always been, and will continue to be the most effective internet marketing strategy at your disposal. Allow me to explain. Most marketing efforts can be placed into one of three categories:

1. “Push Marketing” or advertising basically screams at the viewer. “Hey Look at ME, Buy My Stuff NOW!” Because we are exposed to this type of marketing thousands of times a day, we’ve learned to tune it out, hate it and even protest against it. Look at SPAM for instance. People even get arrested for using email to “Push” their offers in front of us!

With Push Marketing we have no choice in the matter. We get a sales pitch whether we want it or not. And who doesn’t want a choice in what they see, read or hear? Read More »

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If you’re like the rest of us, you’ve spent a lot of time trying different things to make your online business come together. There are countless methods of conducting a viable marketing career, but there are also as many ways to destroy one as well.

In any endeavor, there are costs. You need to weigh the costs before even getting started. Oh, you know about up front capital, advertising costs, webhosting monthly rental fees, and the like, but the costs that many entrepreneurs aren’t thinking about right off is the price of your reputation, your intergrity, and your name!

Whenever you put your name on something, you’re staking your reputation on the product and how others view your sales pitch about it. The best way to ruin your business and any future business you might come up with, is to make false claims about it, or use deceptive methods to get people to read what you have to say.

One example that comes to mind is the over use of the “Re:” in your email subject heading. I know who I write to, and I know what I write to others about. You’re not going to fool me into thinking that your “Re:” is a reply to me. How stupid do you think people are?

Dishonesty only makes the rest of us think you have no confidence in your product, or you’re selling us the same old thing that everyone else is. If you have no confidence in your product, or you have nothing new to sell us, it’s time to rethink your business strategy!

Using subject headings that have nothing to do with your sales pitch is another way to get people to hit the delete button every time you send out emails. Do you really think people won’t notice that you’ve interested them in something that you aren’t prepared to offer?

In business, integrity is the greatest cost of all! Honesty is the best policy to maintain your integrity in tact and afford yourself the priviledge of continuing to prosper in business.

If you don’t trust the quality and value of your product enough to lay it on the table, then how are you going to expect everyone else to trust you?

Remember, the most important thing you’ll ever have to sell!

How many of you made as much money as you wanted to last year? Don’t be shy; raise your hands. Hmm, I don’t see too many hands out there. What would you say is the cause of this gap between your goals and your earnings?

While you could certainly name the economy or inadequate marketing as the culprit, I’d like to suggest a third alternative. It may be the constraints of the billable hours model that keep you from your financial goals.

Let’s face it, there are only so many hours you can actually bill to clients. For example, the national average for consultants is 22 billable hours per week. You can only raise your rates so high and still find enough customers. And if you spend more time on marketing, that’s less time you have available to bill.

But there’s a way out of this trap. No matter what type of business you’re in, you can use intellectual property to crack the billable hours ceiling. Here are just some of the ways to start tapping into this resource today:

Package your process. What if every time you began work with a new client, they paid an up-front fee before you spent even one hour with them? If you sell a process rather than your time, clients will pay for access to your previously developed materials. Examples are workbooks, forms, assessments, surveys, games, self-paced programs, and train-the-trainer packages.

Give a class. When you assemble a group of people to learn together, you can earn more per hour than working with them separately. Classes can be given at your office, at a rented (or borrowed) facility, on the phone, or on the web. Your market for classes is not just your clients, think about what you could teach your colleagues as well.

Record a tape, CD, or video. The simplest way to make recordings is to capture your live classes or speaking engagements on audio or video. Make your unedited recordings available immediately on the web or by phone. More polished recordings can be made with the help of a local studio or editor, or you can learn to do this yourself with the right equipment.

Write a white paper, workbook, or booklet. Short publications like these are easily within your reach, even if you don’t consider yourself a writer. A simple 20-page booklet might have as few as 4000 words in it. If you’ve written four articles to promote your business, you’ve probably already written this much. These are perfect formats for e-books, which cost you nothing to print.

Author a book. This might seem an impossible task, but if you write one page a day, five days a week, at the end of a year you’ll have a full-length book. If writing isn’t your strong point, find an editor, ghost writer, or even a co-author who has the skills you lack. You don’t have to wait until your book is finished to start selling excerpts as articles and white papers.

Market other people’s products. If you don’t yet have your own product, don’t let it stop you. You can begin earning passive income by selling other people’s books and tapes, becoming a re-seller for software or assessment tools, licensing someone else’s process, or joining affiliate programs.

Any of these products can be marketed in conversations with prospects and clients, in your standard marketing kit, in mailings or newsletters, on your outgoing voice mail message, and on your web site.

If you’ve been counting on hourly fees for your entire income, you may be surprised at the impact developing your intellectual property will have. It will add not only to your revenue, but also your professional credibility. And in poor economic times, you will find that prospects who hesitate to pay for personal service will still purchase classes and information products.

Speak to almost any self employed professional and most of them will say that they love their job but don’t care much for selling their services. Here’s some advice to help all those reluctant professionals who need to sell to clients.

We have identified 9 basic selling skills that will help you to sell your product or service. Ensure that you and your sales team master these skills and you will be successful at selling.

Research shows that fear of selling is one of the greatest barriers to business success and, often, professionals are the worst of all. But whether you are an accountant, advertising excec or business coach you still have to sell to keep the business coming in.

We have found a few ideas that will help you to become successful at selling yourself. The main idea is to know your product, know your client and be prepared and professional. The following tips will greatly enhance your ability to sell. Read More »

Wondering to know the most effective marketing solution for your business? While the television ads and printed posters can easily to be ignored by those people, it is now the time for you considering mobile marketing then. Imagine what people will do once they receive text message on their mobile phone? Yes, they will read it and at that point you have successfully to spend your money to the right thing.

CellitMarketing.com is the site where you can get the Cellit Mobile Marketing assistance, the expert mobile marketing provider, which allows you to send your discount offers or special menu promotional messages to thousands of people in simple way. Here you are allowed to specify your market range, such as the gender, age, location, interest, and many more. This will increase your chance to get potential customers through it and obviously saving your money for unnecessary cost as you have narrowed recipients into the potential market range.

For your best consideration, be sure you checked the number of clients been using their service and there you will see that Cellit has successfully to gain trust from many companies in around the country as well as the international companies for their marketing campaign. One thing for sure is that almost everyone now has mobile phone in their pocket, which it means that it should be much easier for you to get the direct marketing campaign through their mobile lines than other ignorable platform. And there Cellit is there to accommodate you with the this mobile marketing system.

The application is quite simple though that you will be given the Short code for the access to their service and there you can publish your advertisement at any way you like it. Thanks to Cellit and its incredible mobile marketing system as now business owners can simply to figure out new effective marketing solution and to spend their money wiser than before.