Are you frustrated with the daily onslaught on your email inbox? You want to stay in touch, get a response to important requests, and appreciate specials offers from time to time. Yet, managing all of this not only takes time, it can literally suck the energy out of your day. Web-Based Email Enhances Connectivity While […]
How Selling Builds Your Tribe
The practice of selling is traditionally considered a transaction or event in which there is an exchange of value between the buyer and seller, and presumably close to equal value. If selling it is indeed an event, then by definition it has to be considered an ending. No wonder most people find selling and associated […]
The New Motivational Speaker
The business of educating, inspiring, and educating audiences can be one of the most rewarding careers when the audience gets everything they expected and more. This is the challenge for professional speakers and meeting planners These days audiences are better educated, and thanks to abundant digital and social media, have pretty much seen and heard it all. […]
Social Media Success in Two Words or Less
How is your business leveraging the unique qualities of each major social media channel? One of the commonly expressed social media challenges is communicating a congruent business or brand message while managing multiple social channels. The solution is to distill the primary success factor for each social media channel into just a couple of words – […]
Google+ Rolls Out Personal URLs for Everyone
Sometime last year Google+ began rolling out personal URLs for notable people and organizations. Just yesterday I received my invitation to do the same, and I gladly accepted. Why? The Social Web and Search are Getting Personal The implications of this are more than just shortening your Google+ URL to something that is memorable. This […]
Build Confidence and Trust with Sales and Marketing Debriefs
When I began my career as an entry level salesperson for a major oil company I was required to debrief every single sales call. Back then I dictated everything into a recording device. It was then transcribed and circulated to the sales and management team. The debrief is a skill that surprisingly few people practice. The […]
How to Write Emails that Get a Response
Email is invaluable for communicating with customers, with its effectiveness significantly increased when care is taken to adapt to the new expectations of this powerful form or communication. Many of the web marketing practices you are using to get your online content read and acted upon will also work equally well to do the same […]
Collaborative Sales Practices that Engage Buyers
Selling directly to buyers is a standard business practice that is being transformed into a more collaborative sales process. Progressive businesses are now working together with customers to create shared experiences by co-creating solutions with buyers to give them what is often greater or more exciting than they would have imagined. Buyers do not always know […]
Consistency Builds Social Media Communities
Consistency may be the most powerful quality that small businesses can implement to build an active online community. Be honest: Could your social marketing be described as randomly jumping from one social network to another to get your message out? That approach simply doesn’t work in a digital world where precision is possible, and therefore, […]
Organizing Your Social Media Marketing
You can take the stress out of your social media marketing process by organizing it into written plan that is consistently implemented. That organized and written plan can then be refined as you grow with it. The key to an effective social media marketing plan is following specific rules that are organized into a process. […]
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