Are you as productive and creative as you could be?
A few years ago I travelled up the north coast of New South Wales, Australia, and visited a client whose wife was a potter. She showed me around her large, well-lit studio.
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Are you as productive and creative as you could be?
A few years ago I travelled up the north coast of New South Wales, Australia, and visited a client whose wife was a potter. She showed me around her large, well-lit studio.
Are you running ads and marketing with tag lines that send people to your website? Then you’re missing the point of internet marketing and losing out on your best money making opportunity.
First a little history. The guys who started internet marketing were all either successful direct marketers or people who learned from successful direct marketers. Direct marketing is marketing through the mail, catalogs, infomercials, etc.
Ask any direct marketer or any internet marketer who has gotten REAL results what the most important part of marketing is. They will ALL tell you it’s the list, the list, the list. In internet marketing this means YOUR opt-in e-mail list for your ezine or newsletter.
“Yep!” Preparing proposals is enough to make most people cringe. They take too long to prepare. They’re absolutely boring to write and a real pain in the neck. Sound familiar?
One. Network offline. Visit professional like-minded groups. These groups usually meet once a month, have speakers, and networking time for you to mix with other professionals. You will get valuable information at these meetings for low cost”yearly memberships run around $25-$50 giving you free meeting attendance. Each meeting is around two hours including networking time and speaker. Usually at each meeting you are given a 30-second time to introduce yourself.
Most successful entrepreneurs have a strong passion for their ideas or concepts. They know what they want and they know what they enjoy doing. Their work becomes their play.
The secret to success in business is to find your passion. Know specifically what it is you want in life.
Almost every website operator wants search engine spiders to visit. After all, search engines are the best source of free traffic on the web. In the event that you don’t want them to visit, they are easily kept at bay with a properly formatted “robots.txt” file.
Everyone from pizza chains to video stores have used the principals of positioning to explode their business. And now, you too can use this strategy — regardless of the size of your business — to catapult sales.
Every successful direct mail expert has one. Same with the online experts who continually pull in the big numbers.
Does your sales letter display confidence?
I mean does the reader really believe that you have confidence behind your product? Do you confidently show them that you know your subject, and through your selection of words and phrases, are you displaying confidence that this product is the one that will solve their problem?
A software developer phoned recently to ask me to edit the writing in a PowerPoint file that will be shown to possible investors. Nothing is unusual about a self-employed writer getting a phone call from a potential client. What is a bit unusual, however, is the fact that the developer resides in Gujarat, India and I am situated in Vancouver, Canada.