Smarter Marketing in a Slow Economy
More often than not, when times get tough marketing gets the bullet. In some cases where there has been an incorrect allocation of resources within a company this may be justified. But in most cases it is a mistake. Sometimes a very costly one!
How Can Search Engines Help You with Your Business?
The world wide network known as the Internet, is gradually becoming more and more similar to the physical space inhabited by human beings. Surely, you know (or knew some day) one or two ‘nerds’ who long ago settled in the Internetland, and now find there everything to serve their needs. They work and earn their living in the Internetland, find their newspapers, books, magazines, movies, and music, have fun, visit e-shops, and pay for everything with e-money. They occasionally leave their hermitage, for a short time, to appease their hunger and to find more confirmations that ‘Offlinia’ is pretty lifeless.
How Behavioural Styles Affect Workplace Performance
If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be? Or, if you were a colour, do you think you’d be red? Maybe blue, yellow or green? Weird questions? Not to Human Resources (HR) professionals. These are exactly the kinds of questions they might ask to determine the “type” of behavioural style you have as an employee.
What’s Really Your Problem?
How a 19th century French mathematician can help you find the answers to your marketing problems.
Who Should Be Designing Corporate Websites?
Have you ever found yourself working with a client-supplied design for an interface or a design from their print/marketing company? Most companies do not realize the value of a properly designed website and will not always make the right choice in selecting the website designer. The next time you find yourself in this situation, remind them of some of the points outlined below.
How to Save Thousands on Your Marketing
Marketing can be expensive. It doesn’t have to be, but sometimes you will spend more than you should. Usually you’ll realise this after you’ve done it. But here are two tips that can save you thousands of dollars.
What’s a Customer Worth Now-a-days?
Call me naive. Tell me I just don’t understand. Ask me what planet I’m from but I just don’t get it. From what I’ve been reading lately there are companies out there who are actually firing customers. Yes, imagine that. Firing customers! I just don’t get it.It’s tough enough finding and keeping them never mind firing them.
Inappropriate Website Promotion Methods
The list of dubious means of search engine optimisation lengthens year on year. In theory, of course, we could all employ such means, but there are ethical issues to be tackled. And even if we ignore fair-play principles for a moment, it’s worth pointing out that cheap, scam-like promotion methods usually look cheap and scam-like, annoy Internet users and have a short lifespan because counter-measures are created.
A Few Good Clients
Many of the business owners I speak with are looking for a relatively small number of new clients. It isn’t that they’re not ambitious, it’s just the size of their businesses doesn’t warrant a larger objective. Typically they own service-based businesses with an annual turnover counted in the millions of dollars, not hundreds of millions.
Selling B2B Services – Converting Warm Leads Into Eager Clients.
One of the difficulties in selling a service is that potential clients (we’ll call them “prospects” here) often don’t know whether they should be using what you provide.