by Ely Delaney | Marketing
How many times have you actually received a Thank You letter from someone that you bought something from? I’m betting, not very many times. Your existing client list is over 10 times more likely to spend more money with you than someone that never has purchased...
by Skip Weisman | Business
Communication is a catch-all phrase for things that go wrong in companies and relationships. Unfortunately, the concept is too ambiguous to do anything constructive to fix it. I’ve identified seven communication mistakes that lead to mis-understandings, and...
by Tammy Lawman | Marketing
David Riklan is the president and founder of Self Improvement Online, Inc.and www.SelfGrowth.com, as well as the author of Self Improvement: the Top 101 Experts Who Help Us Improve Our Lives, which has been praised as the encyclopedia of self-improvement. Today...
by Skip Weisman | Business
Upon completing a recent project I took my client to lunch to thank him for his business. We reminisced about how we first met at my End Procrastination NOW! Workshop and how he realized at that time he was tired of tolerating things in his business. Among the...
by Greg Chapman | Business
There is no such thing as guaranteed success in any business. But there are things that you can do that will guarantee failure. Here are the seven of them. 1. Inexplicitness Success in business and life has never been achieved through vagueness. Explicit objectives...
by Greg Chapman | Business
There is no such thing as guaranteed success in any business. But there are things that you can do that will guarantee failure. Here are the seven of them. 1. Inexplicitness Success in business and life has never been achieved through vagueness. Explicit objectives...
by Ivan Misner | Business
There’s a very good reason why referral networking is becoming an accepted and important marketing strategy in businesses worldwide: it works. Imagine being dropped off in a foreign city with nothing but a few hundred dollars and told that the only way to get...
by Christina Collins | Business
First impressions last. Well begun is half done. A lot of eye candy, graphics on your web site will grab your reader, yet it might not grab the search engine’s attention. Correctly formulated text, defined by key words stating what you do, provide or sell, will...
by Ivan Misner | Business
As a business professional, I can tell you from personal experience how effective referral networking has been in the success of my own businesses. But some people still need to have a clearer picture of how it works and how it can be effective in their own...
by Ivan Misner | Business
2009 is almost over (and many are glad about that!), and it’s time to look ahead. I have before me my crystal ball. I am looking into the future, and this is what I see for 2010: First, the economy IS going to improve. OK, this isn’t a networking issue,...