Archive for June, 2010

8 Cross-Selling Tips to Increase Your Sales

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

The problem with cross-selling is that it can sometimes confuse your customers and cause them to abandon their purchase in the middle of the process. It’s important that you employ cross-selling techniques correctly so that your sales will actually grow and not dwindle.

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5 Tips to Improve Your ROI

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

While writing email marketing copy is very similar to writing direct mail copy there are several nuances that are unique to email marketing. And, as you might have guessed, I have several tips to make these nuances work better for you and your email copywriting project.

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Defining Your Small Business Marketing Niche

Monday, June 28th, 2010

Have you ever heard the saying “If everyone is your customer, no one is your customer”? Many small business owners are afraid to create a niche for their business thinking that they will end up turning away prospects or that they will cut themselves off from potential customers.

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Small Business Marketing Principles for Success

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

It seems as if most of the entrepreneurs I’ve encountered lately are looking for the “get rich quick” version of small business marketing. Unfortunately, such a thing doesn’t really exist, but if you’re looking for some tried-and-true marketing principles that can accelerate your success, I’ve got a few to share with you…

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The Single Most Affordable SEO Tip Around

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

Our small business clients are always interested in affordable SEO ideas to increase the traffic to their websites on a very limited budget. And we typically offer the same search engine optimization tip to all of our clients:

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Finding Clients for Your Small Business – Preparing for the Economic Uptick

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

Finding clients for your small business is definitely a full-time job. You can make that job a little easier by preparing ahead of time and being completely ready for the additional prospects who will soon be coming your way.

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Finding Your First Customers through Referral Partners

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

…now that you’ve been “working” at your new business for several months, tweaking the perfect shade of blue, contemplating a new logo design, reconsidering a different brochure – you realize you don’t really have a business yet. Because, quite frankly, you don’t really have any customers.

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Google Announces New Algorithm Change

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010

If you’ve been paying attention to your website traffic, you might have noticed a significant dip in the number of visitors coming to your website by searching longtail keywords. (Longtail keywords are search terms that have more than 3 words in the phrase. “Marketing” is a keyword. “Indianapolis Small Business Marketing Consultant” is a longtail keyword.)

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Affordable SEO – Optimizing Your Website for Google

Friday, June 4th, 2010

With Google capturing over 65% of all website searches, it’s important that your small business website rank well in Google. There are many search engine optimization consultants who can help you optimize your website, but if you’re looking for an affordable SEO alternative, you might want to handle these tasks on your own.

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Need Affordable SEO For Your Small Business Website?

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

Whether you’re starting a new website or trying to improve an existing website, search engine optimization is extremely important. And on a small business budget, affordable SEO is usually a main priority.

Many small business owners assume that in order to make seo affordable, they need to do it themselves. Doing your own search engine optimization may or may not be cost effective Here are a few questions to help you determine whether you should do your own SEO.

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