Networking Tips

Wednesday Sep 9, 2009

sue-henryHow to Take the Stress Out of Networking

The following article is by Sue Henry. The reason for my publishing this article is that I finally met Sue in person yesterday and shared a great 90 minutes of conversation with her! Sue is a fabulous and inspiration business leader and her tips which she shares in the article below are spot on! So on the topic of Networking….

The thought of attending networking events and functions can be terrifying to some people and even slightly unsettling for the most confident amongst us. Here are the three top things that people worry about the most when attending networking functions and how you can avoid them.

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Referral Marketing

Thursday Jul 16, 2009

Did you know that a client that buys from you 3 times or more, is 10 times more likely to refer you on to others?

The statement above should add more proof to why it’s so important to take care of existing clients. It is important to keep in touch with your clients and keep them happy so that they continue to buy from you. This will ultimately increase your revenue in more ways than one. You’ll generate additional sales from your existing clients plus get them referring for you and through their referrals you’ll pick up new clients and generate even more revenue!

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Time to Tweet anyone?

Tuesday Jun 9, 2009

time-managementAre you time poor and overwhelmed?

So many people, both friends and clients, that I speak with lately, seem to be complaining about how busy they are. I have to admit, even me!

Although even though I sometimes (well maybe often) complain, the truth is that how busy we are is up to us. We decide what to give priority to in our lives and if we don’t make these decisions through conscious thought and planning then generally we are not taking ownership of our time.

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Marketing Measures

Tuesday Apr 21, 2009

statisticsWasting money and time on marketing is just too easy, especially when you can’t quickly finetune your marketing strategies to get the results you really want because you’re not measuring those results!

The basic purpose of marketing is to get leads into your product or service funnel. In other words, it’s to create opportunities for you to offer your products and services to potential customers. So a good marketing process will at the very least send you lots of new leads, send you leads relatively inexpensively, and send you leads that do in fact want to become your customers.

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Time Management

Thursday Apr 2, 2009

Last month as part of my new Creating Online Success Inner Circle program I interviewed Sharon Tieman of Madame Marketing. The topic of the call was on Sharon’s 7 Bullet proof Marketing Tips and much more.

Sharon manages several businesses including a multimillion dollar business and for the majority of the time she works on it during school hours from her home office.

So on the call I also asked Sharon to share how she is able to fit so much into her time and her top 3 tips for getting the most from her time.

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Mindset Masterminds Mentors - Strategy 5

Monday Feb 16, 2009

7 Key Business & Marketing strategies to make 2009 your best year ever!

Strategy 5 is  MMM covering Mindset, Masterminds and Mentors

Mindset, Masterminds and Mentors
I’ve grouped these together for two reasons - of course they all start with M but more importantly they are actually all related. And as a group they are often neglected by entrepreneurs and business people with too many things to do.

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Affiliate Marketing - Strategy 4

Thursday Feb 5, 2009

7 Key Business & Marketing strategies to make 2009 your best year ever!

Strategy 4 is AFFILIATE MARKETING 

Affiliate Marketing refers to allowing others to promote your products for you on their websites, blogs and through their newsletters. When one of their referrals purchases your product you pay them a commission as a reward for their efforts.

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List Building - Strategy 3

Thursday Feb 5, 2009

7 Key Business & Marketing strategies to make 2009 your best year ever!

Strategy 3 is LIST BUILDING

Growing your Email List is always a popular topic in my Newlsetters. When I recently surveyed my readers it came out near the top of the most asked questions:

* How do I grow my list of prospects to email to? *

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Online Attraction - Strategy 2

Wednesday Jan 21, 2009

7 Key Business & Marketing Strategies to make 2009 YOUR BEST YEAR EVER!!

Strategy 2 is ONLINE ATTRACTION

This is all about attracting lots of potential to your business - specifically new leads and prospects through Online Marketing.

How I plan to implement this for myself and my VIP Clients is through Search Engine Optimization, Article Marketing, Blogging and Online Social Networking.

Why are all of these important?

These days we are all looking for products and services online - mostly through search engines however new media ways of finding information is also catching up rapidly. What I mean by New Media is Blogging, Online Social Networking, Online Video and more.

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Leverage - Strategy 1

Tuesday Jan 20, 2009

7 Key Business & Marketing Strategies to make 2009 YOUR BEST YEAR EVER!!

Strategy 1 is LEVERAGE

In a nutshell this is about leveraging time and expertise by creating information products and programs. You’ll see I have already started to do this with my new programs and my existing information products.

Information Products allow you to deliver your message to more people at once, and therefore brings the

cost down for your clients in accessing your expertise. It also allows you to make more money because it remove limitations on quantity, time and therefore income.

This strategy is what takes you from working hour to hour, and dollar to dollar and being limited by an income cap to a scenario where you intensely create (information products that is!) and then you collect (the money that is!).

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