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Professional Networking Tips For IT Consultants: Part I
by: Joshua Feinberg
Professional networking is THE way to make business contacts, identify leads, and turn those leads into sales. As an IT Consultant you need to be involved with professional networking right from the start. Here are some tips for doing it right. Professional networking requires diligent follow-up. It is crucial that you remain in contact with your prospects in between meetings. You can call the... (read more)
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Relationship Marketing - A MUST For Your Computer Business
by: Joshua Feinberg
Relationship marketing is a better way to market. It benefits you and it benefits your prospects. Producing a win win situation is always advantageous so relationship marketing just makes good common sense. What does relationship marketing mean for your consulting firm? For starters relationship marketing creates a lot less sales resistance. The trust has already been established. Relationsh... (read more)
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12 Tips for Using Big Checks in your Publicity/Photo Op Campaign
by: Doug Ellenberger
If you or your company are donating money to help non-profit organizations... and photo opportunities are an afterthought, you could be missing fabulous opportunities for publicity. A good-quality, unusual photo is often the first thing that attracts a reader's attention. It serves as an anchor on the page. And often, a photo can tell its own story, without being accompanied by an article. Big... (read more)
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Direct Mailing: Is It Still Effective?
by: Gabriel Adams
Direct mail, or marketing by snail mail, is an oft forgotten marketing method – after all, email is quicker, easier, and much less expensive. There are many businesses that now use email exclusively, and do not use snail mail for marketing purposes. But I believe that these businesses are missing out on a piece of their pie. Actually, they are leaving a piece of their pie for other marketers (ones... (read more)
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Using Direct Mail To Effectively Build Your Business
by: Gabriel Adams
Direct mail is often neglected by many businesses, in favor of email. But direct mail is still a powerful marketing method – one that you can use with great results in your business. Contrary to what some businesses owners believe, direct mail still gets opened and read. According to the Direct Mail Information Service, 67% of direct mail is opened, and 45% is both opened and read. Email cannot be... (read more)
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Logo Design: The Priceless Asset For Your Company’s Identity
by: Christine Macguire
Creating a company logo becomes much easier when one begins to get a feel for what is appealing and why it is so. It is essential to learn how to use the principles of visual communications and combine them successfully with basic production techniques. Equally important is to gain awareness of how important are the factors of ethics and social responsibility in the creation of visuals. Much of go... (read more)
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The Importance of Listening In a Sales Meeting
by: Linda Richardson
Listening is more than being quiet when the client is talking. That is just a start and anyone who makes it in sales can do that fairly well. Effective listening is what you do with what you hear. The one thing almost everyone in sales would agree about is that salespeople love to talk. And we all know listening takes away from talk time. The other thing there would be little disagreement over is... (read more)
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Will US Government Shut down Airport Retailers? Radio Show Hosts Offer Help
by: Fred Hueston & Lyna Farkas
Due to heightened security, airline travelers are no longer allowed to carry liquids or gels of any kind onboard an airplane. Now, most of you are probably saying, 'So what?' or 'Who cares, it's no big deal..I'll just leave these items home.' But have you stopped to think what this is doing to the duty free stores and other retailers operating at the airport? Some of these stor... (read more)
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Converting Private Labels Rights and Master Resell Rights Into Cash
by: Michael Pine
Private Label Rights and Master Resell Rights are all the rage in Internet Marketing, many of these courses/programs/scripts/reports cost in the hundreds each and most often those buying do not take the initiative after several false starts and bitter disappointments to put together a serious campaign. Great, I have all this stuff, now what do I do with it? You are going to want to get a web host... (read more)
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MLM Tips Who Says You Can’t Teach MLM Old Dogs New Tricks?
by: Theda Erickson
Many MLM tips taught by the so called heavy hitters in MLM nowadays are a rehashed versions of old, outdated sales techniques. Most, if not all, of these outdated MLM tips didn’t work 20 years ago and definitely don’t work in MLM today. If you are new to MLM on even if you have been in the business for awhile, and are not as successful as you would like to be read on. Here are four tips to help yo... (read more)
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