Marketing
Are Promotional Gifts a Waste of Money?
Why spend money on promotional gifts in the first place?Well, promotional gifts are an effective way to attract new clients to your firm or company. Believe me, the benefits are very rewarding. Read more →Are Promotional Items Right For Your Business?
If you're a small business owner, then you know how difficult advertising can be. The most difficult decision is what to spend the money allocated toward marketing and advertising on. Read more →Are You "Shooting" Your Marketing Dollars with a Shotgun or a Rifle AND What's the Difference?
In marketing your services or widgets, what approach do you use? Do you scatter your marketing efforts over a range hoping to hit something? Or do you take careful aim, hitting the target more times than not? Read more →Are You A Brand Or A Commodity?
What is a brand?The dictionary defines it as follows: A distinguishing symbol, mark, logo, name, word, sentence, or a combination of these items that companies use to distinguish their product from others in the market. Read more →Are You a Marketing Octopus, or a Marketing Worm?
One of the greatest challenges to effectively marketing a business is determining which marketing method is best for your business.Most people look at what their competitors are doing to market their businesses and then simply imitate that, whether good or bad. Read more →Are You a Price Maker or a Price Taker?
"How much do you charge?"The sweetest words to anyone who provides a service. You love to hear them, right?Unfortunately, if you're not convinced of the value of your services, they might dismay you, and if you're confused about the prices you charge you'll never make the money you could be making. Read more →Are You A Wimp? Why Being Bold Pays Off In Self Storage Marketing
Are you making wimpy offers?In my last article, I discussed offers and their importance in life and self storage marketing. As a self-storage operator, you are making the offer to relieve locals of their cluttered home or yard. Read more →Are You Actually Trying To Profit From Your Marketing Efforts?
You will have a much harder time marketing your business with this mindset.Here is what I mean...Automotive shops as an example...use an oil change advertisement as a "lead in" service to offer in efforts to obtain new customers. Read more →Are You Attracting or Repelling Prospects?
There are basically two ways in which you can either attract or repel prospects. I call these Attraction Marketing and Repel Marketing.You can either attract or repel prospects in your traditional marketing activities. Read more →Are You Charging "The Ideal Price?"
The price you ask for the products and services is critical.If you charge too much customers leave and go to the competition. If you charge too little then profits are diminished, sometimes to the point of loss. Read more →1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384
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William Sharpe
