Month: March, 2010

How was Q1 for you? One-Word Mantra Update!

In a blink of an eye, the first quarter of 2010 has passed. Where has the time gone? I must be getting old as the days and months just seem to fly by nowadays!
Anyway, back in January I blogged about creating a one-word mantra for the year to help keep focus. My one-word mantra for [...]

Adopt A Multi-Vehicle Approach In Your Marketing

Once you have your lead generation process really nailed down in your business it’s essential that your time (or people on your team!) is then freed up to go out there and promote, promote, promote your business.
I love getting my clients to think really creatively about how they could do this. What’s their preferred marketing [...]

Secret Weapon In Lead Generation Process….

I love stand alone, lead capture, web pages when it comes to list building or indeed qualifying existing contacts sitting on a big database.
Squeeze pages as they are known in the trade are highly effective marketing tools to have in place for any business whether you are selling physical products like wine or flowers or [...]

Fine Tune The Lead Generation Process In Your Business

“I want more clients.” “I want more sales.” “I want to make more profit.”
And that’s what being in business is all about isn’t it: making money.
If you’re not hitting your sales and profit goals, it’s your lead generation system that I would focus your attention on straightaway. Once you’ve got this nailed down, everything else [...]

A Lesson In Customer Service – Not!

After picking up my daughters from school yesterday, I headed off to a well known printing company so get some samples, price lists etc for a client that I’m meeting today (you see I go that extra mile!) and I couldn’t believe the fundamental, very basic mistakes this company was making.
Now I know that my [...]

Creating Daily Sales Habits

Just about every business owner that I come across wants to get more paying clients on board or wants to attract more customers. It doesn’t matter if you’re in the information/services industry like coaching or whether you’re selling physical products like flowers or cars. Making sales, closing deals is what keeps the business alive.
However some [...]

Reasons Why I Have A Weekly Business Development Day

And it’s on a Friday, every Friday!
It’s a day I spend the majority of my time working ON my business.Friday’s used to be my admin day or catch up day but I soon realised that by spending the whole day catching up on the week just wasn’t an effective use of my time.
So I started [...]

Top Tips On How To Deal With All Those Articles In Your Inbox!

If you are anything like me your inbox can easily become maxed out with newsletters, bulletins, details of when someone has posted a blog or commented on a forum and all the other news and marketing messages, the list goes on, and that’s before you even get down to customer orders and client emails! Phew!
When [...]

Don’t Forget Your After Sales!

I had lunch with a lovely friend yesterday and she was telling me all about her awesome workshop that she’s running later this month.
I know it’s going to be a fantastic workshop because I know she’s great at what she does and I’ve seen her in action!
She’s doing a great job at promoting the event [...]