Shift Your Growth into the Fast Lane by Engaging Your Customers
May 31, 2007
Shift Your Growth into the Fast Lane by Engaging Your Customers
by: Dave Free
Do you feel like you have the “pedal to the metal,” spending all you can on advertising but still can’t get the growth of your business into the fast lane? The fact is, if your customers aren’t engaged, it may not matter how much you spend on advertising. Just like a car in neutral isn’t going anywhere (no matter how much gas you give it) until the transmission is engaged, your business isn’t going anywhere until your customers are engaged.
What does engage mean? Here are three definitions you might find in a dictionary:
1. To attract someone’s attention
2. To establish a meaningful contact
3. To move into position so as to come into operation
Combine the three of them and it provides a pretty good working definition for engaging your customers:
Attract your customers’ attention with the intent to establish a meaningful relationship and move them into position to help your business grow.
Without worrying too much right now about how to engage your customers (we’ll get to that) let me propose multiple levels of possible customer engagement as represented by this pyramid model.
How To Create Wealth In The Stock Market
May 30, 2007
First and foremost, an opportunistic strategy for creating wealth in the stock market is needed. And the opportunistic strategy for creating wealth in the stock market must have two ingredients, a plan and a goal. The plan must be a definite, concrete plan of investing that would profit you and your family for the rest of your lives.
This opportunistic investment plan you begin should not profit anyone else ? not a stockbroker, a mutual fund or a financial advisor. This means you have to have confidence in yourself and in your own judgment as to whether the investment plan you begin has merit. And this means that the investment plan would and should have already been proven to you!
This definite, concrete plan you begin for creating wealth through opportunities in the stock market must also have a goal. The goal should be clear and specific, and once your have made up your mind to achieve that goal, then go forward and make that goal a reality.
What are the opportunistic traits of a strategic investment plan built on concrete that would actually allow the shareholder to profit through all the turmoil of an up and down stock market? The secret for creating wealth in the stock market; no matter what direction the market is heading?
The Basics Of Estate Planning
May 30, 2007
The Basics Of Estate Planning
by: Robert Thatcher
Estate Planning may be a word that is encountered by many citizens especially the elderly. What is Estate Planning? What benefits does it provide to people?
Estate Planning is a method of arranging and considering alternatives that will satisfy specific wishes and goals to prepare for things that may happen to a person and the people he finds special to him.
Estate Planning includes organizing properties and not just putting them in a simple Will. It also lessens the taxes and fees that may possibly be charged to these properties. Estate Planning also includes contingency preparation to ensure that ones wishes regarding health care and medications will be followed.
An estate plan may be described as good if it financially coordinates with the future of the home, business, investments, insurance and other benefits if ever the person becomes sick or will pass away. A good estate plan also sets directions to bring about personal wishes regarding health care in preparation for the when the person becomes disabled.
Work at Home Income Opportunities
May 29, 2007
Work at Home Income Opportunities
by: Chris Robertson
There are a number of reasons people want to work at home. Perhaps they’re tired of the nine-to-five business routine and the time - and money - spent commuting to and from the office. Perhaps they’re stay at home moms who want to supplement the family’s income while still being available to the kids when they come home from school. Maybe they’re retired, but are looking for some supplemental income. Whatever the reason one wants to work at home, the Internet is providing exponentially more income opportunities than the more traditional work-at-home choices.
Traditional network marketing or multilevel marketing involves direct sales of products. That means networking with friends and acquaintances and convincing them to open their homes - and their address books - in order for you to sell your products. Because most of these gatherings occur in the evening, direct sales can work at cross-purposes for those who want to work at home in order to spend more time with their families. Plus, to generate a significant income in direct sales, you not only have to sell product but you also have to sell the opportunity. In other words, you have to sign up others to become direct sellers.
Network Marketing Online: How To Drive Traffic To Your Business
May 28, 2007
Network Marketing Online: How To Drive Traffic To Your Business
by: Matthew Jamieson
Network Marketing Online: How to drive traffic to your business.
How many of you decided to start an online network marketing business only to find out that by just having a website on the internet didn’t mean 1000’s of hungry buyers were flooding you with traffic? In this article I will talk about what it will take to become a successful online network marketer.
So many people jump onto the internet every day hoping to make money with a online network marketing company. There are so many different opportunities to chose from that it is almost overwhelming. Be sure to do the proper due diligence before settling on the perfect opportunity for you. After you find the perfect network marketing company that fits your criteria, it is time to start your internet marketing and advertising to drive targeted prospects and potential product buyers to your website.
Domain Names– Domains are like Real Estate, you will control the traffic to this domain for the rest of your life.
Got Voice Mail?
May 27, 2007
Got Voice Mail?
by: Lydia Ramsey
“There’s not anybody who really cares about using voice messaging the way I envisioned it.” According to Gordon Matthews, the inventor of voice mail, he never anticipated that his automated message system would be used to confuse and frustrate business callers. He didn’t foresee how many ways businesses could devise to misuse his system.
When asked what aggravates them most about modern phone communication the majority of people will say that it is voice mail. Pressed for details, they explain that it is the automated answering process that companies use to screen and direct calls that bugs them, not the basic messaging-taking function.
Companies are spending large sums of money to antagonize their customers and it only seems to get worse. When a person needs help with a problem and can’t reach another human, the situation deteriorates rapidly. Using the numbers on your touch tone pad is fine when you want to verify your bank balance, pay a bill or have a dry newspaper delivered; but when your pipes are backing up, your new computer just crashed, or a tree just fell on your brand new SUV, call processing may not be the answer.
How to Wipe Out Overwhelm
May 26, 2007
How to Wipe Out Overwhelm
by: Alicia Forest
How often do you find yourself in this scenario?
It’s Monday morning and you’re all geared up for a productive week ahead. You’ve got your to-do list (massive as it is) at the ready and you sit down at your desk to start checking things off.
As you begin to read down your list, you start to feel something in your gut. It’s not a physical pain necessarily, just a feeling of something heavy starting to grow. You ignore it and continue reading your list, making stars next to the things that seem to be the most important to get done that day.
But the more you do this, the heavier that feeling gets, until it starts creeping up to your shoulders and finally settles in your head. All that enthusiasm you had when you first sat down is gone and the only thing you feel now is utter and complete overwhelm.
Sound familar? I’ve been there, too, so I understand.
And it’s not that all the tasks on your list aren’t wonderful and/or doable. There are simply too many of them - and they all seem important right now - to expect that you can accomplish them all in the hours you have to work in any single day.
Forces that Move Stock Prices
May 25, 2007
Among the largest forces that affect stock prices are inflation, interest rates, bonds, commodities and currencies. At times the stock market suddenly reverses itself followed typically by published explanations phrased to suggest that the writer’s keen observation allowed him to predict the market turn. Such circumstances leave investors somewhat awed and amazed at the infinite amount of continuing factual input and infallible interpretation needed to avoid going against the market. While there are continuing sources of input that one needs in order to invest successfully in the stock market, they are finite. If you contact me at my web site, I’ll be glad to share some with you. What is more important though is to have a robust model for interpreting any new information that comes along. The model should take into account human nature, as well as, major market forces. The following is a personal working cyclical model that is neither perfect nor comprehensive. It is simply a lens through which sector rotation, industry behavior and changing market sentiment can be viewed.
No Annual Fee Credit Card
May 25, 2007
No Annual Fee Credit Card
by: Bradley Carson
Most new credit cards come with a no annual fee offer. This hasn’t always been the case. I wonder if issuers realized how much people resented the yearly fee they were charging just to use their credit card?
Now that they gradually eliminated the annual fees, they’ve advanced the ‘no annual fee credit card’ into a marketing incentive. But that doesn’t mean there are no fees at all. That is why you need to read the entire offer before signing for a new credit card.
If you don’t pay the entire balance each month, you must pay a service charge on the unpaid balance. Then if you go over your credit card limit, you must pay an additional fee, perhaps in the $35 range. In addition, if you’re late making any payment, not only are you charged a service charge and maybe an over-limit charge, you’re assessed a late fee as well. These added fees more than make up for the annual fee that has been discontinued for most cards.
Network Marketing Tip: Self-Talk
May 24, 2007
Network Marketing Tip: Self-Talk
by: Monica Karge
Self-talk in network marketing is a powerful tool, which you can use to go from where you are now to where you want to be.
What do you tell yourself every day?
Having negative thoughts can stop you from living your dream; being negative can drain a great deal of your energy. Imagine that you had an “invisible friend” who went around with you all day, every day, and was constantly whispering negative comments in your ear! How would you feel by the end of the day? What kind of friend would he be?
As human beings, we record thoughts and emotions—every emotional thought leaves a recording in our brain. Interestingly, we do not record what is happening, but rather what we think is happening. It takes a mass of thoughts to develop our self-image. Other people can influence how we feel about ourselves, but it does not become part of who we are until we accept it as our own belief.
What is your opinion of yourself?
