By Jim Connolly
If you are finding it hard to make sales or grow your business during these tough economic times, I have some GREAT NEWS for you!
AN OPPORTUNITY TO BEAT THE CREDIT CRUNCH
Right now, most businesses are struggling. This is because people and companies are thinking a lot harder before they spend their money. We [...]
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By Jim Connolly
If you want to increase sales and profits VERY quickly - here’s a question for you:
What additional, valuable products or services ‘could’ you offer to your existing clients; which they would be happy to pay you for?
This is a key marketing question, because selling additional services to an existing client is easily, [...]
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By Jim Connolly
This article is all about how to get the best marketing results from your website. It includes a quick test you can use, which will help you ’see’ your website as potential clients see it!
As we all know, most small and medium-sized businesses get very little value from their websites. To [...]
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By Jim Connolly
If you want to massively increase the quality and volume of your work, you need to take a little time off to ’sharpen the saw’ - in other words, you need a total break from work! For many people, this is NOT the same as taking a holiday; let me explain.
A total break
Like many [...]
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By Jim Connolly
Here’s a GREAT way to make more sales, (lots more sales) and lower your marketing costs at the same time! By the way, if you sometimes find sales or marketing a little daunting or you do not see yourself as a ‘natural’ salesperson, you will find what I am about to share with [...]
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By Jim Connolly
In part one of this article, we looked at the power of celebrity and how your business and marketing can benefit massively from it. I showed you to to become ‘almost famous’ through media exposure; and how such exposure can lead to literally transformational marketing results. If you have not already [...]
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By Jim Connolly
As a marketing coach, I often speak with people who have had some great marketing ideas, but never used them. Very recently, I met with the owner of a MLM (multi level marketing) business, who had just been made bankrupt. She told me that if she had she acted on a [...]
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By Jim Connolly
Marketing is all about results. One of the fastest ways to get GREAT marketing results, is to learn how to differentiate your business from the crowd! This means you need to avoid duplicating the marketing efforts of your competitors.
Let me explain
Look in any town and you will see that almost every [...]
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By Jim Connolly
Have you ever noticed how some blogs and web pages repeat certain words or phrases WAY TOO often? Here’s why this happens and why it’s counter-productive!
Why it happens
In a word - Google! Google, (and some other search engines) use the number of times a word or phrase is repeated on a page, [...]
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By Jim Connolly
To successfully grow a business or achieve sales success, you must learn how to handle rejection. Rejection is something that can hurt even the toughest of people; unless they know how to handle that rejection. That’s what this blog post is all about - how to handle rejection!
None of us like [...]
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