Archive for April, 2007
Create Your Own Referral Sales Force
Joining referral networks like BNI or local chamber groups can be a great way to help you network and generate referrals. The most powerful way to use this strategy, however, is to grow your own. Create a blog network Interview each member for a teleseminar series Create co-branded white papers Do endorsed mailings Put on [...]
Voice Advantage
Every business owner knows it: If you could just talk to prospects one-on-one, you could convert them to customers. Click-to-chat and click-to-call features, of course, have existed for years, but now there’s a new, more viral twist. Starting today you can test out a new service that attempts to combine the best of social networking [...]
7 Easy Steps to Follow Up by Phone
You know how critical it is to follow up your initial contacts or mailings with a personal phone call, but somehow your list of calls to make always seems to get longer instead of shorter. Days or even weeks go by before you place important calls, and there always seems to be something more important [...]
CreditCovers: Skins for credit cards
It was really only a matter of time before this happened. For years now, we’ve all been using bank cards, credit cards, and other forms of plastic currency to buy all manner of vinyl decals and skins for MP3 players, laptops, car windows, and countless other sticky-friendly surfaces. Isn’t it about time that our little [...]
1-800-CAB-RIDE
Hailing a cab works great in certain neighborhoods, but if you’re off the beaten path there’s not a lot of chances that a cabbie is going to randomly swing by for a pickup. One man is betting that the Digg generation would be more inclined to use taxis if there was a convenient web interface. [...]
Balsam Fir
Wendy Newmeyer started her foray into the balsam business by selling the cut branches of the balsam fir trees for a local incense factory. Quite coincidentally, she had read in a book that Native Americans used balsam trees as herb for many different home remedies. With her long-standing interests in herbs “that got me excited [...]
eBay CEO Says Web Scams Hurt Business
eBay Chief Executive Meg Whitman said increasingly sophisticated Internet scams were eroding the trust of online shoppers and hurting e-commerce. She also called on industry leaders to work together more closely at a time when legitimate businesses must thwart global criminal organizations vying for control over sensitive financial data traveling across the Internet. “Security on [...]
