Strategies & Execution
What you didn’t know about payment systems
What you don’t know can truly hurt your online business. This has never been more true than when you set out to choose an Internet payment systems. It’s not so much that making a wrong decision can harm your business irreparably (although, it can); it’s that there is so much information to process before you [...]
8 Tips to Significantly Improve Your E-mail Response
Are your e-mail response rates dismal? Unfortunately that’s the nature of the online environment today. Recent statistics show that over 50% of the tens of billions of e-mails sent daily are spam, and the top Internet Service Providers are blocking almost 25% of permission-based e-mails. These are staggering numbers for business owners relying on e-mail [...]
Keep the Day Job — Launch a Sideline
Ask small-business owners how much time they spend on the job and the answer is usually the same: all of it. Yet, some entrepreneurs manage to launch a start-up on the side without quitting their day job. While it’s a lot like leading a double life, many say the rewards are worth it — namely, [...]
How to Guarantee Your Direct Mail Gets Opened
Most people can’t resist opening a bulky package when it arrives. There’s something about that hump that attracts our attention. We just have to see what’s inside. So use the power of curiosity as a marketing tool. Whatever it takes, just make sure you create the hump. And the bigger the hump, the better. Of [...]
Community Outreach Through NationalSOS
Hey, do you market anything that ties in with your community somehow? Maybe you sell cellular phones, CB radios, or GPS systems. Perhaps you sell “family emergency kitsâ€. Possibly you sell nutritional products and just want a punblic service project to get you city wide, county wide, or area wide free publicity and contact with [...]
7 steps to successful cold-calling
Decision-makers in most organizations soon grow weary of the large number of salespeople phoning them. So if you’re not well trained when you cold call, I guarantee that you’ll get slapped with a lot of rejection. On the other hand, when you’re professionally trained, cold calling is easy and tremendously profitable. Here are 7 steps [...]
Golden Rules for Running an eBay Business
If you plan to make a fortune as a hotshot eBay trader you can help yourself considerably by following a few golden rules. People spend more time on eBay than any other site, and the number of new businesses it has spawned is phenomenal. Whatever ambitious, unusual or bizarre scheme you may have it will [...]
