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There is still one piece of sales literature most companies can't do without. While the Web and digital media have made it easier to reduce the amount of printing previously needed to provide product brochures,catalogs, and other sales materials to potential customers, there's still one, virtually indispensable piece of literature you'll want in your sales tool chest to sell your product or service more effectively.

Matchmaking 101: Creating Sales Tools That Build Your Brand

If you’re like other entrepreneurs, you know a good logo is important to branding your company. You may already have a great logo. Now what? How can you create a variety of marketing materials that build your brand? In a word: Coordinate. All your materials should tie to one another graphically. They should convey the same look and feel, or image, and evoke a similar emotional response in your customer. When viewed side by side, your stationery, brochures, and other promotional materials should create a cohesive “family.” Of course, your materials don’t need to “match” each other completely, but some elements should remain consistent from one piece to the next:

Success Stories Boost Branding
Whether your business is local (like a home remodeler) or global (like an online specialty retailer), you can make a tremendous brand impression by telling stories-real-world stories illustrating how your business has benefited customers.

Global Branding Starts Here

Telling memorable stories about your customers’ real-world experiences can build your credibility, add moxie to your sales/marketing and luster to your brand. Stories are readily available to any business that has satisfied customers-and that means every viable business on the planet. You can adapt customer stories to a variety of business needs, for instance by tailoring their length and details to fit different venues and audiences.

What to Do, What to Avoid: DIY Logo Design Checklist What Not to Do When Designing It Yourself

Have you ever noticed how many articles there are on creating your own marketing materials? These articles concentrate on things you “should do” – like “know your audience”, and “say it with pictures.” Now, I’m not saying that’s bad. That’s great. But you should also know what NOT to do. That’s what this article is about. Specifically, it’s about what most do-it-yourselfers are TEMPTED to do but shouldn’t.

Logo Design & Your Favicon: Spotlight Your Brand Online

By now, you’re probably familiar with the term “sticky website.” The phrase refers to a site that compels visitors to “stick around.” In order to entice visitors to stick around, however, your site must first project the image that you are a credible (i.e., large) company. If potential customers don’t have this comfort factor, they are likely to bounce before they even see what you offer. There are many aspects to developing a credible, “sticky” website, but one easy and valuable way is to create a “favicon.”

Business Identity Secrets

A few years ago I owned a toy company. At the time, I heard an interesting philosophy on packaging: that you should design your toy’s package so artfully that when children opened it and touched your product, they were just a little disappointed. Maybe this sold more toys in the short run, but I can guarantee it didn’t in the long run. Because when perception trumps reality, your brand is the loser.

Niche Branding

It is a common misconception that if you’re not casting a wide net with your marketing, you’re leaving money on the table. Actually, the opposite is true. It’s more expensive and usually less profitable to sell a range of products to a wide audience. Furthermore, if your product or service is too similar to a competitor’s, price will always be an issue. When price is your only point of comparison, it’s tough to build a successful brand – especially if you are a small business. Targeting a niche market is a great way to avoid these issues. But how do you find the right niche?

What is Your Company?
You know exactly what your company is, what it stands for, what it offers to its target audience and what it hopes to accomplish. But is that really your company?

Thinking Freely

This is the time to think freely. This is the time to think as hard as you can of what you can give away to your prospects for free. If you can possibly give away your product or service for a limited time, you have a good chance to habituate your prospects to your offering and a great chance to prove your service superiority. The idea behind this strategy is: give your prospects an ownership experience for free.

The Two Worlds of Marketing
Once you have even the spark of a notion to market online, let that spark ignite thoughts of how you'll promote your site. Have the insight to know this means thinking imaginatively about two worlds.

The 5 Things People Really Buy
No matter how many shiny, cool features and benefits you cram into your marketing messages, brochures and presentations, you better find ways to help the prospect get what they really want. And, no matter if you sell heating and cooling services, legal services, hand painted greeting cards, or consulting, at the end of the day, your customers all buy some variation of the same five things.

Graphic Design Goal
Graphic design is based on objective goals, not subjective opinions like "I like red!" The design of your ads, brochures, newsletters, proposals, and web site should be determined by the image you want to communicate.

Online Home Based Business Opportunity - Tips to Financial Freedom

The online home based business opportunity allows you to be your own boss and set your own hours. It is also is your responsibility to make it successful and you will need to learn the various ingredients that it takes to make it on the Internet and off the net. On the Internet, this means promotional marketing. This today, is completely centered on search engine optimization, and can be easily learned through visiting the forums and taking online training courses. Off the Internet, it means having the tools to present to various prospects such as business cards, brochures or flyers, and the knowledge of your business to thoroughly discuss it with others.

More Mileage from Branding
Let’s say your online business-or your local business with an online presence-has some really strong customer stories. Where can you place these stories on the Internet to enhance your brand, boost credibility and support your sales and marketing? There are numerous online ways to use customer stories. You could try any or all of these:

Personal Branding Tips
A great deal of time and energy are expended to create memorable brands that add value to company marketing strategies and (in the case of public companies) pique the interest of the investment community. While company brand equity is certainly important, the significance of personal branding should not be overlooked as a key to success.

Does Brand Imitation Work?
To Copy or Not to Copy, This is the Question.vWe all know that it’s tempting to copy the competition. There is safety in conformity – a certain “comfort factor” in being similar. After all, the other company knows what it’s doing, right? Not always.

What's Your Brand Image ROI?

If you’re like millions of other small businesses, creating a professional visual image is key to your success. After all, your image - as seen on your business cards, marketing materials, packaging and website - is the first and sometimes only chance you have to introduce your company to potential customers. If your customers like what they see, you’re one big step closer to getting their business.

Project Turn-around Time: What to Expect
The answer to ‘how long do projects take’ depends on the type of project and any unique elements – especially website design and development. The key is to discuss with your marketing firm, at the outset of a project, and make sure both sides agree to comfortable schedules. A one-year action plan can be a great tool for both sides.

Don’t Just Move. Review Too.

Moving into new office space suggests something has changed for the company. As well as updating your stationery, signage, etc. now is the time to review how you market yourself. Does your logo still make you proud? Is the website effective? Have your client needs changed? Have you added new services, expanded to another region or country? These are just some of the questions that need to be addressed when moving location. Think about what you want to accomplish over the next year and evaluate your existing marketing tools against your stated goals, target audience and in light of company changes.

How to Gain Online Recognition by Writing about Your Customers

You can gain tons of business recognition along with web traffic if you get in the habit of collecting Case Studies, Testimonials and Press Releases from some of your happier clients. In order to have fresh and news-worthy material, you'll need to collect pertinent information from your clients (stories, testimonials, impressions, stories, etc,). Use your creativity and talent to transform them into tangible and interesting marketing materials.

Advertising Techniques In Print Media
The publication such as Newspapers, Magazines, Portfolio, Brochures, Tabloids and Pamphlets is a tool used by the advertising industry to promote certain products and services using advertising techniques.

What do your sales people really need to know and apply?

In today's market selling skills training does not equal product training or pressure tactics. If product training or pressure selling (the hard sell) are on the top of your sales training agenda or the only training you offer your sales people then you may want to rethink your sales training strategy. What is expected of sales people today by way of skillful thought and action goes way beyond the product or the hard sell. Let's first look at what clients want. This will then help us determine what sales people need to be able to do.

Are You a Leader or an Enabler?
Are you looking internally or externally to solve current business challenges....

Surveys Encourage Customer Feedback
In order to keep clients coming back, customers’ feedback is essential. It is the catalyst that will lead to necessary changes that will encourage repeat business and continual customer loyalty.

Do people know what you do?
I was with a business contact of mine the other day and mentioned a project that we were working on for a client of ours. To my surprise he said to me, “I didn’t know you did that!”

Only Words
Writing clearly and avoiding buzzwords is crucial in all types of marketing

Questions That Sell

We are working on a new campaign for a client and spent a few hours today looking at competitive web sites, ads and brochures. After about three hours we looked at each other and said, “Can you remember anything any of these companies said that stands out?” Ken said, “I bet if I took all these brochures, and removed the company name and logo, even our client couldn’t tell them apart!” Every single firm started their pitch with a description of their products and services, and lots of detail on how great they are. Then they added thrilling descriptions of their plants (usually with a picture of the parking lot) and a price list.

What do clients want?
Clients don't expect to be coerced, bullied, tricked or intimidated into buying. They don't expect to be treated like an idiot by sales people who just talk at them and flash brochures or product sheets. Relationships do not work effectively if they are forced!

Converting Prospects Into Customers
Most small business owners are challenged when it comes to converting their prospects to customers. This article outlines three simple marketing strategies to help you move prospects into actual paying customers.

Creating Your Unique Value Proposition
Defining your value proposition is the first step in clearly identifying how your products and services are different from your competition. This article gives strategies on developing and defining your unique value to prospects and customers.

Focusing on the Outcome
Learn how focusing on the outcome, rather than your products and services, can help you connect with customer needs.

To Thine Own Self Be True - It's Better for Business - What Arthur Andersen Would Say to His Company
What Arthur Andersen would have said about the ethics scandal that destroyed the company he founded...and why saying no to the wrong client or request can jumpstart your business. As a child, you probably heard, "to thine own self be true."

Selling With Stories
The most successful sales people sell without it ever being apparent that they are in fact, selling. How did they do this? They all told stories.

How to Create a Powerful Brochure for Your Business

Your marketing literature is the foundation on which your business is built. There's nothing like being able to give a tangible item to a prospective customer or client that keeps your brand in front of them. But so many brochures are poorly-written, or so full of information that the prospect has no idea what to do with it. The following are some general rules to follow to make sure that your brochure helps you close the sale.

Making your new product launch a success
For many companies, the success of a new product launch is a life or death event and they usually take pains to see that the sales reps have detailed information about the product features. To this end, marketing produces slick and expensive videos and brochures, while impressing on the reps the importance of pushing the product on anyone they can to attain sales goals and win sales competitions.

Can you imagine advertising that costs nothing?
Yes it is true; you only pay when someone clicks on your ad!

Steps To Starting A Canadian Home Based Business
With today's economic standing and costs relating to childcare and travel, more Canadians are looking for employment opportunities from home. Having a home-based business lets the family be together more now that you can set your own hours, cutting daily living costs you would have if you were working outside the home.

$elling Strategies for NON Sales Professionals
My new book is for all professionals who must sell theier services but are reluctant to do so. Readers can self coach themselves to lose the Dread, Hate and Fear that they are experiencing.

Home Business Expert: Inbound Marketing v Outbound Marketing
Every business needs to market itself no matter how big or small it is.

Home Business Expert: How To Advertise In Print Media
Like any other business venture, how to advertise in print media is also a significant issue even in your home based business.

Marketing No No's - Don't Make These Mistakes!
You've got your business set up and running and your first enquiries start coming in. Now is not the time to sit back and relax – you need to stay ahead of the competition and constantly research your market, honing and tuning your marketing. Here are some things that you should absolutely definitely not do.

Entrepreneurs – How Much Does It Cost To Start A Business?
You’ve got your business idea, think that you will be able to get a good loan and even have your business plan being written but…. The one big burning issue is – How much does it cost to start a business?

How to Easily Get Customer Testimonials
Here are four very easy yet highly effective strategies you can use to get customer testimonials immediately...

How Do I Market My Bookkeeping Business?
It's hard to know the best way to market any business. Different methods work for different business and areas. The trick is finding the right one for you that doesn't blow the budget.

Building a Highly-targeted Opt in List: When Money Lies Beneath the Lists
Having a website is not a guarantee that your online business will succeed. How will you succeed if people will not realize that your business exist online? The key to marketing is to get your business noticed…

Screw The Recession
Screw the recession - ordinary salespeople can do remarkable things. Get up and don't let this economy get you down.

Utilizing Your Press Coverage
There are countless ways in which you can effectively utilize copies of articles or tapes of programs you have appeared in. This media can be like gold if utilized properly.

How You Can Stand Apart
Find out what makes you stand out from your competitors...and enjoy the bonuses that involves.

Are You a "Control Freak?" Be Careful! It Can Derail Your Success

Do you want to be successful with your business? Do you delegate? No? Why not? If you are a "control freak" you could be costing your business its success. That is the theme of Melanie Benson Strick's latest article "How Control-Freak-It Is Can Derail Your Success". (http://tinyurl.com/ctrlFreak) Melanie raises some awesome points about how you cannot do it all yourself and do it well. As the picture to the right shows, this juggling lady is already losing some balance because that food is about to spill all over the baby on the floor! Keep reading for ideas on how you can do more in less time and be more successful!

Why Press Kits can Backfire
Press kits can be effective, but only if they're used sparingly and shrewdly. Don't inundate the media with information, and if you've hired a firm, don't give them carte blanche in the matter.

Tips on Writing Your Brand In Words

When you think of branding most people think of logos, colours and designs. But the way you write and the words you use are as much a part of your brand as all of the other visual elements. Think about Virgin's Brand – cheeky, taking a poke at the establishment and very fresh. When they write ads or brochures each part of their writing reflects their overall brand. The words they use are fun, not stuffy and say it like it is.

Tips On Writing With Personality

There has been a major shift in how people buy things and relate to companies in the past 3 years and this trend is brilliant for small business. The trend is away from ‘buying a brand” to “buying the person behind the brand”. We have been disillusioned by big business – so now we are looking to know the faces behind the names of the brand. We want to know their personalities, what makes them tick and can we trust them to do what they say they will.

Small Business Tips: Turning Words Into Deeds

Deed is just another name for action. First you need to ensure you have thought and imagined the foundations of your business – getting clear on your products, services and customers. Next you need to have "inked" these thoughts into plans, brochures, web sites and copy. Finally you need to take action. Action is where you put your energy behind your thoughts. There are many sayings around the importance of action "You miss 100% of all shots you fail to take", "You've got to be in it to win it" and "The journey of 1000 miles begins with just one step" are a few of my favourites.

A Sales Story That Will Gross You Out
was rapidly doing the math - thinking "OMG - this thing has to be almost 3 years old - maybe older!!!!" I'd been eating petrified mango/coconut goo. And all of a sudden - the little EXTRA that I had received from the grocery store - left me with a realllllllllly bad lasting impression of their store.

A Luxury Once Had Becomes A Necessity
Two techniques to turn a luxury into a necessity in the buyers mind. A luxury an item that is desirable but not essential. a product or service that gives great pleasure.

Developing Sales & Marketing Materials for Overseas
You’ve selected a target market overseas, and found a distribution partner, who has now asked you for some sales collateral materials to help him or her market your product or service successfully. As you put together your brochures and sales sheets, you’ll want to keep a few things in mind to ensure that your printed marketing materials are culturally and linguistically correct.

10 top tips to reduce your Carbon footprint when selling
Most salespeople never give it a second thought when it comes to thinking about reducing their own carbon footprint during their sales role, so here are my top tips on how to help save the planet and still make the sale

Make Your Logo Work For You! Five Key Ingredients to an Effective Business Logo
Your logo is your #1 sales representative. Is your logo working for you—or against you? Learn about five key ingredients to an effective business logo, and assess your logo to determine if it is communicating the best message for your business.

Seven Secrets of Writing That Sells
Even in today’s tech-savvy world information is spread through the written word. Customers have to know what your product, service or idea can do for them—or they won’t buy. So whether you’re writing brochures, Web text or anything in between, you need clear, concise, benefits-oriented copy that really sells.

Part Eight - Prospecting for More Sales
Part Eight of a Ten Part Series. In this series, we explore all the different avenues of prospecting necessary for a business to succeed. Think of your business as a a beautiful garden, and then consider all the things you need to do to keep that garden beautiful and growing, rather than dreary, dead or decaying. Need help with Prospecting? Feel free to get in touch with us via our website.

The Importance of A Good Design
If your website is put together shabbily and looks like a 5 minute "quick fix", you are literally shouting to your visitors that you are not professional and you do not care for quality.

Internet Based Affiliate Marketing: Is Owning a Website Really Necessary?
Despite all the benefits of becoming an affiliate, many people are still hesitant to get involved in Internet based affiliate marketing. One of the reason is because the lack of a website to start with, which leads to the question whether it is necessary to have a website to market an affiliate program.

UTILIZING YOUR MEDIA to Land More Business
If you use it correctly, media begets media.

The Top 10 Cold Calling Mistakes
1. Not understanding the goal of the call When you hang up the phone, where do you want to be? What action do you want your prospect to take? What commitment do you want your prospect to make?

Six SanitySaving Scenarios to Turn a Massive Breakdown into a Powerful Business Breakthrough

I've learned over the years that a breakdown means that something very valuable is happening – I have new insight into how I can improve my process, my attitude, or my belief so that problem never happens again. The bottom line is that life happens and breakdowns will occur. We have all heard the saying, "breakdown, breakthrough." So take those challenging situations and look for the opportunity to strengthen your personal mindset and your business systems.

How to Develop a Marketing Mindset
Develop a small business marketing mindset for success. The key to a successful marketing mindset is knowing that marketing properly is about planning and being consistent.

Who Loves Your Business (and Why)?
Ideally, you want not just customers, but fans. You want your business name to be passed around via word-of-mouth without you having to do any work. How do you find customers? How do you turn them into fans?

Conversions, Part One
How to get a conversion or sales lead from your Website.

7 Ways Your Marketing Can Help You Increase Sales
Do the elements of your marketing plan complement each other to maximize sales?

Branding & Marketing Defined, and how to fuse them together for maximum results
Simply put, your “brand” or corporate image is the impression formed at every point of contact with your prospects and clients.

Create High Impact Copy
Newsletters and brochures need writing skills (which you know you have because you did okay in high school) which you may want to polish up to best promote your services.

Is Your EMail Missing Something
Most of the stuff you send out, or give to people, letters, business cards, newsletters, brochures, etc. have something that may be lacking in your e-mails.

Cut bickering between Sales and Marketing with these tips
“All Marketing does is produce useless brochures” complains Mr. Sales. “All Sales does is complain about our brochures” counters Ms. Marketing.

Managers Lets Call a Spade a Spade
Calling tactical devices like brochures, broadcast plugs and press releases just that, avoids confusing them with the broader, more comprehensive mission known as public relations.

How PR Makes a Managers Life Easier
The takeaway lesson for managers is, your public relations effort must involve more than tactics like fun events, brochures and press releases if you really want to get your PR money's worth.

5 Tips to Get More Results from Your Marketing Materials
Wondering why it's so difficult to get your buyers to actually buy from you? It's probably the words you're using. Here are 5 tips that can help you improve the conversions of your web sites, brochures and other marketing materials.

Hotels and B & B's should be doing better on the web
How to promote your Hotel or B & B on the web. Let's stop publishing brochures and make it personal!

Top Tips for More Effective Marketing Material
These simple guidelines will help you make your letters, brochures, information, corporate profiles, advertisements and other marketing material more effective in what it was designed to do…SELL.

Do you have effective key messages?
In PR we are always going on about key messages. We use them in everything from prepping for a media interview through to writing websites and corporate brochures. But what are they?

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