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Occam’s Razor Solves Marketing Misinformation
The implications of Occam's Razor are a seemingly simple insight into decision-making and are quite significant for marketing executives: features are out; emotional and psychological benefits are in. Ah, but what emotional benefit, there's the rub. I will assume that if you are reading this you are interested in improving your business and that you are open to new ways of doing things, and that starts with new ways of thinking about things.
Tips for Selecting Software for your Small Business
Every business needs software in order to run efficiently, effectively, and productively (accounting, marketing, communication, etc.). Software technologies can be a great enabler and level the playing field for small businesses, but with so many technologies available how do you know that the ones you select for your business will be supported, remain relevant, and be around as long as you are?
Be Wary of Black Hat SEO
The search engines have long wised up to the "old tricks" performed to gain advantages in search visibility. Be careful; you'll get more than a slap on the wrist.
Shaping Web Audience Preference
Wouldn't it be wonderful if you had the power to convince people that your product or service was exactly what they needed, and as a consequence your in-box was filled with inquiries and your e-commerce site was stuffed with orders. Wouldn't that be great? And isn't that exactly what you want to achieve with your website?
How to Take the Brrr out of Cold Calling
Is cold calling giving you the shivers? Maybe sharing of this experience may help you better understand how to take the Brr out of cold calling as you continue with your business building activities to increase sales.
What Makes Your Business So Special?
The one question every business, branding, and marketing consultant asks is "what makes you special; what makes you different?" If you want to grow your business and get to the next level, defining what makes you special is a good place to start. Most businesses are copycat companies, selling the same thing, in the same way as most of their competitors, making for a real challenge in providing an adequate answer to the "what makes you so special?" question. But fear not, it is easier than you think.
The Brand Story Web Marketing Process
If websites have one overarching goal it is to create confidence in whatever the website is promoting and who's promoting it. It doesn't matter if it's a product, a service, a sales campaign, or an idea, if the presentation is not minimally credible or optimally motivational, then it fails as a means of marketing communication.
Is Your Elevator Pitch a Monologue or a Dialogue?
When most people think “elevator pitch”, they think of a paragraph that they can utter in about 15 seconds that tells people what they do. I’ve written previous articles on "how to craft a pitch" and "how to judge your pitch’s effectiveness". But what most people forget is the goal of the elevator pitch - to start a dialogue.
BRANDING YOUR BLOG - THE TEN SUCCESS TIPS
As a blogger the need for branding is huge. You cannot achieve the desired marketing growth if your lack proper marketing communication. A blog will do just that, it will communicate and help your online marketing. But how do you brand? The following are ten tips on successful branding of your blog. 1. Segment the market: This way you will be able to identify your primary target and develop benefits that will appeal to them. With a segment for your product or your blog, you will be able to specifically target your offering; you will be having a clear picture of who your intended customers are.
Align with your buyer’s objectives to close sales quickly
What is the most important reason that sales fail to close on time or even close at all? When you get a mismatch by sellers selling forward and buyers buying backwards! Sounds like double Dutch? Well this article discusses how to position your proposition in line with the prospect to make them an eager buyer.

Marketing to Your Buyer Personas
The idea behind creating a buyer persona is to understand the wants and needs of a common group of people. Once you understand what's important to any particular customer group, you stand a much better chance of getting them to act on a marketing communication.
The Customer Contact Database
One of the most important assets of any small business is the customer database. It is the foundation for all successful marketing programs but many small business owners either fail to keep one or do not properly code it for use as a marketing tool.
How To Know If You Are A Strategic Marketing Communicator, According To Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach
Competition in the business world requires sound strategic thinking and planning. And one application of those strategic tools is in business marketing communications. And Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach believes that strategic thinking and planning need to be done before developing or recreating any marketing communication. For example, it is important that you take time to think about what role your marketing communication will play and how it will help you achieve your strategic marketing goal(s). If you think and plan your marketing communications in a strategic manner, you will be able to make a more educated, more informed, and strategic decision about each of your marketing communication tools.

The Entrepreneur’s Marketing Dilemma
Communication is a complex subject, and each new form of oral, visual, or digital dialogue has its own set of criteria that make it effective; as well as its own snake pit of hazards that can make it downright dangerous. Let’s put the current Macarena’s of marketing, Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest, aside for one moment and speak about another hot trend in marketing communication – video.
Essential Web Video Concepts: Make’em Feel
Business is ultimately not about how good your product is or isn’t, it’s about how well your organization communicates a meaningful, memorable message to an appropriate audience. The better you communicate, the more successful your business will be, therefore it is important to learn how various techniques and technologies effect how your message is received, interpreted, and understood. The Web, like every technologically based communication innovation that preceded it, requires a special skill set in order to maximize impact especially for companies restricted by limited budgets. Smaller businesses can’t employ the same tactics as major corporations who have the budgets to experiment with every new marketing gimmick that comes along. Few SMEs have the wherewithal to supplement these fads with the print,
The Biggest Marketing Mistake & How You Can Avoid It
Learn what you need to do to avoid the biggest marketing mistake.

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How To Know If You Are A Strategic Marketing Communicator, According To Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach
Competition in the business world requires sound strategic thinking and planning. And one application of those strategic tools is in business marketing communications. And Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach believes that strategic thinking and planning need to be done before developing or recreating any marketing communication. For example, it is important that you take time to think about what role your marketing communication will play and how it will help you achieve your strategic marketing goal(s). If you think and plan your marketing communications in a strategic manner, you will be able to make a more educated, more informed, and strategic decision about each of your marketing communication tools.

Communicating Success: Shut Down the Gossip Factory and Get the Right Information to the Right People
Communication is key. If you ask employees to name an area that could be improved in their organization, they will always say there isn't enough communication. You can never communicate enough to employees. But what kind of information do they need? How do you communicate that information in the best way? How do you improve communication to prevent gossip and small problems from transforming into morale-crushing nightmares? In this article, we discuss the importance of effective communication.

The Art of Communication
"Effective communication needs to be built around this simple foundation and realisation: communication is a dialogue, not a monologue. In fact, communication is more concerned with a dual listening process." Dr. Heinz Goldmann
Managing Communication in the Office
Are you overwhelmed with all the communication demands in your office? Do you feel like you have too many tools that were suppose to make communication easier yet it seems to be harder than ever? Increase your productivity by understanding your communication needs and leveraging equipment to meet those needs.

Business Writing Skills, Media Training, Presentation Skills Training (Not PowerPoint) Count On Quality Control
• No matter how clever a writer you may be, failure to edit yourself carefully can harm your business communication and waste your improving writing skills. • The key to media training is building an effective communication bridge to the press. Accomplish that and you're on the way to marketing-oriented business communication that works. • Presentation skills training that succeeds stresses eye-to-eye effective communication and shuns PowerPoint.
E-Mail Tip #27 - Keep an Open Mind
If we prejudge the notes we read, it will reduce the effectiveness of communication. We need to approach all communication from a posture as neutral as possible. This is especially true with e-mail communication. This article gives some examples why this is the case.

THE NEW CONSUMER’S COURT : CREATIVE COMMUNICATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY :
For many companies, managing a communication crisis is to have good communication. However, we must not confuse crisis management and crisis communication. A crisis is not similarly managed like communication as the communication does not manage a business. However, communication is certainly the best way to deal with a crisis.

Communication Theory
Communication has been evolvong over the years. From the most primitive methods to where communication is today, the study of the changes throughout time have opened a discipline known as Communication Theory.

The Four New Cs of Marketing
Marketing in this day and age needs to be a two-way communication. In a professional service business, it may make more sense to focus on the four C's of marketing rather than the more traditional four P's. They are much more customer oriented – and you need to think like your clients to do your best marketing.
The Entrepreneur’s Marketing Dilemma
Communication is a complex subject, and each new form of oral, visual, or digital dialogue has its own set of criteria that make it effective; as well as its own snake pit of hazards that can make it downright dangerous. Let’s put the current Macarena’s of marketing, Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest, aside for one moment and speak about another hot trend in marketing communication – video.
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