One of our major goals (if not the major goal) is to generate sales conversations. Depending on your business, that conversation may take place in person, on the phone, web meeting, or email. No matter what the medium, if you sales calls are not effective, your...
Are you an artist? My guess is most people who read this blog don't consider themselves artists. I think you are an artist, here's why. Last weekend I was listening to an online workshop conducted by photographer Joel Grimes. The topic of the workshop was Creative...
One of the primary goals of your small business marketing system is to deliver the right information, to the right person, at the right time. In order to achieve this goal, you need to know who your buyers are, where they are in their buying process, and what they...
Most small business owners and salespeople that I work with are pretty good at closing the deal once they get in front of the right people. What they struggle with is getting in front of enough of the “right people”. In marketingspeak, we refer to the process of...
One of the challenges that small business marketers face is balancing new projects (install a new CRM system) with the ongoing, day-to-day marketing activities (following up with the people you met at a networking event). To balance these activities, along with all of...
When it comes to marketing your small business, how do you know how well you are doing? One of the biggest challenges small business owners face when it comes to marketing is determining what’s working, what’s not, and what to do about it. Specifically, they want to...
Working on your marketing doesn't have to be an expensive, multi-month project. Paying attention to the “little things” can produce big results. Here are 5 things you can do this week to work on your marketing and grow your business. You don’t have to do all five –...
Case studies (or success stories) are a powerful tool for marketing your small business. If you provide intangible services, case studies help you communicate, in more concrete terms, how you help your customers. Case studies can also give prospective customers a...
What’s the best way to balance the use of internal staff and outside consultants to handle a company’s marketing function? That was the topic of an interesting discussion I had with a small business owner this weekend. The issues we discussed are fairly common in the...
Landing pages are an important tool for small business marketers. A landing page is a web page that allows you to capture a visitor’s information. You can build landing pages that allow visitors to exchange their contact information for your content offers (eBooks,...