Posts filed under Tips for business owners

January 20, 2009

Free Online Taste-Test

What is the purpose of your website? In business, we all tend to think our websites are for attracting customers, facilitating sales, as a large portion of our marketing strategies, and for collecting consumer data…
A successful website isn’t just a sales tool - it should be a service.
There are various statistics floating around the web [...]

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January 12, 2009

Buy The Left Sock, Get The Right One FREE!

It seems every small business has sent out some form of direct mail; a flyer, or a newsletter, or has had a landing page on Google. How often have you seen these items, had a glance and thought “well that looks good, I’ll store that in my mind” and never recall it again?
Chances are these [...]

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January 6, 2009

Six vs Half-a-dozen

If your product is pretty much exactly the same as your competitors, its up to luck as to which one a consumer chooses off the shelf right? Wrong.
It’s up to you to make your product different. If it’s not… then change it in some way that will make it stand out, or be more beneficial [...]

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January 4, 2009

Sneeze Muffin for Table 8!

We all know the best publicity your business can possibly get, is a recommendation - word of mouth. What we forget though, is that a genuine recommendation from your employee, may count a lot more than one from a customer.
Pretend you are a fly on the wall, and you are hearing this about your business.
“My brother [...]

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