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My first question asked where you conduct your business and the answers highlighted the fact that although many business owners actively use the web - for research and keeping in touch - 39% reported [...] Continue Reading…
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I hope you had a good Easter break. Mine was not quite as relaxing as I’d intended because I took time to start gathering material for the Spring Clean Your Marketing Toolbox I mentioned in my post last week. And that’s [...] Continue Reading…
What has social marketing got to do with your business? If yours is an online business you already know the answer to that. But what about the bricks & mortar; the offline businesses? What impact does it have on them, if any?
A business colleague sent me an extremely [...] Continue Reading…
Last Saturday morning, 4.15 a.m. – still dark – and my alarm woke me so I could get to a marketing-focused business club meeting on time.
Was it worth the effort?
Yes!
The London event, hosted by SuccessTrack, was a gathering of enthusiastic and ambitious business owners (my kind [...] Continue Reading…
In my post ‘How to keep mailings environmentally friendly’ a few questions were posed that needed to be answered by someone else. When the person I invited visited the blog and posted his response I popped an email to the readers who had left questions to let them know. [...] Continue Reading…
Reading an email from a marketing group I belong to reminded me of an advert for Cillit Bang on British TV some time ago. I don’t think it was originally filmed for the UK market because the presenter was shouting at the top of his voice. That has now [...] Continue Reading…
This question came in from Chris Bullard who wanted to know how to encourage his prospects to take his letter seriously whilst asking them to recycle responsibly. . .
Dear Carol,
I’ve recently received a copy of your book ‘I Want to Buy Your Product…” and have been applying your [...] Continue Reading…
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