By Kimberly Clay
Business Networking is crucial to the success of your business. Building a foundational web of contacts, support and resources can be the difference between success and moderate success, or success and failure. If you are new to online business, Internet marketing, or the business of doing business, you may not be as familiar as you should be with business networking. Let’s discuss this very important aspect of doing business, especially as it relates to business online.
By Bernadette Doyle
One big question I hear over and over is ‘how on earth do I find time for marketing and selling?’ The challenge of running your own business is that typically you are not only the sales manager; you’re also the person delivering the service to your clients.
This is something I can strongly relate to, as I struggled with it myself when I first set up my corporate training business back in 1996.
What made the biggest difference for me was replacing one-to-one sales and marketing activities with one-to-many activities.
By C.J. Hayden, MCC
As an independent professional, the demands of marketing your business have the potential to give you many sleepless nights. It often seems that the list of things to do is endless, and there simply aren’t enough hours in the day to market your business, serve your clients, run your office, and keep up in your field.
But instead of staying up at night trying to find time for marketing that just doesn’t fit into your busy day, a better strategy can be to engage in marketing activities that will work for you while you sleep. Here are four ways to approach this kind of set-it-and-forget-it marketing.
By BIG Mike McDaniel
Not having a business card is almost as bad as using an eMail address that ends in AOL.com. It’s just not professional.
With domain names costing less than 9 bucks a year, there’s no excuse for anyone in business to have an AOL.com email address. With business cards costing less than 9 bucks at the big box store, there’s no excuse for anyone in business not to pass them about.