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Taming The Feast Or Famine Beast: Part Four

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Action Plans, Marketing Calendar & Budgeting

Action Plans
In the action plans section of your marketing plan, you’ll develop a detailed marketing “to do” list. It’s a task list that describes what will be done, when each [...]

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Taming The Feast Or Famine Beast: Part Three

Conducting A SWOT Analysis & Developing Marketing Objectives

SWOT Analysis
A SWOT Analysis a chart showing those things within and outside your business that will make you swim or sink. SWOT stands for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.

Strengths and Weaknesses (inside your company)
This requires some hard core honesty on your part. What are you good at? What [...]

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Taming The Feast Or Famine Beast: Part Two

Conducting Target Market & Competitor Analysis

In the previous post, I touched on conducting target market and competitor analysis. In this post, we’ll get knee deep into them.

Target Market Analysis
Critical to your success in marketing any product or service is focusing your marketing efforts on a specific target market or niche. Marketing becomes a [...]

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Taming The Feast Or Famine Beast:

Creating & Implementing An Effective Marketing Plan

Please note: This was originally published on TheNetsetter.com, which, to the best of my knowledge, has gone the way of the dinosaur. But, I felt the content and information was of value, so here it is for a reprise.

– Part One –

A well-thought-out and implemented marketing plan is the [...]

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The Shy Networker

Most extroverted folks are great at networking events. They’re all bubbly, chatty and such. They make us introverted folks cringe sometimes.

Me, an introvert?

Yup, ‘fraid so gang. I’ve always been a bit shy, even way back in the dark ages when I was but a mere kidlet. Yet, I don’t have any problem with public speaking [...]

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The Beauty of Inbound Marketing

Here’s a reality check. Most of the prospects you come in contact with won’t be in a position buy from you right then and there. Odds are, they already have a service provider. If not, they might not have a project ready to put on the burner. So, something often needs to change before Mr. [...]

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Cold Calling: Taming the Terror

Cold calling. The very thought can start folks’ stomachs churning with anxiety and fear. They fear rejection, fumbling over their words and drawing a blank in mid-conversation. In their effort to sound like an expert, they worry they’ll come off like a blithering idiot. Yes, it can happen and, if one isn’t prepared, it can [...]

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Becoming a little famous with the power of p.r.

Public relations, or simply p.r., can be one of the most potent tools in your marketing toolbox. It can add a lot of credibility to you and your business and it’s often loads less expensive than advertising. Plus, and it’s a big plus, it positions you as an expert in you niche.

Believability is another important [...]

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I’m feeling SWOTy

It’s mid-August. The dog days of Summer are upon us and here in South Florida that means the mercury is creeping toward triple digits. All in all, I’m feeling a wee bit SWOTy.

Yup, SWOTy, not sweaty. I do have have air conditioning, after all.

SWOT is yet another business acronym. It stands for Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities [...]

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July, 2010 News & Views

July, 2010 News & Views is fresh off the presses … er … publish button. This month’s newsletter is all about developing effective offline marketing literature such as postcards and brochures. I’d love to hear your thoughts on the topic. What’s worked for you and what’s been not to great?

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