The Power of Questions for Attracting and Engaging New Buyers

Content marketing makes your business more attractive to prospective buyers by eliminating questions that stand in the way of them engaging with your company. Thus, when thinking about selling products and services, it’s smart to first consider the most relevant questions that need to be addressed. I just recently had car graphics London ON wrap […]

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3 Ways Social Media is Revolutionizing the Sales Process

There are many people like me who are not shoppers – we’re buyers. When buyers find what they like we buy it – no selling is necessary. This often keeps us loyal to the same vendors and stores for a long time, and certainly explains the success of Amazon Prime for everyday purchases. However, when […]

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Sell The Process that Sells Your Product

In competitive markets the differentiation of products and services is challenging, with many consumers not able discern a noticeable difference. This leads to commoditization and the aggressive price competition that naturally follows. The solution is to develop a process that profiles the unique characteristics and capabilities of your company – then lead your selling with […]

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3 Facebook Hashtag Marketing Tips

The newly launched Facebook hashtags could prove to be the savior of Graph Search – the recently launched Facebook search feature. Graph Search does what it promises – returning search results based on the social graphs of your Facebook friends, fans, and followers. This means that you tend to see search results only for those […]

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Connected Economy Alignment is Value

In this connected economy, the challenge is not connectivity – but alignment. If you look for differences you will find them; and if you seek alignment, cooperation, and collaboration, you will find that too. This is why learning to effectively manage your business networks is without question the key to your business success. Alignment is […]

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5 Tips for Using LinkedIn Contacts

LinkedIn is in the process of rolling out LinkedIn Contacts. In addition to several new features that are giving it a new look and feel – if offers enhanced functionality for better managing your relationships and social engagement. There is no question that all of the major social networks want you to use their service as your social […]

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Social Marketing is Relationship Selling

Mainstream small business will more reliably get better results from social media if they view it more as selling than marketing. Why? Because effective relationship selling is personal, and now marketing is too. As social influences continue to profoundly affect business, just about every business activity is going to require relationship building skills. Traditional marketing or advertising was […]

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Why The Best Products are Souvenirs

Marketing expert Seth Godin has more than once noted that a book is souvenir – a vessel for ideas that allows them to be readily used and shared. I believe we can further expand on that idea. Have you ever considered that the products and services your small business creates are souvenirs too? What Exactly […]

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Local Business Networks Intersect

Local businesses are their own location-specific network, and they tend to support each other and freely share without compromise. Now consider that there are countless local networks – and they all intersect. What is your business doing to tap into at least one of them? Local Businesses are More than Local When you buy local […]

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Advertising That Enhances the Media Experience Works

Advertising (especially digital) has earned a reputation as something interruptive, and therefore, unwanted. Selling earned the same reputation back in the days of the stereotypical fast talking salesmen. In both circumstances, the problem was not with the medium for communicating the message – it was the message itself. While social media has in many ways […]

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