7 Secrets For Taking Your Business To A New Level
7 Secrets For Taking Your Business To A New Level
By Patricia Drain
Patricia Drain knew it was time to write a business owner’s quick guide for building value in your business when she attended a seminar with other business owners. A frequent question asked among the group was, “Why did you decide to start your own business?”
Most said, “I needed to make a living.”
And Patricia remembered years ago that she would have responded exactly the same. When she started her first executive recruiting company, she bought herself a JOB, actually a very stressful job, instead of creating a business with value that could someday be saleable.
What changed her business? Seven things.
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Five More Things Your Literary Agent Won’t Tell You
Five More Things Your Literary Agent Won’t Tell You
By Fern Reiss, CEO, PublishingGame.com/Expertizing.com
If you’re trying to publish a book traditionally, you’re almost always better off using a literary agent than going it on your own. Nonetheless, working with a literary agent is not always as idyllic as it sounds. Here are five things your literary agent probably won’t tell you:
We won’t jeopardize our relationship with editors. Working with a literary agent is much like working with a real estate agent: On the one hand, their job is to get you as good a deal as possible, and they don’t make money unless you do, since they make a percentage (usually 15%) of your sales. On the other hand, their relationships with publishers are complex, and although they’d like to get as much as possible for your book, they also need to stay on good terms with the publisher for all the other books they’re discussing. So in the same way that the realtor will try to get you a good price (but will be reluctant to jeopardize the sale by asking too much), your literary agent won’t ask for a killer sum just because you think your book is worth it.
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Top 5 Tips for Designing Marketing That Get Results
Top 5 Tips for Designing Marketing That Get Results
By Adam Urbanski
“But this won’t work” said Steve. “I’ve tried it in the past and had no response.” Does this sound familiar? My newer clients often resist implementing certain strategies based on past experiences. However, I usually find out that it wasn’t the strategy itself – but how it was implemented that caused the dismal results.
So whether you are designing a simple flier or developing a plan for a strategic partnership you can increase your chances for success by following these five tips.
1. Develop Your Marketing For Your Potential Clients – Not Yourself.
What looks good to you may not necessarily be appealing to your audience.
2. Provide Answers To These Three Critical Marketing Questions:
Top 10 Reasons Submitting Articles Helps You Find Clients Online
I’ll be the first to admit that writing articles is not at the top of my favorite things to do. If I had to rank article writing on a scale of 1-10 (with 10 being the highest) on a list of things I do well, it would probably rank down at the bottom … at #1 or maybe #2) Once I get going with an outline, a basis, or the first few paragraphs I’m okay; and I’m great at taking a “raw” article with all of the facts and information and editing it into a finished product that flows, makes sense and reads well. But truthfully, having to come up with the subject, outline and content all on my own is like giving birth … it’s hard, painful, and not something I look forward to! But, I can also attest to the fact that writing and submitting articles is an excellent way to get your name out there, establish yourself as an expert in a particular area and drive traffic to your website. If you are a regular here at Virtually This and That, you’ll know that I rely on articles written by others for my content about 90% of the time, rather than trying to write them myself. Since I specialize in providing administrative/executive support to Professional Speakers and Coaches, it just makes sense to me to provide valuable information written by experts on the subjects that are of benefit to my readers and clients rather than trying to re-invent the wheel. Of course, I try to add a little bit of myself here and there with resources, recommendations and a little bit of this and that, but for the most part, you’ll find articles like the one below, written by Donna Gunter. So, without any further adieu …
Top 10 Reasons Submitting Articles Helps You Find Clients Online
By Donna Gunter
Making the decision to submit articles to build my website traffic has been one of the smartest online marketing decisions I’ve made recently. I’ve been publishing an email newsletter since 2001, but only started exploring article submission as a way to build website traffic a little over a year ago, and finally got serious about it a few months ago.
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Complete Online Marketing System
Biana Babinsky, the online business consultant, expert and author says that there are a few different reasons business owners give up on their business goals:
- Business owners would love to implement their goals, but they don’t know how to do it. They don’t know how to do search engine optimization, get a business blog or create and start selling an e-book.
They search for the information online, become overwhelmed with all the information available, and are not able to extract the information they need.
