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Imagine If You Learned How To Really Focus?

From the moment we're born, our mind is sucking up information, storing it away and using it to create an internal map of who you are and what your relationship is to the rest of the world. This internal map of reality is what creates the internal experiences you have and the external results you get in life. A lot of these things happen unconsiously outside of our awareness. this means that our minds create results that we don't want, without our being able to see how they are generated, the… Continue

Added by Paul Hines on November 29, 2009 at 8:23am — No Comments

Never Make Assumptions About Prospects

When you make assumptions and think you know what people are saying, in effect you stop listening. When you stop listening, you create resistance and people go away. This can be frustrating for you and the prospect, a conversation that could take 10 minutes can turn into an hour long event. The real flaw here is that a lot of people have terrible listening skills. Sometimes we hear only what we want to hear and when that happens the conversation drifts into the oppisite direction of why you c… Continue

Added by Paul Hines on November 29, 2009 at 7:05am — No Comments

Trim The Fat From Your Marketing Campaign

I don't propose to speak for you but in these hard economic times I have to make absolutely positive where each and every dollar is going and why its going there. I not only trimmed the fat from my marketing campaign, I also trimmed the fat from my personal budget. There was a time that my marketing campaign was so messed up that I had to go to my bank and change my card number because money was coming out of my account that I couldn't track down. I was a newbie and was all over the place and… Continue

Added by Paul Hines on November 20, 2009 at 3:47am — 2 Comments

You Can Be Successful With Your Business

Although you can't run the whole show behind your computer there is something to be said for using your computer correctly in your network marketing campaign. I normally preach about how you need to use OFFLINE as well as online techniques the importance of marketing online can't be ignored. At some point you'll have to step away from the computer and get involved in person to person contact but this blog is concentrated on your online campaign. The net can give you great opportunities and yo… Continue

Added by Paul Hines on November 20, 2009 at 3:01am — No Comments

YOU CAN CREATE A VIRAL MARKETING VIDEO CAMPAIGN USING VLOGS AND YOUR CAMERA PHONE

YOU CAN CREATE A VIRAL MARKETING VIDEO CAMPAIGN USING VLOGS AND YOUR CAMERA PHONE VIDEO SHARING SITES CAN GROW YOUR BUSINESS. Information provided by Juniques Marketing (www.juniques.us)

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Added by Rickey on November 13, 2009 at 4:42pm — No Comments

African American Market Power

With African American buying power project to reach $1.2 trillion by 2013 marketers are already looking for ways to capitalize on those dollars. Understand this, simply featuring an African American in your campaign does not work, you MUST recognize and speak to the distinctions with in this consumer segment. African American buying power in 2008 in 2008 stood at $913 Billion Dollars up 187% from the $318 Billion in 1990 86% of African American women say advertisers need to do a better jog mar… Continue

Added by Howard Larson on November 11, 2009 at 5:54am — 1 Comment

Direct Marketing and the Retail Market Place

What is the current state of direct marketing these days? Pretty good thank you. When you consider that 3 out of 4 consumers (76%) read the direct mail they receive. Women 35-49 and the heaviest readers at 86% with men above 50 the poorest at 65%. Direct Marketing Readership in Men Age 2003 2008 18-34 65% 67% 35-49 64% 77% +50 68% 65% Readership in direct mail among women of all ages has increased. As with men the largest increase is among woman in the 35-49. Direct Marketing Readership in Wo… Continue

Added by Howard Larson on October 31, 2009 at 1:10am — No Comments

Is Snail Mail More Effective Than E Mail?

E-Mail is the new junk mail. I use it. To a moderate degree but not like I use to. I’m pushing more and more of my marketing back to one-on-one emailing and targeted direct mail projects. So what has happened? E-mail is so fast, so cheap, so everywhere. Every inbox is filled with spam and everyone has signed or found themselves on who knows how many lists. We are all so overwhelmed by it all and routinely just switch once e-newsletters that were once important to the junk file. So why not do w… Continue

Added by Howard Larson on October 28, 2009 at 5:02am — No Comments

5 Practices for Digital Marketing

How can you start to unleash the power of your web site? There is no magic formula for successfully moving from an email blasting program as your communication and online marketing tool to one that features real-time interactions between your the marketer and your prospect customer. There is however some common elements that separates a successful to mediocre to poor program. Here are 5 of the best practices I have come across. 1. Leveraging interactions to collect customer informatio… Continue

Added by Howard Larson on October 24, 2009 at 3:27am — No Comments

Unleashing Web Site Marketing

How can you start to unleash the power of your web site? Now, as if you did not need to before, you really need to be creative with every dollar you spend and with every minute you spend on your marketing. So here are 3 simple things you need to be doing. 1st. make it easy to help your customers find exactly what they want on the first click, if possible! This often means directing them to a landing page rather than your front or home page but it is worth the effort. 2nd.… Continue

Added by Howard Larson on October 21, 2009 at 6:21am — No Comments

5 Fundamentals for Email Success

E-Mail markets are always well served by remembering the basics. When you forget the basic rules of email marketing you get in trouble big time. First, focus on the call to action. If you first identify your goal for the e-mail then determine what you want to subscribers to do and carry this though from the subject line to the e-mail design to the landing page, you’re in good shape. Keep the call to action simple, prominent and neat the top of your message. Second, craft yo… Continue

Added by Howard Larson on October 15, 2009 at 2:26am — No Comments

Ok You Have An Online Business, Now What?

I train my team how to avoid the BIG MISTAKES in network marketing, I realise they're excited to get started. After all, most of them were told in the past by other sponsors that all they had to do was make a list and start calling everyone they know right? Well I'm here to tell you that its the first BIG mistake and if you follow this advice you'll be having Christmas dinner alone this holiday season and an honorary member of the NFL club. The no friends left club. So what's the first thing… Continue

Added by Paul Hines on October 11, 2009 at 1:10am — No Comments

If You're Not Making Money The Problem Is YOU

I see it everyday, people jumping ship thinking they can solve the problem by joining another company, trust me, you're not going to find it. People who jump ship don't make it. They THINK the answer is in another product, another team, another comp. plan. The answer lies within YOU. Take a look around, if people are making money in your company and you're not, the answer is YOU. It isn't te comp. plan's fault, your sponsor's fault, your products fault, Its YOUR fault. The good news is that i… Continue

Added by Paul Hines on October 10, 2009 at 6:17am — No Comments

Free Fall Marketing

As SM progresses as a major component of a company’s marketing efforts we are all in some way, either large or small imprisoned by our minds. Now is the time where we need to accpet that the entire web is a social media experience and by not embracing it you are handing the new openness of increased loyalty, better cost controls, and driving customer acquisition to a select few. Those few who overcome the pressing challenges that confront us from cost containment to the actual delivery of goods… Continue

Added by Howard Larson on October 10, 2009 at 2:36am — No Comments

Offline For Online Push

There is symmetry in using both online and off line marketing to push your business. Not everyone is going to do a search to look for what you do or sell. Off line marketing might trigger a need that a person did not know they had. Where is that balance? For some it is telemarketing, others postcard mailers or wave mailings, still others catalogs. Don’t stop your SE program. Don’t end a successful pay for click campaign. Build it up with a foundation of other marketing tools. You need to loo… Continue

Added by Howard Larson on October 3, 2009 at 12:55am — No Comments

Miscellaneous Marketing Numbers

37.6 million Americans will download podcasts monthly. According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, 37.6 million Americans will be downloading podcasts on a monthly basis, up 116% from 17.4 million in 2008. Marketing News, July 30, 2009 39% of consumers trust marketing professionals. An international survey by Custom Research on the level of trust consum¬ers held for various professional groups discovered that just 39% of respon¬dents trusted marketing professionals. (On the other h… Continue

Added by Howard Larson on September 23, 2009 at 12:44am — No Comments

Regular Sized Postcards For Marketing Penetration

While oversized postcard mailings can be very effective, see yesterday’s blog, they are perhaps not that much more effective than any other Kind of mailing piece. There are other choices in your mailing arsenal. Due to their size, oversized mailers tend to stand out, but if the message is well-defined and creative graphic are used, that is what really ensures the success of any mailer, large size postcards or small. Sometimes we get preoccupied with the size of a mailing, forgetting what can he… Continue

Added by Howard Larson on September 18, 2009 at 2:16am — No Comments

Say YES to Oversized Postcards

Oversized postcards can be effective in business-to-consumer, business-to-business and nonprofit marketing. They never replace envelope mailings in many markets, but oversized postcards do have several advantages over smaller postcards and envelope packages in many instances. Oversized postcards will stand out more on the desk or kitchen table. And we all will agree that you can't get a response if the piece doesn't get read and it won't get read unless it gets noticed. Size does matter.… Continue

Added by Howard Larson on September 17, 2009 at 1:30am — No Comments

Start your holiday e-mail plans

With Labor Day over summer is officially over. The kids are back to school and those of us with jobs are back at work. For e-mail marketers, now is the time to buckle down and get a holiday e-mail plan into effect, if you haven't already done so. The holiday season is crucial to retailers. This year, with the recession, a good holiday season is even more important. It is important to plan early and have your online marketing plan in place. So start your planning now. Since more marketers are g… Continue

Added by Howard Larson on September 16, 2009 at 12:37am — No Comments

Why The Online Failure Rate Is So High

People fail to realize that before you can become successful at anything you do, that its going to take some time. It takes time to learn the fundamentals at anything you do,it can take weeks, months or even years. It all depends on your source of information. . Is your information accurate? . Does it giude you with a step by step process? . Does it offer simple tools to get you started? . Are you diciplined enough to follow through? . are you easily distracted by other offers? . Are yo… Continue

Added by Paul Hines on September 15, 2009 at 3:27pm — 2 Comments