How to Turn Your Best Customers Into a Growth Engine
Create a Team of Business Partners to Help You Grow

I’ve said repeatedly that building a vibrant community is the most important objective of any business these days.

How Your Small Business Can Create Content That Attracts New Customers
Start By Creating Value
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Online lead generation is critical to every small business.

3 Ways To Grow Your Business For Pennies
What would you add to this list?
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A lot of small business owners are struggling financially right now.

Budgeting Your Online Marketing? Stop Trying to Predict the Future
Here are a couple of tips to keep in mind
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Many businesses spend their time each fall trying to predict the future.

Effective B2B Content Marketing Tips & Six Mistakes To Avoid
Figure out what story you want to tell, and how to tell it.
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Just as every B2B company stakes a claim to a market position, each of them has a story to share. The challenge is in figuring out how to share that story…

You’re in The People Business!
It pays to be a people person
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Everyone in business, is in the people business. It’s people who buy from you, recommend you and support you. It’s …

Does Your Business Need A Blog?
Yes - Here's Why
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A lot of small business owners are asking themselves the same question – should I have a blog for my …

How to Make Your Customers the Hero of Your Story
Marketing Ideas To Try Out
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I use the idea of hero a fair amount when I talk about what we do. I don’t use it …

Marketing Is the New Selling
Taking Things Into Your Own Hands
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In order to thrive in today’s digitally driven business environment, sales folks need to think and act more like marketers. …

How Do You Motivate A Search Engine?
Motivate a Customer!
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Successful SEO is all about leveraging the right amount of motivation. There are a lot of technical aspects of SEO. …

Can You Get To The Point?
Clarity Matters In Business

Have you noticed how some people in business seem unable to get to the point? They waffle, go round in …

What To Do When You Have A Limited Time And Budget
Using Social Media To Your Advantage
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The business press is full of stories about how small companies are using social channels to attract and engage customers. But while …

5 Steps to Creating a Call to Action
And get results from your website!
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Why do you have a Website for your small business? Sure, a big goal is getting the attention of your …

More Cheese, Less Whiskers
A Simple Marketing Lesson...
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Editor’s note: this blog partner article is based on the podcast: Marketing podcast with Charley Moore  The human brain is very …

Managing Your Social Media Exposure
How To Enhance Your Online Reputation
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In the good old days customers would communicate with you via letter, phone or in person. Today things are very …

Tips For Growing Your Business

There are 4 ways to grow a business, which you need to focus on if you want to dramatically improve …

Are You Interacting In Social Media?

I got a phone call yesterday from the company that services my central air conditioning unit each year. They had …

Customer Support From the Facebook Page
App Adds Support Tab to Facebook Pages
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Businesses have found Facebook to be a great platform for customer support for some time now, but more companies are …

Don’t Waste Your Customers’ Time with Your Site
If it's Not Easy, They'll Just Leave.
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If you’ve ever analyzed your website’s bounce rate, you may have found problems with people leaving before they get through …

Customer Feedback A Valuable Source Of Info
Surveys, focus groups not hard to conduct
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It’s all too possible for professional marketers and businesspeople to spend days or weeks thinking about customers, only to then …

Questions You Should Ask Your Customers Right Now

You know who really likes you? Your customers! That’s why they buy things from you instead of from your competitors. …

When Was The Last Time Your Website Was Tested?

When was the last time you had other people test your Website? If you’re answer is never, there’s no time …