Are you tired of hearing about how your business success is connected to relationships? If you are, you might want to stop reading right now. This post is about relationships … creating real relationships. I am not going to talk with you about networking, follow
A skill set that every business owner and entrepreneur must master is the art of building rapport with your prospects. Without rapport, there will be a lack of trust which will eliminate the possibility of converting the prospect to a client. As with most things
Listening to what matters to your customers is more important than ever before. The trick is to “First seek to understand, then to be understood” as Stephen Covey highlighted in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. The most important lesson I ever learned is
This past week I had the honor of being one of the sponsors at the Local, Search and Social Summit, an event put together by Rocks Digital for SMBs to learn the latest and greatest in areas of local, search and social media. If your business
During the Local, Search and Social Summit Lissa Duty started us thinking about our social media plan and then, Natalie Gould and Rachel Morgan stepped up to walk us through how to keep your website current with fresh content, drive site traffic, and rank higher in search
Closing out the day at the Local, Search and Social Summit was Ben Killmer, Strategic Partner Manager at Google. Ben started off by telling us that to print the information found on the Internet would be about 136 billion sheets of 8.5 x 11 paper.
Lissa Duty kicked off the afternoon at the Local, Search and Social Summit with a Social Media Planning Session (she also threatened to make us do jumping jacks if we weren’t attentive and interactive!) As part of her presentation, Lissa provided a tool for planning which
The learning, tips and practical application continues at the Local, Search and Social Summit 2015! After Bernadette got us in the mind-frame of needing to be prepared to interface with the mobile marketplace, Justin Liles, SVP of Local Search at Advice Interactive Group (who has
Kicking off the day at the Local, Search and Social Summit 2015 was Bernadette Coleman who leapt right in to Dominating Local in a Mobile World. Why You Need To Dominate Local Search On Mobile Why is mobile important? 50% of mobile searches are trying
As the world keeps evolving, so does the business world, which means that as business owners, we must adapt to the new and upcoming trends within any marketing strategy. That being said, content marketing should be at the top of your local SEO strategy because
Facebook is going to start charging! Businesses and brands have been paying to play, and now the users have to pay too? Ok … seriously if you are buying this story I have a bridge in California I would like to sell to you. It
“The guarantee is perception’s best friend,” said Freeman Gosden, Jr. In Direct Marketing Success, he wrote, “Guaranteeing your product or service guarantees the perception that eliminates fear of wrong size, color, or the possibility that the product won’t work. That is why unconditional guarantees tend
With Valentine’s Day gone, the season of mass holiday consumerism that begins around Thanksgiving (though it’s pushing back to Halloween) and continues through the spring comes to a close. From costumes to gifts, Americans spend $6.9 billion on Halloween, $600 billion over the winter holidays
Is your office giving you a pep talk, or is it reinforcing internal limiting beliefs? Feng Shui is built on a long tradition of helping people create an atmosphere of success, and it is not as hard to create as you may think. Using these
We are already in the second month of 2017 and I must admit, I am in LOVE! I am in love with live streaming live events and experiences. This past month our video production company live streamed our first 3-day conference and we learned so
Social networking has become one of the most important ways to complement business communication, but it’s also one of the biggest sources of distraction and time suck for otherwise productive entrepreneurs. Tips for Managing Your Time on Social Networking Learning to manage your own
Right off the bat, I apologize to any opera aficionados because this post is not about how Verdi’s classic can help you create great website content. This post is about another timeless classic – the AIDA model of sales and marketing – which includes Awareness
If you are looking for a new love to add to your social media strategy, Facebook Live might be it. There is no doubt that Facebook Live can be a great tool, and I love to promote great tools, but there are a few things
Customer engagement is defined as the customer’s emotional or psychological attachment to a brand, product, or company. Customer engagement is vital for businesses as it drives sales and growth, and we will examine virtual reality as a new component of customer engagement. How Virtual Reality
Want more conversions from social media? It’s all about having the right kind of fans. Not just any fan, but the fan or follower that would be interested in your products and services, and are willing to spend the money to purchase them. The infographic compiled
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