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If you want to make money working for yourself and be your own boss carpet cleaning is an easy business to get into. When you start up a business there are two key components that you need, a product to sell and someone who’s willing to buy it. Carpet cleaning is not rocket science but does require knowledge on general carpet cleaning, stain removal and knowing the limitations of what your equipment can handle.There are thre
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Today’s retail marketplace has become an aggressive playing field. The internet provides consumers with a new medium for purchasing a world of products and services, and retailers with a new frontier to engage and retain customers. This competitive marketplace has allowed consumers to sit back and watch retailers slug it out until one brand remains standing. If most retailers deliver on what they promise, what are the attributes th
Too often I hear the famous networking complaint: “networking doesn’t work for me.” There are a variety of reasons why someone might feel this way. 90% of the time it has nothing to do with them or their business; it has to do with what they think networking really is. Networking IS NOT simply going to networking events and hoping that you’ll get some new clients or referrals. Let’s say you join your local Chamber of Commerce and go to every lunch meeting that they offer. You do this for a solid year. Are you likely to get any business? If all you did was go to the lunch meetings then the answer is either probably not, or very little.
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Marketing results should be measured in only one way – increased sales. Marketing should not be considered an art form. Its mere existence is not enough. Marketing is the first step to the sale. There are seven underlying principles upon which to base your marketing strategy and efforts. Follow them and your business will be a raving success. Violate them and you will fail as so many small businesses do.The seven underlying pr
Too often I hear the famous networking complaint: “networking doesn’t work for me.” There are a variety of reasons why someone might feel this way. 90% of the time it has nothing to do with them or their business; it has to do with what they think networking really is. Networking IS NOT simply going to networking events and hoping that you’ll get some new clients or referrals. Let’s say you join your local Chamber of Commerce and go to every lunch meeting that they offer. You do this for a solid year. Are you likely to get any business? If all you did was go to the lunch meetings then the answer is either probably not, or very little.
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Chapter 12 of 14 Adding value to your business…we show you how to guarantee it.A celebrity endorser is worth absolutely nothing unless you can prove via measurable, lasting, and quantifiable methods that they have added bottom line value to your company. You can have Mr. or Mrs. Nice-person pitching products until they are green in the face, but unless you can calculate the bottom line results in terms of real dollars, c
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Remember the old slogan that “children should be seen and not heard?”Clearly, that no longer applies to teens and tweens, prepubescents 8 to 14 years old. These days, teens and tweens are seen and heard, loudly and clearly.What should business people do about these two groups? Just wait until they grow up? No, not at all. You need to take action now.Though not always old enough to buy our products, w
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Choose carefullyYou will want to choose people who know you, and often you are asked for both work and personal referees. It's a good idea not to choose relatives, they don't carry much authority. Ideally choose people who are professionals with a good reputation. Former employers carry the most weight, also key suppliers and customers who can vouch for the work you do. Referees are sometimes telephoned and i
Networking events are just the beginning of the most important part of networking; Building Relationships. You’re not going to be able to build strong relationships simply by saying hello to a few people once a month at lunch. The relationships that are likely to generate those precious referrals you’re looking for are built outside of the networking event. These business events are really just a great place to meet people with whom you’d like to build a relationship. Certainly there’s a little more to it than that, but identifying these prospects is the primary benefit of these meetings.
The key to building real, profitable business relationships is what happens outside these networking events. It’s the one on one personal interaction with the gentleman or
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