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The Ultimate Guide: Checklist for Smart Small Business Owners (14 Things You Must Do To Set Yourself Up For Success)

The “things to do” list is never ending for small business owners, but following a checklist (at least once a year) can make the following months go a lot smoother. One things for sure. If

How To Determine the Right Metrics In Your Online Marketing (Video)

If you put an ad in the paper and didn’t get any phone calls from it, would you consider that a success? Of course you wouldn’t. It wouldn’t matter if one hundred or one million people read your

How to Communicate Better With Prospects

You have to talk to people if you want to grow your business. Whether it’s talking face-to-face, via email, or social media — ya still gotta do it. 🙂 But a lot of people get it all wrong. (Not you,

How To Get Good Business Referrals In 6 Easy Steps

Why do good business referrals matter? Think, for a minute, about how you found your last service provider or product you were looking for. Now if you’re like most people, you more than likely asked

How To Use Blog Commenting And Forum Marketing To Get Targeted Traffic To Your Niche Website

There are hundreds of different ways to drive traffic to your niche website. If you want you can get very complicated with this, but often it’s the simple strategies that work best. Today I want to share

Customer Testimonials Are The Social Proof That You Do What You Say You Do

How do you feel when you land on a website that contains list after list of testimonials? Do you believe those testimonials are real? It’s sad to say that some businesses will go to long lengths

6 Easy Questions That Turn Prospects Into Buyers

Are you getting your fair share of sales? Or is your bank account about to run dry because your prospects keep telling you your prices are too high? And until you find out what “that thing” is, you

Don’t Be Afraid To Raise Your Prices

If I’ve heard it once, I’ve heard it a thousand times. “I’m afraid to raise my prices because my customers might walk away.” And when they do get up enough nerve to raise their prices, they worry

You Need a Good 30 Second Sound Bite

Since we spend so much time on the interwebs these days, we’ve gotten lazy about how we present ourselves at face-to-face functions. There’s a whole world of prospects out there waiting to meet you.

Planning Your Business Processes Will Yield More Cash Flow

Are you the kind of person who likes to wing it with the things that you do in your business? Winging it in your business can cause a lot of stress. It means you have to remember every single step of everything

How to Stop Wasting Money In Your Business

One of the things that’s really cool about us humans is that we are creatures of habit. That helps us keep our sanity and get through the hectic world we live in today. But in your small business, that

What Do I Blog About Next?

Is panic setting in because you’re sitting there staring at a blank screen and can’t figure out what to say? You’re not alone. I’ve heard a lot of small business owners complain about

The Quick And Easy Way To Get Customer Testimonials For Your Business (Video)

These days, everyone says you need to have social proof your products or services are loved by your customers. That means you need to have their words telling others just how good it is – yep, that

Ignore The Naysayers – Do It Anyway

One thing I have found to be universally true about starting and running a small business is that there are plenty of people who will tell you things can’t be done. Or that you are on a dead end

3 Easy Ways To Use Scarcity Marketing (Without Killing Your Credibility)

I’ve yet to meet a small business owner who hasn’t been sucked into buying something because they were afraid of missing out. Whether they were motivated by a timer ticking down the minutes, a deadline

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