Your business has a life cycle like other organisms that you should be paying attention to so that you can get the most out of each cycle while also extending the lifespan of your business. The four different stages of a business life cycle are: ·      Infancy ·      Adolescence ·      Growing Pains ·      Maturity We’ll talk a little about what each of these cycle’s means and how they can each help expand your business’ lifespan.  Infancy This is generally consider the technician’s phase, which is the owner. At this point, the relationship between the business and the owner is that

Today I’d like to chat about the different types of support staff you need and what makes them so important. There are essentially three key roles that need to be filled to set your business up for success: The Technician The Manager The Entrepreneur   All of these roles need to be played simultaneously by different people with the right talents. It’s all about balance. The Technician This person represents the present and all that needs to be done for the physical aspects of the business building process. They are the “doer”. This is usually the most visible person of

We’re going to go through the 5 essential keys to a successful and reusable marketing campaign launch. Once you have these basics down, you can use them over and over again. The 5 essential keys are: Define your Unique Selling Proposition (USP) Put an effective sales offer to work Avoid the marketing pitfalls Use a world-class marketing perspective Get results! We’ll go through each one of these, so you can see exactly how to use them and how they all affect the overall outcome of your marketing campaign. Define your Unique Selling Proposition (USP) Take the time to ask yourself

Let’s take a look at how the kings of industry wine, dine and otherwise cajole prospects. Most of successful professionals use a series of information based ads that build emotion and a call to action. These are much more effective than a standard company branding advertisements. The same principles that go into putting together a high impact (and, often, high priced) ad campaign can be adapted to fit your needs with similar results. Here are some ways to put together and execute a professional, effective ad campaign: Put together a short report that’ll you’ll automatically send to prospects when they

There are three key areas of public relations you can use to boost your advertising results ten-fold over your paid advertising. The key to public relations lie in: ·      Public relation or publicity ·      Merchandising ·      Promotions With a solid plan in place that encompasses all these areas, you’ll have a great approach to use public relations in the best way possible. Public relations include all that is the media. Don’t limit yourself. The attention of newspapers, television, radio, magazines, bloggers, ezines and more are all equally powerful. Online marketing is just as, if not more, important as conventional media.