There are loads of ways that you can give your business a boost. Even in the most difficult of economic climates there’s always something extra that you can do. We’ve outlined some of our favourite tactics in this section and given you a little background to why it works.
It’s crazy to say this, but there’s one easy way to establish how proffesional the company that your dealing with is. Check their email address. Email over the past few years has become commonplace and replaced snail mail as the number one way of communicating.
A business that uses a a free email address like gmail.com, [...]
Networking is way more important in business than most think. Meeting new people, strengthening your alliances and growing your business is crucial to businesses both big and small and can be rewarding on a personal level as well as professionally.
With the growth in home working, many new entrepreneurs and business owners can go whole days [...]
Ok, I know cold calling is one of those things that fills most people with dread, the fact of the matter is, the person on the other end of the phone is human too… The worst that can happen is that they say no.
The first thing to remember is that a no is not a [...]
I’ve been doing a little cold calling for DBO over the past few days. I spend about 15 minutes over every call with research and data entry, and have had some pretty good results so far. Here they are in a nutshell:
Researched 30 potential galleries to display DBO’s work
Cold Called 27 of the 30 galleries, each time [...]
We all know that promotions are an important part of the marketing process. The popularity of the promotions industry is increasing at a phenomenal rate, largely down to the successes that have come from it as well as the decline of some other longer standing ways of making your voice heard. A well thought out [...]
The idea behind our top 10 tips is that they give you some understanding of what marketers do, and some of the simplified tools which may help grow your business.
1. Research, Research, Research - As with rule one for sales, research is really crucial to the success of any marketing campain. Before you go any further, get some independent market research [...]
Making sales in todays economic climate is getting harder and harder by the day. We’ve listed some ideas that will hopefully make you look at your business from a different perspective and concentrate on making some positive changes.
1) vested ineterest
Making the sale rarely comes down to the fact that your stuff is great. A great [...]
