Can Your Business Survive If You Could No Longer Manage It Tomorrow?

How much time do you spend thinking about business exit planning?

If you're like many of the small business owners we meet - not much. That's okay as long as you don't care about supporting yourself and your family when you retire or leave the business, and if you are not attached to what happens to the business, your employees and your customers after you leave. But in truth, the business professionals and small business owners we meet do care.

Should Your LinkedIn Profile Be in 1st Person or 3rd Person?

I spend hundreds of hours on LinkedIn every month researching, testing, tweaking and seeing what works and what doesn't – and that's on top of the hours I spend marketing my business and my clients' businesses on LinkedIn. So in a week's time I view thousands of different professional profiles.

I see people who write there profile in 1st person. Others will write in 3rd person. Even the LinkedIn marketing experts say different things when it comes to whether or not you should write your LinkedIn profile summary in first person or third person

Building a Winning Strategy for Selling to Large Organizations

Private coaching clients are telling us regularly how important it is for them to broaden their skills to do a better job of thinking strategically and managing large accounts. Those are areas that we are focusing on increasingly here at Engage Selling. I recognize—just as you do—that so much activity in sales today is happening at the enterprise level, so success here is vital.

Social Media as a Negotiating Tool

Social media has blown on to the scene the last couple of years with the popular websites of Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter and many others. Nobody can tell for sure what social media will look like five years from now, but what everyone can agree upon is that the concept of using the internet to socially communicate is not going away.

Growing Your Email Marketing List to Build Trust and Increase Profits

A smart, simple way to engage ideal prospects is to leverage email marketing.

Why?

There are so many great reasons, not limited to the fact that:

1. Most everyone has an email address.

Local Search Marketing with Google Places: 7 Ways to Get More Clicks & More Business Guaranteed

If you want better search engine results (and more clicks, and more business), and you haven't paid attention to "Google Places," you need to do so right away.

Why You Need to Claim Your Spot on Google Places

* Google has stated that one out of five searches on Google is related to location. That translates to 2.6 billion "local" searches a month, and that number is increasing 50% per year. (Yes, that's "Billion"-with a "B.")

Can you Generate Free Home-Based Business Leads? Yes But………

You will want a system. And you will need to be consistent in working that procedure. To have the ability to generate free home based business prospects first you'll need a website. If possible acquire a domain name, then acquire one in your own name if it's available so you can brand YOURSELF. It will be advantageous to install a blog, e.g. wordpress, so that you may create (or get) articles to publish that are appropriate to your business.

The Importance of Keeping Your Home Office in Working Condition

When your home office is a mess you get in a rut. Daily activities like organizing home paperwork don't seem that important anymore. Get refocused with a small home office makeover.

Home offices tend to be some of the smallest rooms in the house. You may only have a corner of a room for your home's office. It is important that your small space be an effective use of space, and that is very possible.

Twitter Marketing Is Simplistic and Effective

Twitter marketing is based upon first connecting with others to build up a following which allows you to easily initiate viral campaigns! What makes this social site such an effective marketing tool is its simplistic design combined with its huge user base. The need for extensive copy writing is not a concerned since only brief messages are allowed and are limited to 140 characters! This evens the playing field for marketers who don't have great copy writing talents or the funds to pay someone who does! As stated previously this popular social site makes for a very effective marketing platform due to the genius of its simplicity and here are 3 such examples.

Expand Your Business With These Niche Marketing Tips

A lot of online entrepreneurs believe that taking control over a competitive niche and then controlling it is actually beyond their capabilities. Even so, these false beliefs are not very well received by successful internet marketers who simply take action and try to earn a living by dominating an internet niche. The simple truth is that no matter how less or more competitive a specific market is, it can generally be taken over by you, when you devote the right amount of time and effort to achieve that and you also have an effective approach.

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