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I know the times are tough. The economy is a mess and it’s frightening each time we watch the news. Folks are sitting tight and waiting to see when we’ll hit bottom. But now is NOT the time to hold back on your network marketing business!
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We are now in the last phases of our quarterly overhaul for the colleges universities vertical business database and we should have the freshly updated version of the Active Contacts EDU database ready for our customers within the next working week. As with other business to business verticals, the education vertical also sees some amount of churn
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Managing and processing your leads outside your CRM before they are uploaded there. The objective is simple. If you have only good data go into your CRM, you have a cleaner and stronger CRM to work with.
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There was a time when business visiting cards were the most valuable forms of contact information and having a rolodex with as many phone numbers and postal addresses meant you had all the data you need to do some serious selling. Times change. While contact address, contact phone number, contact name and contact title still make up most of the co
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You’re not thinking of scaling back your online marketing efforts due to the panic in world financial markets, are you? If so, I think that would be a big mistake.
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Direct mail marketing Campaigns have amongst the highest cost per lead. Here is why you should take that extra step to scrub or cleanse your data before the campaign.
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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is becoming more prevalent in our global economy. The other night, a TV commercial informed viewers that a car company is operating a manufacturing plant that has achieved zero landfill status - nothing from its manufacturing efforts goes into a landfill. Going carbon-neutral is also gaining a lot of press. Se
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Every time Google does a Page Rank update it sets the SEO community on fire with people constantly refreshing their url in multiple Google data centers to see if they have moved up or down.
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Creativity does not have to cost much — it can take the place of big expenditures. In fact, creativity can be a powerful asset if you learn to use it and not hold back.
Case in point: recently I attended the Small Business Marketing Unleashed Conference. As is typical at such conferences, each attendee received a bag with promotional materials
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How are the credit markets affecting small businesses in the United States. To try to get some statistical data to answer their questions, the author decided to take a look at peer-to-peer lending. Peer-to-peer lending gets at part of the effect of the credit markets on small businesses because some entrepreneurs borrow money from other individual
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Brands are becoming worth less, if not just plain worthless. That’s the theme of a series of books out this year, the newest being “Branding Only Works on Cattle” excerpted on Change This. Author Jonathan Salem Baskin argues that brands are a 20th century quirk, and are about to go back to their traditional role: names.
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After you’ve been in business a few years you look back. Suddenly everything is so obvious. Too bad all those things that seem so clear now, were not so clear then, when you were living through the early years of your startup.
Here are 3 lessons by Anita Campbell that could have saved her a lot of expense and time:
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Asked if they preferred shopping on the Internet or in brick-and-mortar stores, the largest group of responding US online buyers (38%) said they used both channels about the same amount.
Slightly more respondents (31%) to PriceGrabber.com's "Back to School Survey" said they preferred making their purchases online than said they preferred bu
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The National Federation of Independent Business Index of Small Business Optimism rose 2.9 points to 91.1 in August, but continued one of the longest strings of recession-level readings in the history of the survey – dating back to 1973. Two-thirds of the gain was due to a new confidence among small business owners who expect business conditions to
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Apple just presented a line of colorful, revamped iPods at a San Francisco press event, featuring the iPod Nano which underwent the most changes, followed by the iPod Touch, with just a thinner cut to it and finally, iTunes’ new version revealing a key intelligence system called Genius which recommends what to buy based on the user’s playlists.
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