Corporate identity, sometimes seen written as CI, refers to the external “personality” projected by a corporation. The idea of corporate identity integrates the look and feel of designs and communications, along with the corporation’s behavior. Companies of all sizes invest a great deal of energy in their corporate identities, since the persona of a corporation [...]
Email Marketing Best Practices
Best practices in email marketing demand communications that go beyond advertising, respect the customer, and speak in a familiar one-on-one style. Email is “the most personal advertising medium in history,” says Seth Godin, whose book Permission Marketing set the rules that transformed email marketing into what it [...]
How To Improve Your Networking Skills
Here are some tips on how to imporve your networking skills
1. Make a great first impression
Smile, make eye contact, have a confident handshake and show a genuine interest in the people you meet. These are some of the things you can do to make a good first impression. Remember you have exactly [...]
How To Increase Website Conversions
What is a “website conversion rate”?
For purposes of this article, website conversion rates are defined as a straightforward equation: number of website visitors acting on offer divided by total website visitors seeing offer over a given period of time. For instance, if your site had 5,000 visitors in a given month, and 125 made a [...]
Unvarnished enters the social-networking market
Unvarnished is a new ’social-networking-like’ website that is stirring up quite a big number of controversy. The new site provides the ability to rate, review and give opinions concerning professional performance of users, all these is done anonymously.
Unvarnished reportedly resembles LinkedIn, where it is possible to create a profile where one can [...]
The Right Partnerships Can Help Grow Your Business
What A Marketing Partnership Is
A marketing partnership involves two or more professionals, companies or salespeople who have common prospects, similar marketing needs, and possibly complementary services. These entities join forces for mutual marketing and sales, usually within a specific market sector or for specific prospects. This does [...]
AOL to sell or shut down Bebo
If you are one of the five people that use online social network Bebo to market your business, pay attention, parent firm, AOL, revealed plans to sell or shut down the site just two years after buying it for $850 million.
Bebo has failed to attract users as it fights competition from larger rivals such as [...]
7 Tips for Creating a Online Community That Will Last
Here are 7 tips to creating a online community that will last
Make it a priority.Quit whining that it’s so much trouble to deal with commenting and community interaction. That’s why they call it work. Be glad you have a chance to do it.Community interaction should not be a marginal part of your online effort. Social [...]
Tips on Public Relations
Locate the media. It’s one thing to write a press release. It’s another to get it to the right reporters, writers or editors. Bacon’s Directories (800-753-6675), Working Press of the Nation, (800-521-8110), and Editor & Publisher Yearbook (212-675-4380)- each provide listings of editorial staff at U.S. media outlets — both print and broadcast. These plus [...]
No Excuses: Close the Deal
Small business owners know that the most important function of the telephone is to bring customers to you, begging for your service or product offering. So when the phone rings with a prospective customer on the other end, do you know how to transform an interested caller into a buying customer? Here are three phone [...]
Tips for Marketing your Business using a BLOG
1. Listen First, Blog Later
Perhaps the most useful thing a company can do before they start blogging is to monitor the blogosphere. There are some wonderful tools around for listening to what bloggers are writing about your industry, your company and your products. Many of these tools are free (Google News Alerts for example). Plug [...]
Why you Should Market Your Business Using Videos
The majority of the content, information and entertainment that we consume in the future will be delivered on a wirelessly (or wired) connected screen. Television networks won’t tell us when we have to consume content and we won’t have to cut down trees in order to be able to read our favorite publications. Even billboards [...]
