Last week I emailed out this… > If you are discounting, then don’t muck around. > > Get your profits back by getting this blueprint video here: > http://www.wordofmouthmagic.com/resources/blueprinttoprofits/ > …. Well, it created a flood. That link had more than triple the clicks of anything I’ve sent out in the past 12 months! And [...]
I’ve been paying attention to online video for quite a while now. It’s been hot for the internet – but does it have any relevance for viral word of mouth in small business? Mostly, I’d have to say no. However I’ve come across one exception. A company called ThinkBigWorkSmall.com puts out small videos that have [...]
Sunday, December 21, 2008
One of the key rules of success has to be ‘copy what works.’ “Swap & Drop” is a little known, face-to-face networking method that actually works. How do I know? Because Jordan Adler, entrepreneur, trainer, author, networker, and the originator of the term “Swap & Drop”, used this exact method to make a connection with [...]
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Many businesses have their busiest time in the November / December period. Often this is the make or break time of year when earnings have finally passed overheads and taxes, and they are relieved to at last be making money for their own pocket. Yet perhaps because it is so busy, this is exactly the [...]
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
A couple of weeks back a friend of mine, Don Farnden, did a nice promotion for his coaching work. To get physical addresses for his database, he offered to mail a special “Boosting Business” gift valued at $597 to everyone who replied with their mailing address. He already had my mailing address, but I was [...]
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Ever gone to a networking event and ended up only speaking to people you already knew? I’m sure you had every intention of linking up with new people and building new relationships, but let’s face it. Did you actually do it? If you didn’t do it as well as you would have liked then I [...]
About a month ago I finally tore myself away from my wife and kids for a night and went to a sales training event when Tom ‘Big Al’ Schreiter was in town. It was a good event, but I was there for the networking. Unfortunately everyone seemed to have come for the training only. In [...]
Hopefully most of you reading this will have a small business of your own, so I can ask this question… “Ever had ‘success’ be a problem?” Growing a small business into a bigger business means you hope for success, but sometimes it will be like having a tiger by the tail. Perhaps the success will [...]
There is one big advantage I get from this blog. It’s not selling products – although I do. It’s not having a platform for my message – although it works for that. It’s not even as an ego-trip – aw shucks, maybe just a little. Believe it or don’t the biggest advantage I get from [...]
This is my blog, and my space. Don’t like it? That’s your problem not mine. But it’s here for YOU. I’m going to bring you the best value I can no matter what it takes. Want to deeply ‘get’ referral marketing, and the incredible profits at very little cost that it can bring? Then this [...]
