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Marketing Basics to promote and market your small business

Ten Ways To Market Your Business For Under $100 – Part 6 – Using A Free Report To Build Trust

Remember “the rule of seven” from Part 5? It says a prospect needs to see your marketing message seven times before becoming a customer. What it’s really saying is you need to build trust before you can make the sales pitch. A great way to build trust is by offering a free report or white […]

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Ten Ways To Market Your Business For Under $100 – Part 5 – Gain Trust and Build Long Term Customers With a Newsletter

One of the best ways to promote your business, build long-term customers – as well as keep your existing ones – is by producing a top-quality newsletter. Why do you need a newsletter? Because of the “Rule of Seven.” This marketing adage states that on average, a prospect needs to see or hear your marketing

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Ten Ways to Market Your Business For Under $100 – Part 4 – Effective Online Networking

Unlike younger generations, Baby Boomers clearly remember rotary phones, our first calculator (remember how big it was) and a time when computers were science fiction. Our first computer couldn’t do more than simple word processing and even simpler games. It probably was a Commadore 64 or a TRS-80. If you weren’t born with a cell

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Ten Ways to Market Your Business For Under $100 – Part 3 – Networking

Yesterday I wrote about using the Three Foot Rule and Elevator Speech. Today I’ll be talking about taking the elevator speech out for a spin at a networking meeting. Networking is a way of marketing your business through social networks – groups of like-minded business people, or people in the same industry. Formal networking meetings

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Ten Ways to Market Your Business For Under $100 – Part 2 – The Three Foot Rule

The three foot rule is simple. You tell everyone who gets within three feet of you about your business, products or services. This doesn’t just apply to networking meetings and business functions. Try it at the gym, in line at the grocery store, picking up your kids from swimming lessons. Why? Because when you’re out

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Ten Ways to Market Your Business For Under $100 – Part 1

Marketing is a numbers game. No matter how closely you target your ideal client, a large number of the people you hit with your marketing won’t buy right now. They don’t need your service or just don’t want it from you. It’s nothing personal – just a fact of life when you’re in business. To

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Are You Over the Age of 45 and Ready to Join the Stampede of Baby Boomers Starting New Careers as Entrepreneurs?

Welcome to The Baby Boomer Entrepreneur — your home on the net for information and resources to keep you up to speed on building a business in the 21st Century. Did you know it’s the American Wild West all over again with one in four new businesses started by someone over 50? This phenomenon is

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