Featured Resource this week - Call Monitoring with Infusionsoft

Call Monitoring Integrated With Infusionsoft!

Novice marketers focus on getting the lead, but experienced marketers know that the job is only done when dollars exchange hands. You can cut the cost of generating a sale by 50% or more when you monitor and track how well incoming calls are being handled.

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Featured Resource this week - Copy Doodles

Handwriting and hand-drawn enhancements have been used for years in advertising and marketing because they are a proven way to grab attention and increase response and readability. There is NOTHING out there that matches the quality, expertise and level of support you get when you become a CopyDoodles member.  Their extensive library of direct-response marketing graphics features thousands of hand-drawn CopyDoodles, which can be easily downloaded to your computer and placed on any of the online or offline marketing pieces you are working on in a snap.

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Now that you’ve survived the holidays, you’re probably happy to see the back end of all the glitter, confetti and other holiday trappings that have bombarded your senses over the past few months. It’s time to get back to business as usual, right?

Well, not so fast...

 “To improve is to change. To be perfect is to change often.”

 -Winston Churchill

In the modern world of business, things seem to change about as fast as the cloud patterns on one of those time-lapse photography segments. With that in mind, what changes are trending on Twitter that may affect your business for 2017?

The crowds have departed after the celebration, and the street crews are working to clean up the confetti. Elsewhere people are waking up and getting ready for their day, some bright-eyed and alert, others still shaking off the effects of last night’s New Year’s Eve party. 

It’s the first day of 2017!  Are you ready for it?

Featured Resource this week -

Change the RULES of Mobile Marketing.

Before now, mobile marketing was severely limited. You could only send a single text in response to a single incoming text message. This caused people using mobile marketing to settle for less than effective marketing strategies.

Try Automated SMS for Only $1!

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Featured Resource this week - Infusionsoft

The Sales & Marketing Software for Small Business.

Customer & Marketing management: Manage and automate all facets of your customer relationships. Infusionsoft revolutionizes the way small businesses drive and manage their growth. With a robust dose of marketing automation, Infusionsoft replaces your diverse incompatible systems and provides you with an "all-in-one" solution that leaves you with more time to strategically grow your business.

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In the last few years, retail holidays like Cyber Monday and Small Biz Saturday have gone from being discount secrets to important parts of the holiday shopping scene. Competition among retailers can be pretty fierce, so it's important to take steps to be prepared for these important money-making events.

Let's look at some ways you might be able to up your game:

Are you sentimental about Valentine's Day? Do you get a little misty-eyed when you think about spending time with a sweetheart? Or maybe it’s the romantic dinner, the cards and the flowers? You know - the whole mushy thing?

Or are you the more pragmatic type? Do you see the holiday as a money-maker for the greeting card guys, and are mostly excited to see the chocolate go on sale February 15th?

If you’re a business owner, it pays to be a little bit of both.

No matter what business you’re in, whether you know it or not, you’re also in the business of learning. Even if you’re an experienced pro who’s ‘been there, done that and have the t-shirt to prove it’, there are still plenty of things you might not know. And even if you did somehow know everything about your chosen industry, things change. 

Why go?

If you’ve ever done any sort of swimming, you know the difference between diving and a belly flop. With a dive, you punch crisply through the surface of the water. With a belly flop, there is that painful, gut-wrenching slap when you (or hopefully some other braver soul) find out that water doesn’t yield nearly as much as you thought. The reason for the difference is that water has a surprisingly high surface tension, and by spreading yourself out, as in a belly flop, there’s not enough momentum at any one point to overcome that surface tension.

You can spread yourself too thinly with your business too, and find that the beginning of the year has turned into one painful belly flop.

Featured Resource this week -

 One Click Upsell

If you sell products, services or entry to events, using Infusionsoft's order forms, and you are not leading the new buyer to an immediate up sell, YOU ARE LEAVING MONEY ON THE TABLE!!!

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Featured Resource this week -

Change the RULES of Mobile Marketing.

Before now, mobile marketing was severely limited. You could only send a single text in response to a single incoming text message. This caused people using mobile marketing to settle for less than effective marketing strategies.

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Featured Resource this week -

Sherrie at SLS Event Planning and Consulting LLC, organizes, sets up, and manages various corporate, public, and private events and meetings.

We’ve known Sherrie a long time and have confidence and respect for her amazing event planning skills, so please give her our regards when you call.

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Everyone loves a sure thing. It always feels safer to sign on with the old established war horse than to take a chance with the new kid on the block. For those who took that leap of faith years ago, we thank you. Some need a little more convincing, and that’s fine. For those who signed on with us after we’d been around the block a few times, we thank you.

Our relationship with our clients is one of the many things we have to be grateful for. This year we'd like to a 16 BIG WAYS we appreciate you!