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New Worldwide Statistics Prove the Benefits of Business Networking
BNI, the largest business networking organization in the world, recently released its year-end statistics for 2006, proving the phenomenal gain that business networking brings to businesses across the globe.

A Few Tips For Choosing A Home Business Opportunity, Part 1
When you finally make that decision to choose a home business opportunity, you need to realize that you?re making a choice to dedicate your time, effort, and money to get yourself started in a home business. No matter what home business you decide to get started on, you?re going to have to be patient and attentive to the needs of the business.

Operating A Restaurant For Business
What you thought is enough to start a restaurant business could be the same thing that may cause your business downfall in less than a year. You may be an expert entrepreneur or you may have inherited a family business but have no background about restaurant and catering at all ? no matter the qualifications you have, some things are better studied first hand than realized later. And later could be too late.

360 Business Consulting Hires Senior Writer
360 Business Consulting has hired David Hofstede for the position of senior writer. He will be responsible for overseeing the company's writing staff and participating in mission-critical writing projects.

Home Business Survival Tips For Selling On Ebay In 2008
If you've ever been a buyer or seller on ebay, you have probably noticed that the winning auctions share some similar traits: they are easy to read, they have photos of the items being sold, and they accept a variety of payment methods To increase the success of your own auctions, take those same tips to heart and use them in your own listings

Discount Video Game Seller, Thumbmonkey, Wins eBay's "Best in Stores" Contest
Online video game seller, Thumbmonkey (http://stores.ebay.com/Thumbmonkey-Video-Games), wins eBay's "Best in Stores" contest for the Best Store Marketing category. Only four winners, one in each of 4 different categories, were named in the contest which drew over 12,000 entrants.

How To Apply For Business Card Credit Online
Applying for a business credit card online has now been made easier thanks to the Internet. Gone are the days when a person has to personally go to the offices or agents of credit card companies to apply for their business credit cards and waste precious time and wait for their turn to be entertained.

Groundbreaking Green Building Book Makes the Case for Successful Green Building Marketing
Jerry Yudelson, leading green building consultant and green building speaker, has a new book which provides proven marketing success formulas for architects, engineers, contractors and owners who want to ensure success in the rapidly growing green building industry.

Wealth Transfer Now Internet Marketing Secrets Revealed
Today may be the day that you decide to start your own marketing business We have revolutionized the way home based businesses and other internet businesses run from day to day

Take A Systems View To Ensure Your Business Stays Healthy
How are you feeling today? Good, not so good, great? Let me ask the same question in a different way: How is your gastro-intestinal system functioning today? What about your lymphatic system? How's the old circulatory system flowing along? Are all your bodily systems aligned, in sync, and cranking at peak performance?In order to get everything done perfectly and on time, your body must use many systems that effectively work side by side. Just as it is important to take a systems view when it comes to your body's health and well-being, it is equally important that you have a clear understanding of your business and its organizational systems.

Starting An Internet Home Business
Starting your own business is a goal of many people, particularly if you want to work from home and give up the daily rat race. By carefully using the internet in a planned and cautious manner you could successfully create an online home business with a relatively small budget and only a little initial knowledge.

What Is Merchant Web Marketing?
Recently I wrote an article called ?Put your spare domain names to work for you using affiliate programs?. What that article basically described was an important approach to Merchant Web Marketing. A trend that many merchants offering affiliate programs are more and more starting to include in their package of affiliate services are Product Line Data Feeds. These Data Feeds can bring affiliate web marketing to a new level.

Blank Business Cards - Why You Need Them
According to Tom Cruise?s character in Jerry Maguire, the world is full of tough competitors vying for your business. Knowing this, business owners should excel at meeting and keeping potential clients. Blank business cards are one way companies can spread the word about their business. Whenever a new employee is hired, businesses can use Microsoft Word and other word applications to personalize business cards with a company logo. This is handed to the employee until new cards are purchased from a printer.

Mainstream Technologies Names Ms. Kellie Miller New Director of Business Development
Mainstream Technologies Inc. (MTI) a Little Rock, AR based information technology services and consulting firm announced the hiring of Ms. Kellie Miller as its new Director of Business Development. Ms. Miller will be responsible for growing the newly created Information Technology Services Group. This role is responsible for developing new IT Services business for hardware and software platforms, IT consulting, network products and computing hardware management.

mhn Internet Marketing and Gilmore Marketing Concepts Announce their Launch of Elgin Duckapalooza Website and Online Store
Chicago marketing firms team up to launch a new website and online store for the Boys and Girls Club of Elgin's Duckapalooza and Elgin Duck Pluck event, September 6, 2008.

Use This Simple Marketing Technique To Gain More Customers

All business owners are aware that in order to run a successful business, whether it is selling products, or offering a service for hire, you will need to do some marketing to bring in customers.

What business owners might now know is that dumping more money into a marketing plan is not always the answer. If the message you are sending is not appealing to consumers, I don`t care how much money you spend, your campaign will surely fail.

One item to not overlook are your current customers, especially the satisfied ones. Don`t forget to offer your current customers some kind of discount if they refer someone, such as 25% off their next order if they bring someone in to purchase or hire whatever it is you sell.

You want to keep your satisfied customers, well, satisfied. Not quite rocket science, but you get the point. People like to feel important and when you make happy customers feel even more important, chances are they will go to their friends and relatives and say, "you have to use John`s service, the guy is great, professional," and so on. There is nothing better then receiving new customers from current customes through word of mouth marketing.

If you own a delivery service or provide a service where you need to go to a residence or place of business then the next item about marketing I am going to tell you should be a no-brainer. I would love to take credit for this, however, stories I have read puts credit on the shoulders of a Pizza shop owner, who many years ago, used this type of marketing.

So what is it? Well it really doesn`t have a name, but the process works like this. When you are providing a service to a customer, do not forget to take along with you, fliers, business cards, or whatever type of literature you have on your company and service, and at the end of the day or job when you are finished, put a few on doors or hand them out in the nearby offices. You are already in the vicinity, so travel expenses are at the lowest it will be as is the labor, and the people that you are handing the information too, can view your work (whatever it is), right there.

That pizza man`s philosophy was very simple, when you deliver a pie to a home, place a flyer with coupons on it, on the house on each side of the home you just delivered to. The marketing program worked wonders.

With this type of marketing, if it is not just you that goes out and does the work, offer bonuses and incentives to your employees who have the highest return on these fliers. Of course you will need to come up with a way of tracking where they are coming from, but that is as simple as giving each employee a special code and putting that code on the coupons, fliers, or whatever it is you are handing out.

The example of marketing I just gave you may be a simple one, but you would be surprised as to how many people and business owners overlook the obvious as they are trying to come up with creative ways to get their business name out there.

By: Bruce A. Tucker

About the Author: Bruce A. Tucker is the Associate Director of Indocquent.com. Indocquent.com is an online resource that allows businesses and individuals to post their products and services for sale in 20,000 cities throughout 200 countries around the world free of charge.