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Article Marketing Secrets - How to Create a Successful Article For Your Web Business
Everyone knows the important link between articles and web businesses. Writing article has proven to be a major contributor in driving traffic to one's website. By writing and including some good articles in your website, there is a good opportunity that your site may get a higher ranking on search engines. And with higher ranking, traffic flow to your site will definitely increase, and so will your profits. Therefore this potential income generating method should never be neglected.

Parature VP of Marketing to Speak at 2nd Annual Southeast Venture Conference
Conference Showcases the Most Promising Emerging Technology Firms in the Southeast Region

Sales Gravy Press Signs Business Coaching Experts, Sam Zordich and Jim Earley
It's unlikely you'll ever see a book titled The Misery of a Sole Proprietorship, but it's easy to imagine any Stephen King title describing someone's miserable experience in a business partnership. Partnerships require a huge leap of faith, vulnerability, and ultimately trust, which, is why so many end very badly.

Customer Service Tips - Is Your Business A Leaky Bucket?
Customer service and customer service training are vital for any business.But, is your business a leaky bucket?This is a question I always ask small business owners who attend my marketing seminars.

HauteSpot Networks Unveils New Wireless Protocol for IP Video Surveillance
HauteSpot Networks Corporation (www.hautespot.net) has released a new wireless protocol, implemented on their HauteWRAP family of wireless routers, which is optimized specifically for multipoint to point IP video surveillance. The protocol is similar to ATM and uses polling instead of CSMA/CA to slot time to each node in a wireless network. This results in outstanding video performance, network scalability, and reliability for IP cameras, video encoders, and other streaming media applications.

Marketing Objectives for Your Web Site
Do you have marketing objectives for your Web site? With objectives to help overcome your main online challenges you can work smarter, not harder.Think of your Web site objective as the "big picture".

Valtera Teams with Crains Chicago Business to Identify the Best Places to Work in Chicago?
Crains selects Valtera as research partner to measure employee engagement across Chicago-area companies

The Art Of Starting, Developing, and Maintaining an Online Business
Have you ever tried to start your own business online? Did you make money? Well, if you didn't, I'm sure I could tell you why not...assuming I had enough information regarding the process you took.

PR Secrets for Small Business
Most small businesses do little to no public relations (PR) to promote their businesses. The reasons are fairly common.

Debt Consolidation Loans Are Available For Business Debt Also
So many debt consolidation companies are available today and with that come numerous choices on which company?s services you will commit to. It can be a hard decision and one of the best factors to include in the decision-making process is the quotes the companies provide. You have quite a few options in obtaining debt consolidation quotes.

Master Resell Rights ? Why Are Master Resell Rights The Best Way To Start An Internet Marketing Career?
Have you ever wanted to be financially free and not to depend on some overbearing boss? If you?re looking for a way out of the rat race than internet marketing is definitely for you. But internet marketing is divided into many areas. Some are easy to do and some are not that easy. For starters it is best and recommended that you learn how to sell master resell rights products as it is one of the easiest ways of making money online.

Boomer Women In First Year Of Business Can Use Two Methods To Estimate Revenue
Can you predict what your revenue will be three years from now Many boomer women starting a business for the first time have a hard time doing just that

Best University Website Trends Detailed in New Report from the Web Marketing Association
New Web Marketing Association' Internet Standards Assessment Report Includes Historical Data Derived from a Decade of Hosting Internet Award Competition, WebAwards, and Provides Best Practices for University Web Design

What You Need in Your Marketing Calendar
Marketing calendars are used by many businesses to help keep sales pipelines full of new prospective customers. Small businesses may just keep a simple calendar with handwritten items on the dates that marketing efforts need to be completed.

Charles Lauller Joins Bizzuka as Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Business Development
Technology veteran to lead Web content management software provider toward international growth

What Does Your Business Card Say About You? - Making A Great First Impression!

Interesting article in USA Today that I read this week that I've also read about on Scott Ginsberg's blog. Think about this: What does your business card say about you? If you work in a company that requires you to conform to the corporate standard, obviously you don't have much choice. For the rest, what are you doing to stand out in a crowd of many?

A few suggestions from me that may or not be found in the above articles:

Use wild, interesting colors. Do you want to see a red card, or a white card? I choose red.

Use as little information as possible that is boring, and as much information as possible that is interesting. This means your fax number and mailing address are likely irrelevant, and what your value differentiating factor is is likely very relevant. Instead of "designer" how about "Designer to the Stars?" To quote the book title by Paul Arden, It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Think You Want To Be. Put what you WANT your job title to be. Be creative, and talk about what you do, because that's REALLY what you are.

Try to make an instant impression with your business card. Again, the color is the thing that makes people sit up and take notice. And don't forget to make a personal connection. See tip 5 for more on this

Be sure your name, phone number, e-mail address and website are listed on your card. If you don't have a website, why not? I strongly encourage you to get a website, even if you use a template company like I do at http://www.1and1.com You can get a site up in under 4 hours if you can use Microsoft Word, so do it now!

Don't just give out your business cards to everyone: be partial to who you give it to and make a real connection with the person getting your card. Why should anyone remember your name or what you do? GIVE THEM A REASON TO REMEMBER YOU! Try to make a connection as quickly as you can, so you can share what you're both passionate about as much as possible to deepen that connection. Connected people are people who you can help, and who can help you. Keith Ferrazi, author of Never Eat Alone, has a great article here on the importantce of making this connection.

Don't put every way to reach you on the card, but don't be afraid to write it on the card if you've made a particularly solid connection. Putting all contact information makes nobody feel important, but hand-writing a special way to reach you makes people feel like you're reaching out.

In conclusion, take the time to make it a great business card. Good is not good enough anymore!

Until next time, make it a great week!

Phil Gerbyshak
http://makeitgreat.org
414.640.7445