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Making Audiences Work For You

Lots of salespeople make outlandish claims, and the successful ones have a ready answer for any question. At the very least they can think on their feet and turn the question into an opportunity on the spot.

This guy wasn’t one of them.

Who The FRIG Is This?

Regardless of what you sell, it’s critical to point recipients towards a website for more information. This reinforces the brand name in a customer’s mind while also potentially opening additional sales opportunities.

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The Tale of the Stout Bottle

New year is the perfect time to take stock in your business and re-examine your branding, packaging, and strategies. Because, regardless of what you sell, you too can probably increase sales by changing your image.

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Organizing Your Business For 2022

Composition notebooks are great for developing your business plan. You can’t tear out the pages, and any ideas you scribble down are still there six months later.

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Ads tattooed on your head

Virtually any medium can be used as a marketing tool. Any kind of clothing, furniture, or household item can promote your organization.

ALL HAIL THE END OF THE HO-HUM DYNASTY!

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Negative Impacts On Mailing Lists

Call me old-fashioned, but I believe customers should have a right to privacy and control who communicates with them. This may mean my business won’t always grow as fast as I might wish, but my clients will want to work with me and will appreciate the consideration I show them.

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Who Makes These Rules, Anyway?

The video BODY EVOLUTION demonstrates how we’re all manipulated into thinking the beautiful people are REALLY beautiful.

When Sales Need A Premium

Bringing ad specialty professionals into the conversation early in a project can lead to alternate ideas suitable to your audience, timeframe, or budget. And that makes everyone a winner.

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That’s A Lucky Phone Number!

Billboards can be very effective tools for businesses and organizations that seek high traffic, low cost, and personal customer relationships.

A Suspicious Welcoming

You may discover that your prospective clientele are leery of welcoming strangers into their homes. This hesitation may be due to so many people being unwilling to get vaccinated, or they might be concerned that possible thieves are “casing the joint.”

Why you shouldn’t kill your customers

Pepsi poisoning Charlie would be a public relations disaster! Here’s a 4-minute read on what potentially happens to any organization killing their own customers.

Limiting Limited Time Offers

Consumers often feel a sense of urgency when they see “limited stock available” or “clearance sales.” The idea is that failure to take immediate action might mean losing a valuable deal. It can even apply to items and brands typically ignored by that customer.

Twiddling My Thumbs On Hold

Keeping someone on hold in an obvious bid to ignore their situation is not a good way to retain that customer.

Our garage door collapsed…HELLO?

The company that ignores customers will probably never hear from them again. And whoever answers a customer’s email or phone call first is going to capture their business…probably for the long-term.

Remember QR codes?

As you tiptoe toward your 2022 marketing efforts, this low-cost strategy is a MUST HAVE for whatever else you’re planning to do.

Packaging Your Great Ideas Properly

No, it’s not a dance, though this 3 minute read does address the question; what happened to all those unexpired products when the 2020 Olympics got cancelled? Click here to see how to make sure this kind of disaster doesn’t happen to your business. https://bit.ly/SUEandCANDY

I DO Know How to Multiply

Cynical customers, cutthroat competition, high costs, staffing challenges, and government regulations can all get in the way of running a profitable business. Having poor messaging potentially calling your company’s integrity or intelligence into question doesn’t help your cause.