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The Auto Repair Shop’s Guide to Effective Yellow Page Advertising
I’m proud of the fact that you have a business that helps people in need. I’m happy that you can trouble-shoot just about any engine/transmission/electrical failure that comes your way. You probably have certified technicians and a state-of-the-art facility. That’s a mighty-big investment, to say the least. You should have a pretty loyal customer base as well. But are you aware that one out of five customers move away each year? And a certain number also change shops for a variety of reasons. It’s not your fault, but you still have to cope with these facts. So, do you have a Yellow Page ad, or, if not, isn’t it time you did? You have an emergency business, like it or not, and you know that the average person uses the local directory to find one.So, what about that ad? Have you considered what will attract the right consumer? Do you have a marketing background? I thought not. Maybe I can help prod you along. Think about what you can tell your market area about your shop.What makes you unique? Don’t say your price and experience. Everyone of them already says that somewhere. You have to come up with something that will get the readers attention and set you apart from the other guys. Hey, I didn’t say that this would be easy. It’s about time to seek out an expert, wouldn’t you agree? No, I don’t consider your average YP rep an expert. For one thing, how much experience do they have?I was a YP rep and consultant for nearly 25 years and, prior to that, had my own advertising agency. I also have a degree in marketing. I’ve been designing Yellow Page ads for the past three decades. So I have expertise in YP creation and have advised almost 7000 companies on how to put together the most effective YP ads. I would imagine that using someone like myself could be a good direction. Therefore, you could start by reading a good book on the subject, available below.

site should load fast. The next site is a click away. If your site loads slowly your visitor clicks away and you have lost a potential customer. Usually, graphics, animations, are the cause of slow loading pages. Your can use some software, available free on the internet, to reduce the size of your graphics so that they load fast.

Your site should have a professional look about it. It should at first glance portray a quality site. This adds a little bit of credibility to the site. The site is then seen as a serious site.

State your case quickly. Let your visitor kno

Trade Show Promotional Gifts - It's All About Image!
If you're taking your company to a trade show in the near future, it's important to make sure that you've got your image right. After all, trade shows are the best opportunity you'll have to meet other major players in your industry face to face - whether it's future business partners, existing customers or your fiercest competitors. Trade show giveaways might represent a substantial extra cost; but, when used correctly, the right combination of promotional gifts and items emblazoned with your logo can work wonders for your brand.When at a trade show, it's important to remember that you're competing for the attention span of all attending delegates. This means that you need to make sure you have promotional giveaways that will attract attention and get people talking about your name. What's more, since you've paid for the opportunity to expose your brand to your industry, you also need to project the best image possible. As a result, when choosing promotional gifts, approach with a mixture of professionalism and healthy, constructive fun.The most popular promotional items on offer at trade shows include pens, lanyards, tote bags and a range of other desktop and miscellaneous items. However, it's important to choose promotional items for which your delegates will be clamouring, if you want to make a big impact. For instance, if you're in the retail industry and are planning to attend a trade show with other leading retail companies, you'll expect to be confronted by a mix of peers and professionals. Attendees of this sort of trade show will appreciate office items, like mouse mats, mobile phone holders and interesting computer accessories.Alternatively, if you're scheduled to appear at a student trade fair or a university careers fair, you might want to opt for a slightly different approach. Here, you may be more inclined to give away promotional badges, balloons, fridge-magnets, yo-yos or puzzles and games. But whatever promotional gifts you decide upon, make sure you get your branding right in order to make a big i

Do you know your conversion rates? Conversion rate is the number of visitors to your site that take the desired action against the total number of visitors in a particular period or time. Research has shown that 60% of websites do not know their conversion rates. Then how do you improve your site’s performance if you do not know your conversion rates? What do you take into consideration when making changes to your site’s design? What do you do when you have plenty of visitors yet very few of them take the desired action? What do you want your visitors to do? How are they going to do it? What is the next step for your visitor after taking the desired action?

These and other questions can easily be answered if some efforts are made towards tracking and calculating websites’ conversion rates.

Converting your visitor is the ultimate aim of any website. Making the visitor to take the desired action is the fulfillment of a process that started from wherever the visitor clicked to come to your site. The desired action could be;

Sales
Subscribing to your newsletter or book-marking a page.
Taking a survey.
Downloading a software or ebook
Clicking on a link.
Going through the process (that is, clicking from page to page ) before clicking on the order button.
Etc

Most of the time we think conversion starts when the visitor lands on our Site. But conversion actually starts from wherever the visitor first locates our site. How the site was located. What description the visitor sees before clicking to your site or what recommendation or word of mouth brought the visitor to your site. This pre-conversion state is what to a large extent, can determine whether conversion actually takes place or not. This is what I call the keyword-title-description-landing page formula. This formula is explained in my free ebook “Google Adwords Made Easy”. You can download this free ebook at home base business ideas site.

What enables conversion to take place.

A visitor landing at your site should immediately feel comfortable with your site. First impression as they say matters a lot. For conversion to take place you must hold the visitor’s attention once he lands on your site. Some of the points to note that make for easy conversion are:

Your website should load fast. The next site is a click away. If your site loads slowly your visitor clicks away and you have lost a potential customer. Usually, graphics, animations, are the cause of slow loading pages. Your can use some software, available free on the internet, to reduce the size of your graphics so that they load fast.
Your site should have a professional look about it. It should at first glance portray a quality site. This adds a little bit of credibility to the site. The site is then seen as a serious site.
State your case quickly. Let your visitor know
Sales Secrets From A Six-Year Old
Picture a beautiful sunny day one weekend in late spring in Perth, Western Australia. A climbing white iceberg rose is in full bloom releasing its sweet perfume into the still air.Underneath that rose sitting on the footpath are a six-year old girl and four-year old boy, both with blonde hair, blue eyes and impeccably dressed.They have a table, chair and umbrella set-up, with a little hand-written sign saying "Raffle Tickets For Sale Only $2".They patiently wait in the warm spring air. Then as people walk down the street, the six-year old confidently approaches them saying, "Hello, would you like to buy a raffle ticket, we're raising money for our school!"How could anyone refuse? This was my daughter Georgia as she sold raffle tickets and in a small way helped raise more than $30,000 for her local school.What did I learn from my daughter's entrepreneurial approach to helping raise money that will help put air-conditioning in the class-rooms of her 108-year old school?Well, they are insights we can all apply to any sales situation, whether a multi-million dollar company, small business or not-for-profit fund raiser.1. Enthusiasm.This quality more than anything else is essential for sales success. My daughter had it in bucketfuls.How is your enthusiasm for your job, product or organisation?2. Organisation.Good salespeople are well organised. My daughter was no exception with the chairs, umbrella, sign, tickets, pen and cash float for change.Is your lack of organisation costing you sales?3. Empathetic listenerEven though she's only six, my daughter is a good listener. A value as parents we've tried to teach her.4. Self-motivationMy daughter would still be on the footpath selling raffle tickets if she had her way.Her level of motivation was exceptional and for her this was fun.Are you still having fun in your job?By the way, the ball for the parents was also great fun, as you can tell by the photo with my gorgeous wife (third from left) and other friends!5.
? What is the next step for your visitor after taking the desired action?
These and other questions can easily be answered if some efforts are made towards tracking and calculating websites’ conversion rates.
Converting your visitor is the ultimate aim of any website. Making the visitor to take the desired action is the fulfillment of a process that started from wherever the visitor clicked to come to your site. The desired action could be;
1. Sales
2. Subscribing to your newsletter or book-marking a page.
3. Taking a survey.
4. Downloading a software or ebook
5. Clicking on a link.
6. Going through the process (that is, clicking from page to page ) before clicking on the order button.
7. Etc
Most of the time we think conversion starts when the visitor lands on our Site. But conversion actually starts from wherever the visitor first locates our site. How the site was located. What description the visitor sees before clicking to your site or what recommendation or word of mouth brought the visitor to your site. This pre-conversion state is what to a large extent, can determine whether conversion actually takes place or not. This is what I call the keyword-title-description-landing page formula. This formula is explained in my free ebook “Google Adwords Made Easy”. You can download this free ebook at home base business ideas site.
What enables conversion to take place.
A visitor landing at your site should immediately feel comfortable with your site. First impression as they say matters a lot. For conversion to take place you must hold the visitor’s attention once he lands on your site. Some of the points to note that make for easy conversion are:
1. Your website should load fast. The next site is a click away. If your site loads slowly your visitor clicks away and you have lost a potential customer. Usually, graphics, animations, are the cause of slow loading pages. Your can use some software, available free on the internet, to reduce the size of your graphics so that they load fast.
2. Your site should have a professional look about it. It should at first glance portray a quality site. This adds a little bit of credibility to the site. The site is then seen as a serious site.
3. State your case quickly. Let your visitor kno
  Innovation Management - Raw brainpower versus experience
  Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation whilst innovation can be defined as idea selection, development and commercialisation.There are other useful definitions in this field, for example, creativity can be defined as consisting of a number of ideas, a number of diverse ideas and a number of novel ideas.There are distinct processes that enhance problem identification and idea generation and, similarly, distinct processes that enhance idea selection, development and commercialisation. Whilst there is no sure fire route to commercial success, these processes improve the probability that good ideas will be generated and selected and that investment in developing and commercialising those ideas will not be wasted. Raw brainpower versus experience The best problem identification, idea generation and idea selection requires a intellectual cross pollination. That means, at least:a) A large number of people.b) Large diversity of people.c) Large novelty of people.There are of course other classifications, and one of the most interesting is:a) Those with raw brainpower. A team of hot shot Ivy League MBA’s is great, especially for the raw number crunching and analysis that needs to take place to arrive at good decisions.b) Those with experience. Can fresh faced Ivy League MBA’s compete with the non-graduate with twenty years experience? Probably not. In those twenty years an incredible amount of tacit knowledge has been built up.But the answer is not one or the other. The answer is that teams of both will produce better results. The key is collaboration and intellectual cross-pollination, not competition.These and other topics are covered in depth in the MBA dissertation on Managing Creativity & Innovation, which can be purchased (along with a Creativity and Innovation DIY Audit, Good Idea Generator Software and Power Point Presentation) from http://www.managing-creativity.com/You can also receive a regular, free newsletter by entering your email address at this site.
  ftware or ebook
4. Clicking on a link.
5. Going through the process (that is, clicking from page to page ) before clicking on the order button.
6. Etc
Most of the time we think conversion starts when the visitor lands on our Site. But conversion actually starts from wherever the visitor first locates our site. How the site was located. What description the visitor sees before clicking to your site or what recommendation or word of mouth brought the visitor to your site. This pre-conversion state is what to a large extent, can determine whether conversion actually takes place or not. This is what I call the keyword-title-description-landing page formula. This formula is explained in my free ebook “Google Adwords Made Easy”. You can download this free ebook at home base business ideas site.
What enables conversion to take place.
A visitor landing at your site should immediately feel comfortable with your site. First impression as they say matters a lot. For conversion to take place you must hold the visitor’s attention once he lands on your site. Some of the points to note that make for easy conversion are:
1. Your website should load fast. The next site is a click away. If your site loads slowly your visitor clicks away and you have lost a potential customer. Usually, graphics, animations, are the cause of slow loading pages. Your can use some software, available free on the internet, to reduce the size of your graphics so that they load fast.
2. Your site should have a professional look about it. It should at first glance portray a quality site. This adds a little bit of credibility to the site. The site is then seen as a serious site.
3. State your case quickly. Let your visitor kno
  YouTube: Playground For Exhibitionists
  C’mon, don’t tell me you’ve never pretended to be one of those. It’s really safe to come out of the closet now. Even my friend’s boss has publicly declared it. You know you’re a YouTube addict and so is everybody else. Everybody with a broadband connection that is. What’d you think I was referring to? YouTube, the video-sharing site that everybody just can’t seem to get enough of is a true web phenomenon. A phenomenon phenomenal enough to be snapped up by Google for a cool 1.65 billion smackeroos (that’s the equivalent of owning a fleet of Boeing 787s – ten to be exact).You can confidently proclaim it to be the poster child for Web 2.0 and no geek will take issue with you on that. Unlike the iTunes store, whose emphasis is on downloadable videos, YouTube is strictly (and I use this word very loosely) streaming. And of course, YouTube is free.With overheads lower than that of a cable TV company and with a bigger audience to boot, you’d be forgiven to think cable networks are packing it up for greener pastures. Though that’s never going to happen, YouTube’s runaway success is another clear indication of disruptive technologies at work in a post-Web 1.0 era. And the reason for this success? Only one that immediately springs to mind - amateur viral content producers.In other words, anyone with a weakness for exhibitionism (with a tagline like ‘Broadcast Yourself’ you can understand why) and a little bit of time to spare, has the ability to create, produce, upload, watch and share their own or others’ videos; all without the budget of a Hollywood Studio. Let me put it to you this way. You don’t need a budget. Got a cellphone? Then the binary world of stardom is your oyster. It takes less than three minutes to set up an account and start uploading your videos to YouTube.If shooting videos is not your cup of tea, watching probably is. With more than 100 million videos offered per day and more than 65,000 new videos uploaded everyday, you’ll have enough reasons to explain away your 10-year absence from your in-laws’ weekend vis
  ctually takes place or not. This is what I call the keyword-title-description-landing page formula. This formula is explained in my free ebook “Google Adwords Made Easy”. You can download this free ebook at home base business ideas site.
  What enables conversion to take place.
  A visitor landing at your site should immediately feel comfortable with your site. First impression as they say matters a lot. For conversion to take place you must hold the visitor’s attention once he lands on your site. Some of the points to note that make for easy conversion are:
  1. Your website should load fast. The next site is a click away. If your site loads slowly your visitor clicks away and you have lost a potential customer. Usually, graphics, animations, are the cause of slow loading pages. Your can use some software, available free on the internet, to reduce the size of your graphics so that they load fast.
  2. Your site should have a professional look about it. It should at first glance portray a quality site. This adds a little bit of credibility to the site. The site is then seen as a serious site.
  3. State your case quickly. Let your visitor kno
    Success Is About Being Different
    It is amazing just how many people are insecure with themselves that they wish to be somebody else. I have even heard of people going as far as having face transplants to look like someone else! Now don't misunderstand me, there is absolutely nothing wrong with having someone to look upto, people you look to for inspiration, guidance and support, this is different to when you seek upon doing exactly what everyone else does, i.e. becoming like the Jones' - following the crowd. This is unlikely to bring you success in your career or business. You are unique, you are the only one with your particular uniqueness, one in more than a billion people, strong and living, that is to be celebrated not discarded.In Wes Beavis' book - 'Escape to Prosperity' he talks of how we live in a society where people want to be better than the Jones', their next door neighbour, but you do not know how those people got their success, certainly be inspired by them if necessary but do not envy and therefore feel like you are inadequate as a person. What you need to do is work on your inner self, developing your knowledge and skills in whatever you want to accomplish. "There is nothing more that speaks of success than the easy confidence that comes from living debt free," Wes Beavis. Leave the Jones' alone, if you can take some encouragement from them that is fine, but remember keeping up with the Jones' may mean keeping up with their high level of debt.In your search for the perfect job or business you may have to do things different, like listening to motivational tapes, using a mentor for advice on matters that are pertinent to your career or business, attending seminars on interview skills and techniques, learning from experts in the field, getting advice about the presentation of your resume or CV this is not what most people do, in general people restrain themselves they ignore the work that goes first because they want success now, a symptom of the society they live in to which they have succumb.I read a passage from John Harrison's excellent book - 'How to stop working and make a ?million p
    site should load fast. The next site is a click away. If your site loads slowly your visitor clicks away and you have lost a potential customer. Usually, graphics, animations, are the cause of slow loading pages. Your can use some software, available free on the internet, to reduce the size of your graphics so that they load fast.
  4. Your site should have a professional look about it. It should at first glance portray a quality site. This adds a little bit of credibility to the site. The site is then seen as a serious site.
  5. State your case quickly. Let your visitor know what your site is about in a few words. Don’t go rambling about your achievements. That can come later. Give the visitor what he is looking for.
  6. Arrange your content in an easy to understand way. Whether you are using Tables or CSS for site design, make sure your content is arranged in such a way that the visitor moves from one section of the site to another without confusion or frustration. If you are catering to different kinds of visitors, demarcate your site or page clearly showing these different sections for visitors.
  7. Include your Privacy Policy, Phone Numbers, About Us information on every page of your site. This builds some element of trust. Visitors may not click to these pages but the fact that they are there builds some credibility.
  8. Do not irritate your visitors with bad grammar or typos. Check and crosscheck your content. Ask somebody to read through your content and point out grammatical errors and typos. These kinds of errors portray a site as unserious and therefore suspect.
  9. If you must use banners use them sparingly. Do not allow your banners to distract your visitors from the desired action to be taken. Banners are been clicked on less and less these days.
  Having taken care of all of the above, your site is set to present your visitors with your carefully packaged offer. You begin by getting to know your present conversion rates. It is only logical that before any action is taken to improve conversion rates, the present conversion rates are known.
  What is your website’s conversion rates.
  There are many actions a site may desire a visitor to take once he lands at the site. It is the conversion rates of these desired actions that you want to calculate.
  Lets look at some the typical conversion rates that need to be calculated and what can be done to improve them.
  1. The SALES CONVERSION RATE. This gives you an idea of how many visitors are buying your product out of the total number of visitors that visit you site.
  The sales conversion rate = number who bought / total number of visitors x 100
  So if you have about 10000 visitors in the month and out of that , 350 bought your product, your conversion rate is
  350 / 10000 x 100 = 3.5%
  This means that for every 200 visitor that land at your site 7 will buy your product.

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Savvy event producers follow the Golden Rule: know thy audience. The right band, comedian or speaker will drive ticket sales, help secure sponsors and generate the right amount of excitement, glitz and glamour for the occasion. Indeed, the most carefully considered entertainer can reach far beyond the event, generate a great deal of publicity, and build equity for your client or cause.

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