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Getting Testimonials From Everywhere

Helping Your clients – Growing Your Business

When you have a coaching appointment, you should always have a testimonial-building question at the end. This is the most efficient way to build a current and complete collection of testimonials. Use something like this:

How businesses can stop spam email

If you’ve had an email account for more than a few months, you know what a HUGE problem spam is. It's an even bigger problem when spam keeps you from communicating with your clients and potential clients.

How to make your web site work harder for your business.

If you're relying primarily on your web site to do the marketing for your coaching practice, It’s time for a reality check. Many coaches have their web site acting as a "virtual brochure" and not one that is designed with attracting clients in mind.

TOP FIVE REASONS FOR WEB SITE FAILURE

A study performed by the Gallup Organization for the National Federation of Independent Business revealed startling statistics about how businesses are utilizing the Web.

A majority of business owners (57%) are using the Internet. Most businesses are using the internet to e-mail customers and suppliers, buy products and to research business related information. Surprisingly, almost 40% do not have their own Web site. The sixty percent of those who do have a business Web site report that their web site is not built for e-commerce element. These business owners are instead choosing to utilize their web presence to stimulate customers to make more traditional transactions by phone, fax or in person.

With this information in mind, it's not surprising that seventy-three (73%) of web site owners said their sites had not improved sales. However, 57% percent reported that their web site had brought in additional customers.

Why aren't the web sites surveyed above working hard at creating income? Here's the top five reasons:

3 Easy Steps to Quality Link Building

So you’ve gotten an email offering to trade links with your site. Should you bite? Should you offer to link to their site just so they’ll link to yours? The answer is a resounding, “Maybe!”

10 Easy Steps to Making the Best Decisions.

George Eliot, an English novelist who lived in the 19th Century once wrote, “The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.”

Ah, decisions, decisions. Part of every business owner’s life is making decisions. If you doubt your decision making skills, take heart. Decision making is a skill that is learned, not an inherent trait.

“An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.”

John H. Patterson

There are two types of decisions. There are decisions where you deliberately and consciously make a choice and then there are those situations that you decide to ignore. (Remember, choosing to do nothing is also a decision!)

The best decisions are not left to chance but are instead made by following a process. Whether the process yields the “right” decision is really irrelevant.

Do you have trouble setting goals and keeping them?

Fear no more, the Goal Guy is here! I recommend that you read his ebook: Goal Setting 101 e-Book

Trades and Potential Partnerships

Many coaches and consultants, especially those in "start up" mode are often very open to trading their services in order to obtain necessary services. It’s not unusual for start ups to try to conserve cash by trading for logo design services, branding, marketing, web development and other necessary start up expenses.

The key to a successful trade is simple: don’t enter into a trade relationship with someone with whom you wouldn’t be willing to write a check for their services.

Are you unintentionally helping spammers?

As spam becomes a bigger problem for us all, there are simple steps everyone can do to reduce the number of addresses that land in the spammers hands.

What Is Online Marketing?

The term "online marketing" has been thrown around by information gurus for years. It’s been viewed as the key reviving sagging sales. It’s been used as the lazy person’s way to instant wealth. For the purposes of this article, and this website, the term online marketing shall be defined as follows with the help of Wordsmyth.net: all of the activities involved in transferring goods from a producer to consumers using the internet.

Despite what you may have read or want to believe, online marketing is really no different than OFFLINE marketing. What you need is a marketing STRATEGY, not marketing TACTICS.