How to Get More Work from Existing Clients

Avatar Posted by suzyQ under Sales
From http://freelanceswitch.com 5998 days ago
Made Hot by: on June 5, 2008 2:15 pm
One of the best ways to increase your income is not to market for more work (ie, new clients), but to get it from existing clients. This is an often overlooked marketing method and missing it is like throwing money out the window. Following is a 3-step plan designed to get more work from your existing client base. Read More

Why Failures Can Be Such Success Stories

Avatar Posted by TimJustus under Self-Development
From http://www.businessweek.com 5999 days ago
Made Hot by: on June 5, 2008 4:37 am
To err is human. But to persevere is a feat that often separates the successful from the mediocre. In business—as in sports, politics, and the arts—many of the greatest and most influential leaders share a history of failure. Automaker Henry Ford and animator Walt Disney both stumbled badly with early business ventures. Early in his career wit Read More

“The Best, Jerry— The BEST!” | The Marketing Caddy

Avatar Posted by waltgoshert under Marketing
From http://themarketingcaddy.com 5999 days ago
Made Hot by: on June 4, 2008 4:25 pm
More "Best of" Entrepreneur Blogs in addition to The 41 Absolute Best Blogs About Entrapreneurship and Small Business Read More

How to Radically Increase Employee Engagement

Avatar Posted by d2kd3k under Human Resources
From http://trustedadvisor.com 6000 days ago
Made Hot by: on June 4, 2008 4:25 pm
Business author Charles H. Green makes the radical suggestion that companies should hook up their own employees with recruiters -- to increase employee engagement and retention. Counter-intuitive and brilliant stuff. Read More

The Top 10 ProBlogger Posts Of The Year

Avatar Posted by EvanCarmichael under Online Marketing
From http://www.evancarmichael.com 5999 days ago
Made Hot by: ArmadaIG on June 4, 2008 4:23 pm
ProBlogger is a website run by Darren Rowse that is dedicated to helping other bloggers learn the skills of blogging, share their own experiences and promote the blogging medium. He started it in September 2004 mainly because he wanted to keep a record of what he was learning about blogging for money. Since then he has added over well over 3500 ar Read More
There are thousands of small business and entrepreneurship blogs in the blogosphere. Unfortunately, many of them are not at all useful to the experienced or aspiring entrepreneur. We've all seen them. The great majority of which are e-commerce "pros" masquerading as entrepreneurship experts. This makes finding solid, useful information for the Read More

Email Analytics Reveal Sweet Spots In Subject-Line Length

Avatar Posted by ArmadaIG under Direct Marketing
From http://publications.mediapost.com 6000 days ago
Made Hot by: on June 4, 2008 12:42 am
Email marketing analytics have led Dela Quist, CEO of London shop Alchemy Worx, to discover a sweet spot for how long subject lines should be. He says open rates climb when the subject lines are in the 50-character range or 80-character range. But, perhaps counterintuitively, they fall in the middle when the length is 60 or 70. Read More

Use a Franchise Attorney When Investing In a Franchise!

Avatar Posted by franpro under Franchises
From http://www.evancarmichael.com 6000 days ago
Made Hot by: on June 3, 2008 11:42 pm
Don't use a family friend, who also happens to be an attorney, when investing in a franchise of your own. Here's why.... Read More

SBA's 'Cookie Jar Capitalism' Still Flourishes in Wake of Scandal

Avatar Posted by ArmadaIG under News
From http://www.allbusiness.com 6000 days ago
Made Hot by: on June 3, 2008 3:45 pm
Loan fraud has been a long-standing, widespread problem within the Small Business Administration and has cost taxpayers literally hundreds of millions of dollars. But when a senior executive of Business Loan Express engineered a particularly brazen $76 million loan scam early last year, it was widely thought the SBA had finally learned its lesson. Read More
Where did you learn your real life, business, and investing lessons? If you're anything like me then they probably came out of the mistakes you've made. Sure, the times you got everything right taught you something, but our successes also tempt us into static patterns or rigid solutions. Rarely do they lead to the truly profound insights. Read More
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