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Your dream client hired you because of your sales skills and abilities. Now they expect you to deliver, and that means your role, your duties, and your responsibilities require more than just your sales skills Read More

These 101 social media tools will help you improve everything from social media marketing to social media measurement and metrics-gathering. A very nice reference list to bookmark Read More

Critical question: Would a CEO, CFO or C-Whatever-O rather talk to you about features, benefits, price and discounts or an ROI of 78% and $486 grand of positive net cash flow Read More

Having your business featured in the local media can feel like getting lucky at the roulette table. The wheel spins round and round and you just pray that tiny ball lands on your number so your story is one of the chosen few to receive coverage that day.
It’s great because you’re basically getting free advertising, and the people absorbing that content are active viewers, listeners and readers.
So how do you get your local newspapers, TV and radio stations to take notice of your company? You’ve been sending out press releases when you launch a new product or have an event, you’ve been calling to follow up, but nothing seems to work.
Let’s take a look at some simple suggestions for getting your story in the local news Read More

In sales, your efforts don’t always line up neatly with the results. But the effort you expend helps you to increase your effectiveness (if you let it) and to produce your future results and opportunities Read More

Rae Hoffman (aka Sugarrae) interviews some of the worlds top link building experts about what works today. 2010 Edition, this is often the most critical info you will read all year if you are looking for links to boost your SEO Read More

When it comes to using social media for networking purposes, plenty of gurus have sprung up with ideas about how to leverage the latest tools. But few people have probably served as a better example of how to use social media as a networking tool in practical terms than former Apple Computer chief evangelist Guy Kawasaki, now Entrepreneur in Residence at Garage Technology Ventures Read More

Love does not dominate; it cultivates. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

But can you really make customers LOVE you?

Let's see.. Read More

Hi, folks. Put this together as kind of a more in depth exploration of how you go about creating real community on BizSugar or any other social media site you might participate in whether large or small. Thankfully, there are many others among our regular users here at BizSugar who are equally adept at building community through social media so I thought it would be great if everyone could pitch in with some suggestions as I'm sure there are things that could be added here. Besides, getting others' input is what social media is all about, right? Thanks, in advance, for your contributions! You can comment here or on the blog post by following the link. Read More

The single best thing you can do for your Search Engine Optimization today would be to figure out how to make your site a better resource. If you can figure out how and why, you'll make your Internet Marketing soooooo much easie Read More