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You always need to be prospecting for new clients. Here are 5 tips to help you continually cultivate your prospect base. Read More

As much as anything else, a salesperson’s client list is a measure of their effectiveness as a salesperson. It is also a measure of their confidence in their ability. High performing salespeople have the highest levels of skills in all of the skill sets that sales requires, and they have the confidence to sell and to win big deals. Read More

Mari shares her initial impressions of the iPad, common mistakes people make with social media marketing, and Mari's 80/20 rule of social media strategy. Read More

Marketing podcast with Luther Lowe (Click to play or right click and “Save As” to download – Subscribe now via iTunes

The online review site Yelp has come under fire of late for practices that have been described by some small business owners as heavy handed in an effort to use the ratings and reviews process as a tool to sell advertising. Yelp responded recently by formalizing a host of chang Read More

I was recently offered my largest hourly freelance writing fee thus far to script an online gambling website. It became an inner battle between the need for a paycheck, ethics and morals. Sometimes in business, as in life, it is to our conscience and gut instinct that we must turn for the answers... Read More

So I’m a freelancer…where should I advertise my services? There are so many options available. I could advertise in the newspapers or in industry magazines, on TV (if I win the lottery), on radio or online. These are the main avenues that I could go down. Read More

Learn from your peers, damn it! Too often entrepreneurs make big investments, expecting big returns and it doesn't come true. Here are the experiences of some fellow entrepreneurs on where they wasted money. Don't make the same mistakes! Read More

Here are 3 steps to boost your lead generation, earn referrals, and land more sales in your local business. Check out this video from John Jantsch Read More

As a writer I thought to myself I am not a salesperson. On second thought all businesspeople are salespeople by default. We must draw others to the goods and services which we offer. I've just learned some great principles for my business from THE BEST salesperson I've ever had the PLEASURE of dealing with! Read More

Here's an email I received the other day. It illustrates how not to sell via email (and is included here exactly as I received it):

MY NAME IS MARC BATKE I LIVE IN CALGARY ALBERTS CANADA.I WORK WITH ONE OF THE TOP INVESTMENT BANKERS IN THE COUNTRY HIS NAME IS KURT SOOST. WE ARE CREATING A #1 SALES PERSON NETWORK IN DIFFERENT Read More