Posted by Penelope Herbert on November 14, 2017 · Leave a Comment
Your marketing spend is a vital part of business to understand and get under control. If you are looking for ways to cut business costs, you may have identified your marketing campaign as one area where you seem to be overspending. In fact, a lot of businesses could achieve the same marketing results while cutting … Continue reading →
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Posted by Penelope Herbert on October 28, 2017 · Leave a Comment
Event trends come and go from tupperware parties to speed dating. However, for businesses, the advancement of technology may have made a difference to event trends now. Corporate events are the new king of marketing. Ten years ago, they were the best marketing technique a company never had. Nowadays, everyone giant corporations and SMEs use … Continue reading →
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Posted by Penelope Herbert on October 17, 2017 · Leave a Comment
Business boredom will kill your venture long before you lose customers. So how do you get out of the boredom bog? The excitement of starting a business is enough to keep you going in the beginning. It’s tough, but there’s a lot to do, and you’re determined to make it a success. But there can … Continue reading →
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Posted by Penelope Herbert on October 3, 2017 · Leave a Comment
Ready. Set. Go. Startups are remarkably complex things that a lot of people don’t take seriously. For some, the idea of starting a small business is easy. How hard can it be? You just come up with an idea, get some money, and then everything falls into place. You’ll be surprised at how many people … Continue reading →
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Posted by Penelope Herbert on October 3, 2017 · Leave a Comment
(Don’t) Curb Your Enthusiasm! What To Do If You Feel Like Giving Up On Your Business Do you have boundless passion for your business? A lot of entrepreneurs would consider that to be a stupid question, but it’s a valid one. Lots of entrepreneurs find themselves feeling fatigued in one way or another. It can … Continue reading →
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Posted by Penelope Herbert on September 29, 2017 · Leave a Comment
As a business owner, do you really know all there is to know about the best marketing processes that turns into tangible sales? You understand the importance of marketing, and of course, a lack of effective marketing will have a drastic impact on your business. When you are in the process of running your business, … Continue reading →
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Posted by Penelope Herbert on September 22, 2017 · Leave a Comment
Click through rate is now part of the modern marketing lexicon. Is it part of yours? If not, then you need to read these shamefully easy tips eight now! In the modern advertising world, there’s one term that everyone is speaking about. Every business and advertiser under the sun is talking about CTR (click through … Continue reading →
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Posted by Penelope Herbert on September 15, 2017 · Leave a Comment
Go Global Or Go Home: Why The Global Marketplace Could Expand Your Small Business Just think about how much the nature of small business has changed over the past 30 years. There was no such thing as ‘go global’. Your average high street in the ‘80s was rife with small businesses, boutiques, “Mom ’n’ Pop” … Continue reading →
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Posted by Penelope Herbert on September 12, 2017 · Leave a Comment
Visual marketing is reaching another level because the brain craves infographics. 70% of sensory receptors are in your eyes, while it takes 50% of the brain to process visuals. It is no wonder that the number of visualized data on the internet has risen by nearly 10,000% in ten years. Yep, you read that … Continue reading →
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Posted by Penelope Herbert on September 12, 2017 · Leave a Comment
What Does It Take To Be A Smart Entrepreneur? That is the question to which every entrepreneur wants the answer. What does it truly take to be a smart business owner? What separates a successful business from an unsuccessful one? Companies rise and fall all the time. The business world is highly fragile, no matter … Continue reading →
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Posted by Penelope Herbert on September 11, 2017 · Leave a Comment
It shouldn’t really come as much of a surprise just how important diverse marketing is to the success of your business. After all, if you’re not bringing in new customers, then your business is never going to be able to grow or even properly sustain itself. However, one mistake that far too many businesses make, … Continue reading →
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Posted by Penelope Herbert on September 8, 2017 · Leave a Comment
SEO has continually proven itself to be the most effective method of acquiring business through online affiliate marketing means. It’s likely that you already understand the massive business interest in pursuing SEO strategy these days. While the internet has revolutionized the way that businesses work, communicate and engage with their clients, it has also allowed … Continue reading →
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Posted by Penelope Herbert on September 7, 2017 · Leave a Comment
The personal touch could be the old-fashioned marketing advantage your business needs. In a digital age; the majority of business marketing is carried out online. However, getting a sense of who you are as a brand can be a challenge when there’s no personal touch through a screen. Especially when you’re a smaller business in … Continue reading →
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Posted by Penelope Herbert on August 31, 2017 · Leave a Comment
” Learn Code ” probably isn’t high on your list of business priorities. In fact, learning code likely hasn’t even made your top 100 of business must-do’s. Well, now might be the time to proritise it. In business, it takes more than one team to make up a successful and profitable company. There are a … Continue reading →
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Posted by Penelope Herbert on August 31, 2017 · Leave a Comment
Reliable marketing options are open to interpretation depending on who is selling. So what’s the argument for new suggestions? Any new injection of cash to your firm is worthy of celebration. If it’s your first cash injection, even more so! This obviously means you have been approved for some form of loan or investment from … Continue reading →
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Posted by Penelope Herbert on August 30, 2017 · Leave a Comment
Are you ready to launch a new business as a first-time entrepreneur? Chances are you’re wondering if you’ve covered all your bases when it comes to launching your startup. After all, there have been hours and hours of work put into this so far. Coming up with the idea was the easy part! Translating that … Continue reading →
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Posted by Penelope Herbert on August 23, 2017 · 1 Comment
Competition is always going to be fierce in the business world. As such, you need to make sure that you gain the upper hand for your business. Ideally, you want to separate your business from the rest of the crowd and make sure it seems like the smart choice for customers or users. But how … Continue reading →
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Posted by Penelope Herbert on August 20, 2017 · Leave a Comment
When it comes to marketing, there are so many different directions that you could decide to go in. Of course, the decisions that you make will always be based on your own individual marketing needs. Every business is different, so there would be no set blanket marketing strategy that can work for each. You have … Continue reading →
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Posted by Penelope Herbert on August 16, 2017 · Leave a Comment
Independent real estate agents is a growing sector and more salespeople embrace being their own boss, and making more money. There are lots of industries and sectors in which a professional’s goal is to leave behind employment and become independent so that they can work for themselves. One industry in which this is an extremely … Continue reading →
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Posted by Penelope Herbert on August 10, 2017 · Leave a Comment
If your business offers any kind of service, then you have likely at least once floated the idea of offering free trials. Of course, no business owner likes the notion of a “free” anything. You’re in this to make money, not to offer a freebie that people can use and then abandon – so … Continue reading →
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