Business marketing advice, tips and guides to help you boost your promotions
Business Scene, the UK’s fastest growing online business community, has invited companies from across the capital to join them at ‘London Connections’, sponsored by Microsoft and Alliance & Leicester.
More than 200 SMEs from a range of industries are expected to attend, bringing the city’s leading business networking groups together under one roof on the 15th September.
In this article, leading Sales Expert Andy Preston explains why you’re not currently getting the results from your cold calling that you could be…..and what you can do about it to get the results you deserve……..
Grant Leboff looks at the fact that when we look for a new product or service today, we probably only undertake two activities and why we forget the obvious option of Word of Mouth marketing.
Love it or hate it, Twitter has become something of a social media phenomenon. The idea of telling the world what you had for breakfast might fill you with horror, but there’s no denying that any channel that helps you identify emerging trends and engage with huge numbers of people has to have some potential as a business tool. We asked ntl:Telewest Business’s John Cunningham for his top ten tips on how you can use Twitter to benefit your bottom line.
The rise in popularity of Twitter is partially due to its adoption by celebrities such as Stephen Fry, Jonathan Ross and Lance Armstrong. Yet as a communications tool that allows you to talk to huge networks of people, and track what’s being said about topics in real-time, Twitter has enormous potential as a business tool.
A new advanced online artwork creation and web-to-print system has launched with major customers, including leading leisure business, Tattershall Castle Group (TCG). The system is entirely free to set-up for any business, large or small, and provides users with 100 percent flexibility, whilst reducing marketing spend by up to 20 percent.
Andy Preston explains why you’re not currently getting the results from your cold calling that you could be….. and what you can do about it to get the results you deserve……..
Leading sales expert Grant Leboff looks at how, regardless of the economic conditions, you can boost your sales by selling with integrity,
When economic conditions are hard, leading a sales force can seem like the most difficult job in the world. One of the main ingredients to achieving outstanding results is to ensure the team is motivated. Grant Leboff says that the key to motivation is recognition, as ultimately, everyone wants to be appreciated and their hard work acknowledged.
A little while ago a member of the Business Matters Magazine Facebook Group posed a question:
“Networking events…….do they work?”
The questioner went on to explain, “Over the past year I have been overwhelmed by the volume of networking events that have been shoveled through my letter box but I have had a busy time so attending has not been a priority.
Want to increase your business profile using Social Media and the new comer on the block Twitter. Media140 will be the UK’s first micro-blogging event, bringing together the worlds of print, broadcast, online and social media together to debate and discuss the impact of new micro-blogging services such as twitter and how they are changing how news is being sourced and consumed.
Government proposals to monitor social networking sites centrally fail to consider the impact of such action on businesses that now use these tools as an integral part of their marketing strategy and could result in some businesses abandoning social media altogether, according to a leading social media consultant.
The micro blogging social website has become a huge business phenomenon with businesses really utilising the site to increase their marketing reach.
But can you speak Twitter? Here we explain some of the phrases in a handy glossary
The internet’s ability to spread ideas across networks of users rapidly remains one of the most powerful forces in marketing, according to digital marketing innovator David Meerman Scott.
Some companies don’t use testimonials from loyal clients because they don’t have any. Some companies have got them and they still don’t use them. When it comes to selling, not using testimonials is like going into the ring with your hands behind your back. You’re going to be knocked out fast.
The reason that testimonials are so effective is that what others say independently about you is 100 times more powerful than what you say. Here’s a quick guide as to why and how you must use testimonials in your selling process.
