No Pain, No Gain …… Really?

October 12th, 2009 Posted in Funnies, Marketing - Retail, Marketing - Small Business, Sales Training, Small Business | No Comments »

Part One of a little yarn Now let me explain something, it's not that I'm competative by nature (friends wipe that smirk off your faces!) but my gorgeous wife is pregnant and in the early days of the pregnancy she only put on a small amount of weight and very little on the tummy; being the supportive husband that I am I felt the need to go out in sympathy with her and grow my own tummy. The problem I was having ...

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Small Business – Sales – Increasing Sales of your Product / Service

October 7th, 2009 Posted in Marketing - Retail, Marketing - Small Business, Small Business | No Comments »

Unhappy in my job I decided to update the CV and get it out in the market place to see if I could get any bites, I didn’t, my CV wasn’t even registering in any potential employers searches in Seek, I decided to think a little bit laterally as to how I was going to get noticed.  I decided upon making a CV website to compliment any CV I put out there, so with my idea in mind I decided ...

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Marketing Mix – 5P’s – Summary

October 5th, 2009 Posted in Marketing - Retail, Marketing - Small Business, Small Business | 2 Comments »

Over the last 5 weeks I have talked about the 5 main elements of the the Marketing Mix and I hope that some or all of them have been of help when considering your own business.  Let me give you an example of how following these principals can help a business. Recently I came across a business where the owner really was questioning the value of the services their business was providing and how much they should be charging for them, ...

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