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Build Your Marketing: Services for your Business

Your Small Business Community

• Types of Associations To Join (and why you need to)
• Internal Committees Are Also Part of Your Community
• Small Business Networks Can Help Build Your Business
• How to Build a Successful Network
• Business Mentors Provide Significant Value
• Define Social Networks: And Understand the Relevance to Your Business
• The Importance of Online Social Networks in Your Marketing Strategy

Managing Your Small Business

• Active Listening Will Help Your Sales and Management Efforts
• The Advantages of Outsourcing: Hire a Small Business Advisor or Consultant
• Basic Management Skills: What Makes a Good Manager?
• Business Code of Ethics: Your Business Needs One
• Sample Code of Ethics: A Checklist
• Understand the Definition of Ethics and the Relationship to Your Business
• Managerial Ethics and Ethics in Leadership
• Effectively Managing Change: How To Do It?
• Conflict Resolution Tips For Effective Business Management
• Which Are More Important: Effective Leaders or Effective Managers?
• Business Growth Needs to be Managed; Carefully
• The Importance of Front Office Management
• Decisions Making Tips
• Opening A Small Business Successfully
• Problem Solving Techniques to Use in Managing Your Business
• The Recession Cycle: Business Growth Through Vertical Mergers (Part 2)
• Managing through this Economic Recession: Key Actions
• How to Survive a Recession? One Key Action: Track and Measure Key Financial and Non-Financial Metrics
• Managing Time Wisely: Increasing Your Effectiveness and Efficiency
• Understand Your Small Business Scope
• Measure Your Business Peformance (KPIs) to Manage Your Business
• Free Online Survey Tools Can Help Your Business
• Effective Survey Development Will Provide You With Great Feedback
• Tips for Starting a Business - Get a Business Plan Evaluation
• Business Growth Through Horizontal or Vertical Merger or Acquisition (Part 1)

A Definition of Marketing

• An 8-Step Marketing Outline
• Marketing in a Recession is Challenging: Create a Recession Marketing Communication Plan
• What's in a Name: Guerrilla, Guerilla or Gorilla Marketing?
• Why Market Segmentation Is Necessary in Your Marketing Plan
• Market Research Process: What is Qualitative Research? And How is it Different from Quantitative Research?
• Target Marketing Will Help You Achieve Your Marketing Objectives
• Every Marketing Plan Needs A Strong Marketing Mix Focus: Part 1 of 2
• Define Marketing Mix and Integrate into Your Plan: Part 2 of 2 on Mix
• How to Focus on Marketing Mix: Product
• Every Product Has A Life-Cycle. Do You Know Your Product's Life-Cycle?
• Product Differentiation Can Help You Gain Market Share
• It's Important to Get Product Positioning Right
• How to Focus on Marketing Mix: Pricing Strategies
• Marketing Mix: Promotion
• 4-Ps-of-Marketing: Is Place the Forgotten P?
• Use This Example of a Marketing Mix to Help Build Your Own Mix Strategy
• Consider a Direct Marketing Campaign as One of Your Marketing Tactics
• Postcard Marketing is a Highly Effective Form of Direct Mail Marketing
• Competitive Analysis is Critical to Understanding Your Market
• Competitive Intelligence: A Must-Do to Develop Competitive Strategies
• Excerpt from A Sample Marketing Plan: Objectives
• Marketing Services is Different Than Marketing Products

Money: How to Calculate Profit and Focus on Business Success

• Business Sale Agreement: Use Business Valuation Tools Before Selling
• Business Valuation Methods: Use a Small Business Valuation Formula
• What is Cash Flow? And Why Do You Need To Understand It?
• Profit Maximization and Cash Flow Management
• What is Gross Profit Margin? Understanding It Will Help You Better Manage Your Business
• Non-Traditional Startup Financing Methods: Consider Bootstrapping
• The Importance of Working Capital Management to Your Business

People Are Your Most Important Resource: Role of Human Resources

• Developing Your Employee Compensation and Benefits Plan
• Conflict Management Strategies
• Conflict Resolution Methods
• Employee Development Plan: Integrate with Your Strategic Workforce Planning
• Employee Retention Tips to Keep Your High Performing Employees
• Is Firing Employees The Hardest Thing You've Ever Done?
• Develop Effective Hiring Questions to Help You Select the Best Employees
• Human Resources Trends: Include Employee Rights in the Workplace
• Writing Job Descriptions: A Challenge For Most Business Owners
• An Employee Handbook Will Help You Manage Human Resources Issues
• A Sample Employee Handbook Policy: Conflict of Interest
• Define Orientation: Use a Sample New Employee Orientation Program Orientation Program to Build Your Own
• A New Employee Orientation Program Will Help You Retain Employees
• How To Do Performance Evaluations
• Use Sample Performance Evaluations to Write Effective Reviews
• Recruiting and Hiring Employees
• Invest in Employee Training Development to Build a High Performing Business
• Employee Training and Development Policy: Be Sure to Include Cross Training Employees

Small Business Planning

• Business Plan Outline
• A Simple Business Plan
• Plan Your Capital Expenditures for Better Utilization of Your $
• If Disaster Strikes, Do You Have a Business Continuity Plan?
• Access Business Continuity Resources to Help Plan and Prepare for Disaster or Emergency
• Use Disaster Recovery Scenarios (including Role Playing Scenarios) to Prepare Your Business for Business Interruptions
• Planning Your Business Exit Strategy
• Business Financial Plan: Having One is Necessary to Your Success
• Use a Financial Plan Sample to Conduct Business Financial Analysis
• Use Financial Ratios to Analyze Your Business Financial Performance
• Human Resource Planning: A Key Business Activity
• Your Marketing Research Plan
• A Plan Outline for New Product Development
• Your Business Operations Plan
• Your Safety Plan Checklist
• Your Sales Plan and the Assumptions That Drive It
• The Importance of Scenario Planning and Scenario Analysis
• Build Your Succession Plan To Successfully Exit Your Business
• Family Business Succession Planning Process

Pricing for Small Business Success

• Competitive Strategy Example: Alternatives to Cutting Price
• A Loss Leader Pricing Strategy
• Market or Price Skimming
• Penetration Pricing
• The Importance of Price Elasticity of Demand to Your Sales
• Pricing Method: A Look at 4 Alternative Strategies
• Product Line Pricing
• Promotional Pricing
• Psychological Pricing
• Value Pricing and Perceived Value Pricing: 2 Different Pricing Strategies

Small Business Sales

• A Business-to-Business Selling Checklist
• A Business-to-Consumer Selling Checklist
• Key Account Management: Focus on Key Customers
• Are Sales Commissions the Best Way to Compensate Your Sales Team?
• Sales Force Management for Small Business Sales
• Build a Specific Selling Strategy for Selling Professional Services
• Develop A Value-Based Sales Approach: Sell Value
• To Be Exceptional at Selling You Must be Exceptional at Relationship Building
• Yes. Selling Also Means Being Able to Write Effective Proposals.
• Request for Proposals - RFP Template for Writing and Winning Bids
• Request for Quotes - RFQ Template for Writing and Winning Bids
• Sales Development Training
• Education Sales Management - Improve Your Sales Results
• Writing a Proposal: How to Write a RFP?

Your Business Needs to Provide Good Customer Service

• Define Customer Service
• Customer Service Management
• Customer Tracking Software
• Turn Bad Customer Service Into Good Customer Service
• Understand How to Define Good Customer Service by Using Examples of Good Customer Service
• Customer Service Tips To Reduce Customer Service Issues
• Tips for Better Customer Service
• Why is Customer Service Important? Because Without Good Service You'll Lose Customers.

Strategy: Every Business Needs One

• A Strategic Plan To Do List
• A Strategic Plan Checklist
• A Vision Statement Provides A Starting Point For Your Strategic Road Map
• A Value Statement is at the Core of Your Strategic Plan
• Choose the Best Fit Strategy for Your Small Business
• Use this Sample SWOT Analysis as a Model for Your Own SWOT
• Use Market Strategies to Grow Your Business
• Do an Industry Analysis to Discover Your Key Success Factors (KSF)
• What are the Advantages of Diversification for Your Business?
• Understanding the Differences between Unrelated and Related Diversification?
• Product Strategy: The Two Best Strategies
• An Action Item Example: Increase Sales and Grow Market Share
• Changing Your Strategy in Business for Recessionary Times
• How and Why To Do A Value Chain Analysis (a competitive strategy tactic)

What is Time Management?

• Advantages of Time Management
• Employee Time Management Software
• 5 Tips on Time Management
• Free Time Management Tips
• Importance of Time Management
• How to Manage Time?
• Time Management in the Workplace for Small Businesses
• Use a Time Management Log to Track Your Time
• Use Time Management Sheets to Track Where You Spend Your Time
• A Time Management Worksheet Helps You Focus Your Priorities

Build Your Online Business: A Website Marketing Strategy

• How to Build Your Own Website
• Effective On-Line Marketing Services to Build Your Business

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