Before you run out and start sending messages on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, or on your blog – you should have a Social Networking strategy for your business. The vast majority of business owners are so confused about the technologies that they forget the different social networking technologies are just tools. The smart entrepreneur will have an overall blueprint or strategy for what hey want to get out of these tools before they spend a lot of time and money on them. The most effective social networking and internet marketing strategies will be integrated with your existing marketing campaigns – Don’t put social networking on an island by itself! Your customer needs to have a thought through and consistent relationship with you. This includes both online and offline channels! In fact, some of the best campaigns I have ever seen use both traditional techniques and social networking together! On this video, you will learn a simple 5 step process for developing your social networking and marketing strategy. Follow the 5 steps to create your successful marketing campaigns!

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Article by Janet Schieferdecker

For Immediate ReleaseBerkeley, CAOctober 3, 2007

Author: Janet Schieferdecker510-849-2079artemis@artemiscp.com

5 Things to Know About Small Business Strategy

First of all, you need one. If you want to get somewhere, it is important to both clarify where you are going and HOW (your strategy) you are going to get there. If we use driving as a metaphor, we rarely drive without a destination (Vision of where we want to be) in mind. We also pick a route (the Strategy); we choose how we are going take the myriad of baby steps that will take us to our destination. Every time I drive to my office, I have to decide between several routes. My chosen strategy reflects my knowledge of traffic patterns, amount of time available for the scenic route, and how exactly aggressive I am feeling (do I have the emotional strength today to cut off a whole line of crabby commuters). We strategize all the time, and directing a business, however small, is no different.

Strategy can be simple. You don’t have to be WalMart to use low pricing as your strategy or a part of it. You just have figure out how to deliver your uniqueness better than your competition. By the way, in service industries, it is often a more useful frame to hold local practitioners of the same service as colleagues, while competitors would be especially large or distant providers. To create a strategy, focus on defining your unique competitive advantage; the reason (benefit) why anybody who needs your service should use you and not A.N. Other. Be careful to separate the features of your service from the benefits to the customer and in your strategy focus on the benefits.

Selling information and expertise is increasingly common in today’s economy, so I wanted to mention a strategy that is widely used in the consulting and training industry, especially when the service is unconventional and the potential clients have to be taught what the service is and what it can do. The “funnel” strategy has you create low price/free entry point products (the wide end of the funnel), then a progression of mid-tier products (0 to several thousand dollars), and finally your consulting service. The low price/free entry products (information workshops, audio conferences, books, – CD recordings… anything that’s priced between free and a not too special evening out) allow potential customers to get an experience of you. As trust builds, they may choose to attend a workshop or buy a more expensive DVD seminar . . . ultimately some customers may fall off, but some will “funnel” into more lucrative consulting customers. The strategy is based on the retail concept that, if you want to have someone come into your store, you need to make it easy for them to leave.

Big businesses need to spend thousands of dollars analyzing industry trends because they spend millions creating a product or implementing a strategy. Recognize the strength of being a small business. You can change your product or service to meet changes in the marketplace much more quickly than a large company can. So, you don’t need to spend your precious resources on lengthy industry analysis (unless you will be investing more than 100K in development and/or you are seeking significant funding). However, you do need to be aware of industry trends, what is happening in the world that could affect your business, and most importantly the direct feedback of your customers (both the ones who chose to buy and the ones who are “your customers” but didn’t buy from you).

If something isn’t working, it may be time to work with a coach, or someone who you trust, to think outside the box (it’s quite hard to see this on your own). First figure out if it’s your own belief limitation or if it’s actual market feedback (your product isn’t quite in the right format to meet customers’ needs or the market/environment just changed radically e.g. when the internet changed the travel industry). In the latter case, use your fleet small business sense and do something different; change your strategy.

Resources:For more on the “funnel” strategy: Marketing and Promoting Your Own Seminars and Workshops by Fred Gleeck

For more on separating benefits from features, articulate your unique competitive advantage, and position yourself as an “info-guru”: Robert Middleton http://www.actionplan.com/

For coaching and development resources go to Artemis Consulting Partners http://www.artemiscp.com/ where you can also find an unconventional and free business plan template for creative entrepreneurs

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Janet Schieferdecker is a business trainer, strategic facilitator and coach. As the founder and CEO of Artemis Consulting Partners, she created business visioning and action planning workshops to help small business owners and new venture developers grow their companies exponentially.

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Article by Derek O’Dwyer

The Internet and the various modes of monetizing activities on the Internet change at an alarming pace. Back in 1997, it was always understood that Cisco Systems measured its years in quarters, i.e it nearly treated a quarter as a year in terms of pace, change and reactions to the market. And that was in 1997, that was before Google arrived on the scene.

Whatever business you are in there needs to be a commitment to constant and never ending improvement. Without it, things get stale, they become out of date and they generally tend to fall away from prominence. If you have your own business then it is very important that you adopt this principle for your business.

I met a man once you told me that he had achieved what he set out to achieve in his business. He had done that 20 years previously in fact. His goal had been to beat his ex boss in business and the ex boss had gone out of business. That was the last time that he had had a goal in his business.

And his business had not thrived since the day his competitor went under. His business did not get all the other mans business. He had meandered along, not content, but not achieving either. Now the bigger competitors had come to town and he was struggling.

Primarily because he forgot to improve, to challenge himself or his team to improve. Now it may have been too late. When deciding what to improve on in your business break it down into the following sections:

Lead Generation – How does out marketing work, how do we get new people in the door and how much does it cost us to do that.

Conversion rate – When someone does shop with us, or when they make an enquiry about us, how good are we at turning them into customers

Average Sale – When we have a customer, how can we increase the value of each transaction

Number of transactions – how do we ensure that we get each customer dealing with us more frequently in our business year.

Margins – How do we improve the margin that we make in the business from the way we buy goods, to operating our business.

People & Education – How do we attract and employ and retain the best people

Systems & Technology – how do we use systems in the business to gain leverage and greater productivity

Delivery & Distribution – How can we improve the consistency in our business and the way that we deliver our service?

Testing & Measuring – how do we make our business decisions based on fact and not on fiction and ensure that monies spent are spent well.

About the Author

Commit today to improving your business every day.

Derek O’Dwyer is a successful online entrepreneuer and business coach. Derek has won many awards globally over the past 8 years.

For more business and mindset strategies visit http://www.aboutderekodwyer.comTo see how you too could be running a successful online business visit http://havingthebestday.com

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Article by Deborah Pretty

SEO Small Business Strategies, also known as Search engine optimization, is a topic that more and more small businesses are familiarizing themselves with these days. It makes sense, too, given that more and more people are becoming comfortable doing business over the Internet. Did you know that sixty percent more searches are from people searching from their smart phones rather from their personal computers?

Quick lesson: When someone goes to a search engine to perform a search, the results they get are usually referred to as the search engine results pages, or SERPS. As a small business owner, it’s incredibly important that you spend some time devising a strategy that helps ensure that your business website will be presented in the best way possible on the SERPS. It all starts with having a sensible SEO small business strategy.

Unfortunately, doing business as usual won’t cut the mustard in today’s technological age. And with technology driving our economy, if you’re not on the band wagon you’ll get left behind.

Fortunately, we have some vital information that will get you started on the right good foot or assist you in correcting what you already have in place.

Here are 5 tips that will help your company’s website to show up higher in the search results… IE. drive more visitors to your website:

1) Create A Descriptive Title Tag For All Your Web Pages

Make sure that all of the web pages that make up your business website have descriptive title tags. This is very important because you want the search engine to know what is on the page. If you use the same title for all your pages, it becomes less clear what can be found on each individual page.

2) Stay Away From Image Anchor Text

When you create a link on your website that points to another page on your website, make sure you’re using an HTML link tag that contains anchor text that’s actually text and not an image. Remember, the search engines can’t really “see” what the image says, so it’s preferable to use text so that the search engine can more easily understand and recognize the importance of the links you’re making within your website.

3) Include A Few Outbound Links To Related Websites

This is very counter-intuitive advice, but it’s incredibly important that your website contain a few outbound links to other websites that are related to yours.

4) Get As Many Inbound Links As Possible From Related Websites

One easy way to boost your results is to get as many inbound links as possible from other websites that are related to yours. This helps the search engines see that your website is relevant.

5) Hire An Expert To Help You

The fifth and final thing you should do is hire an outside SEO consultant to review your website and to help you create and implement a SEO small business strategy. It will be money well spent.

There you are 5 small business SEO strategies you can do to get your business growing in the New Year. And if all that sounds nerdy, contact a professional SEO consultant company. Regardless to where you may live whether it’s in Greenville or New York, just check your local directories or Google search for your nearest or best SEO small business specialist.

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