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The Entrepreneur's Need to Learn New Things

How can a busy entrepreneur commit to learning new things to help his or her business? Here are several ways to pick up on short, valuable training and expert's sharing options, and then make these matter in your business. Here are the places to get the information and the secrets to making these really count in your business!

Returning to 'Old Fashioned' Marketing

Some situations and promotions really need us to think back inside the old boxes instead of always thinking we have to think outside the square. Practical creativity works well when it's executed properly. If you want to reach a lot of people within a small geographic area then hit the streets, deliver personal invitations, but drive people to your website for all the juicy details!

11 Critical Points of Easy Effective Blogging

These 11 essential steps towards easy blogging and writing includes the reasons why it's important to blog, and how to identify, develop, and publish your topic so that your most ideal clients value what you have to say.

The Shocking Truth About Business Values

When you are running your business in alignment with good values that are understood and ‘owned’ by the company and all its employees; that when you use them to assist in the recruitment and marketing processes; and there are solid standards set against each value that are used to determine productivity, then you can expect there to be congruence in all your company functions. This means minimal firefighting, increased profitability, less whinging and better retention rates, and overall a stronger sense of purpose felt by everyone in the company.

So-called Social Media Experts Who Suck!

Social Media experts are doing more harm than good in the business world, by not doing an adequate job of helping clients to understand what does and does not work, and supporting them through using Social Media. Add to this, the fact that ad agencies and web design firms are trying to protect their patch, and may see some of the 'free' elements of Social Media as a threat to their chargeable dollars and so undervalue the effectiveness of SM, or try to do a so-so job just to get the basics sorted, without really working to a strategy.

What Happens When a Publisher Gives Up On You

There is a new breed of publisher, favored by many non-fiction writers who want more control over their books and production of them, but also want the benefits of high quality publishing, good marketing and distribution and to work with someone who knows how to take a book through the process of publishing properly. They are called Co-operative publishers, and are highly professional, knowledgeable industry experts. However - many authors are still not understanding the roles of co-operative publishers and in some cases burning their chances of a successful outcome for their books by treating the CoP publisher as little more than a printer or graphic designer working on a brochure. There's a lot more to it than that, and the outcomes for authors is that publishers eventually enable them to just 'self publish' their books.

From Unknown to Well-Known - what it costs to get there

The process of becoming 'famous' to your target market takes planning, knowledge and help from some special experts along the way. What you save on from cutting corners on your online and offline marketing, including mistakes made by self publishing a book badly, will be eaten up with redoing things when you realize you need to get smarter at it. It's the costs you bear while coming to that realization in lots opportunities that are the most expensive.

Your Rules of Business

Do you have a set of rules that you use in your business, that go beyond just operations? These may or may not be something you'd add to your business plan, but do need to be integrated into your operations. They are the standards, and guidelines for how you do things, to what standard, and why. And hiding behind the position of being 'creative' does not excuse you from having these - in fact, creative type managers and entrepreneurs need these the most!

Are we all just OVERwhelmed?

How much time do we really have to spend writing comments, posting on Facebook, and engaging online in discussion groups? When we're busy, this is an area that can end up as not much more than a distraction. However, it's an important part of our marketing and being selective is one way to help ourselves to do this well, and avoid overwhelm. Do you pick and choose carefully how much online time you devote to your marketing and who you'll read, share with, comment on? Or do you default to all or nothing with great regularity?

Webinars - the Good, Bad, and the Interesting

Have you tried using webinars yet? Whether you are on the delivery or the receiving end of this option for learning, this is an amazing way to save money, time, travel, and still learn great material. Did you know that online learning is overtaking classroom style learning for many institutions around the world? Maybe there's something more to it than you first thought.

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