Hi Guys and Gals!


How would you like to learn what it takes to really grow your business?


Congratulations! My good friend Andrew Morrison is allowing me to give you a FREE scholarship to attend his Small Business Camp Weekend in Orlando, Florida from Friday, February 4th until Sunday, February 6th. Attend this seminar in-person or over the Internet to learn how to package your experience and wisdom for profit!

A product is the most powerful way to build your brand, appear on TV and Radio and maximize your sales. Bring a laptop and create a money-making website, attention generating press release, business plan and sales proposals.

You only have to pay for your meals. If possible, bring a laptop computer that has a wireless connection. Deadline for registration is Wednesday, February 2nd. Register at http://productweekend.eventbrite.com and use discount code: TRAIN

Remember to tell Andrew that I sent you, he will set you up with some extra bonuses that I know you will love.

Instructor: Andrew Morrison is the President of Small Business Camp. The company provides high-impact marketing strategies for entrepreneurs, executives and non-profit leaders. Andrew has as trained thousands of entrepreneurs from Hawaii to Nigeria, lectured at Harvard University and appeared on Oprah. Visit http://smallbusinesscamp.com to receive his no-cost report entitled, ‘Identifying and Growing Any Business Idea in 16 Weeks’

As more internet based businesses are started, the need to develop new marketing skills and knowledge is a very crucial part of business. More and more marketing strategies are being discovered and developed to cope with the changing face of business.

The demand for online marketing tips and strategies have drastically grown and a new form of business has been born. While there are companies that are very eager to help your site and business build a clientele for a fee. There are also many ways that can spread the word about your sites in a more cost free way. One of this is Opt-in email marketing, also known as permission marketing.

Opt-in marketing requires the permission of a willing customer to subscribe to your marketing materials, materials that take form in newsletters, catalogs and promotional mailings via e-mail. The more opt-in marketing mail is sent, the more chances there is to catch up on more sales. To do this, you must build a list of all those who wants to subscribe to your opt-in marketing list.

From your list, you will get your targeted customer, this is a good list since they already have shown interest in what you have to offer. These are the people who have liked what they have seen in your site and have decided they want to see more and maybe even purchase what ever product or service your company and site has to offer.

Many people think that building their lists would take hard work and a lot of time to build. This is not so, it takes a bit of patience and some strategies but in doing this list, you open your site and your business to a whole new world of target market. Take the effort to take your business to a new level, if traffic increase and good profits are what you want, an opt-in list will do wonders for your business venture.

There are many sources and articles in the internet available for everyone to read and follow in building a list. Different groups of people have different approaches in building an opt-in list, but no matter how diverse many methods are, there are always some crucial things to do to build your list.

Here are 4 tips:

1) Put up a good web form in your site that immediately follows the end of your content. While some may say this is too soon to subscribe for a website visitors application, try to remember that your homepage should provide a quick good impression. If somehow a website visitor finds something that he or she doesn’t like and turns them off, they may just forget about signing up.

A good web form for subscribing to an opt-in list is not hard to do. Just write a simple short statement about how they would like to see more and get updated about the site. Then there should be an area where they could put in their names and e-mail address. This web form will automatically save and send you the information they inputted. As more people sign in, your list will begin growing.

2) As mentioned in the first tip, make your homepage very, very impressive. You need to have well written articles and descriptions of your site. Depending on what your site is all about, you need to capture your website visitor’s fancy. Make your site useful and very easy to use. Do not expect everyone to be tech savvy. Invest in having good programming in your site, make your graphics beautiful but don’t over do it.

Don’t waste your time making the homepage too overly large megabyte wise. Not all people have dedicated T1 connections, the faster your site gets loaded, the better. Go for a look that borders between simplicity and sophisticated knowledge.

3) Provide good service and products. A return customer is more likely to bring in more business. Even a satisfied customer will recommend a business always. Word of mouth and recommendations alone can rake in more business than an expensive ad. As your clientele roster grows so shall your list. With more members on the list, the more people will get to know about you and what you have to offer them.

4) Keep a clean and private list. Never lose the trust your customers have in you. If you provide e-mails to others and they get spammed, many will probably unsubscribe to your list. Remember, a good reputation will drive in more traffic and subscribers as well as strengthen the loyalty of your customers.

Your health, car engines and other machine operated-equipments are not the only things that need checking up. Businesses, whether big or small, also require for timely check ups to gauge the efficiency of the strategies you have applied, changes you have made, and all the other business actions you have undertaken. Depending on what your enterprise plans are. These check ups can be conducted monthly or annually.

If you have an enterprise of your own, here are 10 guides to help you start checking your business up.

First, check your month/year-to-date sales. Conduct a comparison between your present and previous sales performance. See whether your sales have gone up, gone down, or stayed as it is. The information you will gather here will help you decide what actions to partake next.

As you look into the sales report, do further digging and find out the percentage of your repeat customers. Know that keeping customers is a more cost-effective way of running a business as opposed to constantly looking for new clients.

In relation to keeping customers loyal to you, check how long it has been since your customers last received new products or services. Keep in mind that customers are constantly looking for new things. If you stick on the same products and services for a long period of time, customers might outgrow them which is not a good thing as far as your business is concerned.

Study the marketing strategies you have applied. Inspect whether the marketing campaigns you are investing in are paying out with positive results.

Do not forget to take a look on reports showing how your customer service is. Are your customers happy with the way you interact with them? Are they satisfied with all the services your business offer? Consider these things and think of possible gimmicks to bring your customer satisfaction rate higher.

Aside from your customers, you also need to keep your employees happy. Remember, these are the people helping you run your business. Conduct survey tests or observe them without letting them know to see if they are happy with their compensation, treatment and the job they perform.

In a highly competitive market, just like the one we presently have, it is necessary to do everything you can to keep your business running. Doing a business check-up is one which you must not forget.