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There are numerous tactics for generating leads these days — everything from the traditional email or phone call to the explosively popular social media craze. However, the real challenge is not necessarily in generating leads, but more in truly connecting with them.

Whether you are marketing on-line or off-line, your potential customers are scared, scarred, and skeptical. Consumers, today, are quite resistant to sales messages. In the mid 70’s, a store could run a “10% off” sale and people would flock in. Then the big stores got into the discounting mentality.

No matter what side you were on, here are a few observations, affirmations and truths, post-election, with respect to selling: Strategy and tactics are equally important.  The purpose of executing tactics in a sales campaign is to drive a well-founded strategy.  Tactics without a strategy is like playing darts with your eyes closed.

If we assume business owners, entrepreneurs and executives are neither lazy nor stupid, then we must assume they just don't get it. What is "it"? Marketing and sales success. Here's what "it" isn't: It isn't about reach, so why is most of the marketing budget spent on mass advertising and mass marketing.

A lot of marketers jump right into the make money online niche without giving one minute of thought as to who they are actually selling to. Believe it or not, not everybody who is in Internet marketing is at the same level. So a product that you are selling, either your own or as an [...]

I'm working on a new book for, Lee Thayer, who often writes on Leadership. You've heard me speak of him now and again. He's a bit of a curmudgeon - and has a right to be at 82 years young. But, beyond his ability to "rattle CEOs cages" as he likes to put it, he has so much experience in business and in teaching (he's a former professor with a world-class background...

To what extent can you substitute emails for telephone calls and face-to-face meetings when maintaining and developing relationships with clients and other key market contacts? The answer to this frequently-asked-question affects how you spend your precious business development time and money.

See cached article | See other articles from this feed | Abuse Report This is very unexpected, but PalmGear is back! They've got a series of messages on their site including 20% off all sales until 14th September (use code NEWOWNERS Apparently they're under new management The site has a 'beta'

YouArchive.It is a new service that lets users archive all their SMS messages both the one’s that they sent and the ones that they received for their lifetime. The messages are stored in a cloud and can be retrieved whenever you desire.

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