LinkedIn for Business – What makes a good recommendation?

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This is an extract from the 30 Day LinkedIn Challenge by @Nigel_Morgan Have you ever raised a dubious eyebrow when you see testimonials on a website? You know what I mean, those glowing words that are almost too good to be true and are only affirmed by practically anonymous sets of initials. They are a… [Continue Reading]

8 Cold Calling Tips to help your Small Business Sales

This is an extract from the 30 Day Sales Challenge by @GaryGorman Anyone that knows me well will know I’m not a great fan of cold calling. It can be incredibly time consuming unless it’s done well. I prefer to use the time better by marketing or positioning my business so that customers seek me… [Continue Reading]

Small business sales tips – Where Does Your Customer ‘Hang Out’?

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This is an extract from the 30 Day Sales Challenge by @GaryGorman When you’re running a business, and particularly when you’re starting out lots of well meaning people will say: “You’ve really got to get on Twitter and Facebook. Oh and get your LinkedIn profile up to date because that’s important. Oh…and get an advert… [Continue Reading]

Virtual Assistants – How much should you charge?

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This is an extract from the 30 Day Setting up as a VA Challenge by @HelenStothard We’ve worked out what services we want to offer, we’ve researched our market and we’ve looked through the support sites. We should have the information we need now to start looking at our rates. What we are NOT going… [Continue Reading]

PR help for small businesses: Being like McDonald’s. Seriously.

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This is an extract from the 30 Day PR Challenge by @Nigel_Morgan Now I am not going to spend this post puffing up McDonald’s as a firm of PR genius – in fact far from it I could list the myriad bungles – they are poor at PR. However I do want to talk about… [Continue Reading]

What they’re saying about the 30 Day VA Challenge

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Some great reviews on Amazon for @helenstothard’s fab 30 Day VA Challenge: Wish this had been available when I first started!,18 April 2012 By Sassperella “maxmum” (Somerset, UK) – See all my reviews This review is from: 30 Day Setting up as a Virtual Assistant Challenge (30 Day Challenges) (Kindle Edition) Reading this as an… [Continue Reading]

Small Business PR Help – Dear Sir… the power of letters to the editor

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This is an extract from the 30 Day PR Challenge by Nigel Morgan Linda Cronin / Foter Editors love and loathe those letters that get sent to them every single day courtesy of email and while they are proof that people are excited by their publication, they often need editing and some are merely likely… [Continue Reading]

How should I price my eBook?

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This is an excerpt from the 30 Day Write an Ebook Challenge, by @nikkipilkington OK, so you’ve finished your eBook, now it’s time to think about the rest of the process. I want you to put away the eBook file, whether it is a computer file or a notebook – put it away and forget… [Continue Reading]

Not convinced by Pinterest yet? You should be!

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Everyone seems to be talking about Pinterest at the moment, and you’d be forgiven for just ignoring it as the latest hype. Indeed, even I’ve said I’m not putting all my eggs in the Pinterest basket yet, and I’m a massive fan. But one thing you can’t argue with is the figures. Everyone who is… [Continue Reading]

5 tips for Google+ marketing – A guest post by Diana Maria

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Google is the leading brand in the search domain and with its social networking site; Google is set to grab a major share of the social market. Although they do not have a business page for marketers but its features are being utilized by strategist all over the world. Once Google+ launches its “brand pages”,… [Continue Reading]

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