If you've ever heard of the Pareto principle, you are familiar with the theory that 80 percent of your business can be attributed to 20 percent of your customers...

Advertising, using flyers has proved to be a very efficient method in delivering the advertisement, and conveying the message to large populations, and thereby promoting the business effectively and efficiently...

Tweeting, as it is called, is all the rage amongst online businesses these days Twitter consists of writing short text messages of less than 140 characters that can be viewed by all of your followers...

The core of excellent marketing strategies can be boiled down to ten words: 1 Knowledge 2...

Consider it micro marketing This is the world of Twitter...

In the business world, there are several things you should consider to make your business successful...

What is Your Unique Selling Proposition[USP] A few years ago I was driving around a small Kansas town...

Newsletters are something that can be a little hard to immediately define What exactly goes into a good newsletter...

When you first began accepting credit cards from your customers, the procedure likely seemed simple You process the customer's payment, and your merchant account provider charges a few fees for the privilege...

Today’s customer relies on the ability to enjoy their hotel stay beyond any freebee or rewards offered...

While living in Seattle, I survived a couple of earthquakes All of us lived through them, actually, as there were no deaths...

The more connected I am with a company the more I trust them and the more I’m going to be willing to devote my time to them...

If you aren't using the Internet to advertise your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity to reach targeted customers...

Developing brand identity is a vital part of succeeding in the business world Your goal, of course, is to generate an identity that is instantly recognizable to customers, and leads them to investigate your company to fill their needs...

If you are don’t get the right message to your potential customers at the right place, the right time and the right cost then you won’t have a successful business...

Competitive intelligence It sounds like something out of a spy novel...

If your marketing plan consists of giving a discount when inventory is high and letting customers know about the discount by hanging posters in your window, you may want to rethink your plan...

Targeted Email Marketing The importance of Emails in business communication cannot be overemphasized...

How well do you know your customers How do you gauge who's the right target for your products...

For small businesses, marketing and branding may be the last thing on your mind You’re busy with running day-to-day operations, focusing on what’s happening in your company today...

What is a brand Brand is the proprietary visual, emotional, rational, and cultural image that you associate with a company or a product...

Interactivity is a very important aspect of modern advertising The ability of a consumer to feel like he is interacting – in real time or close to it – with a product or company can play a major role in getting that consumer to become a customer...

When arriving in a foreign country, the last thing you want to do is trudge down to the public transportation hub, drag your suitcases onto subways amidst impatient daily commuters and navigate the station signs that may or may not be in English...

Small businesses, which usually have limited advertising budgets, often resort to unconventional methods to promote themselves...

Small retail business owners cope with an ongoing challenge: to select the right mix of products to sell to their customers...

The main purpose of website design is to give a unique identity to your company’s business Thus, it becomes very important to attract more number of customers by designing user friendly and interactive websites so that it increases the demand for your products...

The field of internet marketing has undergone countless changes in recent years Many of these changes are due to increased recognition and rejection of marketing tactics by potential customers...

We’ve all been to the eye doctor at least a few times in our lives You know that test they make you take, where you look at the sign on the wall and try to read the letters that are presented in rows...

Nobody likes to be bored There is no better evidence of this than the success of the world of entertainment, which is a multi-billion dollar industry...

Have you created a product funnel yet If you are unfamiliar with the term, it is a marketing method in which you create multiple related products in order to offer them to interested customers...