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Ten newsletter tips to get results

Print, online, or ezine – newsletters are a powerful marketing tool. Maybe you've considered the possibility of creating a regular newsletter to send out to your customers, but you're daunted by the commitment. You could hire a professional to do the job for you, or if you're a do-it-yourselfer, use these tips to get started. 1. Keep it short. In print, two, four, or eight pages, max. Give a lot…

How to teach your customers to buy

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Customers who frequent Peninsula TIM-BR Mart in Miller Lake, Ontario often come away with more than tools, nails and lumber. They come away with the knowledge to do something with their purchases -- plus ideas and tips that will keep them coming back. Clinics on framing and drywalling and product demonstrations by suppliers fire up do-it-yourselfers to launch new projects, and very likely, buy more. Educating your customers may be…

Event networking tips to make every occasion a marketing success

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It’s cheap, it’s easy and it can be a lot of fun. It can also bring you new business opportunities without the expense and hassle of traditional advertising. Event networking is probably the least expensive, most effective mode of public relations you can develop as a marketing strategy. The contact is one-on-one, personal, and in many instances, entirely social. To become a successful event networker, you have to do two…

A strategy for better marketing, stronger marketing

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To strengthen your marketing, you need to take a hard look at what you've done in the past, build on what worked, improve what didn't and come up with some brand new approaches. Itemize your past marketing efforts, then: 1. Rationalize on past marketing success and failures You'll do this anyway, so get it over with. Decide that the economy was to blame for the sales slump, that the competition…

Why your business needs a newsletter

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Whether you mail it to their post-box or their Outlook inbox, producing a newsletter to promote your business will grow your profits. Here's why newsletters work. A newsletter helps forge relationships with your customers. You're giving them something of value and telling them something about yourself. A newsletter can establish you as an expert in your field. It provides you with a vehicle for updating customers about products, staff, special…