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How to Develop Marketing Personas for Business

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Writing copy to promote a business is hard. I know it very well, I struggle with it everyday. There are so many variables to take into consideration, from the format, the message to whom you are targeting, how you do it and many things in between. And all this before you even start thinking about the writing technique.

Over the course of last year I developed a set of tools that help me to speed up the process and bring better results to my business. None of those tools are in any way innovative, and I do not claim any authorship to them. But, they work and often help me craft my promotional copy with greater ease. Today I will introduce one of them to you, marketing personas.

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3 Incredibly Simple Ways to Get Your Clients to Buy More

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It costs four times more to find a new client than get a reorder. I bet you knew this old sales adage already. And you know what, it’s so true. Getting a new client means going through the entire sales process again and again, spending time, money and resources. With existing clients, often you hardly have to lift a finger and you still get the job.

The thing is, often your existing clients don’t buy as often as you would like them to.

There might be many reasons for that. Naturally they may not have anything for you right now. There’s nothing wrong with that, wait it out and you should be fine. But, they also might need a gentle push into the sale.

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How to Create a Landing Page that Sells

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These days it’s hard to sell online without a good landing page, fact. You can be driving vast amounts of people to your site, through blogging, social media or SEO but the fact is, unless they see a page designed to satisfy their needs and offer them what they need, they won’t buy. The times [...]

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Website Content Tips – Creating Website Copy that Sells

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A website is your best gateway to make a sale. Even though most businesses don’t think of their web presence that way, that’s what it is. Your website is usually the first encounter a potential client has with your business and it is your website content that usually has the greatest impact on them. Sure, [...]

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Social Media, SEO, Blogging and the New Marketing

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Social Media, SEO and Blogging have changed the way we market our businesses, it’s a fact. In the old days promoting a business was simple, in theory at least. You would produce a strong marketing message and simply invade everyone you could find. A small percentage of those people would buy and that was the [...]

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3 Methods to Make Initial Contact with Your Prospects

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Let’s face it, making initial contact with prospects is difficult. It’s one thing to share a quick conversation with someone in an elevator and then follow up with a call. Getting in touch with people you haven’t met to sell your services is another. Naturally, we would all love new clients to be coming directly [...]

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