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3 Reasons to Market Your Small Business Like A Drug Dealer

Sales and Marketing Management

This is generally a much smaller segment than they are considering. That represents 91 million people in the United States, according to the 2010 US Census. Although drug dealers generally don’t spend a lot of money on marketing and advertising, they are still able to run a very profitable business.

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Solutions to Your Small Business Sales Challenges | Sales.

The Sales Hunter

Maybe a media representative suggests a new advertisement. So, “pop” off they go with new advertising. Then an advertising agency suggests a new brochure and off they go again. December 2010. November 2010. October 2010. September 2010. August 2010. April 2010. March 2010.

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Selling in the New Gig Economy

Crunchbase

Since 2010, the number of gig workers has increased by 15 percent. That same study reports that high-skill, high-earning gig workers comprise one of the fastest-growing segments of the freelance workforce. According to a Gallup study, about 36 percent of U.S. workers derive some or all of their income through independent gigs.

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Stuff I Learned Last Week that Could Drive Sales Success

Anthony Cole Training

Read Tonys Featured Segment in SalesForceXP Magazine! Dont miss "5 Ways That Managers Can Impact Sales This Year in the May-June 2010 SalesforceXP magazine! Posted by Tony Cole on Wed, Oct 13, 2010. Les Parrott, PHD - In his book, 3 Seconds: "Every advertiser on Madison Avenue knows they have 3 seconds to hook you with their ad.

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Marketing Hierarchy of Needs: Achieving Marketing Efficiency and Effectiveness

The ROI Guy

This represents substantial growth when compared to 2009 cut-backs; however, even with the 2010/2011 snap-back in spending, most marketing budgets will remain below pre-recession levels. For example, an IDC survey of technology marketers revealed that 2010 revenue grew at a healthy 5.8% world-wide, and that this greatly exceeded the 3.7%

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: IDC: Economic Buyers, Digital Overload.

The ROI Guy

Thursday, November 04, 2010 IDC: Economic Buyers, Digital Overload and Sales Enablement Define Marketing for 2011 I just had the pleasure of presenting a webinar with Randy Perry, VP Business Value at IDC. Value Selling Tools and the Buying Lifecycle Is there an ROI from Social Media? Latest Research. Let the Good Times Roll?

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Purple Cow – Seth Godin

Hyper-Connected Selling

This article was originally published on June 30th 2010. Stop advertising and start innovating.” (pg pg 3) Which is why traditional advertising, centered around spewing out as much noise around a topic as possible, isn’t working anymore. And Seth keeps pumping out insightful ideas on current marketing! Big Thought.