Are You Like a Salmon When Looking for New Clients?


In my former life, I was a purchasing agent for a seafood company. This time of year reminds me of the salmon runs. During the summer months, many wild salmon species take the journey back to their birthplace to spawn and ultimately end their lives. 

Their upstream journey is a challenging one, swimming against rugged rapids, leaping over rocky waterfalls, traversing fish
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Subscriber Respect Builds Trust in Email Marketing


Respecting your current and potential subscribers is important in building trust through your email marketing campaign. How you collect email addresses and what you do with them will establish the level of respect you’ll provide. Most individuals consider their email address as private so what you do with it greatly affects whether you get to build on that trust or ruin it entirely. Subscribers trust those that show

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Small Business Marketing on Twitter


Of all the small business marketing options social media creates, Twitter presents the most challenges in determining its use to help your company grow. Luckily, you don’t have to be a computer expert or a marketing guru to infuse Twitter into your overall promotional strategy.

 
What Is Twitter?
 
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We Need an Attitude Adjustment

Posted by Jeannine Clontz | Business Tips,Business owner,Entrepreneur,Goals,VA,Virtual Assistance,Virtual Assistant | Monday 3 August 2009 1:24 pm

For the most part, all the hype and panic about the downturn of the economy has quieted down, thankfully.  We’re in a recession, we all know it, so what, move on.

 

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Social Bookmarking the Next BIG Thing


We’ve all heard of social media – Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc., and we’re all finding our way to getting involved in the phenomenon.  For those of you who are totally involved, you might ask, what’s next?

 

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Is Something Burning?


As an avid networker, both locally and in a number of online communities, I meet people in all career areas, and from many industries.  I’m always surprised at how much we all have in common, whether we are entrepreneurs, work in the corporate world, or are just not working at all, for any number of reasons.

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Am I Still Brave?


When I was young, our family spent time at a secluded lake house.  I recall sneaking off to a hidden spot where someone had built a cool tree house. To get to the main part of this ingenious tree house, you had to cross a 30-foot rope bridge strung between two trees, about 25-feet off the ground.  I didn’t for an instant consider the danger it posed

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Light A Fire

Posted by Jeannine Clontz | Goals,Marketing Tips,Marketing Your Busienss,Networking,Social Networking,VA,Virtual Assistance,Virtual Assistant | Thursday 12 February 2009 11:00 pm

As an avid networker, both locally and in a number of online communities, I meet people in all career areas, and from many industries.  I’m always surprised at how much we all have in common, whether we are entrepreneurs, virtual assistants (VAs), work in the corporate world, or are just not working at all, for any number of reasons.

 

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