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Growing your business - Does your phone ring often enough?
Does your telephone ring often enough? Do you wish more customers would walk through the door? Could you be doing more to increase sales? How do we create some impact and drive revenue upward?

These are questions we all think about, and for some of us it is everyday ... and for others ... only when the pressure is on.

Direct Marketing - Not just junkmail anymore!
Such a dirty word "junkmail"
But the fact remains, that direct mail is effective. That's why companies spend billions doing it. But direct mail is really a "component" of a much larger part of your sale and marketing strategy, which is in effect, DIRECT MARKETING.

Yellow Pages TIP
Each year we all evaluate our yellow pages advertising. And boy those sales reps are good! They always give you an incentive to go bigger or add colour. So you wonder, Is bigger better? What about colour? What will our competitors do? And what about the Phone Guide? They both tell me that their book is used more than the other one.

You can keep your ad to a reasonable size and drive them to a quality web site that is rich in content. Make your web site address clear. Give them a chance to find out more about you. When they visit your site you will have a captive audience. (They aren't comparing your ad in the yellow pages book to the company in the next column.)

Avoiding SPAM - An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
We often get asked the question about how to get rid of the junk email. And the fact is, that the best way is to avoid it from the beginning. Once you get onto a commercially sold email list, you will end up with an ever increasing amount of junk mail in your inbox. This email is called SPAM

The Web Is A Marketing Technique
In business, the use of the web is often misunderstood. Thoughts seem to circle around advertising. "My web site will reduce my advertising costs and bring me lots of new customers." For the most part, this is not true because you still have to drive business to your site in much the same way as you drive sales.

Web Site Check-Up
While we all recognize the impact that the web has had on our lives, we may not necessarily keep our sites and their content current. Visitors to your site may be turned away by out of date content. To help keep your site current, we have developed a short web site check-up.

Now Supporting New Search Engines!
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