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Failing Business Help

September 3, 2010



If you are in the unfortunate situation where your business is failing, then this blog post will give you some fast, fast action recommendations on how to stop a business from failing.

1 ) Raise Your Prices

For a lot of entrepreneurs, this advice is counterintuitive. They see a lot of their competition reducing prices so they do the same. thing. All this does is help you go out of business quicker. The actuality for lots of business owners is that there are less folk out their buying whatever service your business sells. If you lower your costs, you will find that you’re making less cash on the people you do get in the door. Lowering prices and going for more volume is seldom a smart method, and it’s particularly perilous for a small enterprize owner. So try this instead.

Raise your prices.

That’s right, charge more. I recommend adding more price to whatever it is you offer as well. Give a bolder guarantee. Improve your shopper service. Since you have less people purchasing for you, the smart way to make up for it is simply to make the transaction value of each buyer higher.

2 ) Contact Previous Customers

Here’s an easy technique that may bring in a bunch of cash to your business quickly (as a specialist, this is my favourite one to use when a business keeps my services). If you have built up any sort of past customer/client list at all, then this is a no brainer. Send them an offer in the mail (mail works better than email) giving them an offer they won’t refuse.

If you are in a business that does business with a person then hit up that past purchaser list for referrals. But in this sort of economic environment it would behoove you to get all you are able to out of all you got.

3 ) Get out and sell something

So many business owners are frightened to sell something. They want to kick back and take the drip of people who somehow manage to find their business and give them money. Well, which will work okay in a commercial upward swing, but when there are less consumers in the marketplace, not so much.

So get out and sell something.

Do something. Be somewhere.

Move Fast!

If you want to save a struggling business, then be proactive about it. Don’t just sit there and bitch about it. Want some help? Get my totally FREE report, the Business Bailout Plan at BusinessBailoutPlan.com

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How to Dominate the Social Media Revolution of 2009

November 22, 2009



Ok, so you want to dominate the social media revolution of 2009 as the rock star you are by coming out guns-a-blazin’.  Well, hold your horses, cowboy.  You have to think of social media as a big party and therefore …

The first thing you must know about social media is that IT IS NOT A VENUE TO PITCH YOUR BUSINESS! If you can understand and apply this without worrying about your whole business going down the crapper, you will be dominate social media.

Why do you say I can’t pitch my business, Travis?  Because, when you’re at a party, do you like a stranger coming up to you and selling you products or business ideas?  Probably not.

In the same manner, people in social media don’t want your business opportunity … UNTIL you build a relationship with them.  When they know and understand that you actually care about them and want to help them succeed, then they will start buying into your product or opportunity (and this will absolutely happen).

Let me give you an example.  There are three kind of people in the world, those who like to talk about others, those who talk about themselves and those who let others talk.  Who do you generally feel more attracted to in conversation?

If you’re like me, you said the guy or girl who actually listens to you talk rather than babbles your head off.  This is the person who will dominate the social media revolution of 2009.

Just think about it for a moment.  When someone follows you on Twitter, or friends you on Facebook, would you rather be directed to a blog of theirs that has great resources and advice coming from a guy or girl who actually seems interested in YOU, or, to a capture page that has the next get rich quick scheme attached to it?  I choose the former.

If people trust you and follow you because you genuinely care and actually work hard to build a relationship with them, they will begin to wonder just what it is this guy does that makes him so appealing to spend time with.  They will also want to know exactly what it is that you do …

If you offer resources, advice, training and even sometimes just an ear, people will begin to ask you questions, it’s just the general law of attraction.  People are attracted to leaders, not peddlers.

As a foundation, and in conclusion, to dominate the social media revolution of 2009 you must not, indeed absolutely cannot, pitch your business for internet marketing success!  Build relationships with people and they will flock to you … and, you may even like it!

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