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		<title>Points to ponder while going for a custom logo design</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Thomas</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Points to ponder while going for a custom logo design</p>
<p>Every organization, whether small or large, go for designing a logo for its business. And in these days and age, with immense competition, it&acute;s hard to get identified and build a strong brand image. Therefore, every <a href="http://selectarticles.info/tags/business-owner/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with business owner">business owner</a> in this regard should give a reasonable amount of time for designing a branding element i.e. logo.<br />
When you think it&acute;s time to design a logo for your business, you should consider some important points to get an attractive and powerful logo as your brand identity. In this article you will find some useful tips to remember while you are up to designing a logo for your own business.</p>
<p>Your logo should be simple:<br />
Simplicity is the key to success in every mode of life, and same is applied to the logo designing. Logos, which are designed simple, are comparatively more attractive and powerful. For instance, the logo of Coca-Cola or the logo of Nike, these logos are designed very simple but look very attractive to the eyes. Hence, avoid clutter, and acquire a logo that should be simple in appearance.</p>
<p>It should be Unique:<br />
One of the most important considerations during logo design process is that, you need to make it unique and don&acute;t let it to resemble with any famous logo. Otherwise you may suffer with trademark infringement and lawsuit.<br />
Moreover, if you fail to design a unique emblem for your business, you will ultimately fail to create a unique brand image in the mind of your existing and potential customers. Thus, make sure that your logo will not become a look-alike of any other existing logo.</p>
<p>It should be scalable:<br />
Scalability or resizeability should be a concern of priority during the brand identity creation process. You will certainly go for marketing and branding your business once your logo being designed. Therefore, make sure that it should be resized as small as to be fit on a pen and as big as to go with billboard.</p>
<p>It should look good in black and white:<br />
Even in these days, when everything is online, you still need your logo to look good in black and white, because you may need to get your logo printed on the marketing collateral in black and white format. For example, you will need to fax a letterhead to your client or customer. Therefore, don&acute;t forget to get a black and white version of your logo from your designer. </p>
<p>It shouldn&acute;t be cluttered with too many colors:<br />
While color is the key factor in making your logo attractive, keep in mind that your logo should not be overwhelmed with too many different colors. It&acute;s better to use not more than three colors to create a simple but distinct brand symbol.</p>
<p>It should be identifiable and recognizable:<br />
After all, the most important custom logo design consideration is to make it identifiable and recognizable for your target audience. Logos are made for long term, and if you design a logo that cannot portray the right image of your business, you will eventually fail to brand your business or product. So, in the last, make sure that your branding tool should be identifiable and recognizable for public at large.</p>
<p>Alice Rosemary is well known for her articles written on graphic design, <a rel="nofollow,noindex" href="http://www.logoinn.com">logo design</a>,website design and custom logo design</p>
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		<title>Breaking Language Barriers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 09:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your business may require you to go abroad for a couple of days, weeks or even months. Across the world, English is widely spoken and considered to be the official business language. But there are many places on the earth where you would find it difficult to do business because not every region is fluent [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Your business may require you to go abroad for a couple of days, weeks or even months. Across the world, English is widely spoken and considered to be the official business language. But there are many places on the earth where you would find it difficult to do business because not every region is fluent with the English language. If you were to travel to Spain or Latin America, for example, you may have a need to use the help of a Spanish translation service.</p>
<p>Some business partners in foreign countries may speak broken English, but this may not be sufficient for purposes of proper business communication. Linguistic miscommunication can often result in big business blunders. It is here where the services of a professional translation company will come in handy, whether it&acute;s an Ottawa translation company or a Vienna-based one. These companies will be happy to offer you translation or interpretation services for your business needs.<br />
In this age of globalization and modernization, one cannot downplay the significance of translation services for international business communication. It is a key competitive advantage to be able to communicate with your potential customers in their native language. By communicating with them in their own language, you will more easily gain their trust and establish a more solid relationship.  With increasing business activity in Latin America and Europe, French and Spanish translation services are gaining in popularity.<br />
The arrival of the Internet revolution has led to an explosive growth in the amount of business activity between nations. There is a convergence of cultures and economic systems all across the globe. This means that people all over the globe need to communicate more than ever with each other, highlighting the need for translation services, whether from an Atlanta or an Ottawa translation company.<br />
Some agencies combine translation and travel services into one package for their clients. Therefore, customers can take advantage of translation services right from the time they set foot on foreign territory. Many organizations find combined translation and travel services packages very valuable. This will help their executives feel at ease because they will not be lost in a foreign country.<br />
These companies will ensure that the visitor is picked up from the airport and taken to the hotel room. The visitor need not undergo the hassle of booking a taxi or finding a hotel room in a country where he or she does not know the local language. Such companies often also design the visitor&#8217;s itinerary, in consultation with the client, and arrange for domestic travel if desired by the visitor. If required, they also accompany the visitor during factory visits or client meetings. If there are some contracts to be signed, then these agencies also perform the document translation work and explain the clauses in the contract.<br />
If a visitor desires to visit trade fairs, exhibitions or places of historical importance, then these companies also provide personal interpreters during these visits. All these services ensure that the visitor utilizes his or her time productively during a business trip and makes the trip worthwhile.<br />
For instance, if you represent a Canadian-based company and are traveling to Madrid or Mexico City on business, you can contact a Canadian-based company for Spanish translation services. By using such translation and interpretation services during overseas trips, you can prove to your clients that you are serious about your business and are willing to go the extra mile to serve them better.</p>
<p>Textronics Communications Ltd. delivers high quality <a rel="nofollow,noindex" href="http://www.textronics.com/City-Profiles/Canada/ottawa.html">translation services in Ottawa</a> as well as all across North America. Textronics provides <a rel="nofollow,noindex" href="http://www.textronics.com/services.html">service in Spanish translation</a> along with Chinese, Russian, German, French translation and 80 other languages to corporate clients across the globe.</p>
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		<title>Optimize your site for better ranking than before</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 02:14:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Thomas</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://selectarticles.info/tags/search-engine/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with search engine">Search engine</a> optimization is the latest term which indicates the technical and creative things which are used in making a site most trafficked and high ranking site. To ignore this job of <a href="http://selectarticles.info/tags/search-engine/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with search engine">search engine</a> optimization is something like doing blunder with your profit. There are several factors and various internal tasks that are to be accomplished to get the best result out of <a href="http://selectarticles.info/tags/search-engine/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with search engine">Search Engine</a> Optimization. All these things are not done by one hand. There is the need of several hands to make this huge work function possible. Moreover, <a href="http://selectarticles.info/tags/search-engine/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with search engine">Search Engine</a> Optimization needs a lot of concentration as you will have to study the working procedure of the search engines first and act accordingly. Thus if you pay your full attention in <a href="http://selectarticles.info/tags/search-engine/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with search engine">Search Engine</a> Optimization only, it may be that your main business may get hampered in the meantime. Therefore instead of bothering about of the cost that you need to bear it is better to seek the help of some expert SEO company to get the <a href="http://selectarticles.info/tags/search-engine/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with search engine">search engine</a> optimization job done for you. And you yourself pay your attention on your main business. This is what almost all of the leading website owners do to get the maximum profit out of their business.</p>
<p>Among the important factors of seo service, one of the most crucial factors for <a href="http://selectarticles.info/tags/search-engine/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with search engine">Search Engine</a> Optimization is the link building. Link building alone a vast subject which needs a lot of tiresome jobs done within it. Therefore instead of trying to do it all by yourself, most of the leading websites seek the help of some expert SEO company to get it done for their website. Another important aspect of <a href="http://selectarticles.info/tags/search-engine/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with search engine">search engine</a> optimization is the content writing and the publication of the articles. This is a very important thing to do for better SEO results. The contents and the articles play a big role in the world of <a href="http://selectarticles.info/tags/search-engine/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with search engine">search engine</a> optimization and also help a great deal in link building also. Well-written contents in relevant topics have a great deal of role-play in <a href="http://selectarticles.info/tags/search-engine/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with search engine">search engine</a> optimization. However, for better and effective <a href="http://selectarticles.info/tags/search-engine/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with search engine">search engine</a> optimization the most important thing is the perfect planning. It is also to be kept in mind that you should have a thorough research on the current market demands and trends, preferences of customers and also the analysis of the other websites is also equally important. It is only then after the perfect execution of the planning you can count on it to yield better results on the <a href="http://selectarticles.info/tags/search-engine/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with search engine">search engine</a> result pages.</p>
<p><a href="http://selectarticles.info/tags/search-engine/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with search engine">Search engine</a> optimization as we all know is the process by which the webmasters try to achieve better ranking in the <a href="http://selectarticles.info/tags/search-engine/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with search engine">search engine</a> result pages. The main objective of the webmasters is to get the maximum number of potential customers on their website. And this can be achieved only when you have the maximum number of visitors on your website. And that too is possible only when you have a good ranking on the <a href="http://selectarticles.info/tags/search-engine/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with search engine">search engine</a> result pages. And here is the need for <a href="http://selectarticles.info/tags/search-engine/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with search engine">search engine</a> optimization.</p>
<p>123-SEO is the successful <a rel="nofollow,noindex" href="http://www.123-seo.com">SEO Firm</a> a few years back is now on its way of becoming the leading <a rel="nofollow,noindex" href="http://www.123-seo.com">SEO Company</a>.</p>
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		<title>Why do You Need a Qualitative Website?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can you imagine just one day without the World Wide Web? If you try hard think you can but you need to switch on your imagination. I suspect it will be like having your tight arm cut off, if you are an avid user. Can you live without the World Wide Web? 
Obviously I think [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Can you imagine just one day without the World Wide Web? If you try hard think you can but you need to switch on your imagination. I suspect it will be like having your tight arm cut off, if you are an avid user. Can you live without the World Wide Web? </p>
<p>Obviously I think we all can, but maybe the quality of our lives would be rather different as we have become very reliant on many of the services offered.</p>
<p>What does the World Wide Web give to us?<br />
This high technological highway provides all of us with an opportunity to communicate to the whole world. As a direct result of these developing technologies, the amount of web design companies has exponentially grown to meet the ever increasing demands of the community, consequently we can observe the growth of a great deal of competition amongst them. Free and high competition gives birth to better quality. When I refer to quality I mean the quality of the web design services and web site marketing as the final product. To tell you the truth, choice is a challenging task. It appears nowadays a very difficult to track down and find good web design company, it is also a tricky thing to establish to what standards a particular company aspires to.</p>
<p>A web site is your communication channel that connects your business to the wide public. In order for any website to be successful the whole web team must act as one from programming through to design and then SEO engineering; the web design team has to perform a huge amount if work such as technical programming, graphical design, flash and HTML design, content fulfilling, <a href="http://selectarticles.info/tags/search-engine/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with search engine">search engine</a> optimisation with the necessary key words or key words phrases etc. All this work is done with one reason in mind, to bring traffic and clients to your business. Hopefully, you now understand that web design services are a vital additional investment for your business. A qualitative service costs good money and thus finding quality providers is a primary focus for any website purchaser. You can of course hire a cheaper web design company from India or China, but, it does not mean that you will be satisfied with the result or ongoing services. Everyone like to buy a bargain, but sometimes it is wiser to not buy the cheapest, the adage of you get what you pay for is very appropriate when choosing a web design company.  It is a core of good sense to invest money into a reliable company. By the way, a good and reliable company will normally always provide some discounts or free additions, as they are also professional business and clever people who understand what business in today&acute;s market means. It is also important for you to understand that if you invest money into your business web based business it is often your only shop window, so it needs to be given the best opportunity, a good investment will in turn start working for you and if all goes to plan will be returning profit. Visitors can be turned into potential customers and then returning clients for your business bringing in their money to you. </p>
<p>At first site a good website will appear to be simple to use and very functional. When you go dig deeper you gain an understanding that this very simple thing requires a lot of energy, effort, investment, support and truly devotion in order this mechanism work.<br />
If you wish to have a high page rank for your website, you can address web design company Lichfield, Birmingham or any SEO branch office in Lichfield, Birmingham, west midlands, Staffordshire.</p>
<p>With more than twenty years of experience in wee field, <a rel="nofollow,noindex" href="http://www.kaweb.co.uk/">Kaweb</a> knows to solve all your web issues. Address <a rel="nofollow,noindex" href="http://www.kaweb.co.uk/">SEO in Staffordshire</a>- it is your key to the success.</p>
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		<title>Get your Website Off to The Right Start with Website Directories.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your website is complete and looks great now you want everyone to know about it.  What is the next step?  How do you reach as many people as you can to make sure everyone will find your website?  Hire a plane and have it streaming a banner with your website on it? [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Your website is complete and looks great now you want everyone to know about it.  What is the next step?  How do you reach as many people as you can to make sure everyone will find your website?  Hire a plane and have it streaming a banner with your website on it?  Well that is of course an option however there are some other alternatives that may prove less expensive and more rewarding as far as business results are concerned.  How then do you get your website noticed and as quickly as possible?  One of the first steps is to use website directories to get your website out to as many people as possible.  A website directory works effectively to allow search engines to locate your site and gives you a chance to get ahead of your competition.</p>
<p>So what is so great about submitting your website to a directory, the benefit is that you will get a link back to your website from the directory and you can get it for free.  A link back to your website is important because the more links you have back to your site will increase the rating of your site and it will be indexed by what are called <a href="http://selectarticles.info/tags/search-engine/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with search engine">search engine</a> spiders.  What the spiders do is they follow links from site to site and when your site is one of those sites then they index your site.  Sites that are indexed show up higher in <a href="http://selectarticles.info/tags/search-engine/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with search engine">search engine</a> results when people are searching for your products or services on a directory.  Therefore you are getting to reach more of your potential customers by showing up higher in the index than other sites that have less links.   </p>
<p>So now how do the directories work?  Well, a directory is a list of websites that are placed into categories and subcategories relevant to the business or service they provide.  The subcategories allow for much easier search of the information that your potential customers will be looking for.  When you list in subcategories this makes it much easier for the <a href="http://selectarticles.info/tags/search-engine/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with search engine">search engine</a> spiders to locate them.  <a href="http://selectarticles.info/tags/search-engine/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with search engine">Search engine</a> spiders visit directories much more than they visit a lot of other sites and the reason for this is that the directories link back to the websites listed in their categories and subcategories.  Therefore listing with a website directory gives you much higher quality of back links and more potential for your customers to find you.</p>
<p>How then do you choose the right website directory?  It isn&acute;t that difficult a concept, choosing the right directory, there are some considerations to make and these are firstly, do you pay the directory or do you use free directories?  You are the only one that can decide that fact.  Free directories will still give you the back links that you are aiming for.  A good way to determine whether you will be noticed on a free directory is to check the page ranking of the directory itself to see if the website directory has a good ranking.  Other options are to check the sites and see how they are growing, if you see a site is growing then it is a very good sign that it is a popular directory already, or is getting up there in the in terms of popularity.  A site like this is a very good place to be included.</p>
<p>You will also find that there are specific directories, relative entirely to your business, or general directories which cover a variety of information.  Both forms are effective in your purpose, so you should post on general and specific directories to increase your website exposure in general.  Don&acute;t feel you should be limited to one website directory, there are many and you can use as many as you wish.  Your aim remember is to get your website noticed and get those quality back links to your website in turn making your website a higher ranking itself.  There are no rules that limit the number of directories that you list with, only the directories themselves may have rules that do not allow you to list.</p>
<p>Another option is submissions.  Submission options are a manual process and they use submission software through a directory submission service.  Directory submission services may manually make submissions or they may also use software for the process.  For Directory Submission Services this is more difficult because there are directories that will not allow submissions from software.  The purpose being that they ensure that real human beings are making postings on their directory.  The directories have real human beings approving their submissions and if they are receiving multitudes of submissions daily or weekly and are aware of how software submissions occur then almost always these submissions would be rejected.  You can use software programs of course but just beware that this will not always work and therefore manual submissions are always a good idea as well.  If you lack the time and dedication to improving your website then it would be a good idea for you to look into the services of a directory submission service, then they can do all of this work for you, allowing you the time you need to concentrate on providing the service or product you say you will in your new website.</p>
<p>The next step, get the maximum benefit.  How do we go about that?  Well just posting your website onto a directory is not enough you have to have more information than the details above to be successful in what you are doing.  Firstly make sure that your website text information is high standard so that you will have people clicking on the link and coming to your site, it is not enough to just make submissions you need to have an interesting and people catching text used in your submission.  An important point is that you must vary your descriptions; you should not be using the same description for every directory that you place submissions.  People who are searching for specific products or information will browse the directory lists and not just click on the first available option if they can easily find something that provides more specific information to their requirements.</p>
<p>Now, make sure your information is good, make sure that you make as many submissions as you can to different website directories for maximum exposure.  Make sure the directories allow the easy back link to your website and that they are easy to manage.  There is no point submitting to a directory that is hard to follow.  Check that the directories you are choosing will let you put in links to your inner web pages as well as this gives more chance for the people to find you with better indexing options.</p>
<p>So there are some tips pointers and hints for getting your website off and racing.  The website marketing for all businesses is a tough place to get into and without the right tools many businesses do not get what they wanted to achieve from the websites.  These pointers should help you get started and if you follow these tips you may find you far exceed your expectations for your new website.  Good Luck to you!</p>
<p>About the author; Michiel Van Kets is enjoying life on the tropical island of Phuket island and living the dream by making money online. He created his own website in 2002 and started Luminous Co. ltd 2005, http://www.manual-submissions.com/directory/services.php a company offering an affordable SEO quotes on SEO services like directory submissions and article writing and submission.http://www.manual-submissions.com/directory/improve-rankings-with-web-directory-submission.php</p>
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		<title>7 Easy Steps How to Create a Successful Promotional Campaign</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 03:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Thomas</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Developing a promotional campaign strategy is an essential activity you must do if you want your sales promotions to be a hit, rather than a miss!</p>
<p>A common mistake many entrepreneurs make is they don&#8217;t think and plan about all the necessary ingredients that are part of a promotional plan; the result is then an ineffective plan that leads to disappointing results.   A successful plan includes seven key elements you must think through prior to launching your promotional campaign.  Applying these elements will measurably improve the success of your promotions, and move you closer to building the business you&#8217;re dreaming about!</p>
<p>The seven steps are:</p>
<p>1. Identify your objective.</p>
<p>Setting your objectives is the first step you must do to develop your promotional campaign.</p>
<p>How many times have you launched a promotional campaign and had only a vague idea about what you wanted to achieve?  Making &#8220;some&#8221; sales is not as intention-oriented as generating $1,000 or $10,000 sales.</p>
<p>Think of setting goals as your way of communicating to the universe your intentions of what you want to achieve.  If you have vague notions about what that is, chances are the universe won&#8217;t be able to help you!</p>
<p>All objectives must be SMART&#8212;Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Time-related.  Is your goal to increase sales by 5%?  Generate $10,000 in sales?  Close 10 new clients?  The number of objectives you can come up with are endless!  But, make sure you know specifically what they are so you can measure the success of your promotional campaign.</p>
<p>2. Identify your target market.</p>
<p>Hopefully, you already have who your target market is already figured out!  The next step is identifying where you can find your target market so you can promote to them.</p>
<p>For example, you can promote to your list, as well as find and communicate with additional prospects through forums, your blog, Twitter, Facebook, membership sites, advertising in ezines or magazines your target market reads, radio spots, and so on.</p>
<p>Think about where your target market is &#8220;hanging out,&#8221; where you can find them.</p>
<p>3. Determine methods of contact.</p>
<p>Look at your response to Step #2.  Now think about the methods of contact you will use to contact potential customers.  To keep things simple and manageable, choose what you feel are the best three or four methods you will use to promote.  Examples may be email promotions, social networking, and advertising in someone else&#8217;s ezine.</p>
<p>4. Create your main message.</p>
<p>In this step you will describe the value proposition you offer.  What message do you want to convey to your target audience in your sales promotions?  Distill this message into a one-sentence statement.  For example:</p>
<p>&#8220;Learn about selling skills you need to compete in today&#8217;s tougher selling environment, so you can increase your sales and profits quickly.&#8221;</p>
<p>This message will be carried out through all of your sale promotions, which will foster consistency of your message, and gives your message a better chance of getting through to your prospects.  (Frequently changing it will create confusion and inaction.)</p>
<p>5. Define the cost.</p>
<p>Break down all costs in your campaign by 1) promotional method and 2) costs.  Also include the number of pieces for each campaign method.  Following is an example:</p>
<p>Marketing Item: marketing brochures</p>
<p>Number of pieces: 1,000</p>
<p>Costs: $950</p>
<p>6. Set a time frame.</p>
<p>When will your promotional campaign start and end?  Will it be completed in phases?  Be sure to set time-oriented goals.</p>
<p>You can begin by creating a list of dates and the promotional activity you will do, and then posting these promotional dates on a calendar so you can carry out the tasks according to plan.</p>
<p>7.  Review response and results.</p>
<p>In this step, write down the response to your promotion, as well as what the actual results List the types and number of responses.  For example, did you have an increase in the number of hits on your company website?  Did you receive more inquiries about your product or service?  Did you make any sales?  How much?</p>
<p>Also review what worked well, as well as what didn&#8217;t go as expected, in terms of your message, audience response, promotional methods, costs, and objective.  Include an analysis of how you can improve your next promotional campaign.</p>
<p>For example, the promotional message may have been &#8220;we save you time&#8221;, where an improved message may be &#8220;improving your business profits is our main concern.&#8221;  Or, for costs, what went well is the &#8220;brochure was well-received;&#8221; the improvement may be &#8220;find a lower cost printer for the next run.&#8221;</p>
<p>Use these seven steps to plan your next promotional campaign so you can build and grow the business you&#8217;re dreaming about.</p>
<p>Copyright 2009, Bonita Richter</p>
<p>Bonita L. Richter, MBA, teaches coaches, consultants, and solo professionals how to market their businesses to increase sales , income, and generate wealth. To download her popular and *FREE* Money and Marketing spreadsheet tools, and BONUS gifts visit ===&gt; <A href="http://www.profit-strategies.biz/Templates.html">http://www.Profit-Strategies.biz/Templates.html</A></p>
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		<title>Promotional Marketing Increases Sales by Building Brand Awareness</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Promotional marketing has the same meaning for many people as just the term &#8220;marketing,&#8221; especially those who are not in the marketing industry. As if what marketers do is nothing more than contests, coupons, and giving out free samples. While that is a part of marketing, promotional marketing is only one small fraction of the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Promotional marketing has the same meaning for many people as just the term &#8220;marketing,&#8221; especially those who are not in the marketing industry. As if what marketers do is nothing more than contests, coupons, and giving out free samples. While that is a part of marketing, promotional marketing is only one small fraction of the big umbrella that makes up Marketing (with a capital M).</p>
<p>Promotional marketing is the idea of promoting your product or service by attracting attention to potential customers. You see this quite a bit in places like grocery stores. The next time you are walking through a grocery store, take a minute and count how many promotional marketing items you see: coupons to try a new brand of breakfast cereal, or the free samples of a new food item.</p>
<p>Car dealers and timeshare companies are also big fans of promotional marketing. How many &#8220;game cards&#8221; have you received from a local car dealer where you would win a prize if it showed up under the silver scratch-off discs.</p>
<p>But there&#8217;s more to promotional marketing than just coupons and free items. Contests are another popular method of marketing promotions. Whether it is a bank giving you thirty seconds in a giant box filled with money and a large fan, letting you grab as many of the fluttering bills as you can, or it&#8217;s a golf tournament that will give you a free car if you hit a hole in one on the 14th hole, contests are another great way to bring in potential new customers.</p>
<p>The most well known promotional marketing contest is the Publisher&#8217;s Clearinghouse Sweepstakes, where you can win $1 million or more, as well as subscribe to different magazines. We went nuts for these when we were kids, begging our parents to please please enter, because we could win a million dollars!</p>
<p>The reason people respond to these promotional marketing campaigns is that they are attracted to the large cash and prize giveaways. Sure, logically we know that the odds of winning are higher than the odds of being struck by lightning, but emotionally, we hope we&#8217;ll beat the odds just that one time.</p>
<p>Of course, promotional marketing experts are worried about the one person who does beat the odds, so promotional risk coverage is available for those promotional marketing campaigns that offer large prizes and cash to winners.</p>
<p>If you want to create an effective promotional marketing campaign, there are a few things you need to keep in mind.</p>
<p>* Why are you holding the promotional marketing campaign in the first place? Is it to sell more product, collect names for your customer mailing list, or just to increase brand awareness?<br />
* How will you measure success? Through increased sales, a bigger customer list, or based on the number of promotional marketing items you gave away? We don&#8217;t recommend measuring based on this last item, because measuring the amount of money you spent does not always translate well to the amount of money you will earn from it. Just ask any auto racing promoter who spent $100,000 and didn&#8217;t get a single sale as a result.<br />
* To whom is the marketing campaign geared? Is the promotional marketing item going to appeal to your target audience? If you are trying to reach younger men between 18 &#8211; 34, a contest that has tickets to a football game will draw them in, while two free passes to a day spa will not.<br />
* Are you looking for new customers or trying to reach existing ones? The kinds of promotional marketing items you give away will attract one group or another.<br />
* Are you compliant with the state and federal laws? Do you have promotional risk coverage in case someone wins more than you thought they would? (Imagine how the car dealer must feel when someone hits that hole-in-one and wins a car he wasn&#8217;t expecting to give away.) There are a lot of laws surrounding promotional marketing campaigns, and you could run afoul of laws without knowing it. Consult with a promotional marketing professional to make sure you run a clean campaign that doesn&#8217;t get you into trouble down the road.</p>
<p>Car dealers and timeshare companies are also big fans of promotional marketing. How many &#8220;game cards&#8221; have you received from a local car dealer where you would win a prize if it showed up under the silver scratch-off discs.</p>
<p>But there&#8217;s more to promotional marketing than just coupons and free items. Contests are another popular method of marketing promotions. Whether it is a bank giving you thirty seconds in a giant box filled with money and a large fan, letting you grab as many of the fluttering bills as you can, or it&#8217;s a golf tournament that will give you a free car if you hit a hole in one on the 14th hole, contests are another great way to bring in potential new customers.</p>
<p>The most well known promotional marketing contest is the Publisher&#8217;s Clearinghouse Sweepstakes, where you can win $1 million or more, as well as subscribe to different magazines. We went nuts for these when we were kids, begging our parents to please please enter, because we could win a million dollars!</p>
<p>The reason people respond to these promotional marketing campaigns is that they are attracted to the large cash and prize giveaways. Sure, logically we know that the odds of winning are higher than the odds of being struck by lightning, but emotionally, we hope we&#8217;ll beat the odds just that one time.</p>
<p>Of course, promotional marketing experts are worried about the one person who does beat the odds, so promotional risk coverage is available for those promotional marketing campaigns that offer large prizes and cash to winners.</p>
<p>If you want to create an effective promotional marketing campaign, there are a few things you need to keep in mind.</p>
<p>* Why are you holding the promotional marketing campaign in the first place? Is it to sell more product, collect names for your customer mailing list, or just to increase brand awareness?<br />
* How will you measure success? Through increased sales, a bigger customer list, or based on the number of promotional marketing items you gave away? We don&#8217;t recommend measuring based on this last item, because measuring the amount of money you spent does not always translate well to the amount of money you will earn from it. Just ask any auto racing promoter who spent $100,000 and didn&#8217;t get a single sale as a result.<br />
* To whom is the marketing campaign geared? Is the promotional marketing item going to appeal to your target audience? If you are trying to reach younger men between 18 &#8211; 34, a contest that has tickets to a football game will draw them in, while two free passes to a day spa will not.<br />
* Are you looking for new customers or trying to reach existing ones? The kinds of promotional marketing items you give away will attract one group or another.<br />
* Are you compliant with the state and federal laws? Do you have promotional risk coverage in case someone wins more than you thought they would? (Imagine how the car dealer must feel when someone hits that hole-in-one and wins a car he wasn&#8217;t expecting to give away.) There are a lot of laws surrounding promotional marketing campaigns, and you could run afoul of laws without knowing it. Consult with a promotional marketing professional to make sure you run a clean campaign that doesn&#8217;t get you into trouble down the road.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow,noindex" href="http://www.promotionalcurrency.com">Promotional Currency</a> (PC) is a digital promotions firm that specializes in entertainment promotions.  PC merges digital technology, artist licensing and promotional risk coverage to deliver turnkey, fixed-cost solutions that meet the unique needs and budgets of the brand marketing or b2b marketing client. Products offered are: entertainment promotions, customer loyalty programs, promotional incentives, online promotions and mobile promotions.</p>
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		<title>How Promotional Products can benefit Your Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are running a small business, you are probably looking for ways to get your name in front of potential customers. Traditional marketing methods, such as television, radio, and print advertising, can be effective; however, there are other means that can help you grow your business with very little effort. One of the best [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you are running a <a href="http://selectarticles.info/tags/small-business/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with Small Business">small business</a>, you are probably looking for ways to get your name in front of potential customers. Traditional marketing methods, such as television, radio, and print advertising, can be effective; however, there are other means that can help you grow your business with very little effort. One of the best advertising methods available is the use of promotional products. </p>
<p>There are a wide variety of promotional products you can use to help build your business. You can place your company&#8217;s name, logo, or tagline on everything from golf balls, to ink pens, to coffee mugs. You will find a number of companies that can provide these promotional items for you at a very reasonable cost.</p>
<p>How can promotional products benefit your business? First, they represent value to your potential customers. Even giving a person something as simple as a coffee mug with your logo creates a sense of obligation &#8211; because the person received something for nothing, he or she will feel an obligation to do business with you. </p>
<p>Second, promotional products create a mobile advertising vehicle that brings exposure to your business for a one-time cost. For example, if you create promotional coffee mugs to give to prospective buyers, you can be reasonably sure that they will use the mugs. Every time the prospective customer comes in contact with another person, that person will see your branding message &#8211; and he or she may become a buyer as well.</p>
<p>Items like promotional wall clocks can also be useful advertising tools. Even though they do not offer mobile advertising, they give you the benefit of repeated exposure. The average person looks at the clock at least a dozen times a day, particularly in an office setting. Every time a person checks the time, he or she will be exposed to your branding message. </p>
<p>Finally, promotional products are effective because they are tangible. A television ad comes and goes within a matter of seconds, but a promotional item is a permanent advertising tool. Over time, it gives you the potential to reach many more customers than traditional, evanescent marketing vehicles.</p>
<p>You should not necessarily use promotional products to replace your existing advertising efforts. Consumers need to be reached via a variety of media, so traditional advertising is still typically necessary. However, the use of promotional products as a part of your advertising efforts can help you gain more customers, while making the use of your advertising dollars more efficient.  </p>
<p>To find a distributor of promotional products in the UK visit the bpma sourcing site. All British promotional merchandise Association members must supply trade references and a suitable financial history before they can join. During their membership, they must adhere to a strict code of conduct ensuring that their practices are legal, decent and honest.) Look out for their logo displayed on their website or stationary. If you are still unsure you can log onto the British promotional merchandise association website. www.bpma.co.uk</p>
<p>Marketing Manager for Brand Horizon &#8211; UK &#8211; http://www.bpma-sourcing.co.uk</p>
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		<title>Small Businesses Must Have Testimonials; Even Video Testimonials</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re a small business owner there is one must-have in your advertising armor.  Testimonials!  They play a huge role in building credibility with potential customers.  A good testimonial can close a deal.  Potential customers are more apt to buy your service or product when they see or hear from other [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you&#8217;re a <a href="http://selectarticles.info/tags/small-business/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with Small Business">small business</a> owner there is one must-have in your advertising armor.  Testimonials!  They play a huge role in building credibility with potential customers.  A good testimonial can close a deal.  Potential customers are more apt to buy your service or product when they see or hear from other happy customers. And by utilizing the power of video, these testimonials on your website and uploaded on video hosting sites can really seal the deal.<br />
Let&#8217;s look at some ways we can make testimonials an effective part of our marketing campaigns.</p>
<p>Collect Them<br />
<a href="http://selectarticles.info/tags/small-business/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with Small Business">Small business</a> owners have to make an effort to collect testimonials.  Pay attention to your customers and what they are saying. If they happen to be in your place of business, ask them if you can record them on video or write down what they have to say about your business. Make sure they share their experience with your business, not just a blanket, &#8220;you&#8217;re great&#8221; statement! Set up a file for testimonials so you don&#8217;t lose them. Send your customers an email or postcard that asks them what they think about your product or service. You&#8217;ll be pleased at the positive comments that are out there just waiting to be netted! Make sure you ask your customers different questions so you have varied answers.  And don&#8217;t ask them questions that result in yes or no answers.</p>
<p>Mix it Up<br />
Different things appeal to different people.  If you want to catch the attention of a varied audience, use a variety of testimonials. You&#8217;ll be showcasing a spectrum of benefits that your business generates while putting different &#8220;flavors&#8221; out to attract a wide range of customer tastes.</p>
<p>Get Specific<br />
I hinted on this when you are collecting testimonials.  A testimonial such as, &#8220;I really liked this product a lot&#8221; gives a potential customer nothing to go on!  Pick and choose only the best testimonials. If you aren&#8217;t getting good testimonials you might not be asking the right questions.  Pick the testimonials that really motivate the customer to make a move!</p>
<p>Identify Customers Giving the Testimonial<br />
Use the customer&#8217;s entire name, city and state of where they live. To even add to the legitimacy, add the person&#8217;s occupation.  The worst thing you can do is just use the first name and last initial for a testimonial.  It comes across as made up and unbelievable.  Again, remember a video testimonial can capture the real deal as it&#8217;s person talking about your product or service live and being &#8220;real&#8221; about it.  I would much rather get a reference from someone I can see rather than reading how great you are from a John B in Texas.</p>
<p>Testimonials Should Stand Out<br />
Once you&#8217;ve gone through all of the effort to gather up interesting testimonials, you might as well make them shine. Highlight, use bold text or italics, quotation marks &#8230;whatever it takes to make them outstanding. Web pages are great for highlighting testimonials. It&#8217;s easy put them in attention getting colored boxes, or accent with clip art. You might want to even spread them out in groups to add interest to your page.  Edit several video testimonials together and upload it on your website.  Make sure to also upload the testimonials on other free video hosting websites such as YouTube and Adwido.</p>
<p>Sure testimonials take a little bit of time but they are well worth the effort and can be pure gold for marketers.  So start asking your customers for their help and input.  You will be glad you did!</p>
<p>Kelly Singleton is Director of Strategic <a href="http://selectarticles.info/tags/internet-marketing/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with internet marketing">Internet Marketing</a> for Adwido.com, a commercial internet and video marketing company dedicated to small-and medium-sized businesses. </p>
<p>If you would like to learn more, go to <a rel="nofollow,noindex" href="http://www.adwido.com">Adwido.com</a> to learn more about how you can unleash the power of video marketing on the internet.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In today&acute;s era everyone wants to make money faster. They do not want to wait longer or invest bigger amount in the beginning. Online marketing has emerged as a great trend in last few years. People are investing and making a lot of money from it. building up a mailing list can be beneficial for you if in case you are looking for making money online fast. There are many online <a href="http://selectarticles.info/tags/business-owners/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with business owners">business owners</a> who do not like to build up their own free mailing list. You must not do this mistake as you can get a lot of potential customer by making a free mailing list. You need to be a bit innovative so that the people whom you are sending the mails do not mark those mails as spam. You can arrange some contest or some free gifts or membership for them that can draw their attention towards your product. This way you can take huge advantage of free mailing list for sure.</p>
<p>List building is very crucial to identify your customer base properly. But there are certain mistakes that many people commit you must not get trapped in to that. Try to avoid those small pitfalls properly. The first thing you need to understand is the difference between freebie seeker and potential customers. It will help you to find how to build the mailing list so that it can reach its target customer base even more smoothly. If any of the people from the mailing list shows his eagerness towards your product then there is a chance for your product. That is why make sure that the mail you are sending is informative and you must mention all your contact details along with the product details.</p>
<p>If you are a mogul business man or even an entrepreneur then you can make opt in list to make your online business successful and appealing. This is one of the newest and hottest trend running throughout the world and people are getting benefited big time by opt in list and opt in email. You must not get confused because this is one of the easiest processes to shine in the era of internet. There are many people who do not give importance to building a free mailing list. They actually fail to see the possibility of exploring different customer base through this. There are plenty of technical ways through which you can generate a valid mailing list. Once you get that you can reach millions of people in just one click.</p>
<p>There are three different types of opt in list that can generate free email list. The three types are standard opt in list, double opt in list and confirmed opt in list. All these processes actually generate different types of mailing lists. If you want your customer to read and confirm receiving mails from you then you must opt for confirmed opt in list. And otherwise, standard or double opt in list will work for you. Now it is up to you to utilize the free emailing and opt in list services.</p>
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