Monday, January 14, 2013

Business Blogs Create Positive Impact

 Blogging Is A Business Essential


A blog is an essential tool for every business professional. This drip marketing resource will help you to increase your audience and stay in touch with customers, prospects and partners by contributing tips, answering questions and teaching.



Readers Benefit From Timely, Relevant, Concise Posts
If you write well and frequently share your expertise, readers will value you as a source of important information. They will share your content with their communities on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

 

Bloggers Benefit From A Unique, Respected Online Presence
You will establish yourself as an expert in your field and differentiate your company Vs. competitors who do not blog well.  Increase domain knowledge though research before each post and improve your ability to explain concepts.  Frequent quick-hitting posts earn higher readership than random website visits. Search engine friendly blogs generate online referralsReaders respond to your posts with new ideas to enhance your business. Comments to your posts expand your community.

Enhance your newsletters, websites, social networks and emails with a link to your blog.

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Successful Marketers Are Great Performers


Captivate Buyers With Your Personal Performance

Memorable Experiences Differentiate Sellers Of Commodity Products And Services

Here's what I mean by personal performance

You present an aura of passion for what you do and a confidence that the customer is better off buying from you.  Your communication style establishes trust, honesty and dependability.  Your high emotional intelligence balances impulse control and assertiveness.  You blend style and class with minimal visible effort, while not trying to appear that way.  This is called sprezzatura.

Customers perceive you as both different and valuable.

Prior research reveals their needs for minimizing risk, avoiding aggravation, eliminating pain, obtaining pleasure, acquiring power or earning a profit.  You can weave this perspective into provocative questions that capture their attention.  Then you narrate a success story that resonates with their situation so that they can visualize the benefits. Being natural enables you to share insight about your products, your business and your industry and to easily address objections.

Invest in yourself and become the differentiatorGive them a reason to want to interact with you.

After reading this blog post, do you agree that this is the profile that smart sales managers should be hiring?

“If a man is a street sweeper, he should sweep streets as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will say, Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well."                                                                               Martin Luther King Jr.