1.Do you have a target audience?

Do you know who you're marketing too? I'm mean specifics. Do you know there problems? Do you know what frustrats them? Do you know why your product or service fulfills their needs? If you don't have a clear cut answer to this set of question then this should be a surely a red flag. Study your market. Know who they are.

2.Do you have a product or service?

So many people get into affiliate marketing online because they see opportunity to make money. They don't know what they want to sell they just know that they want to make money. Do you know what you're selling? Do you have a primary product that fulfills your target markets need? If not, stop and figure it out now.

3.Do you have a website?

It seems pretty stupid to ask this question, but some people overlook this glaringly simple detail. It's very simple. If you do business online you need a website. If you don't have a website now go get one!

4.Do you have traffic?

Business slow? Promotion efforts for your coaching practice or other service business not working as well as you hoped?

We don't know what we don't know. With just an addition or two of proven marketing/promotion techniques, you can uplevel you business for its fullest success. Put a check next to methods you haven't done or that may be incomplete.

Ten Promotion How-to's Checklist

_____1. Know your "defining statement" to attract new clients verbally and through email. Clients don't buy degrees or titles, they want to know what's in it for them.

_____2. Place a soft-sales, powerful signature file or files at bottom of each email you send. Do you change your sig file for different promotion purposes so you catapult visitors to your Web site?

_____3. Know difference between benefits and features in your promotion copy. Knowing that benefits sell and features explain make your communications stronger to attract your ideal client.

_____4. Create a sales letter for each service or product you want to sell. Like teeth you floss, you write a sales letter for clients you want to attract and keep.

_____5. Enroll new clients from platform. Getting yourself out is one thing, but knowing inside speaking secrets to get people to sign up for your seminars or coaching is another.