Preventive Marketing offers small-mid sized business owners an ideal way to maximize their results for minimum investment.

Written by Cijaye DePradine


The following article, by author and Prevention Marketing Strategist - Cijaye DePradine is available for republishing in any medium throughoutrepparttar world as long as all contents remain in tact and credit and links are provided torepparttar 119739 author inrepparttar 119740 publication. Please send a copy of your publication to info@cijayecreative.com

Asrepparttar 119741 owner of a creative services boutique - I have realized that at least 9 out of 10 prospects/clients have suffered from one or all ofrepparttar 119742 following (very detrimental) symptoms of trying to grow their businesses:

Trouble defining their "BIG PICTURE"

Little to no understanding of "evolution focus"

Overwhelming feelings of "being stuck", "spinning wheels", "not knowing what to do next"

Not enough information about options, alternatives and solutions to common strategies

Not enough knowledge or support to askrepparttar 119743 right questions when researching opportunities

Challenges in differentiating between "good advice" and "bad advice"

Difficulty bouncing back from ill advised decisions

Exhausting unnecessary dollar amounts for otherwise less expensive projects

Not enough resources to avoid future mistakes

Unrealistic expectations about each unique component ofrepparttar 119744 marketing mix and how enlisting one does NOT guarantee another.

Somehow alongrepparttar 119745 wayrepparttar 119746 corporate mentality of "delegate everything" has convolutedrepparttar 119747 fact that small-mid sized businesses don't always haverepparttar 119748 resources to do this. Owners who elect to "do everything", do so underrepparttar 119749 pretense that it will only be temporary and that as soon as money comes in they will contractrepparttar 119750 right people. The underlying trouble here is that those who choose to do it all - find themselves spending more time and money researching information that is readily available inrepparttar 119751 right places;repparttar 119752 revenues they need to hire someone - get harder and harder to generate and somehow mover further and further away from them.

Effective List Management Can Save You Big

Written by Joy Gendusa


Let’s talk about how to keep your postage costs down.

So far you have been following my advice and mailing torepparttar same list more than once. At some point you find lists that will produce returns continually, but you notice that you are receiving more returns than when you started mailing to those lists.

You may see things like "Undeliverable as Addressed" or "Forwarding Order Expired." Every time you mail to an address and that prospect has moved or cannot be found for any reason, you have just paid forrepparttar 119738 postage with no possibility of getting a response.

Obviously it is a pretty big waste of money to continue to mail to this address, but what do you do about it? You could simply go intorepparttar 119739 list of names that you have purchased and deleterepparttar 119740 returns. No more bad addresses, no more wasted postage, right? That is one option but there is a better way to handlerepparttar 119741 situation.

The US Postal Service has an NCOA (National Change of Address) System that a limited number of companies are licensed to access. These companies are able to takerepparttar 119742 list that you have purchased, or compiled yourself, and check it againstrepparttar 119743 USPS system. You will receive a report that will let you know if anyone on your list has moved, gone out of business, or even ifrepparttar 119744 zip code that contact was in was changed byrepparttar 119745 Post Office itself. Along withrepparttar 119746 report you will receive a new copy of your list that has been cleaned and updated.

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