Secrets to Cutting Your Document Shipping Cost in Half

Written by Paul Buisson


FedEx, UPS and DHL offer guaranteed overnight delivery of documents to locations inrepparttar USA for rates of $20.00 - $30.00. There is a guaranteed overnight service offered by these same companies that can cut your overnight delivery of documents/express paks in half. Most businesses are not aware that this service is available and those that do use it almost exclusively for their express documents.

The name of this service is prepaid guaranteed overnight delivery service. Each carrier markets this service under their own brand, butrepparttar 143046 service is basicallyrepparttar 143047 same. Prepaid document envelops, legal envelops, and express pak packaging is available. Customers purchaserepparttar 143048 packaging in advance at a greatly reduced price. There is no weight limit onrepparttar 143049 shipments. If you can fitrepparttar 143050 contents of your shipment inrepparttar 143051 packaging it will be deliveredrepparttar 143052 next day ifrepparttar 143053 delivery area has a normal one day express transit time.

Some sellers ofrepparttar 143054 little know service will invoice you forrepparttar 143055 cost of fuel after your shipment has been delivered. This can add up with current fuel charges exceeding 13%. Before purchasing this service askrepparttar 143056 seller ifrepparttar 143057 fuel charge, zone charge, residential fee and pickup fee are included. I know there are sum sellers ofrepparttar 143058 prepaid overnight service that do not charge for fuel, pickup or residential delivery. Some even offer prepaid 2nd day and international services.

Don't Advertise Your Business- Market It!

Written by Greg Chapman


Copyright 2005 Empower Business Solutions

Too many business owners believe that marketing their business means just paying for a few ads. What few understand is that Advertising is notrepparttar same as Marketing. Too many clients have come to us only after they have wasted large sums of money by copying their competitors with ˇ§me tooˇ¨ advertising. Andrepparttar 143033 media and advertising agencies love it. When you approach an advertising agency, their mission will be to convince you to spend your entire marketing budget with them, not to help you devise a marketing strategy for your business which will look at all available marketing options, not just advertising.

When developing a marketing strategy for your business, you must consider a number of aspects of your marketplace, before even thinking of your business. You need to answerrepparttar 143034 following questions: =>Who are your competitors? =>Who are your customers? =>Can you segment your marketplace? =>How do your customers make a buying decision? =>Who else has customers who could be your customers?

Once you understand your marketplace you should then consider your business. At this point ofrepparttar 143035 marketing process you would askrepparttar 143036 following questions: =>What isrepparttar 143037 ultimate benefit of my products and services for my customers? =>Why should people buy from me? =>What is my offer? (Product / Service / Price / Support / Guarantee etc.) =>How do I define My Marketplace? (Who / What / Where / When and How)

And only once you have answered these questions, askrepparttar 143038 one that most businesses ask first rather than last: =>How will I promote my business?

When answering this question, consider allrepparttar 143039 promotional options, not just advertising. Some ofrepparttar 143040 marketing options available to you are: Networking, newsletters, cold calls, special offers, public relations, referrals, joint ventures, trade shows, seminars, workshops, website, sponsorship, media advertising, yellow pages, direct mail and brochures.

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