Browse Posts By Date: May 20th, 2011

How to make the most of your email list

Friday, May 20th, 2011

One of the first strategies I recommend to everyone I come into
contact with is to start building a list they can begin emailing
to. This usually demands a fundamental change in their initial
approach to their prospects, clients, and customers.

The aim is to begin the relati

Yunus quits Grameen ‘to prevent disruption’

Friday, May 20th, 2011

It had been coming for months. In the face of sustained intimidation from the Bangladeshi government Nobel Peace Prize winning social entrepreneur Muhamma

7 ways to promote your business using social media

Friday, May 20th, 2011

Lets say that you are having an event, a grand opening, a special
party or something to create a local awareness of your business.
How can you use these mediums to attract more clients to attend or
be aware of what you are doing.

1.  Blog about it.
Before, during and

17 ways you can use Twitter, Many of them promote your business

Friday, May 20th, 2011

Twitter is a micro blogging platform which allows you to
publish short messages of less than 140 characters through different
mediums like IM, cellphones and the web.

It allows users to befriend and monitor each other ‘s messages or
updates. So what you have here is a

7 ways that being too ‘real’ on Twitter can kill your business

Friday, May 20th, 2011

Before we begin, I would like to relate a real life example of what
can happen when an ill thought out comment gets repeated. The
occasion was a speech given by Gerald Ratner, the owner Ratners
Jewellers, a very successful chain of jewellery stores in the UK.
His speech was g

Use colours that sell on your website

Friday, May 20th, 2011

On the Internet we don’t deal with face to face selling. The
Internet is a visual and psychological medium.

Just as you use words to express yourself, colours can be used as an
expression as well and are a language all on their own.

The background colour of your websi