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Article on food marketing

Click on this link to see an interesting article on food marketing for contractors. Click Here! Joel Helfer

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Construction Marketing Cheat Sheet

How Many of these Marketing Strategies are you using in your Business. Print… Newspaper ads Magazine ads Magazine articles Newsletters Brochures/Catalogs Unique Business Cards Publish a Book Direct Mail… Sales Letters Post Cards Oversize Post Cards Self Mailers Tear Sheets Lumpy Mail Statement Stuffers Coupon Mailings Email… Email Broadcasts Autoresponders E-publishings Email Segmenting Radio… TV… [...]

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Contractor Talk.com – A Great Forum for Contractors

If you like to talk shop, and I don’t know a contractor who doesn’t, I recommend you check out CONTRACTORTALK.COM. I took the time to review this site, and was very pleased. It’s for professional contractors only, and is billed as the largest professional and remodeling community online. I was so impressed that I signed [...]

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9 Point Checklist For Attracting Clients

The average small business has a limited budget for attracting new clients. And because of this, they need to spend their money wisely when using marketing strategies to attract prospects and turn them into clients. One of the keys to attracting prospects and clients is multiple exposures of your business to them. They need to [...]

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Email Marketing Cheat Sheets- Subject Lines/Opening Sentences

One of the most important aspects of email marketing is getting your email opened and read. First you have to “seduce” the reader to open your email, over and above the 100′s of emails he receives each day. And then, you have to make him curious to read your email and take action on exactly [...]

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New Rules For Trades working at McCormick Place Osted

5/28/2010 Chicago Tribune, May 27, 2010 – Ray Long and Kathy Bergen SPRINGFIELD Sweeping legislation aimed at making McCormick Place more competitive became law Thursday after the General Assembly trampled efforts by Gov. Pat Quinn to reshape key portions of the package.  The House quickly joined the Senate in voting overwhelmingly to reject Quinn’s amendatory [...]

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How To Begin Selling Online.

Selling online begins with what your prospects want. Selling is not- a psychological headlock you throw on prospects and then whack them with nuggets until they cry uncle. It’s not throwing up a website, making a bunch of unsupportable promises to sell something underhanded. It’s not jumping to a new website and products before people [...]

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The Awful Truth About Business Cards

Michael Masterson, ETR  Guru, and Bob Bly, expert copywriter, have pointed out much of the nonsensical advise given on the subject of business cards. One writer suggests giving everyone two business cards instead of one… the logic being the recipient will then have one extra one to pass along. We’re also told how to transform [...]

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