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Think of your CUSTOMER like the NEWSPAPER

Take yourself back 10 years…before Social Media was the mainstream for information. How did ...

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FREE Customer Traffic Generator

a new idea for creating free customer traffic is using customers to spread word ...

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Your Customers Don’t Care about Your Search Rankings…WHY You Shouldn’t Either

When someone talks about being ranked #1 on Google (or Bing, Yahoo, or other ...

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Customer Service is a Risky Strategy

Customer Service by its very nature is a “reactionary” process most organizations create to ...

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Are you Selling HAMMERS…or delivering DREAMS?

The word VALUE has been around a very long time…and I’m sure it has ...

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Let the Audience be the Police

This is about Social Media…specifically about the use of the right channel for the ...

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TRUST and WORD-of-MOUTH…they’re Inseparable

The Desired Result… Everyone on the planet doing any kind of business wants more ...

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Blogging “Reincarnated”

Blogging concept Blogging is dead…a phrase that has been going around for as long ...

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How Often Should you Communicate with your Customers?

I get asked this question regularly…I believe this is the wrong question. The question ...

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Do you have an “Open Door” Policy with Your Customers?

Portrait of several business associates sitting on chairs by office door We have all ...

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