Classified Ads - What Works & What Doesnt
Classified Ads - What Works & What Doesnt
by: Diana Barnum
Do classified ads really work? Should you include an email address or fax number in them? How about a call to action?
Questions like these are often brought to the attention of OhioHelp.net, an Ohio-based company specializing in helping businesses worldwide with their marketing, public relations and freelance writing services. Here are some top tips they offer based on their own client projects.
TOP TIPS FROM OHIOHELP.NET
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Holiday Centerpiece Ideas
A holiday centerpiece would make a wonderful focal point or main decoration for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, New Years and other holiday occasions. You can place the centerpiece on your table, entryway table or other large area or space.
Plus there are limitless ways to make your centerpiece special. You can mix-and-match festive objects you have around your house with materials from a craft or fabric store and even add them to wonderful creations from online stores. Then design and...
How to Enhance Sales with Ebooks
How to Enhance Sales with Ebooks
by: Diana Barnum
Are people interested in ebooks? And if so, what are the best ways to sell them?
The following statistics reported by the Open eBook Forum, a non-profit organization for the electronic book publishing industry, definitely show an interest in ebooks. Note the Forum boasts members like Microsoft Corporation, Adobe Systems, McGraw-Hill, Random House, Simon & Schuster and other top companies.
GROWTH IN CUSTOMER BASE*
Random House,...
How to Handle 12 Big Issues for Small Businesses
How to Handle 12 Big Issues for Small Businesses
by: Diana Barnum
Some day-to-day work issues can turn into big headaches for small businesses. For example, not having enough help during a busy season or new promotion can hurt production, sales and customer relations in the fulfillment of orders and customer service.
A quick glance at the following stats reported by the US. Small Business Administration, shows that small businesses are not small potatoes in todays economy. In fact, the...
How to Increase Sales with Automation Improvements
How to Increase Sales with Automation Improvements
by: Diana Barnum
How popular is online shopping? And is there room for improvement? Lets check out some pros and cons of automated shopping and see.
Digital carts offer convenience for people around the globe 24 hours a day. Yet an estimated 4 percent of shoppers make purchases, up from 3.5 percent in 2003, reported by DoubleClick, an online marketing company.
And approximately 30 percent of shopping carts are abandoned, according to...
How to Market with Niche Auction Sites
How to Market with Niche Auction Sites
by: Diana Barnum
Online auctions are big business. But they can be big headaches.
During the past year, trading in online commerce was valued at $60 billion, according to *Business Standard. Online trade among small businesses makes up 1 per cent of USA*s GDP (Gross Domestic Product) and is expected to reach 10 per cent or $400 billion of USA*s GDP by 2010.
But setting up and maintaining operations on huge auction sites like Ebay is not always...
How to Really Benefit from Associations (Part 1 of 3-Part Series)
How to Really Benefit from Associations (Part 1 of 3-Part Series)
by: Diana Barnum
Looking for new leads, new contacts, new business opportunities? Do what nine out of 10 adults do, according to a recent article by the American Society of Association Executives. Join an Association. Choose from over 130,000 associations in the United States alone that represent practically any industry at national, international, regional, state and local levels.
How can you reap benefits from association...
How To Use Outsourcing And Virtual Assistants With These 3 Main Areas Of Business
The contracting of Virtual Assistants (VA) is the next big step for allowing businesses to cut costs while operating in an efficient manner. And companies like Moving Ahead Communications are bringing affordable outsourcing through their Virtual Assistant Plus programs, changing the face of outsourcing as we know it.
A Virtual Assistant provides any combination of tasks including administrative, technical and even creative services to their clients, acting as an independent contractor. They...
Online Shopping Solutions With Carts
Your business might already be set up with a mini-site and Paypal or other financial payment button. But often website shoppers might be getting lost as the site changes over to the processing institutions software system, different site look and navigation upon checking out. However, there is a solution. You could have more enhanced processing features and options and even extend your sales reach with a shopping cart system.
Shopping cart software today has a variety of tools to help with...
Quick Solutions With Quick Blogs
A web log, also known as a "blog" for short, is like an online diary or journal for some, on online multimedia center, article or news announcer and more to others. Basically text-based, blogs are easy to update with posts, and depending upon the type of blog, fairly easy to maintain.
If you choose to set up your own blog with software in your web hosting package, for example, you generally chose a Wordpress blog. Wordpress offers a variety of templates, however, not all templates are...
Teacher Turns Entrepreneur
Teacher Turns Entrepreneur by Diana Barnum Kristi Sayles, a second grade teacher from Camden, Tennessee, has been writing professionally since 1985 when she sold her first article to GRIT (a family-oriented magazine) for a whopping $35.00. A public school teacher for almost ten years, as well as a counselor for the West Tennessee Writing Project, Sayles combined her love of writing with her love of computing and created writing software templates. The software is designed to make writing...
Tweak With These 20 Copywriting Tips & Tricks
To help increase your sales, take a look at your copywriting and see if you can make improvements. Often small improvements can result in a much better conversion rate.
In short, as this quote from successful businessman David Ogilvy says, "If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language in which they think."
So go over these tips and see where you can use better language: revise, tweak, edit and otherwise...
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