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80% of sales are made after 5 contacts – avoid “follow up failure”

Here are some food for thought sales stats. 40% of salespeople never follow up with a prospect 25 % of salespeople make a second contact and stop 12% of salespeople only make 3 contacts and stop Only 10% of salespeople make more that 3 contacts 2% of sales are made on the first contact 3% of sales are made on the second contact 5% of sales are made on the third contact 10% of sales are mad...
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Congratulations to EC member Stephen Gray

Congratulations to Stephen Gray from Tawny Barn for winning the Stockport Entrepreneur of the Month at our July meeting last night. Stephen has been diligently working his way through the Vault and growing his business. In addition, he spent two full days working 'On' his business at the recent Implementor event at the NEC. And he has just been accepted onto the Milion Pound Masterclass program...
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Turbo charge “Copy & Paste”

Do you ever find yourself repeatedly "copying & pasting" as you work on your PC? By default your can just copy and paste the last thing you copied. But here are a couple of tools that can enable you to increase your productivity. 1/ Clipboard History Pro. This is a Chrome browser extension and I am happily using the free version. It enables me to select from previous "copies". It lets me eas...
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Canva – for DIY design and print projects

You may have seen the ads on TV recently for Canva, the online tool that enables you to design your own artwork projects. I have recently been using the Pro version (there is a free version) and I have been very impressed and found it extremely useful. Previously I have recommended image-editing softwares (check them out here) which are great. But what Canva does is make it really easy and intu...
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Refresh & Update to get more Google search visits to your website

Creating content on your website is a sure way to get listed on Google searches and so attract visitors to your website. A brilliant book on this very subject is "They Ask, You Answer" by Marcus Sheridan and you can read more about that in this blog post. But what most marketers forget is that not only does Google love new content, but it loves updated content too. So it is important to also up...
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The social media tactic that most people miss – LinkTree

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The link in your Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn etc bio is super valuable real estate - but are you making the most of it? As you know you can only have one link. But what if you want to showcase multiple web pages, landing pages, content etc that you would like to point people too? The answer is Linktree (www.LinkTr.ee). Easy to set up and use to promote multiple pages of content. Some gre...
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Test, Test, Test for online marketing success

It is very surprising how many small businesses invest many thousands of pounds in developing a website and expect it to perform and generate profitable sales from day one. When the expected sales fail to materialise then everyone involved is disappointed and the website tends to get forgotten about. Before I became involved in online marketing I have many years of experience in traditional dir...
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Make international payments from clients easier and cheaper

Do you ever need to send or receive payments abroad? Have you ever had overseas clients struggle to get payment to you? I have experienced this many times with clients in the US. It seems to me that the US banking system makes it very difficult to process international bank transfers. So I was enabling the Stripe online payment option in my Xero accounting software. But it was always a gripe whe...
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