Debt credit card can be paralyzing. It can consume your life and steal your dreams, but should not be. Depends on how you spend your life … try to stay ahead of the change or the life you deserve to live. Today is the first day of the rest of his life and it’s time to get out of debt.

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Customers buy for a reason. No matter how complex some of the reasons they throw at you may seem to be, most of them root from the 10 basic buying motives listed in here. Capitalize on one or a combination of these motives and you will successfully sell to your customers.

1. Self-preservation
Self-preservation corresponds to people’s basic needs. These are the necessities such as food, clothing, shelter, and all products that relates to their health and safety. Business-wise, it means products that will help them in their jobs, making their work faster and easier to become more successful and highly effective employees. The question to answer then, is how does your product help your customers, either on a personal or business level? How does it fill their basic needs?

2. Value
With today’s relatively hard economy, getting value for one’s money is everybody’s concern. People don’t feel like buying something that is not worth their money. Most people are willing to pay any price for a good product. You then have to make sure you sell with integrity. That means you won’t give your customers empty promises and false claims about your product. So, how will your product honestly accommodate your possible customer’s needs and expectations?

3. Sex
Sex means you are appealing to the customer’s femininity or masculinity. This corresponds to your product’s ability to enhance their attractiveness and appeal to the opposite sex. People are naturally vain. They are willing to buy something that would make them a lot more attractive, more lovable, and more likeable than they presently are. What then, is your product’s role in making your customers look better in front of other people?

4. Dreams
All people have dreams, aspirations, or even fantasies. And they all want to realize it, or to even achieve something that even mildly resembles it. Early on in their lives, they have visions of what they should become, what they should own, and what their lifestyle should be. Dreams come in all shapes and form. It means dreams can be big and high, but they could also be small and simple. Whatever dreams your customer might have, what does your product propose to fulfill them?

5. Emulation
Quite naturally, customers would like to be somebody they admire. Be it movie stars, celebrities, and members of the higher society, one thing holds true. They would like to be associated, compared, or even be reminded of them. They would like to have their idols’ looks, their wealth, and their elegance. Some people think that by buying the products their favorite celebrity endorses, most of their qualities are going to rub off on them. So, is a well-known or reputable person endorsing your product? Better yet, how do you associate your product to somebody prominent?

6. Revenge Motives
Some customers would like to show the world that they are worth something good. This type of buying motive has both a good and a bad side. It is because while you want to bring out the best in them, you do it by evoking their innermost emotions of bitterness, insecurity, plainness, and mediocrity. This type of motivation is usually left unsaid, because of the negative implications associated with it. Nevertheless, it is a very powerful motive to buy. How sensitive are you to this motive and how can your product help your customer in their goal to make even?

7. Style
As times goes by, the trends change. And to keep up in style is something customers would like to achieve. Customers do not want to be left out from the crowd and be considered yesterday’s news. What they want is to fit in and be one with the people who are considered chic, trendy, and fashionable. Is your product the “in” thing today? Will owning it means you are in conformity with today’s changing world?

8. Knowledge
Information is power. This is the reason why self-help books and materials are making raves in the market. Owning them makes a person richer, more skilled, and better informed. Some people are willing to go to greater heights just to know more about their hobbies, the things that fascinates them, or even the everyday things that works around them. Many people are still hungry for learning. If your product satisfies their hunger, you might as well appeal to this buying motive. Is your product going to be
helpful in a way to your customer through information dissemination?

9. Elitism
Who would want to feel high and mighty? People would like to be regarded as elite or important. If a certain product can give a sense of elitism to them, they will buy it. Examples of such products are jewelry, expensive apparels, a fast car, or a big house. Will owing your product give your customers the satisfaction of being one of the best?

10. Being Liked
The feeling of being admired or at least to be accepted is enough to make a person tingle. Nobody would like to be embarrassed by not owning something everybody assumes to be “the thing”. They don’t want to be caught dead without something most of their friends own. There are also times they would like to start a trend themselves. And they can do it by getting a good product that would make them the subject of admiration or even envy. So, how will your product make somebody acceptable? How can it solicit the admiration of others?

So much of the literature on the subject of referrals focuses on the proper ways to network, ask for referrals, and create incentive programs for referral sources. While some of these more tactical things do indeed produce referrals for the organizations and salespeople that employ them, they are often little more than window dressing when it comes to the big picture.

Building a foundation that automatically generates referral momentum is not done through external actions  like some many things in life, you do it from the inside out. Plain and simple the most widely referred business are purely more referable.

I’ve studied a lot of businesses that easily generate referrals and they share some common internal tendencies as part of their brand and culture.

Make people look good

Looking at all business relationships with an eye on making prospects, customers, vendors, mentors, and staff look and feel good is a tremendously attractive internal quality. I read this quote recently and I think it works well here – “To a large degree, our success and happiness in life depends on how much people like themselves when they’re with us.” Joe Caruso

Ready to refer

We all know that giving referrals is one of the best ways to get referrals, but the difference lies in the systematic preparation. There is a big difference between understanding this philosophically and practicing proactively. Building your back pocket with a group of  “best of class” providers takes work. You’ve got to discover, recruit, train and build the trust necessary to develop a proven network of providers who can help you add value to your client relationships, but once you do, the rest is pretty easy.

Keeps promises

The word trust is easy to use and even easier to lose. But, as Stephen M.R. Covey so correctly points out in his book, The Speed of Trust,  trust is a hard currency and asset. Trust impacts how fast things are done and how much they cost. It is so much easier and less expensive to refer a business that keeps its promises.

Creates an experience

We will travel to the ends of the earth to be entertained or at least not bored to tears. The businesses we love to refer aren’t boring. They realize that it’s not just about the product and service they sell, it’s equally about the total experience,  the marketing, the message, the people, the processes, the delivery are all carefully considered as props integral to a successful customer experience.

Educates, instead of selling

Nobody likes to refer a friend to a sales pitch, right? But, exposing a friend to information that might help them get more of what they want out of life, now that’s a different story. Even better when that information is packaged and presented in multiple locations, formats, and venues.

Adds value beyond price

In Bob Burg’s book the Go-Giver the main character, Joe, encounters the 5 laws of stratospheric success. The first law, the Law of Value states that your true worth is determined by how much more you give in value than you take in payment. This is a tough one for so many people because we often have no great baseline for the value we bring. The key here is to work tirelessly to understand, quantify and enhance the value our customer receives and the rest will take care of itself.

Does something talkable

My spell check isn’t balking at the word talkable, but I think it properly expresses this one. You’ve certainly encountered the concept of word of mouth constantly of late, but I think that concept tends to lean heavily on tactics and stunts, like viral videos, that might create a flurry of word of mouth. To do something talkable to me is to have something at the core of your business, a higher purpose, an inspirational story, a product or service that is simply brilliant, or a habit that makes people smile. Authenticity and consistency are what make something talkable.

Exceeds expectations

This one seems pretty easy, but why isn’t it. When someone buys a product, toss other stuff in the box, right? Maybe, but the only way to actually exceed expectations is to know what they are. And that’s where people fall down. In business and in life, it’s extremely difficult to exceed an expectation you have not participated in setting. Widely referred business work very hard to set the proper expectations and then it’s pretty simple matter to exceed them. So, you see exceeding expectations might also include understanding and attracting the right customers, laying exactly how you work to get results on the line, teaching customers what’s expected of them, and even saying no once and while.

Focus on even one of the internal mindsets and practices above and watch how much more referable you become.

I also created a public mindmap of this article and would love it if you would contribute your thoughts on the tactical elements of each of these principles listed above. You do have to sign-up for a free Mindmeister account to add your thoughts, but it’s a pretty cool tool anyway so you might like to play around with it. You can find the map here – http://www.mindmeister.com/23949165

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John Jantsch is a veteran marketing coach, award winning blogger and author of Duct Tape Marketing: The World’s Most Practical Small Business Marketing Guide.

He is the creator of the Duct Tape Marketing small business marketing system. You can find more information by visiting http://www.ducttapemarketing.com

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Photo by lirontockerBuilding branded profiles, engaging prospects and connecting with potential employees and strategic partners are all powerful ways to tap into Facebook and  LinkedIn.

But, for the typical small business, there may actually be some equally important social networks you may not be so familiar with. The big networks get all the press, but small networks, say for instance, like the connectodex found here at OpenForum may prove tremendously valuable for small business folks due to the small size and targeted focus of the membership.

The list below represents some of the more active networks I’ve encountered when it come to small business social networking.

Visit a handful of these sites and choose several that feel right for your business. Once you build a profile, taking full advantage of the opportunity to link to your primary business offer full descriptions of your products and services, spend enough time to go a bit deeper.

Write or republish some articles or blog content, search and identify a dozen or so people to connect with, and give some advice, point to someone’s great content or answer questions from other members.

Don’t try to jump into every new network you can find, but do jump into a few outside of Facebook and LinkedIn and make yourself a bit of a larger fish in these smaller ponds.

In addition to OpenForum check these networks out:

• Biznik – this network for small business folks is blending online and offline by allowing members to collect by city and host and promote local events

• StartUpNation – a wealth of information focused on startups and very active community

• Wall St Journal – community build around subscribers  and geared, as one might suspect to professionals and financial folks

• Small Business Brief – heavy dose of search engine related content but very active small business focus

• Inc magazine – another popular business related magazine with community of entrepreneurs

• StartUp Biz – very fast growing network with lots of tools to promote yourself

• PartnerUp – small business focus and big on helping people find answers and connections for the things they need

• BizSugar – allows you to submit, share and vote for the best business information links on the Internet.. Great place to promote and discover your small business content

• CoFoundr – Programmers and designers use the site to find co-founders, build teams, and get advice.

• Entrepreneur magazine – Entrepreneur magazine’s community site has a lot of activity and content

• Business Week Exchange – Site from Business Week magazine is a great place to promote and find content on the web, tends to be a bit larger business focused

• Naymz – one of the better sites for those focused on building personal brands – highly indexed in the search engines

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John Jantsch is a marketing and digital technology coach, award winning social media publisher and author of Duct Tape Marketing.

Author: Maria Morton

Photo by clickrmeRegardless of your personal thoughts about the appropriateness of being cold canvassed during your evening meal, telemarketing is a thriving industry and could be the new lease on life that your company needs. In the business-to-business arena, effective telemarketing services can serve a number of purposes: increase exposure to new customers, follow-up cold leads, set appointments, raise your profile, conduct customer research, update databases, gain permission to continue marketing contact, or promote new products and services.

While it’s true that telemarketing may add new dimensions of profit to fledgling sales revenue, you have to know how to use it to its potential and put effort into making the most of this well-proven tactic. Telemarketing is like any other marketing activity; it benefits from both commercial planning and creativity, and reflects the amount of effort you put into it.

Choosing a telemarketing service

If you decide that telemarketing is an activity to include in your marketing mix, it may be worthwhile investigating one of the outsourced providers rather than suddenly deciding to include it on your existing staffs’ job description. Cold calling is often considered a less-than-desirable activity by internal staff, and sales people would usually prefer to spend their time contacting warm or qualified leads. Things to consider when choosing a telemarketing provider:

• What is their customer service like? After all, they won’t treat your customers any better than they’re treating you.

• Do they have a pilot program which allows you to ‘dip your toe’ in the water?

• What is the minimum number of contacts you must provide?

• Can you pause or expedite the program depending on your capacity to service new business?

• Can they assist you with leads or recommend list brokers?

• Do they charge per call or do they have some other pricing model?

The first point is telling. When choosing to use the services of any outsourced company, take note of how they treat YOU as a potential customer. Do they respond in a timely manner to your enquiry, are they happy to explain their services to you, are their own processes streamlined and customer-focused? Remember, if you aren’t happy with their treatment of you, would you really want them representing your business?

Be prepared

Before you embark on a telemarketing campaign, it is worthwhile to prepare beforehand the information that you will be asked to provide, which may include:

• Description of your business and your ideal customer;

• Your unique selling proposition (USP);

• Why do your clients currently buy from you, why should they buy from you?

• Who are your competitors?

• What is your current sales process?

• What do you hope to achieve with a telemarketing campaign; e.g. appointment setting, database updating, research?

• How would you define a successful campaign?

If you would like more information about using telemarketing as a marketing option to grow your customer base, Plenty Systems works with a number of full-service providers and we would be happy to make recommendations based upon our own experiences.

Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/marketing-articles/making-the-most-of-b2b-telemarketing-1413755.html

About the Author:

Maria Morton is a director of Plenty Systems, an Australian marketing and training services business that assists companies to increase their revenue through strategic goal setting, marketing action plans and by providing the manpower to make it happen. Maria has almost 20 years of experience in marketing, public relations and corporate communications. For additional marketing resources, including her monthly newsletter Plenty News, visit her website at www.plentysystems.com.au

Author: Naz Daud

Photo by kawafaceOffline advertising can often be forgotten or ignored with the progress of internet technology. But to ignore the opportunities which advertising offline, or ‘real world’ advertising, has to offer, is to cut off a significant portion of your potential success. Internet technology might reach customers on the other side of the planet, but if you’re a regional business how is this of any help to you? Distributing mail shots, slipping flyers in with the local free paper of displaying adverts in shop windows will be more likely to reach the customers you’re actually after.

Internet banners are seen, and almost immediately forgotten. No one bookmarks a web page because of the adverts. However, with offline advertising there is a very real chance that people will see your advert time and time again. How much would it cost you to print off a few hundred flyers, and slip them under the wipers of every car in the town center car park at the weekend? For the sake of a few pounds and a couple of hours of your time you could reach hundreds of potential customers.

Certainly many of them will throw the advert away, just as they might click off a web page, but for those few, who might just be interested, you provide a document which can be kept, filed, referred to and which acts as a regular reminder, long after a banner advert on a web page has been forgotten. Offline advertising provides scope for greater variation, more imagination, and above all, far greater durability.

Of course, this isn’t to ignore or forget the online advertising and other forms of brand impression which your business will be seeking to employ. It is important that the brand image is translated seamlessly from one medium to another, and any offline advertising must match online advertising, and any other promotional literature which your business publishes. Brand image is everything, and if your advertising is merely to help impress your business or product name upon people, then this will prove to be more successful through continuity and consistency.

However, having said that, there is a time when sometimes breaking the mold is better and proves more advantageous for your business. When you are considering an advertising or promotional campaign, in whichever medium you choose, it will be important to occasionally consider breaking the rules. Knowing what the rules are gives you a better idea of when to break them. It’s also important to know why you are breaking them.

Let’s consider a scenario – that your business is seeking to expand the sales of a particular product or service. One of the crucial questions you will need to ask is why such an expansion is necessary. Give yourself a rap on the knuckles if you instantly assumed that the reason was to make more money or increase profit. Business is rarely a charity, and so quite clearly any decision or action will be employed in order to try to further the business in this way. However, what you may need to consider is why such expansion is necessary.

The answer may well be because your current clientele only represent a specific portion of the potential market. If you have carried out effective marketing you may have discovered that your product or service is being entirely missed by a significant group or category of people, and it is those people that your offline marketing campaign will be trying to reach.

To some extent, marketing and reaching out to specific groups online can be a good deal easier, since you can use cookie trails to identify potential customers, you can advertise through known sites frequented by the kind of people you’re after, and you can track searches and alter your advertising and promotion on the basis of the keywords being used. In the real world this can prove a little more difficult, and it will be necessary to combine good, effective market research with hard work, and often, leg work too. It will need you to go out to the customers, rather than exploit known patterns online and wait for the right customer to come to you.

To a large extent it will be reasonably obvious that if you are trying to target successful businessmen, there are ways in which any advertising campaign is highly likely to fail, and inserting your adverts into publications rarely read by such people is a guaranteed way to lose your company a fair chunk of money. But it will also be important to consider ways in which you can get the attention of those customers you are after.

Offline advertising can prove to be much more successful, as it can involve active promotion, rather than passive promotion. For example, actively putting documents into people’s hands as they pass in the street, actively arranging a publicity stunt in the town center, or actively giving away products which might really be useful will all help ensure that those suitable people passing by don’t just pass by.

Article Source: www.articlesbase.com/marketing-articles/why-active-offline-advertising-can-prove-more-beneficial-857148.html

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Court Decisions that Protect and Compensate Asbestos Workers

Asbestos is a dangerous substance that causes the debilitating disease of asbestosis, and the fatal cancer, mesothelioma. Asbestos workers are exposed to scarring asbestos fibers in excessive amounts on a daily basis. Employers who ignore the dangers won’t be ignored by the courts.

Asbestosis and mesothelioma affects asbestos workers around the world. National and international lawyers and judges are making room on their desks for voluminous stacks of medical records that are entered as evidence in mass litigation proceedings for asbestos workers who were unaware, and unprotected, from the dangers of inconspicuous deadly asbestos fibers. Employers have the responsibility to protect the safety and health of the employees, and in today’s modern societies, it is legally mandatory for employers to protect their employees from danger. Company fines and business closures can result for those companies that put profit over people, and so can litigation resulting in millions of dollars of compensation paid to injured workers.

Asbestos workers have joined together to set precedent court decisions in asbestos cases that will facilitate faster trial decisions and undermine confusion in the interpretations of the occupational laws.

Many workers, however, do not receive just compensation. Lack of medical records, multiple possible causes of lung disease, unawareness of the right to legal compensation, or the lack of legal representation, prevents many asbestos workers from receiving their just compensation for asbestosis or mesothelioma.

Although workers compensation cases have been recognized in the courts since the 1920s, the first US trial against an asbestos product wasn’t held until 1966 by plaintiff Claude Tomplait. The case lasted three years, and the decision was made on behalf of the defendant. In 1969, Claude’s lawyer then represented Clarence Borel, a co-worker of Claude’s, against the same defendant. This case lasted four years, and in 1973, a historical landmark decision was made on behalf of the plaintiff, Clarence Borel (Borel v. Fibreboard Paper Prods. Corp., 493 F.2d 1076 (5th Cir. 1973). It was officially deemed that not only must manufacturers must warn consumers of danger, but they are responsible for staying informed with regard to scientific discoveries that have an impact on their products. If a manufacturer fails to do so, they will be liable for physical harm. Since 1973, there have been well over 100,000 asbestos cases filed in US courts. Asbestos cases are currently the longest mass tort in US Court history. In 1982, court opinion in Beshada (Beshada v. Johns-Manville Products Corp., 442 A.2d 539 (N.J. 1982)), humanely stated, “the burden of illness…should fall on those who profit from its production…”, throwing out a “state of business practices at the time” defense that defendant asbestos companies were praying upon for relief.

Around the world, the deadly consequences of working with asbestos is gaining increased recognition, and asbestos workers are gaining increased support in their court bids for compensation of asbestosis and mesothelioma. In 1989, Australia established the Dust Diseases Tribunal for asbestos cases, and in 1991, Australia banned asbestos. In 2005, the European Union followed with their own ban on asbestos. In the UK, a compensation fund for asbestos workers diagnosed with mesothelioma has been established within the Department of Societal Development. This fund disperses payment to mesothelioma patients within a week of the diagnosis of mesothelioma and reduces the risk of a mesothelioma patient dying before receiving a settlement (which frequently happens with lengthy civil trials).

Asbestosis and mesothelioma patients suffering from incurable and fatally progressive diseases due to employer negligence and manufacturer’s disregard for danger are due compensation for their pain, and employers are beginning to pay. Sadly, employers have to pay with their bank accounts, but asbestos workers have to pay with their life.

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