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Jody Gabourie's Articles

  • 5 Steps Towards a Marketing Tactic
    Learn the 5 major steps involved in creating and promoting any marketing strategy or tactic.
  • 6 Questions to Answer for Your Marketing Plan
    In order to get the most out of any marketing activity you implement, you need to be clear on 6 specific areas. Learn six questions that you should be asking yourself, and how they can keep you focused and on-track with implementing marketing tactics.
  • The 4 No-No's of Marketing Plans
    Too many business owners and entrepreneurs do not follow their marketing plan. Learn to avoid the four no-no's of marketing plans in order to make it as easy as possible for you to put yours into action.
  • Copy Writing Tips
    Use these copy writing tips in order to make sure that your marketing copy is doing everything possible to move your prospects and clients to take some kind of action immediately.
  • 3 Helpful Steps to Create Audio Products
    One of the fastest growing arenas of Internet marketing is audio products. Learn three helpful steps to help make your audio marketing as impactful and memorable as possible for your prospects and clients.
  • It's YOUR Job to Educate Prospects
    Marketing is all about having a relationship with your prospects, customers and clients that is based on educating them and not "selling" them.
  • Get The Most Out Of Your Free-Giveaway
    Smart marketers know that the power of leveraging new marketing tactics with existing strategies is the way to get the most out of your time, expertise and resources. Discover how to utilize the power of your free-giveaway to the fullest.
  • Promoting Your Free-Giveaway
    You need to promote your free-giveaway and let everyone know about it. Learn several simple, inexpensive or no cost ways that you can market your free-giveaway.
  • Free-Giveaway Content
    Your free-giveaway needs to be something that your target group finds valuable and has need of. Learn how to choose content that you know your prospects and clients want to see.
  • Free-Giveaway Ideas
    The first step involved in creating your free-giveaway is to decide which format you are going to provide your free product in. Learn the six different formats you can choose for your free-giveaway, as well as how to determine which format is best for you.
  • Why You Need a Free-Giveaway
    Offering something of value for free is a very important step in marketing. It is a way of introducing yourself to prospective clients in a non-intrusive, friendly manner, and it is one of the fastest and most reliable ways to build a list of prospective clients and customers.
  • Your Objectives For a Free-Giveaway
    In order to get the most out of a free-giveaway, you need to be clear on who your target audience is and what the objective is for this marketing tactic. By answering these questions, you'll ensure that you are focused and on-track with exactly what you want and need to accomplish in implementing a particular marketing tactic.
  • Measure Your Results...Or You May Not Have Any Results!
    Part of marketing is tracking and measuring how well individual marketing tactics are working. Learn six different tracking methods to help you cut out the marketing tactics that aren't working and expand on those that are working.
  • Tactics for Your Core Marketing Strength
    Learn to identify your core marketing strength and create a marketing action plan that encompasses your competencies, and you'll be well on your way to successfully and enjoyably marketing your small business.
  • Know Your Core Marketing Strength
    Many small business owners dislike marketing, or they can't figure out which marketing strategies to use. Learn to identify your core marketing strength so that you can choose marketing strategies that you are good at and actually enjoy doing!
  • Marketing Framework for a New Business
    A marketing framework is defined as the basic structure of your overall marketing action plan that also encompasses the core marketing strategies you need. Find out why it's important for your business to have a marketing framework, and what are the 3 necessary components.
  • Fast and Easy Marketing Tactics to do Today!
    By making time regularly and consistently to market, you ensure that you continue to find and keep your most profitable clients. Discover some simple and quick marketing actions that you can start adding to your marketing framework today.
  • Key Areas for Follow Up
    Follow-up strategies are not only for use with your prospects and clients. Learn the six main areas where you can employ follow-up tactics in your day-to-day business life.
  • Do You Follow Up?
    Marketing is all about fostering a relationship with people and one of the key ways to do this is by having consistent and relevant follow-up as part of your marketing strategy.
  • Success Mechanics of Follow Up
    There are 8 components that will help you make the most of your follow-up marketing strategies and ensure they are as effective as possible. If you incorporate them into any marketing tactics that you employ it will go a long way to helping you market more quickly, easily and consistently.
  • Follow-Up Marketing is Crucial
    Learn the 9 reasons why follow up is such an important part of your marketing strategy.
  • Follow Up: Administrative, Provide Information & Sales
    Utilizing follow-up marketing can make a huge difference in your success. In this article you will learn 3 of the 6 reasons to employ follow-up tactics in your day-to-day business life, as well as the marketing strategies you can use and examples of the type of content for each of these follow-up tactics.
  • Follow Up: Thank You, Personal & Gather Information
    Utilizing follow-up marketing can make a huge difference in your success. In this article you will learn about 3 of the 6 reasons to employ follow-up tactics in your day-to-day business life, as well as the marketing strategies you can use and examples of the type of content for each of these follow-up tactics.
  • Is there a Marketing Process?
    There is definitely a process for marketing and creating lasting and mutually profitable relationships with your clients and customers. AND the good news is that this process is easily duplicated and implemented.
  • Marketing Activities You Need to Schedule
    Scheduling your marketing activities is key to ensuring you are consistently and successfully getting the word out about you and your company and all the great services and products you have to share with people. Learn about the three general types of marketing activities that you'll want to put into your schedule.
  • No Magic Bullet
    Marketing is all about creating trust and credibility with an ongoing relationship - something that doesn't usually happen quickly. Discover why there's no magic bullet in marketing and learn that there are lots of strategies that you can use to fire up your marketing machine.
  • How to Give Value to Your Prospects
    There are many, many different ways you can offer valuable information to people, and help them learn to view you and your company as an important resource for them. Read on to learn how you can provide value to your prospects and your clients.
  • Is Your Marketing Pushing or Pulling People?
    Learn the difference between push and pull marketing, and why you want to use pull marketing in order to build your marketing around constantly and consistently providing value to everyone you come in contact with.
  • Is your Marketing Mindset Helping or Hurting You?
    How you view marketing - your marketing mindset - is key to how you actually market. You need to have a positive attitude towards marketing, or at the very least you must have a willingness to market yourself and your business in order to gain confidence and comfort in marketing.
  • Make Something Happen!
    Make something happen...or nothing will happen. It's as simple and brutal as that. Bottom line is that if you don't take action and market consistently on a daily basis, then your bottom line isn't going to increase much!
  • Do You Need a Marketing Mindset Adjustment?
    Your marketing mindset/attitude has an important effect on the success of your business. Whether your mindset about marketing is negative, positive, or most likely a little of both, I've found that an "adjustment" is essential every now and then.
  • The Importance of Being Consistent
    When you have a consistent plan of action and a consistent message then your marketing strategies will be that much more powerful and move you forward that much faster towards fulfilling your goals, projections and dreams.
  • What Is a Marketing System?
    The key to marketing is to take consistent action, and one of the necessary components you need to ensure you take consistent action is a marketing system. Learn the various definitions of a system, and why they are so important to your business success.
  • Schedule for Success
    Life is busy and our business keeps us hopping too. There is never enough time to get everything we want done and need to get done - and there never will be enough time! That's why it's so important to schedule things and especially your marketing activities.
  • Consistency IS Sexy!
    One of the major reasons that small businesses (and large businesses) do not have success with their marketing is because they don't apply the principle of consistency to their marketing strategies. If you have built a marketing system that is consistent, you'll bring in business, profits, and clients consistently - now doesn't that sound sexy?
  • Get The Most Out Of Your Marketing Message
    Your marketing message serves as your message blueprint and will be where you go every time you need to write marketing copy. Learn many of the ways you can use your marketing message to ensure that all your marketing communications say exactly what you want them to say and accurately reflect you and your company.
  • What is Your USP?
    A great USP makes it clear why your business stands out in a crowd of competitors. Take the time today to sit down and clarify exactly what it is that makes you and your company unique.
  • How To Figure Out Your Solutions And Benefits
    Your marketing must answer the question of "What's in it for me?" for your prospects and customers. Find out what you need to do in order to determine exactly what your solution and benefits are.
  • What Solution and Benefits Do You Offer?
    When you know the exact solution and benefits your business offers, you can clearly communicate and demonstrate the value of your service and products, and what people stand to gain by doing business with you.
  • What is Your Prospect's Problem?
    The secret to crafting a compelling marketing message that makes your potential clients sit up and take notice is to clearly identify the problems they are facing.
  • Know Thy Target Group!
    You need to understand who your target group is and what motivates them. Take the time to understand your target or niche group and your marketing and business success will reflect this effort.
  • Know Your Market Before You Figure Out Your Marketing Message
    It is important to zero-in on a primary group of people and really understand who they are and what makes them tick. When you understand the type of people you are marketing to, you can craft marketing messages that speak directly to them.
  • Why Your Marketing Message is Critical
    If you don't have the "right" marketing message for your business and your intended customer, then everything else you do is compromised. If you have the right one, it will help you unlock doors to new prospects, happier clients and more profitable and successful business relationships.
  • Marketing is a Relationship
    To successfully and easily market, it helps to view marketing as an ongoing relationship. Marketing is about fostering, nurturing and maintaining a relationship with each and every client and prospective customer. Learn more about why it is so important to view marketing as a relationship and the 5 steps to achieving this.
  • Niche Market and Why You Need One
    As a small business owner, you usually do not have the money, resources and time to market to a larger target market. You need to focus your marketing efforts on those people most likely to buy what you offer. Learn the reasons why getting a niche market is critical to your success.
  • Follow-up or Fall out
    A marketing relationship won't be sustained without any contact and will fall by the wayside if a client is ignored. Keep reading to learn 10 simple ways to keep in contact and keep the marketing relationship with your clients strong and profitable.
  • Be a Marketing Sales Ambassador
    If marketing is all about fostering a relationship, then how does selling fit in? First learn to change the way you view selling, and then successfully market and sell your services and products by beginning to view yourself as sales ambassador for your company and for yourself.
  • Mini Marketing Action Plans
    Most small business owners do not have marketing plans. This means that their marketing tends to be inconsistent, ineffective and inefficient. Learn the secret to consistently marketing your services and products by creating what I call Mini Marketing Action Plans that are quick to create and easy to manage.
  • Start a Conversation With Your Customers
    The secret to making people sit up and take notice of you and your company is to identify and address the problems they are facing. Discover marketing tactics you can use to offer people a taste of your products and services in a way that addresses key concerns or issues your prospect is experiencing and gives a suggested solution - one that your service provides.
  • Start a Conversation With Your Customers
    The secret to making people sit up and take notice of you and your company is to identify and address the problems they are facing. Discover marketing tactics you can use to offer people a taste of your products and services in a way that addresses key concerns or issues your prospect is experiencing and gives a suggested solution - one that your service provides.
  • What Benefits Do You Offer to Your Clients?
    To find your most profitable clients, your first small business tactic is to figure out what exactly you have to offer to potential and current clients. If you haven't got a clear understanding of what you have to offer in exchange for what people want, then you'll have a difficult time trying to make a marketing relationship work.
  • Build the Marketing Relationship With Your Prospects
    Successful people know that most sales are made after the seventh or eighth contact with a prospect - few are made after just one email, phone call or letter. If you keep building value and credibility in people's minds by keeping in contact and sharing your expertise with them, you'll move them towards the next step in the marketing relationship - the commitment step.
  • Build Trust with 9 Small Business Marketing Strategies
    Marketing is all about creating and fostering relationships with your prospects and your clients. A big part of achieving this is that people need to know, like and trust you before they'll engage in a relationship with you or do any business with you. Learn nine ways that you can build trust and credibility into your small business marketing strategies.
  • Your Customer's Problems are Your Marketing Opportunities
    The essential purpose of a small business is that your product or service provides some kind of solution to some kind of need or problem. Learn how to figure out what your prospects' and clients' problems are so you can demonstrate credibly that you can provide the solution.
  • #1 Marketing Strategy: Your Marketing Message
    Your marketing message is what forms the background of all your marketing strategies and communications. If your marketing message is weak, unclear or poorly crafted, then it doesn't matter what specific marketing tactics you use...your prospects and customers won't take notice. Find out the five questions your marketing message should be answering in order to be dynamic and effective.
  • Advertising and Small Business: Should You?
    Some advertising opportunities are a good fit and make sense for small business owners, but many times, spending money on traditional advertising just doesn't make sense. Take a look at these four drawbacks inherent in advertising that make it not such a great choice for small businesses and service professionals.

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