There are some exceptional websites and blogs out there. Today, I would like to share one of them with you - and give my 'Highly Recommended' award to The BBC's dot.life blog. The dot.life blog Like many small and medium-sized businesses, I rely heavily on technology. I use technology to support the ...
One of the best things about writing for a busy blog, is the feedback I receive from readers. Usually, the feedback is a general question about marketing, business development or a suggestion; and these can be answered by my readers and myself in the comments section of the relevant post. However... However, if you would like to ...
As some of you already know, I use Twitter; the micro-blogging tool, to keep in touch with some friends, clients and contacts. I have three thousand followers and really enjoy interacting with them; they are a BRILLIANT bunch of people! However, I know that many of them find it hard ...
If you want to lower your costs, increase your sales and boost your profits, you need to get the most from online marketing. This post focuses on 2 forms of FREE online marketing, which you can use to achieve amazing results for your business; Blogging and Newsletters! Online marketing is changing
There's a lot of information on this blog about things you can do, which will help you dramatically increase your sales results and profits. However, it's ALSO really important to know some of the things you must avoid, if you want your business to succeed. That's because some marketing ...
As you may already know, I am passionate about helping as many people as possible to massively boost their sales and profits. This means I'm always looking for great marketing ideas, which I can share with people - and today, I have enlisted the help of 37 amazing professionals, who are going to each give ...
As of today, Jim's Marketing Blog has a whole new look - I hope you like it! For me, content is everything - but people need to be able to find that content easily and read it without any fuss. So, how did I come up with this new blog design? The importance of user opinions After ...
Over the past few days, I have read a few different people giving the same piece of extremely damaging advice! Stop your marketing! Believe it or not, there are people out there right now, suggesting that because there is an economic downturn, credit crunch or recession (take your pick), businesses should ...
Almost there.... Just a very quick post, to let you know that I am in the process of having a brand new theme applied to this blog. As a result, I have not posted anything for a few days (while the theme is being tweaked). However, I have some GREAT stuff waiting for you when the ...
Generating high quality sales on a regular basis can be either really hard and stressful or really exciting and enjoyable. Sadly, for most businesses, making frequent high calibre sales is a struggle. It's easy to see why, when you look at what they do. They make life as ...
An idea for you and your business - From Jim Connolly With the advent of the Internet, there has never been more information available to you. Although this has created an unbelievable number of opportunities for you and your business; it has also created a problem: THERE'S JUST TOO MUCH ...
By Jim Connolly In business, confidence is massively important! I'm not talking here about our self-confidence; but rather the level of confidence that other people have in us, our business and our services. I would like to ask you a question! When someone asks you; "how's ...
If you want to make sure you never miss a great marketing idea again, you can now subscribe to my massively popular marketing newsletter; using the box on the right hand side of this page! My newsletter is read in more than 80 countries around the world, by thousands of people just ...
The most effective way to grow a business, is to win new clients with great marketing; whilst keeping your existing clients happy with great customer service. Sadly, many businesses are strong in one of these areas and weak in another. I have experienced this first hand recently, when one of the service providers ...
If you are one of those dedicated people, who invests a lot of their time developing a network of contacts, I have a question for you: "How valuable to your business, (in financial terms), is your network of contacts?" I ask this because in my experience, many small businesses focus almost ...
Marketing tips from Jim Connolly How valuable do you think it would be for you and your business right now, if you could find out what your clients and prospective clients are interested in, worried about or excited by? Well, if you work in sales or run ...
If you want your marketing emails to work, they need to actually REACH the people you send them to. After all, the best marketing message in the world won't work if no one receives it. This means your marketing emails need to be written, designed and sent in such a way that ...
If you want to improve your marketing, boost sales and increase the profitability of your business; you need to understand and use the power of questions! In marketing - questions are like gold dust because... The questions you ask determine the answers you get! The answers you get determine the actions you ...
Whatever line of business we are actually in, we are always a professional problem solver. People pay us to solve their problems - think about it: If you have a web design business, you solve the problem of ugly, ill-functioning websites. If you have an insurance business, you solve the problem of unprotected risks ...
