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Seriously. If you were meeting someone for the first time, or describing your business to a stranger,
Tell me what you sell.
Take a scrap of paper and tell me, in 25 words or less what you sell. Cool. Now add a WIIFM*.
Keeping to that 25 words. Preferably less, a lot less. Can you?
Is it mesmerizing, motivating, and melodic?
If not, keep trying. Then memorize it. You’ll need it. It’ll drive your business, whether spoken, as a slogan or tagline, or as a hashtag. Heck, get a rubber stamp, letter it onto your windows, put it on a T shirt!
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What to do, when you have a B&M store and you want to entice customers to become regulars?
You have to make all the effort they have to take to get to your place,
super-duper worth it.
And we’ve collected up ways to
do just that.
So click on over and get ready for crowds!
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Deja Vuesday
where you can visit a gently-used, blog post in case you missed it the first time. It’s even better the second time around.
Love your social media followers? Wish they’d actually STOP and READ your message? You can get your message across without driving yourself crazy writing.
Give your fans a break. “NO one reads anymore” can be combated!
But you will have to read to find out how 🙂
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Some of you may have not have watched the “10 Minutes with Kate” video about planning your promotions in advance. If you have nothing on your calendar for this upcoming week, here’s a simple celebratory day which lends itself to a cold January day:
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