Archive for March, 2010

Official Launch for The “Zero To A Hundred K in 30 Days” Blueprint – on 1st May, 2010

Official Launch for The “Zero To A Hundred K in 30 Days” Blueprint – on 1st May, 2010
 
Look out for The Blueprint below!
It’s coming soon, in fact we may even launch ahead of 1st May, 2010
                           
Other reports to be released to The Blueprint subscribers include:

How To Double Your Profits with Residential Lawn Customers and still give [...]

101 Tips To Improve Your Business – Tips 46 to 50 (learn to delegate, persistence, customer contact, image, brochure selling benefits)

101 Tips To Improve Your Business – Tips 46 to 50 (learn to delegate, persistence, customer contact, image, brochure selling benefits)
 
101 Tips continued:
46. Learn to delegate. You might be the key to everything but you cannot do everything and grow at the same time – whether you have employees or sub-contractors, you need to be [...]

101 Tips To Improve Your Business – Tips 41 to 45 (includes listening to customers, maintain focus, staff morale, ideas, sales planning)

101 Tips To Improve Your Business – Tips 41 to 45 (includes listening to customers, maintain focus, staff morale, ideas, sales planning)
 
101 Tips continued:
41. Listen to your customers, they are your lifeblood – when customers ring to say they want you to jump, then ask them how high? Respond quickly to your customers’ request. Have a system [...]

101 Tips To Improve Your Business – Tips 36 to 40 (leasing office equipment, happy staff, customer service, marketing sales planning)

101 Tips To Improve Your Business – Tips 36 to 40 (leasing office equipment, happy staff, customer service, marketing sales planning)
 
101 Tips continued:
36. Leasing computers and office equipment is a great way of justifying the expenditure. However, be careful because every lease you sign is a long term overhead – we can get carried away [...]

101 Tips To Improve Your Business – Tips 31 to 35 (tell the truth, staff meetings, tool talk, get personal, business development)

101 Tips To Improve Your Business – Tips 31 to 35 (tell the truth, staff meetings, tool talk, get personal, business development)
 
101 Tips Continued:
31. Never go back on your word, even if it hurts- this is just one of life’s basic skills that my parents (from the old school of taking responsibility for your own actions) [...]

101 Tips To Improve Your Business – Tips 26 to 30 (customer communication testimonial, advertising discounts, honesty, be upfront)

101 Tips To Improve Your Business – Tips 26 to 30 (customer communication testimonial, advertising discounts, honesty, be upfront)
 
101 Tips continued:
26. The market is not a perfect communication place. Just because you make an offer to one group of customers in one month does not mean that they will remain in the same place 4 months [...]

The “Zero To A Hundred K in 30 Days” Blueprint – Official Launch on 1st May, 2010

The “Zero To A Hundred K in 30 Days” Blueprint – Official Launch on 1st May, 2010
 
We’re buzzing with excitement with the up-coming official launch of The Blueprint.
What do you think about the look of my new Book?
Rhetorical question! No need to answer, although you can drop me a line in the Comments area.
                   
PS. The [...]

Google vs Yellow Pages – “let your figures do the talking” – the truth about where your advertising dollars should be spent

Google vs Yellow Pages – “let your figures do the talking” – the truth about where your advertising dollars should be spent
 
I got this email last week from a chap called Monte Huebsch (a Google adwords expert etc etc), anyway he had a lot to say about the 2 Giants of advertising, that is the [...]

At least 2 Marketing Tools that really suck

At least 2 Marketing Tools that really suck
 
I’ll get straight to the point here! The 2 marketing tools that really suck are:
1. some telephone directories (to avoid any litigation I won’t mention the colour) -what’s wrong is the big flashy ads don’t use good copywriting and the poor contractors pay thousands for a dud ad.
2. expensive [...]

6 Lawn Care Marketing Tools That Attract Lots of Customers

6 Lawn Care Marketing Tools That Attracts Lots of Customers
 
Just a quick diversion from our 101 Tips series!
Today I want to talk about 6 really effective Marketing Tools that bring in customers by the truck load!
These 6 marketing tools are:
1. flyers with good copy
2. vehicle signage
3. a well constructed and crafted website  with good SEO (search engine optimisation) [...]