Fueling The Ideal - Marketing With Articles

Fueling the Ideal - Marketing with Articles





It's that time of year again ... pages of backpacks, notebooks


and back-to-school clothing fill every circular that hits your


mailbox. And you're off to the races ... the races being the


mall, plus every other store in between.





You're in the same spot you were last year this time, getting


ready to head off to work while your kids head off to school.


Back to hugging them goodbye in the morning and seeing them just


long enough in the evening to say I love you and tuck them in.





Wouldn't it be fantastic if the easier schedule of the summer


lasted all year long? No more spending all your hours aw View the rest of this article

Sealing The Deal Over The Business Meal

Doing business over meals is a ritual that has existed for centuries. Taking clients to breakfast, lunch or dinner has long been an effective way to build relationships, make the sale or seal the deal. These business meals are essentially business meetings. Knowledge of your product or your service is crucial to the success of the meeting, but so are your manners. Too many people jeopardize an opportunity because they fail to use good dining etiquette. Here are a few basic rules to make the experience pleasurable and profitable.

Know your duties as the host. You are in charge. It is up to you to see that things go well and that your guests are comfortable. You need to attend to every detail from extending the invitation to paying the bill.

Pl View the rest of this article

Five Magic Phrases: Tips For Negotiating Like A Pro

Those who are new to freelancing are often too afraid to ask for more than a client offers. Thrilled to be making any money at all, new freelancers typically agree to whatever figure is proposed. I was no exception to this rule, but once I’d built up my credits, I realized clients weren’t about to offer me a raise if I continued to play the role of doormat.
Once a freelancer has some experience, the bottom line becomes more important. “Trivial issues” like prompt and appropriate payment start to matter when you depend on your home-business income to pay the bills.
Until you’ve tried negotiating, you may not realize how much you’ve been undercut. A client’s first offer is rarely the maximum amount he or she can actually afford to pay you; as is human nature, m View the rest of this article

The Importance Of A Marketing Plan

There aren’t many things in life that you would get into with out a plan. Marketing is no different. Your overall marketing plan should cover about a six month period, and should be made up of weekly and monthly marketing schedules.
This is how you do it:
1. Figure out how much money is in your budget.
As we all know, marketing of any kind costs money. How much money you are willing to commit to the cause is going to determine some key factors about how that money can be best spent. Remember, you want to be economical but you also need to be realistic on what it will take to pull in the leads you need to close new and repeat business.
2. Determine your target market.
Who is most likely to buy your product? Are they married? Are they business owner View the rest of this article

Beautiful Beaches In The Bahamas

The groups of islands that make up the Bahamas are home to some


of the most beautiful beaches in this part of the world. Many of


these retain the natural beauty that first attracted Europeans


centuries ago. With the numerous small islands, each with their


own little shoreline beaches, it is, despite the immense


popularity of the Bahamas as a vacation destination, possible


to find relatively secluded and quite places to enjoy the


sights, sounds and smells of the sand and ocean.





New Providence Island has many beautiful beaches. Cabbage Beach


is one of the most notable of the public beaches, attracting


locals and tourists alike to its stunningly white sands. View the rest of this article

Five Tips To Build Your Credit Today

If you've recently paid off a lot of debt, you may be wondering


where to go from here. Maybe you went through a divorce and got


stuck with a lot of high interest credit card debt, or got


behind on your payments after a job layoff. Whatever the


reason, you fell behind with your payments, your credit report


suffered for it, and now you're ready to get back on track.


Luckily, it's a lot easier to re-build your credit than it was


to get out of debt!





Here are some tips that will have your credit report sparkling


in no time!





First, you should expect to spend about a year rebuilding your


credit. I can hear some of you groaning-after all it View the rest of this article

Test Driving Your Car

Getting a new car thrills and excites. Sometimes it’s easy to get carried away in our initial response to a car. No matter how much you like a certain vehicle, take it for a long, serious test drive.
You should first plan on spending as long as possible on your test drive. Fifteen minutes isn’t enough time. You want to thoroughly examine the car and definitely have a mechanic check it out.
Take a look at the vehicle overall. Do the body parts line up? Does the paint match? Will doors open and close easily? Do the tires look like they wear evenly?
Check under the hood. You may not know exactly what you’re looking at, but that’s okay. Look for leaky hoses, worn belts, and dirty oil. Ask the dealer to show you the automatic transmission fluid. Smell it. If t View the rest of this article