Business Tips
How To Sell Yourself More Effectively When You Run & Market Your Business Online
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When you run and market your business entirely on the internet, the effectiveness of your communication becomes even more crucial to your success because you naturally lose that face-to-face, ‘watch their reaction and respond’ aspect that comes with in-person dealings in business.
It’s been an interesting time in Dubai this past month as we [...]
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When you run and market your business entirely on the internet, the effectiveness of your communication becomes even more crucial to your success because you naturally lose that face-to-face, ‘watch their reaction and respond’ aspect that comes with in-person dealings in business.
It’s been an interesting time in Dubai this past month as we have picked up some business and actually had to do this in person (shock horror).
It’s highlighted the difference between communicating with and selling to someone in person versus doing this on the internet/via phone and also shown us just how far we’ve come with our online business, from the days of dabbling with blogs, testing out google adwords and writing effective copy for our sites that makes the job of closing the deal by email or on the phone that little bit easier.
These days we have an ongoing stream of prospects who contact us about the strategy, branding & online marketing services we offer at our company - Project Woodward - which primarly come from our website, blogs or online (and offline) networking efforts.
Here are some of the key things we’ve learned about the importance of communicating more effectively when you run your business solely on the web…
Running A Business From Anywhere: How A Virtual Assistant Can Help Your Business
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Ever since Tim Ferriss’s book The 4 Hour Work-Week hit the shelves and cited outsourcing as one of the most effective ways to achieve a 4 hour work week, there’s been a lot of discussion in the blogosphere about how to do it, whether it works, whether it’s right to outsource to poorer [...]
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Ever since Tim Ferriss’s book The 4 Hour Work-Week hit the shelves and cited outsourcing as one of the most effective ways to achieve a 4 hour work week, there’s been a lot of discussion in the blogosphere about how to do it, whether it works, whether it’s right to outsource to poorer countries blah blah blah.
My take? In the words of Richard Branson….”Screw it, let’s do it!” Read the rest of this entry
4 Things We’ll Do Differently This Year
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Life’s a learning process isn’t it? And a good job too! There are plenty of mistakes we made in our first year as Location Independent Professionals and plenty of things we’ll do differently in 2008.
Here are the most useful ones that we’ve learnt a lot from and perhaps you can too…
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Life’s a learning process isn’t it? And a good job too! There are plenty of mistakes we made in our first year as Location Independent Professionals and plenty of things we’ll do differently in 2008.
Here are the most useful ones that we’ve learnt a lot from and perhaps you can too…
Potential LIP Business: Creative Designer
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I’ve used the term “Creative Designer” to cover the range of professional designers that include graphic designer, web designers, t-shirt designers and more. The reason is simple…the advice is the same no matter what type of design business you run.
The design field is a highly competitive one with graphic and web designers ten [...]
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I’ve used the term “Creative Designer” to cover the range of professional designers that include graphic designer, web designers, t-shirt designers and more. The reason is simple…the advice is the same no matter what type of design business you run.
The design field is a highly competitive one with graphic and web designers ten a penny. How do I know? Because the husband, Jonathan, is a graphic designer and between us we also offer web design services - and in a very competitive market we still manage to attract clients even though these activities aren’t the focus of what we do.
There are a few prerequisites required for any of these businesses and these are: Read the rest of this entry
