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Many of the wine farms in the valley are part of the Franschhoek Uncorked Wine Festival 2011 on the 3rd and 4th of September, but the town itself lends itself to a complete wine experience during this time.  Come and enjoy the all events that will be taking place in and around the town. With restaurants and wine shops geared to tease your palates come along and wander through this wonderful little postcard town with fancy little shops, located all along the main road. Experience all of the entertainment from early morning to late night all within walking distance of the town center.

Many small businesses have very limited marketing budgets. They cannot afford TV ads, radio, billboards, print ads, etc. So how can they get prospective customers. In this article penned for March Marketing Madness, Jeff Ogden, President of Find New Customers, shares insights for limited budgets. Read the rest of this entry »

Many small business owners make the mistake of rushing to implement marketing strategies without putting a plan into place. This can waste time and money without knowing customers need these service or product. In order to achieve the goals of marketing you need to begin with marketing analysis. In big business advertising is done to create name recognition and then sale. But small business cannot afford that so design your advertising to produce sales instead of creating name recognition. Small business owner can start advertising while doing sale like putting offers in their advertising or put small ad on postcard and mail it to your targeted market. Peoples read postcards when they are brief. This can result in driving a high volume of traffic to your website and generate sales for a very small cost. Read the rest of this entry »

Small Business Coaching will help you achieve even more business success if you are just starting up in Business or running a small company. It can help you and your business achieves your full potential. Now coaching is easily available, very commercial, results focused and geared toward coaching for business growth. Read the rest of this entry »

Lady Gaga built a name for herself from scratch and is now, according to Anderson Cooper, "the most talked about entertainer in the world". Lady Gaga didn't get famous by accident. No, she diligently studied "the art of being famous". This is a woman on a mission - and I gained a whole new respect for the talented business woman and brilliant marketer she is. Here are 6 things small businesses can learn about marketing from Lady Gaga. Read the rest of this entry »

The purpose of good copywriting is to entice and motivate readers to buy. At the heart of every small business marketing approach, there should be calls to action that will compel consumers to reach for their wallets. Here is a simple overview of how to approach the copywriting process. Read the rest of this entry »

When used as a small business marketing technique, blogging adds a fantastic amount of value. Not only is it good for your website, good for your customers, it is also good for your profits. Let's look at why it is essential that a blog plays a part in marketing your small business. Read the rest of this entry »

If you have a small business you want every dollar you spend in advertising to work to add to your sales. Read the rest of this entry »

Have you noticed what is happening around you? The next time you leave your home or office, take a look around Read the rest of this entry »

Most small business owners are missing out on a great opportunity to attract more customers and get more sales. The reason they are missing out is that they don't even know there is a problem that is costing them business. The problem is that mobile phones are causing them to lose customers. Read the rest of this entry »

A common problem among owners of service businesses is getting a website done that represents the business professionally. This struggle may impede as high a number as 80% of small businesses. It might even be considered an epidemic problem. Yet, a business without an effective and current web site today appears to be nonexistent or non-competitive to your target market. Read the rest of this entry »

Do you want to learn how to market your small business online? Well that is what I do for a living. I work for companies just like yours that want a larger presence online. Read the rest of this entry »

Do you want to learn how to market your small business online? Well that is what I do for a living. I work for companies just like yours that want a larger presence online. I get them to page one of Google and that gets their phone ringing like crazy. Would you like to have more business in the coming year? Read the rest of this entry »

Small business owners tend to think that the product or service they offer is so great that anyone and everyone can use it. While this thought-process may be true to some extent, it is impossible to market effectively to everyone. Instead, when you narrow down your focus to those who are most likely to buy from you, you can create marketing copy and content that speaks directly to them. This may have you asking yourself how to go about identifying these customers. Fortunately, there are some top ways to accomplish this. Read the rest of this entry »

Don't you agree that there is simply nothing like a powerful attention getting main power headline to get your best prospects attention and stop them dead in their tracks? How would you like to be exposed to a virtually proven low cost way to explode your long term profits in your cash starved struggling small business all within the next 90 days or less without spending the proverbial fortune to do so? Without using any costly hit and miss guess work, and in the process eliminate up to 90% of your unqualified time wasting tire kickers as well! Read the rest of this entry »

Executive suites are among the best solutions a small business can find to set up their own office. These groupings of offices or executive suites are rented or leased by other companies looking for similar amenities. Let's list some of the many different benefits executive suites may offer to your business. Read the rest of this entry »

There are situations in which you find that you have to have outside help in order to be able to get all of the tasks that you need done in your small business. One of the things that many businesses need is something known as it support Read the rest of this entry »

Owning a small business can be a fun and exciting thing, but there is also a lot of work involved. One of the duties of a business owner is to make sure that proper marketing happens. Without marketing efforts, the business will not have enough clients to keep the doors open. Read the rest of this entry »

Following article gives insights on the importance of quality assurance when sourcing products from suppliers based in low cost regions. It suggests useful methods that should be adopted by the large and small businesses to control the quality of wholesale products. Read the rest of this entry »

From publicly traded large companies, to privately-held small businesses, thousands or even millions of dollars are spent annually on marketing. However, marketing is by far the most difficult business activity for which to measure return on investment (ROI). Read the rest of this entry »

Small business owners are usually great technicians at what they do, they are great at healing people, fixing backs, fixing cars, repairing breaks, leaks, designing amazing things or cooking the most outstanding foods. Most business owners however are not experts in marketing, accounting, business systems, administration, planning, goal setting and all of the other activities that make a successful business. In fact most of the time it is all that other stuff that often sees the business end, closed down and the business owner move back to a job. Read the rest of this entry »

Are you helping small business and the economy by starting your own profitable business to help them get online? Read on to find out how and why this is an excellent business for the next decade. Read the rest of this entry »

It's very common for a small business owner to pay a lot of money and spend a lot of time and effort working on a website. Often what results is a website that just "sits there". Site visitors don't stay or read all the pages. Read the rest of this entry »

Small business owners often need all of the help that they can get when it comes to getting their businesses started and, with expert CFO consulting, they'll be well on their way to being successful. There are a lot of different parts involved in getting a business running, with some of the most important being the matters that concern the financing. Some aspects of business financing are obvious: You need money to pay your employees and rent a space to operate out of, for starters. Read the rest of this entry »

Large companies use market research every single day to know exactly how they should market their products and services to their customers. In fact many times they spend millions of dollars gathering and using this data to effectively sell to their clients. Most small businesses don't have millions of dollars to spend on research. Read the rest of this entry »