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Productive Networking: 22 Ideas to Organize Business Cards for Effective Followup

Stephanie LH Calahan

The cards had been collected over a year or so of miscellaneous networking events and trade shows.  Collecting business cards or other forms of contact information is only the first step in networking.  The most effective networkers have a system to manage/organize business cards and their contacts

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Making Money: The Economics of Email

Small Business CEO

Let’s consider the following example: Sally, a small business owner with a brick-and-mortar jewelry store, is contemplating stopping sending emails because most of her new customers were coming from the online ads she places on Google when people search for “jewelry store in Omaha, NE.&#. What brought you into the store today ?

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Building a Perpetual Marketing Machine

Small Business CEO

Free online marketing tools like social networks have great potential for reaching new customers, but their actual impact on the bottom line is hard to measure. As an example, let’s look at In a Pickle, a Waltham, Mass.-based When it comes to online marketing, small businesses are staring at a dilemma. based restaurant.

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My thoughts on the multi-VA model

Virtual Moxie

I agree with not disturbing the quality of a one on one relationship, however multiple platform one on one's creates a network of advice, and information and direction that a single VA practice could never compete with. In your previous post on Multi-Va firms you wrote: "As an example: You have an agreement to do work for a client.

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