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Jan VerhoeffCreative business professional Specialties: Social media, blogging, interactive content creation and web development SEO.
Monthly Archives: May 2012
Inspiration – Success Quotes
”Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
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Social Media Promotion
Learning how to adapt your social media marketing opportunities and promotions to effective internet marketing principles when you’d really prefer to work face to face with your market might be a challenge. But it is a worthwhile challenge.
Less Work, More Fun, More Profit
While the rest of the world basks in sunshine and summer fun, you’re stuck in the office chair getting out content for your blog and website. Not necessarily so, there’s a better way. You don’t have to spend every minute of your day sitting in the office slaving away to have a profitable business. Use some personal discrimination to determine what you want to do, when and where. It is really important that you have your priorities set firmly into stone, engraved and molded into your life. And among them should be time away from your business. You’ll be more successful when … continue reading…
Honorable Success in Business
So often I hear of people who feel they’re being taken advantage of in business and in reality, they are. This is a sad note as a business owner because it means not only are those people not earning the income from their work efforts that they should be earning, but the people who are taking advantage of them are losing credibility. Business is a multi-sided structure. There will always be services and product that you give away, because gifts are part of the business model. But when your services and knowledge are stolen by disreputable businesses, you’ve been victimized. … continue reading…
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Design an Effective Marketing Plan
So often we get caught up in the dynamics of marketing that we miss the opportunity that creates a paradigm of marketing for success. Creating a plan for success is imperative to making profit. Using that plan is a requirement. Write it down - Always write down your schedule, your information, your blog post ideas, anything that comes to mind as you work, write it down. Writing your thoughts does a few specific things, such as releasing those thoughts from your mind so you can work more effectively and empowers those thoughts to become completed goals. Write it down. Keep a … continue reading…
How do you define success?
Success may mean different things to different people, but how you define success makes all the difference. When Bob Bly asked the question in preparation for a class he teaches, I thought it interesting that there were some far off base answers, at least by my own definition. “How many of you want to be successful?” Every hand in the room shot up. I then asked: “Who can tell me what success is?” Not a single hand in the room was raised. “If you don’t know what success is,” I asked the students, “then how are you going to get … continue reading…
Blatant Self Promotion – Good or Bad?
If you’re running your own business, working from home, you need to use as many opportunities as possible to broadcast your business. Advertizing doesn’t come cheap. But how do you promote your business so it doesn’t appear to be blatant self promotion (which is supposed to be a bad thing)?
