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Salesforce Essentials Launches Today – Easier to Implement Sales and Customer Services Tools for Small Business
Successful business is about 4 things. The products (or services you offer), the team that helps you executive them, the processes and systems you have in place to make it all happen and most importantly your ability to deliver exceptional customer service to your customers. In order to make this happen, winning company implement CRM...
Los Ninos Services Wins Ramon’s Marketing Makeover with Staples
Los Ninos Services is a New York City company which helps children with special needs and they won Ramon's Marketing Makeover, sponsored by Staples. Los Ninos trains professionals in how to better work with these children and their families, and also offers services directly to the children, in their homes or at a center. One...
Loving the Word No! Ruth King Interviews Entrepreneur Ramon Ray on the Profitability Revolution
Join Ramon Ray and Ruth King for a fun and information packed interview. The Profitability Revolution has hundreds of videos sharing advice and insight HR, Sales, Marketing, Finance and more! Ruth and Ramon's discussion included: Can you ever stop hustling? How do you know numbers are your week point? What are benefits to marketing to...
Depression, Branding and more. CapitalOne’s Justin McCullough interviews Entrepreneur Ramon Ray
Justin McCullough, Vice President of eCommerce at CapitalOne interviews entrepreneur and bestselling author Ramon Ray on his journey from depression, branding, getting repeat customers and more. Their discussion touches on: How to overcome entrepreneurial depression. Overcoming big mistakes in business and getting back on track. The power of mentorship and fighting self doubt. Ramon's 3...
A Few Hours With Seth Godin and Here’s What I Learned.
I had the privilege of hearing Seth Godin, author of 18 best-selling marketing books, including Purple Cow, Tribes, and Permission Marketing, speak at the annual “Smart Hustle Small Business Conference”. Produced by Ramon Ray, the conference was tremendously valuable, and I’d like to share what I found most useful. There were several presenters, but for...
5 Ways to Improve Communication with Customers
If providing excellent communication isn’t always at the forefront of your mind, as a small business owner, it should be. Strong customer communication builds strong relationships. It’s a crucial key to success for every business. Take a look at these five strategies you can implement to improve your communication with customers today. 1. Make communication a...
Cold Calling Doesn’t Have To Be a Pain If You Follow These 4 Steps
With new sales and marketing tools entering the market virtually every week, businesses are ditching older solutions to make way for the new. In fact, research from InsideSales.com shows that companies in North America are already spending more than $15 billion on sales acceleration tools, while Gartner predicts that enterprise CRM alone will be...
The Journey with Spendefy: The Pros & Cons of Having a Business Partner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObR2mQ6ZJQ4 Are you in search of business partner? Or wondering how do you find the right co-founder to grow your business with? Then you're in the right place. Antwon Davis and Eldredge Washington are co-founders of Spendefy – a tech company with a digital platform that makes it easier to find black-owned businesses in your city. The idea behind...
Marketing Automation: The Tools and Strategies that Drive Growth
I recently looked at some of the tasks that I completed over the past week. I realize that I accomplished them in a quarter of the time that it would've taken me five years ago. I am more efficient due to new marketing automation technology available to me. Marketing automation tools have turned the digital...
5 Ways I Use Magisto to Create Amazing Videos with Big Results
Video is powerful. I create several videos a month (sometimes a week). Video humanizes your brand, personalizes your content and is a joy for your community to better connect with you. A lot of the video I create, I capture and edit on my phone using the app Magisto. Magisto let's you edit video...
Personal Branding – Lynda West Interviews Ramon Ray On How He Does It
Personal branding is one of my most important topics for entrepreneurs to understand. Personal branding is what sets YOU apart in a sea of noisy competition. A strong personal brand is what makes people sit up and take notice. I've written quite a bit about it here. You can also check out my course on...
The Journey with Lauren: How to Turn a Passion Project Into a Business with Purpose
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuccHw2jnno&t=390s I met Lauren about a year ago when my business partner and and I were doing a pop-up shop in Atlanta. Lauren spotted us across the store and literally came hobbling over with her boot excited to meet other entrepreneurs with a similar mission in the city. We exchanged information and now our quarterly...