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Why Every Expert Should Create an Online Course. Ramon Shares His Journey
Recently I created Smart Hustle University as a way to share my version of getting more customers, keeping your current customers and more with my tribe. It's a growing list of online courses focused on personal branding, sales, social media and more. I created it using Teachable. Now that I've created my first online course, I...
Follow Up Without Being a Jerk. Successful Sales Is Often About Follow Up.
Follow up, follow up, follow up. It's one of the most important "sales" tactics every business owner needs to understand. However, there is a fine line between nicely following up and being an annoying jerk. In this video, Ramon Ray shares his tips on the power of follow up, but doing it nicely. You can...
Are You Listening to the Signals from Your Customers To Improve Their Buying Experience?
Seventy-two percent of companies say improving customer experience is a top priority, yet less than two-thirds are implementing tools to reach these goals, according to Forrester. Retailers should consider how they can leverage technology to gain insight and better meet their customers’ needs through in-store data collection; starting with shopper signals. Just as websites...
How to Choose Courage Over Fear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZxUYKBshoU I didn’t think I would get a chance to speak with Garrett since he’s literally in a different country every week but I caught him in between travels and in typical Garrett fashion, he came with a burst of energy and no shortage of amazing stories. Garrett Gravesen - recent Harvard Business School grad...
Four Ways To Ensure Social and Search Changes Never Affect Your Content Marketing.
Today I got my copy of Gary Vaynerchuk's latest book "Crushing It". It reminded me of the desperate journey of so many to "be like Gary" or some other digital celebrity. Sure Gary, Seth Godin and other digital celebrities have zillions of followers, deservedly. They've been hard at work providing great content, amazing value,...
Making Sales From Twitter: Social Selling
Are you using Twitter to generate leads for your business? Many business owners and marketers overlook the power of Twitter as a social selling platform. By leveraging the internal search engine and other third-party tools, you can double or triple the number of high-quality, targeted leads you get. As with most things, you need to start...
How Small Businesses Can Better Compete with Big Businesses
As 2018 gets underway, retailers across the country have one thing on their mind: sales. Small business optimism has been on an upward swing with the majority of small business owners citing increased sales and improved business conditions throughout 2017, according to the latest Capital One Small Business Growth Index. And with 60 percent...
Why Use Video Marketing to Promote Your Business
From the beginning of human existence there was the need for knowledge, which is the main reason why we’ve evolved so much. Knowing that our brain is a muscle that feeds mostly on information, and the human soul has this eternal need for growth, that would make us humans a black hole for knowledge....
How to Use Digital Signage In Your Business
How’s your website these days? Have you tweaked your SEO? Got your linkbacks all sorted? Do you have a thriving social media following and a dedicated AdWords account? Are you optimized for mobile display? Where are your restrooms? In the stampede to collect likes and mentions and pins, many small businesses have overlooked the importance of...
Wicked Good Cupcakes Steady Is Their Key To Success
Scaling a business isn’t easy. But the founders of Wicked Good Cupcakes were able to do it fairly successfully, thanks to a little help from Shark Tank and some good old fashioned business savvy. Founders Tracey Noonan and Dani Vilagie recently spoke with Small Business Trends as part of our exclusive Smart Hustle Report. During the conversation,...
How to Create Videos That Show And Sell Your Products
Whether they mean to or not, the current crop of successful digital companies all have one thing in common: They’re also media companies. Video sells products, meaning that even if your brand doesn’t invest in TV commercials, it shouldn’t sleep on producing online videos. But here’s the key: It doesn’t matter to customers if the...
How to Grow Your Brand with a Data Driven Strategy
Your business means the world to you. After investing so much effort, there is no way you want to go back or give up. The truth about the success is it’s not an overnight achievement, instead, it’s a continuous process that involve experiments, and learnings. Success is dependant on improvement. The days are gone...