WELCOME TO OUR SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

Our small business blog provides you with articles on our small business consulting and advisory areas:  business, marketing, and sales.  Visit us often, or subscribe to our small business blog, so you can continue to get information, tips, and techniques on topics to help you and your small or start-up business. 

Showing Tag: "lead generation" (Show all posts)

Determining Why Your Lead Generation Campaign Might Have Failed

Posted by Karen Fischer on Thursday, June 16, 2011, In : Marketing Practice 

All of us think that  lead generation as a pretty simple concept and yet if you ask 10 different people what it is and how they do it – you will get 10 different answers.   Many believe – we will  market to someone and they will come.   The truth of the matter is they will come if you have put the right lead generation strategy in place for your business.  If you develop a strategy that is right for your target market, that can be implemented within your budgetary constraints, and follow-...


Continue reading ...
 

How LinkedIn Can Help You and Your Business

Posted by Karen Fischer on Thursday, June 16, 2011, In : Marketing Practice 

Linkedin is the best B2B online networking tool that I have seen or used.  I have been using the site myself since 2005 and upgraded to a business account 3 years ago.  Each time I use the site I find more and more value in it as a premiere Social Networking site for business. I thought I would pass along what I have learned, so that others might receive similar benefit.

When I first joined the site, it was more about it being the “new” way to network and I will admit I initially just stuc...


Continue reading ...
 

Implementing a Referral Program - Steps for Success

Posted by Karen Fischer on Tuesday, June 14, 2011, In : Sales and Channel Practice 

A Referral Program can be one of the best and most cost effective ways to generate leads for small businesses, but is highly underutilized.  This is most likely because large businesses implement them and many make it as difficult as possible to participate and understand. For this reason,  small business owners do not feel they have the staff or bandwidth to implement one successfully. They then miss a great opportunity.

We all work on our business networks in hope that people we deal with an...


Continue reading ...
 
 

dddddddddddddd 

Tags

activity based costing affiliate program affinity program angel investor assessment balanced scorecard benchmarking branding business business direction business plan business plan development business plan template business plan writing business strategy business valuation channel channel program channel strategy channels compton communications contracts corporate communications corporate lawyers cost reductions customer service difference in financial plan and business plan direct mail direct marketing drip marketing facebook financial plan financing foundation" free template free websites google analytics growing business hiring sales rep increase sales investment investor keywords lead acquisition cost lead generation leads linkedin marketing marketing assessment marketing consulting marketing on shoestring budget marketing plan marketing spend marketing strategy networking online networking online presence operations organizational effectiveness outsourced legal services prospects referral program requirements definition return on investment rogers communications ron compton saas channels sales agent sales assessment sales processes sales strategy sales tips search engine optimization sell business selling your business seo seo professional seo tips for small business seo tool small business small business case study small business failure small business financing small business lawyers small business metrics small business networking small business problems small business success small business websites social media start-up failure strategic plan strategy strategy" successful business support target market target prospect tracking success twitter venture capitalist venturelab web plan web presence website websites

dddddddddddddd 

 We are located in Durham Region, but can service clients across Canada.  Our local service area includes Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Pickering, Markham, Toronto, Richmond Hill, Newmarket, Vaughn, Aurora, Mississauga,  Clarington, Peterborough, Lindsay, Port Perry, Uxbridge, Bowmanville, Brampton, Oakville, Guelph, Barrie, Waterloo, Kitchener and all surrounding areas. Outside our local area, most consulting can be done remotely, but when it cannot , travel and living expenses will be applied as required.

 Copyright RK Fischer & Associates 2011

All Rights Reserved. Please Read Our Privacy Policy.