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Sample marketing plan for a new product or service can be extremely profitable.

 (Or Else Your Literally Throwing Your Hard Earned Money Away!)

As you previously discovered in part one of this series about effectively applying a sample marketing plan for a new product or service.

There are at least five incredibly deadly marketing mistakes for you to avoid. Or else you seriously run the risk of (simply) throwing your hard earned money down the drain.

And what serious (cash starved) savvy small business owner and or service provider can afford to do that? Just to quickly recap, as you recall, your first deadly marketing mistake to avoid, in order to make your overall marketing plan a success. Continue reading

Sample marketing plan for a new product or service that really works.

(Whenever You’re Marketing Any Product Or Service Or You’re Simply Throwing Your Hard Earned Money Down The Drain!)

Does your current sample marketing plan of a new product or service help you avoid the following five deadly mistakes?

If not, pay close attention, because otherwise, you may be simply flushing your hard earned money down the toilet.

Case in point; how many times have you gotten one of those (outrageously expensive) multi colored fliers in the mail, from (either) your local pizza parlor and or a new Chinese or Mexican restaurant that’s opening, or will be opening in your area within a few short weeks?

Practically everybody has correct? And how many times, (especially) during the holiday season, have you gone into the mall, and seen those (cash starved) entrepreneurs with those tiny, (yet) outrageously expensive, (one  or two) person push carts, strategically located, trying to market some product or service? Continue reading

How to make money with surveys without spending more money!

       (Without Spending A Dime Too Do So !)

Who else wants to know step by step how to make money from surveys?

Isn’t it odd, how simple it can sometimes be to really move ahead financially, especially when take your financial blinders off.

Case in point, far too many times you’ll look for expensive outside help (namely) fancy consultants and the like, when in reality, the real answers are right in front of you.

Take for example; your current on or offline (resource challenged) small business and or service.

Practically everyday, you have the golden opportunity to discover exactly what it is your valued customers/ clients (and equally important) first visitors want or don’t want.

But you’ve got to take the time to (both) listen; that is to say, hear exactly what their trying to convey to and respond appropriately to them.

Otherwise my friend, your not only leaving a ton of potential long term profits on the table, but your risking your competitors gobbling it up.

And with more and more consumers cutting back and tighten their belts, can you really afford to continue down that path? Continue reading

How to sell advertising space.

    (Even In Today’s Sagging Economy!)

Who else would like to know step by step how to sell advertising for little or no money up front and still increase (both) the short and long term profits for your small business and or service?

Let’s face it, when the economy is sagging, consumers tend to tighten their belts and spend less,agreed?

Which also means (typically) cash strapped small business and or service (will either) need to spend more upfront in order to attract those new first time customers or getting creative and become more effective with your marketing strategies.

However, by the same token, did not the great stock investor Sir John Templeton point out; in order to get the best bargains, when it comes to strategic (long term) stock investing, It’s always best to look for your best stock value bargains, where the pessimism is highest.

Or as he put it, to look to where the outlook is bleakest. For sure.

And while that (may ) or may not be sage advice for bargain seeking stock investors, what the heck does that have to do with successfully growing your cash starved small business and or service, for pennies on the dollar? Continue reading

                               (And How To Correct Them!)

You probably never thought purchasing those expensive raised print business cards would be an all too common marketing mistake did you?

Well, in an of themselves, they may not be.

But the fact that you spend way more money than you actually needed to, before you even bothered to take three incredibly important precautionary steps, goes to show how common these three particular marketing mistakes are.

And they are without a doubt, costing you a lot of money, because your probably leaving a fortune on the table.

Truth told, these three precautionary steps have less to do with whether or not your business cards actually have raised print or not.

It’s just coupled with the fact you spent additional upfront cash on more expensive raised print business cards.

Without fully understanding these all important (non techie) marketing secrets. You’re not maximizing your full profit producing potential.Would you not agree? Continue reading