Monday, July 8
MarketVolt’s Monday Mash-Up
Marketing Tips
Encourage Customers to Review Your Business
Here’s a great article that describes how to use email to encourage customers to submit online reviews. Reviews can help you build your business — especially if you actively respond to the reviews. This article has some great tips about how to solicit reviews and how to respond to them.
Presentation Advice
Ditch the Fancy Language and Buzzwords
When it comes to public speaking and presentations, my friend Fred Miller knows his stuff. I love this post from his website in which he reminds us that “plain, simple language rules.” Great advice for public speakers and writers.
Sales Tips
Cold-Call Emails that Worked
For some businesses, email pitches to cold leads can work well to fill the funnel (This is entirely different than email marketing to subscribed followers). This article has some excellent tips for writing cold sales emails and includes five examples of emails that worked.
Myth Busting
Eight Marketing Myths Debunked
Good stuff about social media, email, search marketing and more in this article.
Quotable
Businessman and former US Vice-President Nelson Rockefeller was born on this day in 1908. He said this:
There are many other possibilities more enlightening than the struggle to become the local doctor’s most affluent ulcer case.
Any reading, listening, quoting, resourcing that you think we should share? Send us a tip.
Until next time, enjoy the rest of this week and the weekend.
Tom