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14 Quick Tips for Branding Your Business

To be successful in today’s competitive business environment, you must be consistent, persistent and assertive, no matter the size of your business. What’s more, you need to stand out from the crowd! What does it take to do that? Here are 14 quick action tips.

1. Know your Unique Value--- why customers should do business with you? Always be ready to tell people about your business.
2. Decide what market to target based on your products or services.
3. Create a logo and use it on your website, business cards, advertising.
   
4. Create a website. This is a must-- potential clients expect it.
5. Build quality references about you and your business online.
6. Formulate a social media strategy. B2B? Linkedin Selling products? Instagram or Pinterest
7. Be consistent in your voice and your message; post regularly.
8. Build your reputation in your industry; your personality and knowledge will make people want to do business with you.  
9. Speak, write and teach others. Potential customers love to buy from industry experts.
10. Partner with other business people. Network!
11. Volunteer or donate to community causes and events.
12. Use strong SEO techniques so that potential customers will find you easily online.
13. Measure success and adjust. Ditch what doesn’t work and do more of what does.
14. Need help with strategy or implementation? Contact me anytime

Branding Your Business: Why and How to Get Started!

If you have a startup business, or one that is not doing as well as you'd like, it's time to kick your marketing and branding into gear and get things rolling! Effective marketing can jumpstart your traffic, pump up your revenue and skyrocket your profits. Many small business owners suffer from inertia-- they have no idea where to start, so they do nothing. Obviously, getting started is crucial, and doing it right is vital! Here is my simple three-step plan to get started branding and marketing YOU and YOUR business:

5 Tips for Making More Money with Pinterest

Pinterest is no longer just for pinning recipes; a quick look at the numbers proves that ignoring it means turning your back on buyers! Today, Pinterest has over 20 million active users, and those users spend an average of over an hour per visit to the website. Even more important for marketers, look at these stats--81 percent of online consumers say they trust information they find on Pinterest (BlogHer stat), 69 percent of those consumers have found something on Pinterest that they have bought (Bizrate stat), 20 percent of social referrals to ecommerce sites come from Pinterest, people spend more on average (All Facebook stat) and more than 70 percent of Pinterest users are right here in the United States(Business2Community stat.)

It is pretty clear that Pinterest users are looking for more than cute puppies and pictures of desserts. Pinterest users are extremely receptive buyers as well. Make the most of Pinterest with these tips: