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10 Profitable Ways to Use
Market Research To Increase Sales

Monday, May 2nd, 2011

Improve Your Sales With Market Research

Has this ever happened to you?

You’re thinking of rolling out a new product.

And because you think you’re pretty smart and that your opinion about things matters, you don’t take time to find out whether your market wants it or not because you just know…

You’re certain that you can rely on your vast experience, just guess, or maybe trust your intuition to guide you…

So you barrel forward, invest a ton of resources, money and time into your next great idea, and…

Nobody cares.

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Personal Strategic Blueprint or 28 Minutes = 12 Awesome Months

Friday, October 29th, 2010

This is something most people do as the year is drawing to a close, but this type of thinking is valuable any time you feel the need to turbo-charge your business. Or any other part of your life, for that matter.

It’s something I use with my private coaching clients, and it’s also part of Blueprints to Profits. It’s called the Personal Strategic Blueprint.

Now if you’ve spent any time in that weird place called Corporate Planning, you might recognize this as a deviant, somewhat casual form of a S.W.O.T. analysis.

This is a preview of Personal Strategic Blueprint or 28 Minutes = 12 Awesome Months. Read the full post (188 words, estimated 45 secs reading time)

Tags: Getting things done, productivity, strategic planning, SWOT, Time management
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Small Changes = Big Profits Part 1

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

Making a series of small changes, consistently and over time, is the one, sure-fire, guaranteed way to insure your business makes you rich. In this video post are some lightening case studies to get your juices flowing.

Implement something new every week. Some little tweak or upgrade or new marketing partner or even a new channel or change to your website… Those kinds of things, and sometimes perhaps, a change that’s a bit larger: something strategic, a change to how you sell or a change to your thinking…

Implement those as often as you can manage and you are guaranteed to grow…

This is a preview of Small Changes = Big Profits Part 1. Read the full post (104 words, estimated 25 secs reading time)

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Archive for the ‘strategic planning’ Category

10 Profitable Ways to UseMarket Research To Increase Sales

Personal Strategic Blueprint or 28 Minutes = 12 Awesome Months

Small Changes = Big Profits Part 1

10 Profitable Ways to Use
Market Research To Increase Sales