2012 First Quarter Business Review

Well ladies and gentlemen believe it or not here we are, it’s 2012 and we are already almost done with March…wow. Seems like we were just talking about “Y2k” and how all the computers would shut down world wide..funny how time flies huh? With that thought in mind, how’s business? No really, how’s business? It’s that time of year and major corporations around the globe are doing check ups from the neck up. They are heavy in the process of getting their quarterly reviews done and if you consider yourself in business why not follow suit?      

So I did a similar post (click here) last year and the thought occurred to me let’s revisit & revamp it for 2012.Here are 10 questions to get you started taking a look at how things are going compared to where they should be…

2012 First Quarter Business Review Questions…

 

1. How’s the year to date sales report looking compared to your projections/goals?
2. Your product or service, how long has it been since it was updated? Is it still marketable?
3. Do you have a product to market?
4. Do you have a list to market a product to?
5. Do you know how to build your list?
6. If you have a list, have you developed a value based relationship? Do you know how?
7. Marketing. What’s your budget for marketing? Do you have one? Do you have a marketing strategy?
8. Do you have a mentor that you follow in your business?
9. Do you have a business plan that you follow?
10. Who are you accountable to?

 

Why is a 2012 first quarter review even something to consider, even for a home based business? Glad you asked. I’d like to think that even though you consider yourself to be a “home based business” that it shrinks or devalues your mindset when it comes to your business. Don’t short change yourself.

Why a 2012 First Quarter Business Review?

A 2012 first quarter business review is helpful in the simplest way by showing early on in the year where corrections and adjustments can be made. Sometimes we don’t know where we are business wise, we may have an idea but there also may be some metric or goal that we hadn’t looked at as closely as we should have.

For instance if you’re a blogger and your goal was to get 300 visitors a day to your blog….what if your only getting 100 per day but because of those 100 you began generating sales for the first time ever? So maybe your original goal of 300 got lost because you have made your first online profits.

So let’s suppose you were able to generate enough traffic to get the 300 visitors per day how many more sales would that be for you? This is just a very rough analogy but if you didn’t at least do a quarterly review you may never know until at the end of the year for example that you were only getting 100 visitors per day 200 short of your original goal and who knows how many $ales? So a 2012 first quarter business review might help possibly.

Again this is all food for thought, maybe this helps or maybe it doesn’t but I wanted to at least put it out there because as the old adage goes, people don’t plan to fail, they just fail to plan. I think this fits perfectly.

 

In my 2012 first quarter business review, I found that I needed to generate more leads for my business here’s a peek at what I’m using…..

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With article writing these days it’s become very important to know how to write an informative, compelling article so that your business will become a successful online venture. The success of your website is heavily dependent on the amount of traffic that comes to your site.
You cannot expect to make a sale or any see any profit unless people are coming to your site often and staying for awhile.
Quality content, value driven article writing are keys to getting you more visitors to your site.
So let’s talk about a few steps to writing the afore mentioned type of article:

 Steps to Awesome Article Writing

Article Writing by the time your coffee gets cold:

Quality Content-

Always lead with quality content. Understand that your building a brand, and a key component to that process is trust. That’s what people are asking themselves as they check out your article writing and visit your site. Can this person be trusted? Nothing answers this question quite like value. Once you establish trust with readers and deliver value, they will become loyal and expect nothing less than quality from you.

Research-

Please I know that most people are really eager and sometimes have a tendency to skip a step or two in order to get to “the real” stuff. Part of bringing value to the market place is reliability of the source. Again, this is about establishing trust and if you haven’t done your homework on a given topic and you write some unreliable article and lead someone in the wrong direction then your credibility has just been destroyed. Article writing is a part of establishing your brand and it’s hard work, you want to protect your brand at all costs. Find reliable sources and check them against other reliable sources to ensure what you write is valuable and useful to your readers. Don’t just throw stuff up against the wall to see what sticks.

Understand your Audience/Niche-

Another huge key is understanding your niche or audience and then giving them what they need in terms of value. If your niche is gardening then an article on “How to find a divorce lawyer” may not do to well. You have to cater to the interests of your target audience. They need help in any number of ways, listen to what topics dominate the forums and check other websites out in your niche and read what topics dominate and you will get a good feel for what’s needed in that particular niche and audience.

Spelling & Grammar-

Now this is becoming a biggie for me in article writing. Kind of a pet peeve that I have. As obvious as this may seem even some of my older posts have some errors and it doesn’t need to be that way but we often are rushing to get this done and over look the simplest of tasks. It just doesn’t look very professional when your reading and have to go over what you have just read again to make sense of it due to a grammatical error. The same for spelling, no one is perfect but you definitely want to cut down on as many as you possibly can.

Keywords/SEO-

Now, I saved this one for last because I don’t think that you can just overlook the job of SEO (search engine optimization) when it comes to article writing and content for your website. Find out what SEO keywords are relevant to your niche and include them in your article title and body several times.
Caution, you don’t want to overuse or overdo the use of keywords, just make sure when you use these keywords that it’s in the natural flow of your content. Google likes the natural flow and that’s how you should approach keywords in your articles.

Article Writing can be very valuable….

I hope that you got some value out of these simple but important keys to article writing. There are many more tips and tricks to article writing but these are some of the more basic steps and if you follow at least these few you will be well on your way to establishing yourself as a valued resource with your audience within your niche. You will also be helping and touching lives in ways you may have no idea about which is awesome in my book!

See What I’m using to generate 15 Leads Per Day
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Let me tell you what IM Tool Suite is not.
It is not a MLM Company. I say that because some of the tools within IM ToolSuite are marketed as primary products within a couple MLM companies out there and a lot of you may know which ones I’m referring to.

What is IM Tool Suite?

1. Anti-Complicated                                                                            

2. Plug & Play and easy!!

3. Cutting Edge Technology (The Tech guys at IM Tool Suite are always adding new tools) at no additional cost.

4. A Must Have In Your Marketing & Branding Arsenal.

5. Most Importantly the platform is comprised of IM Tools!! IM Tool Suite is not a training platform! For Internet Marketing Training and some great ways to leverage the tools CLICK HERE!

What IM Tool Suite Gives You To Work With:

As I stated previously it contains 16 tools that you normally have to find and purchase separately:

Capture Page Creator: You can now develop an unlimited amount of fully customized capture pages in under 3 minutes. It’s literally as simple as point and click.

Live Greeter: You Have the ability to within any site that accepts HTML to embed a live broadcast stream and a real time chat from with a blog, capture page or some other site! The system can also notify you when someone lands on one of your sites so you can greet them live!

Voice and Text Broadcast: Have you recently gotten one of those annoying pre-recorded calls on your cell phone from someone marketing or a text msg? Did you at least listen to part of the msg? Did you open and read the text? compare that to your Clicks vs Opens for emails….hmm

Video E-Mail: Guys so in this era of our economy you have millions turning to the internet to find a way to make money…a lot of people = a lot of noise and mis information. How are you going to stand out from the crowd of millions to attract clients to you? What do you have that no one else does? How about sending your clients video birthday wishes branded to you or season’s greetings branded to yours truly? Here’s the best part IM Tool Suite has made it so you don’t have to speak Techie to make it happen…let me show you what I mean. Watch the video to see how easy this is….

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Facebook Greeter: This is so awesome because if your like me and you use Facebook to connect and build relationships then you need to be using this tool it’s a huge time saver and it’s helps you build relationships. Anyone you confirm as a friend on Facebook will automatically receive a message of your choice from your IM Tool Suite posted on their wall. Let me emphasize the social aspect of Facebook it’s about building relationships not spamming your business all over someone’s wall or when you first connect with someone on Facebook. Here’s a Free webinar on how to get Famous On Facebook in 60 Days.

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