Small business marketing- Just do it!

We just came back from a mastermind meeting. This one we belong as members. We took a ton of notes, had some breakthroughs and made  a list of things we need to change or implement. Now to make things happen there is just one thing we need: do it.

It is incredible how many people stop right at this step. Excuses, lack of time, postponing,  are just a few reasons why they don’t do it.

But it comes down to taking action and making it happen.  Especially when it comes to small business marketing. Nothing else.  Just do it.

We watched this video during the meeting and I thought you might enjoy it as well.

Small business marketing- The sure-fire recipe for business success

This one I copied brom Seth Godin‘s blog. I find it extremely relevant especially because we get more and more people looking for a magic pill that will make them millions overnight.

The sure-fire recipe for business success

Wait, I was confused. There’s a sure-fire recipe for delicious chocolate chip cookies. There is in fact a magic formula.

For businesses, not so much. There isn’t one secret, one process, one solution. Instead, there are a thousand or maybe a million.

It’s not a jigsaw puzzle, it’s a strand of DNA, easily rearranged and sometimes it even works. For a while.

Social Media Marketing Trivia

According Forrester Research’s most recent Interactive Marketing Forecast, social media marketing will grow at an annual rate of 34% -– faster than any other form of online marketing and double the average growth rate of 17% for all online mediums:

With social media marketing you will get:

More referrals.
more networking
more opportunities
more customers
more sales
more ranking
more branding

Google Maps- Just for fun

Well, it is the weekend so let’s have some fun.

1. Go to Google Maps and click on Get Directions
2. Write USA as your start point
3. Write Japan as your destination
4.Go to the 31st point on your route and when you stop laughing.

Best of CES- Online Videos- Watch Your Favorite Shows Anytime, Anywhere on Any Device

This post from Tubefilter.com

Watch Your Favorite Shows Anytime, Anywhere on Any Device

That’s right! The BIG vision this year is for everyone to be able to watch their favorite web originals, cable and broadcast shows on smart phones, smart TVs (Internet-connected), tablets and on any other gizmos with screens with a shared content library. A “connected” entertainment ecosystem is the ultimate goal. For example, if you buy a TV show on your smartphone and begin watching it, when you get home you can turn on your TV or tablet and pick up exactly where you left off. Vizio, a TV manufacturer, announced its new connected Vizio VIA Plus slate of devices, adding their first tablet and smartphone to build their entertainment ecosystem.

Marketing Opportunities with Kindle and Ipad

You can publish e-books, reports and white papers on Kindle and other e-book readers. You may re-purpose content that you already have and publish on Kindle. 10 pages will do.
On Kindle you can sell your e-book starting at 0.99 cents.
Create a call to action leading people to a capture page to get their information and market to them using an auto-responder series and you just found another lead generation channel.
We are talking about millions of people with their e-book readers downloading things to read.

Passive Income streams – Continuity programs

We just finished a very good call on continuity programs and membership sites.
We covered the different models of continuity programs that can be incorporated on and existing business and how to start a member based program as a separate business.

Lots of possibilities of different income streams for a lot of businesses.

You can listen to the replay of Passive income stream now but you have only 48 hrs to take advantage of the small investment and bonuses.

Passive Income Stream Online- some ideas

Creating passive income streams online is not difficult and can bring more stability for your business. The extra effort will go to bring people to the offer.

Here are a few ideas you can use in order to create passive income online:

Membership sites- There are several different models here.
Continuity programs- service or product based
Information products- ebooks, online training etc
Sites with affiliate products
Sites with dropshipping products
Sites with your products
Consulting services
Software development
Ads on your blog

Many people view passive income streams online as stand alone businesses which can be quite true but don’t forget that any business can incorporate passive income streams online.

We have a webinar coming up tomorrow on continuity programs. Don’t miss.

How to create Membership programs that work

Over the years we have created quite a few revenue streams. The ones I like the most are our member based programs. We have membership sites, done 4 you services on continuity, micro-continuity etc.

What I like the most about them is the fact that I know ahead of time how much money is coming from these programs. These allow us to sleep at night and to have all the bills paid because of these programs. For a long time in my life I kept awake at night just thinking of what I would do to pay the bills on the next day.

But there are many other benefits.

Most offline businesses are not familiar with the concept of continuity programs or member based programs.

When we started promoting this week’s webcast I even got some e-mails from people saying this didn’t apply for their business. Funny enough, one of them was a guy that owns a Gym. What is his business model after all if not a member based business?

The fact is that your business is not different and online, offline or with both you can create membership programs that can bring another stream of revenue to your business or, if you want, can be run as a totally separate business.

It is this Thursday that we’ll give you the outline on how to create your own membership program. Don’t miss this one because it can bring a lot more profit into your new year.

Register at: Passive Income Bliss