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8 Tips to Build a Great Strategy for Lead Generation

January 14, 2020 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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It can be difficult to find leads, but it’s an important part of all businesses. Getting some leads means getting some chances for new business. Here are 8 tips to generate good leads for your business and how to turn them into loyal and content clients. 1. Build Useful Relationships It’s important to start some […]

Filed Under: Grow Your Business, Your Small Business Tagged With: build leads, generate leads, lead generation, lead generation strategy, leads

How to Build a Lead Generation Machine

October 18, 2018 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

This week on #Smallbizchat LIVE our show featured three guests: How to Build a Sales Process with Alice Heiman, @aliceheiman, Start Making Connections, Stop Adding to Your Connections with Phil Gerbyshak, @PhilGerb, and How to Develop Your Personal Brand Using Video with Cher Jones, @itscherjones. I pulled three of the best questions from each of them […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Featured Post, Featured SmallBizChat, Grow Your Business, Q & A Interview, SmallBizChat, SmallBizChat Live+, Technology Tagged With: @aliceheiman, @itscherjones, @PhilGerb, lead generation, making connections, personal brand, SmallBizChat, video marketing

How to #GETSTRONG and Grow Your Business

February 8, 2018 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Every week as SmallBizLady, I conduct interviews with experts on my Twitter talk show #SmallBizChat. The show takes place every Wednesday on Twitter from 8-9 pm ET.  This is excerpted from my recent interview with Stephen Pierce, who is the host of the Success Sculpting Show, where he brings the right information now to sculpt […]

Filed Under: Featured Post, Featured SmallBizChat, Q & A Interview, SmallBizChat Tagged With: @stephen_pierce, be strong, find customers, lead generation, SmallBizChat

7 Ideas To Get Leads Using Your Blog

May 23, 2017 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Guest Article If you run a small business or an ecommerce website, generating leads is probably one of the most important things you focus on. As a business owner, your first concern is to attract people to your business and get them interested in your product or service, so you can convert into a customer. […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Guest Articles Tagged With: blogging, lead generation, marketing

Avoid the 5 “Sales Readiness” Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make … And Don’t Even Know It

November 15, 2016 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Guest Post Many small business owners struggle with generating more leads or learning to improve the sales processes in their business, or even to hire and train the right sales people. However, before the conversation for how to improve a sales process can even make a difference, many business owners need to learn how avoid […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Grow Your Business, Guest Articles Tagged With: @isalesgirl, lead generation, sales

How Effectively Managing Relationships Leads to Business Success

August 3, 2011 By Melinda Emerson 16 Comments

Relationships are fundamental to how we operate and interact with each other.  They may begin as an unassuming acquaintanceship and are often influenced by our surroundings.  So interaction anywhere from that with a family member or others via our work environment, interest groups or associations can initiate relationships. Over time, relationships are built upon and […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Customer Service, Guest Articles Tagged With: lead generation, managing relationships, tips for managing relationships

How to Generate Revenue for Your Small Business

November 1, 2011 By Melinda Emerson 2 Comments

Most people know they shouldn’t attempt to take on a mortgage without having some way to pay for it.  Yet small business owners do something quite similar every day.  How do they do this? Some small business owners focus on running the business before focusing on generating the leads that fund the business.  Sure, every […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Cash Flow & Finance, Grow Your Business Tagged With: build leads, build leads offline, create a list, lead generation, linkedin, melinda emerson, Morgan Leu Parkhurst, network, sales, sales funnel

Best Practices for Lead Generation in a Small Business

June 25, 2012 By Melinda Emerson 7 Comments

Sponsored Post Are you struggling to figure out how to generate new leads in your business? Well Yahoo! Small Business @ysmallbusiness will be sponsoring a live Tweet Chat with me, @SmallBizLady, on Twitter Thursday June 28th from 3:30-4:30 ET to help you with this challenge. Yahoo! recently launched a free Marketing Dashboard  to help SMBs […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Grow Your Business, Social Media Tagged With: lead generation, tweetchat, twitterchat, yahoo small business, YDashboard

How to Reinvent Your Career by Becoming Your Own Boss

June 25, 2013 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Guest Article Since the recession began in 2008, more and more people are choosing to become self-employed and become their own boss. Recent figures show that 367,000 more people have entered self-employment since the start of the economic downturn. The number of employees also fell during this period by 2%, which has been a catalyst […]

Filed Under: Guest Articles, How to Start Tagged With: Amy Fry, become your own boss, lead generation, starting a small business

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