Many aspects of business are driven by numbers, but marketing often seems to be all about words. Whether it’s naming your business, coming up with a tag line, or writing copy for your website, you probably spend a big chunk of your marketing time trying to find just the right words Read more (members only)

Every independent professional should have a website, an ezine or blog, and an email marketing strategy, right? If you’re not taking maximum advantage of web technology to market your professional services, you are behind the times, and missing out on huge opportunities. At least that’s what most marketing experts would have you believe. Read more (members only)

The six marketing strategies for professional services described in Get Clients Now! are listed in order of effectiveness from most to least: direct contact, networking, public speaking, writing and PR, promotional events, and advertising. Seeing this list for the first time, you may wonder where the Internet fits in. Read more (members only)

How many times already today has someone tried to sell you something? The ads come in by email, postal mail, fax, radio, magazines, newspapers, TV, and your web browser; the salespeople write you, call you, and approach you in the store or showroom. Read more (members only)

There’s more marketing hype published on the Internet in one day than P.T. Barnum generated in his lifetime. Like a worm swallowing its tail, the Internet marketing beast feeds mostly on itself. Read more (members only)

Publishing your articles online can be an affordable and effective method of attracting more traffic to your website and building your credibility as a professional. The quickest and easiest way to publish online is to submit your articles to article directories. Here is a list of 16 different article directories to get you started. Read more (members only)

With a small number of subscribers, you can send your ezine the same way you send regular email. But once you have 50 or more people on your list, you will start encountering problems if you continue doing it this way. What you need is a mailing list management system, and there are three that I recommend, depending on your needs. Read more (members only)

In this audio workshop with a live audience of professional coaches, C.J. Hayden and Frank Traditi share how to create referral partnerships and strategic alliances that allow you to harness the power of people to bring your products and services to a larger audience. Read more (members only)

There are good reasons in favor of both sides of this question. If you post your fees on your site, you can prequalify prospects and save time responding to inquiries. But if you don’t post them, you can vary your fees based on the prospect’s needs and situation. Here are some pros and cons about posting fees and some suggested alternatives Read more (members only)

One of the drawbacks of becoming more visible on the web is that you may start to receive much more unwanted email. Most of us use mail filters provided by our ISP or installed as an add-on service, but we still get far too many bulk emails. We want our customers to be able to reach us, but not the spammers. What can we do? Read more (members only)