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Building a Business

The 5 Secrets to Making Larger Sales

One of the greatest points of distinction between top sales performers and everyone else is average sale size. Here is how to increase your sales deals.

By Marc Wayshak

Building a Business

How to Pick the ‘Right’ Clients and Stand Out Among the Competition

By Jessica Ballard

Marketing

Grow Your Business a Thousandfold in One Year With Content Marketing

By Josh Steimle

Marketing

2 Simple Rules to Follow When Developing a Market Segmentation

By Doug and Polly White

Marketing

The Best Way to Market a Niche Company

To get the word out about a specialty business, entrepreneurs need to understand their audience and then get to the places where they get their information.

By Sabrina Horn

Building a Business

18 Resources to Help You Become Amazing at Acquiring New Customers

An effective user acquisition strategy is the holy grail for launching any new product or company. Here are the tools you'll need to do it right.

By Chloe Gray

Marketing

3 Ways to Make an Offer Your Prospects Can’t Refuse

By playing up certain things in your direct mail, you will increase the chances of customers making a purchase.

By Craig Simpson

Building a Business

Turn Prospects Into Customers With These 8 Tips

Your website won't always hook potential clients. Sometimes, you'll need to jump in to assist and get them to bite.

By Jonathan Long

Building a Business

4 Steps to Identifying — and Engaging – Your Core Customers

For a startup to succeed, it is imperative that an entrepreneur establishes criteria for customer selection. Done correctly, it can provide a scalable sales model, focus resources and establish an ongoing process to deal with change.

By Frank Cespedes

Building a Business

Sleepwalking Through Sales — How Vendors Are Ignoring Buyers’ Intelligence

Businesses need to respect today's informed customers.

By John Holland

Building a Business

The Top 5 Errors Made by Money-Losing Ecommerce Sites

Success is never guaranteed in online marketing but avoiding these common errors makes it much likelier.

By Brett Relander

Marketing

5 Easy Tweaks You Can Make to Consistently Land New Customers

People visit your website looking for what you offer. Making them feel welcome is step one to earning loyal new customers.

By Kimanzi Constable

Building a Business

10 Ways to Quickly Generate Leads

Customers are the life blood of any business. Here are a few tactics that will help companies generate leads without breaking the bank.

By Mike Templeman

Marketing

The Web Is a Content War. Here’s How to Win. (Infographic)

A look at the relative effectiveness of videos, blog posts, infographics, case studies and other online storytelling tools.

By Catherine Clifford

Marketing

6 Not-So-Obvious Places to Find Your Target Market

Your ideal customers are out there waiting for you. Here's how to find them.

By Joan Stewart

Building a Business

Drive Sales With a Website That’s Adapted for an Evolving Online Space

Develop a winning web strategy with these six suggestions that should pull in more customers.

By Zach Cutler

Online Presence

Don’t Just Have Social-Media Conversations, Design Them

Consider these four elements as you plan your strategy to engage with potential customers.

By Aaron Keller

Building a Business

Hook New Customers With an Online ‘Hopeful Greeting’

To get ahead of the competition, your attention should be focused on making a great first impression, then building positive reviews and testimonials.

By Eric Siu

Marketing

How to Increase Your Customer Referrals

Referrals from satisfied customers are the lifeblood of many business. Try these smart strategies to increase your word-of-mouth marketing.

By Jay Conrad Levinson and Al Lautenslager

Building a Business

Build Your Email List With Distraction-Free Landing Pages and 3 Other Techniques

Email beats out social media for gaining customers, and more people are expected to have addresses in the next few years.

By Eric Siu

Building a Business

How to Grow Your Daily Deals Site Customer Base

Attracting customers is critical to the success of your online coupon or daily deal website. Here's how to attract traffic and build a following.

By Entrepreneur Press and Rich Mintzer

Tech

Boost Downloads With These 5 App Store Optimization Hacks

If you want to increase your chances of gaining users and having a better store ranking, implement these tricks now.

By Zach Cutler

Online Presence

10 Tips for Mastering LinkedIn

Don't be intimidated. These suggestions can help you use LinkedIn to its fullest potential for your business.

By Jason Fell

Building a Business

Google Unveils New Tool for Businesses to Manage Their Online Presence

Companies can use 'Google My Business' to update their business information and share posts across Google+, Maps and Search from a centralized place.

By Benjamin Kabin

Building a Business

3 Reasons Startup Marketing Stalls

Your message travels at light speed but results don't. Focus, patience, trial and error are required to succeed.

By Anita Newton

Building a Business

Eureka — a New Product Idea! Now Ask These 5 Questions.

Before you quit your job and cash in your 401(k), take a step back and evaluate.

By Louis Foreman

Building a Business

Embrace the Soft Launch

For the typical start up, the less splashy the launch the better the chances of quietly refining the product and finding the first customer.

By Rohan Ayyar

Building a Business

Show Off Your Business Skills in Online Videos. (Really It’s OK.)

As visual creatures, people are swayed by a watching a professional make a case on the small screen.

By John Knight

Marketing

Are You Getting Email Marketing Right? Use These 4 Metrics to Find Out.

Every company can afford email marketing, but no company can afford to get wrong. Here is what to measure and how to improve results..

By Dave Lavinsky

Building a Business

Raising Capital? Answer These Questions to Score an Investor’s Check

Shed light on five key areas about a startup's business model to make a compelling pitch for money.

By Peter S. Cohan