What Makes a Great Business Card - Bounce Marketing Inc.

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What Makes a Great Business Card?

A good business card is one of the most powerful parts of a good marketing strategy. Your business card is like a face to your potential clients and can make or break a client’s first impression of your company. Choosing a card that is modern, professional, and appropriate for your business is key when designing your business card. But, how do you go about choosing the best design to support your business? To help you get started, here are some designs to consider:

Basic Cards
A basic business card is typically black ink printed on white, or cream cardstock. Minimalist cards like these are clean and straightforward. Bearing only the facts, this no-nonsense approach can appeal to clients who like utility over flashy styling. The design is simple and perfect for displaying clear and concise information. 

Pictures and Color
Sometimes all you need is a splash of color to grab the attention of a potential client. Having a pallet that matches the feel of your company can make your brand more memorable, and add a hint of fun to an otherwise plain card. Images representing yourself, a product, or a service can communicate what your business is about in a visually impacting way. Also, having your face on the card can help a contact remember what you look like the next time they see you.

Tactile Cards
For something more outside of the box, you can shift the distinguishing factor to the feel of the card, rather than the look. Nonstandard materials, such as metal or wood, can give a business card an interesting feel that is sure to impress. You could also give your card a different shape, or use embossing to be a bit more subtle. Business cards like these will be more expensive, but for some having this kind of card may be worth it.

Business cards are key for any company. They provide more than just information. They build connection and give a customer a memorable experience. These cards can also provide multipurpose information such as a map, or an appointment reminder. Some opt to have the card serve as a coupon, or you can write more information on the card if needed. There’s no end to the function of a business card, so it’s important to create one that’s just right for your company.

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Reputation and Reliability
Print is tangible and holds a power over people that digital can’t replicate. It’s been around since before digital was even conceptualized, and it has been delivering reliable information to audiences since it was created. Take Time magazine, for example — the average person would trust an article they published over one of the many less-credible digital sources. While online publications often produce content that gets debated or disproven, print remains a stable, trustworthy resource for people to get the information they want.

Stay Off This Bandwagon
Because of the fact that so many businesses have all but left the print game, a customer receiving an actual parcel in the mail is noteworthy due to the rarity of the occurrence. With everyone clamoring to announce the death of print, and multitudes of newspapers and magazines closing their doors, there exists now a power vacuum into which an authority like your company can step. The key is precision targeting by engaging a niche audience, and using what you know about your audience to your advantage. www.bouncemarketing.org

The likely reason our society has not translated virtually all of our books and advertisements to the digital world is that, ultimately, print advertising effectiveness is still real and demonstrable. The intangibility of articles hovering in cyberspace leaves something to be desired in customers. Yes, internet marketing has its advantages, especially because of easy national and international distribution potential. However, consider print media the underdog in an exciting matchup. With everybody betting on digital because they “got a hot tip” that print is washed up, leveraging the medium and making revenue from your efforts is within reach of your brand.

Print Is Now a Missed Opportunity
As multitudes of advertisers maintain their focus on digital, you can stand apart from your competitors by utilizing the medium that is getting left behind. There’s a print publication for every type of audience, and yes, people are still reading them — especially loyal readers. You can tap into a market you’re missing out on, and make a lasting impression that differs from your digital messages. Print advertising effectiveness boils down to your ability to develop a strategy that appeals to the publication’s niche audience, no matter if we’re in a digital era or not. Market pessimism may be holding you back, but the truth is that print still leads to ROI that will add to your bottom line — and you don’t want to miss that opportunity.

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Why Are Flyers Important For Your Business?

Reasons Why Flyers Are Still So Important

1. Shoppers are kinetic. We aren’t always online. Even if you have your smart phone handy, sometimes it’s easier to pick up paper. Prospects hang onto paper more–so long as it is well-written and has a great design (that’s print designers and web designers must work together).

2. Face-to-face connection. When we’re face-to-face with a prospect, it’s nice to be able to hand over/lean over or pass something physical between you. Besides the connection that is communicated by the body language here, the sales team also looks professional to the prospect; a flyer helps you come across organized and prepared for a sales conversation.

Even better, with a flyer you don’t have to “send someone away” to go and look at your website. You can discuss what’s right in front of you together, without the distractions of an electronic device immediately offers.

3. Win-Win for customer and vendor: another point of contact in the sales cycle. These days you need more than 7 points of contact before a prospect trusts you. Having a flyer to send gives you a reason to touch back with your prospect. It allows you to give them more information, raise more objections and ask you more meaningful questions. This further the sales cycle for the sales professional and most importantly: it’s better for the customer who’ll be able to make a more educated purchasing decision.

It's a technological world but that doesn't mean print is dead. Tangible objects like a flyer or trifold should go hand in hand with a well designed website. One works with another.

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Why Print Marketing is Still Important in the Digital Age

Why Print Marketing is Still Important in the Digital Age

Just like when you are developing any other marketing strategy, start by deciding what you want to do with your print campaign. Do you want to build awareness? Do you want to increase sales? What are your overall business objectives right now, and how can print be used to meet those goals? Go ahead and write everything down, from increasing social media engagement to gathering leads or building your list of email prospects. Yes, print can do that too.

Print you can hold in your hands. You see, touch and feel it, which studies have shown can make your brand more memorable. This is because customers are able to physically connect with your brand. To heighten this, think outside of the standard printer paper box!

Don’t be afraid to use your print materials to drive traffic to your other marketing channels. Are you looking to increase engagement to your social media? Put it on your print! When designing promotional materials like flyers that feature sales or deals go ahead and put a call to action to follow you on Facebook for similar offers. You could direct people to subscribe to your email blast for lead capture (if you don’t want to stick with print and send them direct mail instead). You could even just focus on driving people to your website to learn more about other offerings. Remember, marketing is about building a relationship with your customers, and print is just one way to communicate.

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The Importance of Brochures/Flyers

The Importance of Brochures/Flyers

For any business to flourish, publicity and marketing are vital for success. One way of creating awareness for your business is to carry out a print marketing campaign.

If you do not know a lot about a print marketing campaign you will probably think you do not need it. Well, in fact, it is a very important part of any companies marketing plan.

And here is why:

A print marketing campaign can potentially increase the success of any company as it helps in globalizing the brand. It can help in creating awareness regarding your business and the more awareness you create, the better the chances of people opting for your products or services.

In a print marketing campaign, you should try and interact with your business clients and outline the benefits of your company’s services with a special advantage on the products or services your company offers.

The brochures/flyers should contain the right amount of information about your business and the best offers and products which the consumer is likely to be interested in. Also, highlighting special offers or discounts is a great way to catch your customers attention.

Using our services you can create a print marketing campaign or a campaign targeted to very specific areas. Local campaigns work well for smaller businesses that want to increase their popularity locally and really help to ensure that local people make your business their first choice to call.

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Business Cards Show that You Are a Professional!

1.  Business cards give people the ability to follow up

When you meet someone and develop that instant rapport you want to give them a chance to follow up with you instantly without having to reach for a pen or their phone.

If left with no other choice do not hesitate to hand over your phone to the other person and have him type in his contact details and vice versa.

Another option is to use phone apps that allow the gadgets to exchange contact information.

Although these options are available to many there will always be instances where you meet someone who may not have all of these technological things on them or isn’t comfortable using them.

This is why nothing can still replace the business card in encouraging people to follow up with you.

2.  Business cards show that you are a professional

The littlest things we do send out the biggest messages.

Something as simple as a business card is indicative that you took the time to actually put your information in a card. This immediately separates you from 99% of the other men out there who may be students like you or are out there seeking a job like yourself.

3.  Having a business card keeps one focused on the goal

In situations where one is trying to look for work it is not unusual to participate in a few networking events.

If you decide to go to events like these with a certain number of business cards on your person then you can immediately create a goal for yourself.

An example of a goal would be to make to distribute the 50 business cards that you brought along to the event. You can also create secondary goals such as collect at least 20 of others’ business cards or have at least 15 to 20 people express interest in following up with you.

If you decide to approach networking events in this manner then your business cards can serve as a reminder and keep you focused on the goal -which is to follow up with people regarding possible opportunities.

4.  Business cards can help make you referable

Business Card ExchangeA good business card will not only contain one’s name and contact details. It should also mention what that person’s skills are.

Having this extra detail can make all the difference because although the person that you initially give your business card may not know what to do with you and your skills, he may know someone in his network that has in need of someone like you.

It is good to remember that random encounters with different people happen all the time. And when they do, you always want to be prepared to take advantage of these meetings and the opportunities that could arise from them.

To me there is no such thing as luck.

Luck happens when preparation meets opportunity.

In saying that make sure that you always have your business cards with you so when opportunity comes you are already prepared and you too may get “lucky” and find success.

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Print marketing should go hand-in-hand with a web presence as well!

Just like when you are developing any other marketing strategy, start by deciding what you want to do with your print campaign. Do you want to build awareness? Do you want to increase sales? What are your overall business objectives right now, and how can print be used to meet those goals? Go ahead and write everything down, from increasing social media engagement to gathering leads or building your list of email prospects. Yes, print can do that too.

Print you can hold in your hands. You see, touch and feel it, which studies have shown can make your brand more memorable. This is because customers are able to physically connect with your brand. To heighten this, think outside of the standard printer paper box!

Print marketing should go hand-in-hand with a web presence as well!

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Print is an Effective Tool for Delivering Your Message to Your Audiences

As technology continues to develop—and change the way we do business—many have considered print a dead medium and online marketing the wave of the future. Nevertheless, the print industry is far from dead; in fact, print marketing has only continued to grow and evolve alongside the upsurge of new technology.

Direct mail continues to be used heavily, with a 43% share of total local retail advertising. And, according to a Pitney Bowes survey, 76% of small businesses say their ideal marketing strategy encompasses a combination of both print and digital communication.

There are many reasons why print is (and will remain) an effective tool for delivering your message to your audiences.

Variable Printing

Although variable printing is by no means a new process, consumers have been using it with more frequency as advancements in printing technology have lowered the cost. Variable printing allows you to uniquely customize each piece of media by changing certain elements from piece to piece, taking advantage of the power of complex personalization.

Social networking has become an integral part of the way entrepreneurs reach their customers, but the idea of networking has been around much longer than Facebook and Twitter. After all, what's a business card if not a social medium? When you hand a potential customer or business relation a business card, you're making a social connection with that person and giving them the means to do the same with you.

Social media can also be fully integrated with any print marketing strategy or campaign. In fact, you'd be hard-pressed to find a business card from a serious entrepreneur without his or her Facebook address, Twitter address, or other social networking URL printed on it. (Slightly over half of respondents to a Nielsen survey said they used a social media advertising campaign in conjunction with print media.)

You still need to develop an effective print strategy that will put your brand in the spotlight and excite your audience. If you use the same, boring print materials as everyone else, you will have a hard time making your mark.

Get creative, put some real thought and effort into your print marketing collateral, and make use of all the tools and technologies available to you.

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Bounce Marketing shares when to say 'no'

We are all busy.  Actually busy has become the new status symbol and that isn’t just at work.  We spend our time prioritizing – sorting out the urgent, important and the things that can be left for later.

As a business owner or manager, it would be wonderful if you could dedicate the time needed to all staff; however, this is often not the case.  It is necessary to prioritize competing demands.  It is important that you don’t get caught up and engrossed in the trivial just because it seems urgent at the time from the person making the demand be it a staff member or a customer.

There is an empowering word in our language that is not used enough and that is the word “no”.

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 Whether you are a manager or a parent, using the word ‘no’ allows you to:

• Set boundaries
• Have more control
• Improve your time management
• Have some free time
• Less stress and pressure
• Increased energy
• More clarity around what is important

When you can’t say no, you may feel:

• Overworked
• Stressed
• Not in control
• Resentful

There is an art to saying ‘no’ and not actually saying ‘no’.  Some examples include:

• Can I get back to you later today?
• I can’t see you now, how about 2 pm in your office?
• I wish I could help you but …
• I wish I could do that but …
• I know someone who would do a great job with that …

When as a business owner or manager you are using your time wisely, that means you can be focused on what you are meant to be focused on, which is usually building the business and achieving goals and objectives.

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Implant Solutions Today - Deltona!!

Dental implants have become the best way to replace teeth. They have clearly been changing the way people live. They are designed to provide a foundation for replacement teeth that look, feel, and function like natural teeth. Dental Implants can replace a single tooth, they can replace multiple teeth, or a full arch of teeth.

Dental implants provide effective solutions for missing teeth problems!

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Dental Implants Defined!

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WHAT ARE DENTAL IMPLANTS?

The implants themselves are tiny titanium posts that are surgically placed into the jawbone where teeth are missing. These metal anchors act as tooth root substitutes. The bone bonds with the titanium, creating a strong foundation for artificial teeth. Small posts that protrude through the gums are then attached to the implant. These posts provide stable anchors for artificial replacement teeth.

Implants also help preserve facial structure, preventing bone deterioration that occurs when teeth are missing.

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Why use Targeted Networking Strategies?

In any growing business, it is critical to spend every dollar wisely. Many business people don't understand network marketing and quickly get disappointed with the results (or lack there of). They view time, money to be invested, sometimes low self confidence, little ROI, and various other factors as reasons not to network.

Mainly, the challenge to overcome is not having a networking strategy.

Just going to any networking meeting available is not a strategy by the way. Further, most small business people do just that - they go to the first networking group and join! They feel great because they got some 'networking done' without considering was that the right group for their business. What would be a better use of their time initially is defining and planning a 'Targeted Networking Strategy'.

So - what is it?

A Targeted Networking Strategy is communications with specific messages to targeted recipients, making the business's message more relevant and helping a business person communicate more effectively in a networking group (or at an event). That's the easy answer, but there is more factors to consider.

1 - Money = Does the networking event supply your business with people that can 'afford' to buy your product or service? Most business owners believe every networking group has their prospective buyers available and investing in that networking group is money well spent. But if the product or service is a high ticket value and the attendees are not qualified to buy. Why be there? It is better not to assume but to research the group to ensure your target audience is actually there.

2 - Time = Does the networking event produce sales over the long term? Again, many small business owners only want the fast sale to help pay the bills now and don't consider entrenching themselves for bigger sales once strong relationships are established. These sales may come from referrals or the prospective buyer understanding your business is involved for the long haul.

3 - Visibility = Does the networking event give you the chance to deliver your message briefly during each meeting? Many small business people are happy to be present at a meeting because they are the face of their business but miss the fact that they are representing themselves until people know they are representing a business as well. Consider this for a second: it is great to attend an event, but if a buyer is on the other side of the room and doesn't know your business is there. Why be there? Or, if your right next to a buyer that doesn't know what you business is fully capable of doing because you don't get a chance to speak. Why be there?

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BounceMarketing.org talks about Mentoring and Coaching!!

Coaching and mentoring are two forms of training that provide employees with:

• Knowledge
• Skills
• Attitudes

This enables employees to perform their job to the best of their abilities.  The aim is to develop people for future jobs within the organisation.  Training was known as a long-term investment in human capital; however, in today’s work environment, continuous learning is imperative.

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Training has the following benefits:

• Improves quality
• Boots productivity
• Helps the organisation to be competitive
• Strengthens employee commitment
• Responds to customer needs
• Assisting in meeting individual and organisational goals

Training and mentoring are indispensable in your organisation; this can include:

• Informal
• On-the-job training
• Classroom training
• Electronic training
• Experiential training
• Mentoring
• Coaching

Needs Analysis

The first step in the process is to identify any training gaps or areas for improvement either for the individual or the organisation as a whole.

Once you have identified the training needs, it is about finding the training that suits the individual.

Just keep in mind, the more you invest in your staff and their training, the more they will reward you with improved work practices and generally getting more done in less time.  This, in turn, will impact on your bottom line.  That is one reason why it is well worth investing in training, coaching and mentoring.

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SEO Tipswhen it comes to Keywords!

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques related to keywords, and how they can help your business get found online.

Keywords are words and phrases people type into the search engine (i.e. Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc.), to find what they’re looking for. This is the verbiage that drives the web; triggering advertising and marketing initiatives. Effective use of keywords means inserting them into appropriate website content, which search engines use to “find” content online and index it according to specific search terms.

This process works exactly the way traditional book indexing does, in that the system identifies the location of words of interest and enables users searching for the words to know where to go to find them. The only difference is that the medium is digital instead of print, and the words are accessed by clicking “search,” as opposed to looking them up in an alphabetical list

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Researching Keywords 

All this only works if the keywords used in your content are the right ones. There’s no point, for example, in using keywords relating to your brand, unless people are likely to use your brand name to search. For example, if users search for “facial tissues” and your keyword is “Kleenex,” they aren’t going to find you, so you need to know which specific terms they are using when they search. “Tissues,” “facial tissues” and even“soft facial tissues” might do it, but if what they are really searching for is “extra thick soft facial tissues,” some research using Google’s keyword tool will demonstrate this fact. 

Long-Tail Keywords

The more specific the keywords are that you use, the fewer the results will be and the better your chances of appearing in them. So, while millions of people search for “tissues,” only a small percentage may be looking for your product. However, if you sell only extra thick soft facial tissues in pink, you want to use keywords that say just that. This is called a long-tail keyword, and it’s far more targeted and specific, so only users who type in the full phrase will arrive at your search result. However, given that those who do are more likely to buy your product than, say – someone searching for green tissues, it’s a worthwhile effort to make. 

Keyword Density

Gone are the days when you could publish content jam-packed with keywords. At one time, a keyword density of 7 % was considered optimal. That means using the keyword seven times in every 100 words, and it was called keyword stuffing at one time.

Now, that might be doable if you’re using a generic term like “marketing,” but for a long-tail keyword like “extra thick pink facial tissues,” it’s a little more difficult.

When Google realized that too many websites contained text that read like gibberish, just for the sake of getting keywords in the text, and/or used a higher density than 2% or 3%, their Panda and Penguin algorithm updates of 2011 and 2012 penalized those sites. Now sites are also checked for quality grammar and spelling, as well as duplicate content. Today, keyword density is down to between 0.5% and 1.5% tops! 

Keyword Ranking

This is the effective use of keywords everyone wants to achieve – high keyword ranking on their main keywords. “High” ranking means your website is ranked in the top 100 sites for use of a specific keyword. After 100, they stop counting. The level of difficulty of the keyword, as determined by its competitiveness, also has bearing on this, because it helps to balance the equation. For example, the lower the number of searches on a keyword, the less competitive it is, and the more likely you are to be in the top 10 or 100 with that keyword. So it might be easy to rank highly for “extra thick soft pink facial tissues” because nobody else is using it, than it is for simply “tissues,” which might have 100,000 monthly searches, but is also being used on countless unrelated websites.

Understanding the effective use of keywords is a critical “get found” online marketing strategy. Using it to your advantage can be a difference maker in your online marketing success.

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Are you in the right career or not?

All the professional development programs, time management techniques and goal setting won’t assist and support you if you are not engaged at work.

Ask yourself, “Am I in the right job?”

• Do I look forward to work?
• Can I attach personal importance to the work I do?
• Can I see myself in this profession in the medium to long term?
• Is this job a short-term step to a greater long-term plan?
• Are you making a good living wage?

There are many stories of people who have worked in a particular industry or location for a long time and eventually realize that it’s no longer for them. Bounce!., can help you!

Signs that you could watch out for which can let you know that you might be disengaged at work:

• Frequent colds
• Headaches
• Forgetfulness
• Tiredness
• Poor sleep
• Loss of sense of humor
• Bad tempered with family, work colleagues and friends
• Drinking
• Job Hunting online or in the newspaper

Of course there are a lot more signs but these are just a few.

If you are disengaging at work, ask yourself why are you there?  Some people find themselves in a particular profession because:

• Your parents wanted you to
• Your partner wanted you to
• You made a mistake
• You had financial pressures and this was an option at that time
• The work was attractive but it has now changed
• You thought you could grow in the job
• It was the easy option
• It was the first option

You may have disengaged from work not because of the actual job; it may be because of the environment.  We spend a lot of time at work and the environment is important.

It is time you started to ask yourself some questions.  We spend a lot of time at work, so it is important to be engaged and enjoy what you do.

• Think about what aspects of your work you enjoy.
• Think about what aspects of your work you don’t enjoy.
• What could you do differently at your current workplace?
• Are you still at the same workplace because of the pay?
• Are you at the same workplace because of the benefits – sick leave, long service leave, easy job?
• Do you see yourself in this industry for many years or not?

When you have taken time to evaluate and answer these and other questions honestly, then you can either make some changes to your current work position and profession or change?  It’s always your choice!

Bounce Marketing Institute is available with training courses to help you!

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