April 10 2010
WANT TO TAKE ACTION?
BECOME A PART OF THE REVOLUTION … click here
Right, this has nothing to do with marketing – or does it?
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April 20 2009
Creativity is Amazing
Creativity can help you reinvent yourself.
The more ideas you have the more solutions you have available to you.
New ideas open new worlds and new options.
New ideas create new beginnings and new perspectives.
Creativity can reinvent your life.
Creativity can reinvent your company.
Creativity can turn your world and life around.
Now is the perfect time to reinvent yourself, your world, your company, your relationships etc…REINVENT!
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February 16 2009
Networking Tips
You may find that some of these tips are easier than others. Challenge yourself. Make it a point to practice them. In time they’ll all become second nature to you.
Networking Tips: networking is also personal marketing. Master networking and you’ll have a dynamic marketing method at your fingers tips!
Networking Tips: always start with a positive attitude. Your goal is to
establish relationships – no one wants to spend time with a whiner or negative attitude.
Networking Tips: have a prepared introduction. This is referred to as your “commercial”. It should contain a brief 2 or 3 sentences outlining what you do and your name.
Networking Tips: be interesting. A strategy – know what the current topics are for the day and in your area. Ask open-ended questions that cause the other person to interact in the conversation.
Networking Tips: be on time. Hold your head up. Make eye contact. If crowds make you nervous find someone standing alone and start a conversation.
Networking Tips: your handshake should be firm, that goes for both sexes, not bone breaking! Hold your drink, plate or anything else in your left hand so your right hand is always free, dry and ready!
Networking Tips: when in a conversation “LISTEN” to what is being said and react to it. Pay attention.
Networking Tips: when in a conversation make eye contact, look at the person the majority of the time.
Networking Tips: when in a conversation stand still, don’t fidget, rock back and forth or play with hair or clothes.
Networking Tips: when in a conversation be aware of your posture, sitting up straight or even leaning toward the speaker. No slouching.
Networking Tips: when in a conversation the most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
Networking Tips: when in a conversation, how do you do? How can you improve?
Networking Tips: you must be genuinely interested in others. Listen, acknowledge what has been said and make eye contact.
Networking Tips: the point isn’t just to introduce yourself, give out business card, and leave. The point is to make personal connections with others.
Networking Tips: work the room. Mingle. Don’t stay with the same person or group all night. Make plans to follow up with them and circulate. Challenge yourself to meet between 3 to 5 new people.
Networking Tips: give and get a business card to everyone you meet. Offer your card and ask for one if it isn’t offered.
Networking Tips: be sure to make notes on the back of each business card to remind yourself of what you discussed, hobbies, travel, interests, nicknames etc.
Networking Tips: be sure to follow up on any promises you made. Also be sure to follow up with everyone you meet within 24 hours of the event.
Networking Tips: networking is about being authentic, building trust and relationships, and seeing how you can help others. Not just seeing how they can help you.
Networking Tips: set objectives for each networking event. Have a plan. Are you there to learn, volunteer or is it strictly making business connections.
Networking Tips: visit multiple networking groups that spark your interest. Before joining ask: Is the group leadership effective? Are the members supportive? Professional?
Networking Tips: once you join a group volunteer for a position to stay visible. This will help you become known as a powerful resource.
Networking Tips: establish yourself as a strong resource (expert) and people will turn to you for suggestions, ideas, names of other people, etc.
Networking Tips: by establish yourself as an expert everyone knows you and every one wants to know you…you create your own buzz.
Networking Tips: in order to get referrals, you must first have a clear understanding of what you and articulate it to others.
Networking Tips: be able to articulate what you are looking for and how others may help you.
Networking Tips: follow through quickly and efficiently on referrals you are given.
Networking Tips: when you’re given referrals, your actions are a reflection on the person giving it. Respect and honor that and your referrals will grow. Disrespect it and they dry up.
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February 10 2009
148 Successful Ad Campaigns
7 UP, “The Uncola”
AT&T, “Reach out and touch someone”
Aflac, “Ask about it at work”
Alka-Seltzer, “I can’t believe I ate the whole thing”
Allstate Insurance, “You’re in good hands with Allstate”
Apple Computer, “Think outside the box”
Bic, “Flick my Bic”
Bissell, “Life’s messy. Clean it up! ”
Burger King, “Have it your way”
Brylcreem, “A little dab’ll do ya”
Read the full list at A Brand Identity
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October 27 2008
The “Asking Productive Questions” series
Tagged Under : Asking Productive Questions, book, books, ebook, ebooks
The “Asking Productive Questions” series was designed by Diane Carter, sam101.com’s founder, to help you change your life by changing the questions you ask yourself. You’ll find more than 3000 questions to help you dig deeper, start conversations, improve your critical thinking, network easier, test you limits and much more.
Each volume is ONLY $4.95
For a limited time you can purchase volumes one through three for $9.95 and we’ll GIVE you volume four FREE – our GIFT to you for having the desire to make change happen in your life today!
Author Beth Densmore is a Personal Life Coach and understand the power questions can have on your life. “Do you have a self-development toolbox? Do you have a standard set of instruments or mechanisms that you use to delve into your inner self? Just asking yourself those questions makes you think, doesn’t it? That is because questioning is the most powerful tool in your self-development toolbox. When we start on the self-development path it is usually because we have asked ourselves a question: who am I, what is it I want, why am I in this position, when can I change, where will this happen and how can I make it happen? Questions can be about us or about others and are used as identifiers. Who do I want to be? Who is standing in the way? Who will support me in this? Who can provide information?
We bring clarity to our quest by asking What. What is standing in the way of resolving this issue? What can I do about this? What is my next step?” Answering the What questions moves us another step forward on the path to change.
If you have ever been in the presence of a three year old for any length of time, you know that their favorite word is Why. The Why question brings them new information and helps them to understand the workings of a world that is new to them. It can be the same for us in the self-development process. Why do I feel this way? Why do I react like that? Why does this seem hard? Why can’t I get motivated?
To take action we need to ask the When question. When will I start? When will this happen? The answers to When questions create timetables and guidelines to follow. When putting a roast into the oven we need to know when it will be cooked. Knowing when the roast will be done moves us to have the table set and the vegetables cooked at the appropriate time. When questions motivate.
Where do we want our self-development quest to take us? If we don’t know where we want to go we will surely have a hard time getting there. And, if we don’t know where we have been how will we know where we want to go. Where questions raise our awareness. Where do I want to be one year from now…five years from now?
Once we know who, what, why, when, and where we need to know how. How can I accomplish this? How should I start? How will I feel when I am there? How questions help us to create a plan for action.
Trial lawyers always say, “Never ask a question you don’t know the answer to.” It is exactly the opposite in the self-development process. Queries you don’t know the answer to are the ones that will bring you the most new information about who you are, where you are and who and where you want to be in the future. Questions can stimulate a deep thought process and can bring us to places of discovery and revelation we wouldn’t otherwise reach.
If you want to: make a change, find a solution, clarify your thinking, identify a goal or learn more about the real you, just delve into your toolbox and pull out the questioning tool. It works every time!”
Volume One $4.95
Volume Two $4.95
Volume Three $4.95
Group Purchase of three volumes only $9.95, includes volume four FREE!
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Sam101, a renowned branding and digital publishing company based in Atlanta, GA, which launched in 2002, announced today the release of the MedicMinder Journal.
Metro Atlanta, Georgia (PRWEB) July 10, 2008 — The MedicMinder was created from the personal need to care for aging and ill parents. The stress of trying to keep their medical appointments straight, document their medical history, and constant struggle to remember what medications which one was taking and when, caused great anxiety.
The public is invited to review The MedicMinder Journal at the Companies web blog at http://www.themedicminder.com and encouraged to sign the guestbook with your comments.
About The MedicMinder
The MedicMinder is an outstanding organizational and record-keeping system for caregivers to quickly access and share medical and drug history, including contact numbers for family and doctors.
We’ve created a proactive approach that emphasizes quick and easy access to medical and drug history. Reducing stress.
Simply stated: The MedicMinder is Trusted by Caring Families
About Sam101.com
Diane Carter is the founder of Sam101.com, a renowned graphic design studio located in Metro Atlanta, Georgia. With more than twenty-seven years of experience, she has spent 19 years of her career as an entrepreneur in sales, advertising, marketing and branding.
Sam101.com makes it as easy to work with a designer. We make it our goal to explain the fundamentals during the process in terms that leave out the “techy talk” so client’s are comfortable with the course of action. No hassles. No red tape. No surprises. Promise.
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Probably the most difficult challenge facing any business is how to increase revenue over costs. While there a number of ways to do that, customer acquisition, maintenance and relationships are going to be essential means of accomplishing that task. Here are ten questions with brief joggers to begin the awesome task of discovering that potential.
1. Who is your ideal customer?
The world is too big, time is too short and there are too many people in the world for you to influence them all.
2. What are the solutions that your ideal customer is looking for?
What makes our ideal customer happy, satisfied, want more, need more?
3. What kinds of information does your ideal customer need?
How will they respond to your attempts to provide these solutions?
About the Submitter
This piece was originally submitted by Mike R. Jay, practicing organizational and executive coach, happeneur and writer.
Ask Yourself:
- Define your ideal customer.
- What is your ideal customer looking for?
- What type of relationship does your client want?
- What do you want?
- What type of relationships are your building?
- Can you improve them?
- When?
- How?
- What are you waiting on?
Diane Carter
Humans are Visual!
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May 14 2008
Branding & Marketing
I pulled this out of the August 2005 archives because it never goes out of style …
Begin branding and marketing yourself and your company today by asking and answering these questions:
1. Who are we and what do we stand for?
2. Why did we start this business?
3. What do our customers get from us that they can’t get from a competitor?
4. Why do they enjoy doing business with us?
5. Do we have a distinctive and memorable brand?
6. What look and feel do we want to convey?
7. Does our tag line explain and motivate clients?
8. Do we have a logo?
Branding is integrated in every aspect of a successful business. So to change the way people think about your company, first you must change the way your company thinks about itself.
Remember first impressions are so important that you don’t want to waste even one. Consider enlisting the help of a professional designer.
“Advertising says to people, ‘Here’s what we’ve got. Here’s what it will do for you. Here’s how to get it.”
Leo Burnett
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April 30 2008
Plug In Now!
April 02 2008
We Are Opening Our Morgue File To You
With our ever-growing morgue of unused custom logo designs, we’re happy to offer them at a deep discount for your project.
There are times when a custom created logo is essential and other times when a semi-custom design would do saving you money and time!
Sam101 realizes this and that’s why we’ve opened our morgue of unused custom logo designs to you.
Semi-custom logos from our morgue file are priced at $99!
Contact us and tell us about your project and needs. We’ll provide you with a PDF file filled with possible options. Once you chose a file and we receive payment via PayPal we’ll change the name and send you web ready files in both color and gray scale.
Turn around time generally ranges from 1-2 working days.
Logos are sent to you in file formats that come with our standard custom logos. This includes GIF, JPG and PNG. We are happy to provide additional file sizes, but such requests will affect the final delivery cost.
Unlike our custom logos, semi-custom logos are not licensed to a single client for use. Meaning they maybe sold up to five times before being retired.
Custom logo work in terms of ownership and provides the greatest value for clients. Once final payment is received, you own the custom logo and all rights to use it however and whenever you see fit.
If you need to have a unique logo designed and developed, sam101 is more than happy to design something special just for your project and needs!
Sam101 has offered custom designs for over six years for companies both large and small and we have more than 27-years of design experience supporting us.
Our testimonials are proof that we are dependable, professional, creative, dedicated, reliable, deadline orientated and more. Please review and read them for yourself. If you’d like a business referral contact me.
We invite and encourage you to visit our blog on subjects like branding, digital publishing, marketing and sales. One simply idea could change your business forever! Check out our archives. Peruse our testimonials. Look over our online portfolios.
Contact us and let us put our expertise in design to work for you today!
Diane Carter
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