Client Centered Awareness

Are You Looking for Customers?

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Social Media Manager, Blog Consultant and Trainer at Ask Coach Donna
Social media training and promotion for entrepreneurs, professionals, and business bloggers.
Certified Business Coach, Intuitive Strategist ~ As a Social Media Manager and Coach, I do the work for you and/or train corporations and small businesses how to set up their blog and a Social Media Marketing Plan around their blog/website as their business hub. As a Social Media Marketing Expert, I teach Relationship Marketing and Social Media Mastery, consulting and speaking services for corporate, business owners, and conscious entrepreneurs around the globe!
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Instead of always looking for customers

wouldn’t it be great if they actually talked themselves into working

looking-for-customerswith you?

Your voice online and in person, your own style, and brand is what will separate you from the crowd.

Be confident and let go of any doubt as you start becoming more inspiring and build your community of raving fans, even as you are looking for customers!

This is when your possible customers will start to talk themselves into working with you. As they start to believe in you.

–          The key to your business success is to find these people!

So what to do? Read more →

Are You a Social Media Influencer?

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Social Media Manager, Blog Consultant and Trainer at Ask Coach Donna
Social media training and promotion for entrepreneurs, professionals, and business bloggers.
Certified Business Coach, Intuitive Strategist ~ As a Social Media Manager and Coach, I do the work for you and/or train corporations and small businesses how to set up their blog and a Social Media Marketing Plan around their blog/website as their business hub. As a Social Media Marketing Expert, I teach Relationship Marketing and Social Media Mastery, consulting and speaking services for corporate, business owners, and conscious entrepreneurs around the globe!
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social-media-influencerBecome a social media influencer and get your work to our there and lead to some powerful results.

Marketing is where you learn to interest and help others by offering to transform their routines and actions to move into what they want to become and where they want to be.

BUT….at the same time it’s not about trying to convince your audience they don’t know what they need.

**Social Marketing is about offering your targeted audience something they want and you are giving them a way to get it.**

–          How you are as a Social Media influencer is an important corner stone to all of your own efforts. Read more →

Unique Online Marketing Strategies

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Social Media Manager, Blog Consultant and Trainer at Ask Coach Donna
Social media training and promotion for entrepreneurs, professionals, and business bloggers.
Certified Business Coach, Intuitive Strategist ~ As a Social Media Manager and Coach, I do the work for you and/or train corporations and small businesses how to set up their blog and a Social Media Marketing Plan around their blog/website as their business hub. As a Social Media Marketing Expert, I teach Relationship Marketing and Social Media Mastery, consulting and speaking services for corporate, business owners, and conscious entrepreneurs around the globe!
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-online-marketing-strategiesOnline marketing strategies for small business empowerment come in a wide variety!

Quick Tip #1 – SEO is huge in your plan for converting more ‘lookey-loos’ into ‘buyers’ on a regular basis using your ideal prospects’ own vibrant online search language to bring them to you.

Your unique online marketing strategies can be like a bad sales person or a professional winner.

I’m pretty sure you’d rather have the strategies of a professional, right? ==>

That means you have to know how sales is helped by your online marketing strategies!

You want, and have to have, better prospects brought into your sales pipeline… As a marketer you are continually learning about anything that could give you a competitive edge in selling. What would that be for you? Read more →

Need To Attract Customers?

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Social Media Manager, Blog Consultant and Trainer at Ask Coach Donna
Social media training and promotion for entrepreneurs, professionals, and business bloggers.
Certified Business Coach, Intuitive Strategist ~ As a Social Media Manager and Coach, I do the work for you and/or train corporations and small businesses how to set up their blog and a Social Media Marketing Plan around their blog/website as their business hub. As a Social Media Marketing Expert, I teach Relationship Marketing and Social Media Mastery, consulting and speaking services for corporate, business owners, and conscious entrepreneurs around the globe!
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need-to-attract-customersFor millennia businesses have always had the need to attract customers.

Can you imagine attracting your perfect customers, because you care and want to know them?

Obviously this would be the best way to grow your business more quickly! Read more →

Need to Get More New Clients?

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Social Media Manager, Blog Consultant and Trainer at Ask Coach Donna
Social media training and promotion for entrepreneurs, professionals, and business bloggers.
Certified Business Coach, Intuitive Strategist ~ As a Social Media Manager and Coach, I do the work for you and/or train corporations and small businesses how to set up their blog and a Social Media Marketing Plan around their blog/website as their business hub. As a Social Media Marketing Expert, I teach Relationship Marketing and Social Media Mastery, consulting and speaking services for corporate, business owners, and conscious entrepreneurs around the globe!
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get-new-clientsDo you ever feel frustrated, at times, because you just need to get more new clients, or even more visitors to your blog?

It is always in your best interest to get more new clients, or even visitors to your blog. Right?

So you plan your work with hopeful confidence that with the implementation of your newest marketing techniques, working in concert with each other, you’ll engage your clients like never before, and result fulfilling your need to get more new clients. Your (ego and logical) goal is to learn how to continually get more new clients and more business. But…

What are the inner workings of your steps to get more new clients? Read more →

Do You Have These Business Skills?

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Social Media Manager, Blog Consultant and Trainer at Ask Coach Donna
Social media training and promotion for entrepreneurs, professionals, and business bloggers.
Certified Business Coach, Intuitive Strategist ~ As a Social Media Manager and Coach, I do the work for you and/or train corporations and small businesses how to set up their blog and a Social Media Marketing Plan around their blog/website as their business hub. As a Social Media Marketing Expert, I teach Relationship Marketing and Social Media Mastery, consulting and speaking services for corporate, business owners, and conscious entrepreneurs around the globe!
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business-skillsThat would be soft business skills.

–          Which are personal qualities that enhance your interpersonal and business relations. Unlike hard skills, which are specific to a certain type of task or activity.

Soft skills = leadership and effective communication, listening, speaking, and writing skills for your business = your marketing and sales skills.

These soft business skills are important to you, if…

  1. You’re on Social Media
  2. Have a blog/website.
  3. Talk to people in your business – rather online or in person.

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Attract New Clients

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Social Media Manager, Blog Consultant and Trainer at Ask Coach Donna
Social media training and promotion for entrepreneurs, professionals, and business bloggers.
Certified Business Coach, Intuitive Strategist ~ As a Social Media Manager and Coach, I do the work for you and/or train corporations and small businesses how to set up their blog and a Social Media Marketing Plan around their blog/website as their business hub. As a Social Media Marketing Expert, I teach Relationship Marketing and Social Media Mastery, consulting and speaking services for corporate, business owners, and conscious entrepreneurs around the globe!
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attract-new-clientsJust this week, I had my online site reviewed by another professional, to see how I can attract new clients more often…

Here are a couple of things that were brought to my attention…

–          Need to be more easy to find online –

o   The consultation brought to mind the things that I know I need to be doing. But, I haven’t done. Do you ever notice that about yourself?

That’s why I like to talk to experts like this, to remind me what I need to do and help me get it done.

Things like, using the keywords that Google needs to see on my site, so that it can direct people to my site using those same words in the search engines.

–          Meta tags are huge for your SEO. Read more →

Customer Testimonials As Marketing Tools?

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Social Media Manager, Blog Consultant and Trainer at Ask Coach Donna
Social media training and promotion for entrepreneurs, professionals, and business bloggers.
Certified Business Coach, Intuitive Strategist ~ As a Social Media Manager and Coach, I do the work for you and/or train corporations and small businesses how to set up their blog and a Social Media Marketing Plan around their blog/website as their business hub. As a Social Media Marketing Expert, I teach Relationship Marketing and Social Media Mastery, consulting and speaking services for corporate, business owners, and conscious entrepreneurs around the globe!
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http://www.planningbusinessstrategies.com/Customer testimonials as marketing tools have been quietly used for years by many successful gurus.

–       Just look at sales and optin pages, websites and blogs where you’ll see the many happy faces and videos telling about their great successes with that product or services.

–       You can take a look at my own at Donna’ Woo-hoos

You, too, can easily turn happy customer experiences into marketing messages that can have a fabulous impact on your business.

Maybe you’d like a list some of the ways, and whys, you can use customer testimonials as marketing tools? OK…I think:

–          Testimonials are a great for building credibility for your business.

–          Using customer testimonials as marketing tools doesn’t cost money.

–          Put them on your website, use them in ads, make them a part of your presentations, and fliers, in brochures. Read more →

Stimulating a Purchase?

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Social Media Manager, Blog Consultant and Trainer at Ask Coach Donna
Social media training and promotion for entrepreneurs, professionals, and business bloggers.
Certified Business Coach, Intuitive Strategist ~ As a Social Media Manager and Coach, I do the work for you and/or train corporations and small businesses how to set up their blog and a Social Media Marketing Plan around their blog/website as their business hub. As a Social Media Marketing Expert, I teach Relationship Marketing and Social Media Mastery, consulting and speaking services for corporate, business owners, and conscious entrepreneurs around the globe!
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stimulating-a-purchaseThe AIDA Marketing Communication Model is what marketers have used in the past and still are using.

It stands for: Attention, Interest, Desire and Action – the steps to help in stimulating a purchase.

This marketing model emphasizes essentials of your successful marketing plan with incredible value in marketing your business.

This is YOU stimulating a purchase!

Helping your prospective customers make decisions through a progression of steps.

As you know I am an Intuitive Business Mentor that teaches step-by-step actions in areas where you want to move forward.

Stimulating a purchase with a sequence of steps to follow each time…well it is just fabulous! Read more →

What Makes You Remember an Email?

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Certified Business Coach, Intuitive Strategist ~ As a Social Media Manager and Coach, I do the work for you and/or train corporations and small businesses how to set up their blog and a Social Media Marketing Plan around their blog/website as their business hub. As a Social Media Marketing Expert, I teach Relationship Marketing and Social Media Mastery, consulting and speaking services for corporate, business owners, and conscious entrepreneurs around the globe!
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what-makes-you-remember-emailWhat makes you remember an email that you’ve read in the past?

Maybe there was a story you connected with. Maybe there was something more personal, more caring, funny about it. Notice this because this is what you want to start to model.

==> Email marketing is used to build your relationship with your prospects and actual customers who have a desire for more of your information. It is your list of subscribers who reward your e-mail marketing efforts with action and purchases!

Emails let you deliver your message to your ideal, targeted audience.

You can always ask your list and customers, ‘what makes you remember an email?’

– Surveys are a great way to find out exactly what challenges or problems your readers are facing.

You can then write emails that share a solution for that particular problem they’ve told you they want more information about.  It shows your readers that you’re listening and that you genuinely care about them finding a solution to their problem.

When you know the answers from your own list to ‘what makes you remember an email’ you can then use email as a truly strategic marketing channel.

==>As you build a fantastic, customer-centered email marketing program.

I’ve found that email marketing is one of the most challenging and complex marketing strategies out there. Knowing where to go and how to focus are key.

So finding out ‘what makes you remember an email’, is important for me!

But, no matter how much you think your product or service is of use to your audience, or important, unique, or beneficial, no purchases will happen, if you can’t effectively demonstrate that the value is transformational to your audience.
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