Sales & Marketing Support for Small Business

Think Positive Here Or Go Somewhere Else (Dallas, TX)

Phillip Crum — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:07:31 +0000

What you think about determines everything else. Your attitude, and your outcome. If that’s true, then all you have to do is determine what you want the outcome to be. Determine what it would take to acquire your goal then start thinking about that and don’t stop until you get it. Odd that some people are [...]

Reputation Management For SMB (Dallas, TX)

Phillip Crum — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:37:33 +0000

If there was a large group of customers and business leaders in the next room and you had good reason to suspect they were discussing your business, would you want to know? I would. If the discussion was positive you could know what you were doing right and throw gas on that fire. Of a [...]

Maximizing Personal Productivity (Dallas, TX)

Phillip Crum — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:57:13 +0000

I’ve always been one to crawl out of bed about 6:30-7AM if I could get away with it. Even thought the best part of the day was the later evening hours when things calmed down and I could get a few things done. There have been spurts of time where sheer excitement or enthusiasm altered [...]

Database Marketing For SMB (Dallas, TX)

Phillip Crum — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:30:28 +0000

Last post I told you how simple it could be to set up a hosted database accessible anytime, from anywhere. Even offered you a way to manage that data so you could get back to what you should be doing; selling something! Now let’s add another step that’ll do two things: Reduce your workload even further. Make [...]

Did We Just Elect This? I Don’t Think So (Dallas, TX)

Phillip Crum — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:30:56 +0000

A good friend of mine on the east coast penned this the day after the election in response to my observation that he apparently had not gotten out to vote enough often enough this past Tuesday. I couldn’t agree more with his entire manifesto and I thought you might appreciate it, too. Whether you do [...]

Database Management For Small Business (Dallas, TX)

Phillip Crum — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:52:53 +0000

Business cards, notes written hastily on scrap paper, invoices to first time customers, delivery tickets and 100 other places offer up valuable information that you need to be storing in an organized format. The good news is there’s a mountain of data to be had without looking very far for it. The bad news is there’s [...]

New Direct Mail Regulation Explained (Dallas, TX)

Phillip Crum — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:25:22 +0000

If you’re a direct mailer you’ll want to know about this little gem for several reasons: New postal regulations will take effect on November 23, 2008. Under the new regulations, all volume mailers — both First and Standard Class — will need to make sure that their mailing lists are updated with the latest change-of-address data [...]