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Small Businesses Beware

I have received an SCAM invoice for £299 booked 17/12/2010 due 24 December 2010 a with cover letter dated 21 December 2010 together and Advert Proof dated 16/12/2010.

The cover letter was as follows:

Thank you for your kid support in the Community Care Magazine.

Without your support these projects would not continue and the relevant information would not be available. Booklets will be distributed throughout your local area. Please feel free to contact us if there is anywhere you feel the booklets would be a benefit

Please find enclosed your artwork proof, along with your invoice.

Yours faithfully,

The Accounts Team
GPS Marketing Solutions Ltd.

The information at the foot of the page is GPS Marketing Solutions Ltd. Company Reg No. 7334786 – 802, 26 The Hornet, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 7BB
Telephone: 0845 490 0039 – Email: info@gpsmarketingsolutions.co.uk
They also provided Bank Account 6340 700 Sort Code 01-10-01 with the invoice for BACS or CHAPS payment offering a 10% discount for payment before the due date.

I had placed and paid for an advert with ‘inexcess.tv’ Carers Community Magazine which has not yet gone to print & may be another scam?

It sure sounds like it, and if in doubt don’t deal.

I am trying to start a small business. I know how to do the planning for one, such as business plans, marketing etc. but my question is what is out there right now?

I thought about vending machines and a small rental company… Is there anything else?

Does anyone have any suggestions on small business ventures or ideas?

Thanks a lot you guys! I’d appreciate anyone and everyone’s answers!

Zach

Ask yourself one thing…why do you want to take on the enormous responsibility to run a business if you seemingly have zero interest in whatever it is that you’re doing.

A successful small business owner will work days on end without much sleep because he/she is passionate about something. My biggest suggestion is to find something that you’re passionate about, knowledgeable about, and then finding a need that you can solve.

I have launched an IT Solutions business in Melbourne, Australia.
The target market is SME businesses. I want to understand my options in terms of reaching out and selling my services to my Target Audience. I have a budget of 2000$/month for marketing initiatives. How should I split the budget. I want to take a path which is slow but sure and does not result in wasted expenditure.

Check out http://make-money-now.50webs.com/ and look into Google’s Adwords program. They offer targeted advertising and you only pay when someone visits your site.

can you be ver y specific with differences please?

A marketing plan might be one component of an overall business plan. A marketing plan would discuss how a company promotes its product or service. It might discuss its sales and distribution channels and any relationships it has with retailers or other sellers. It might also discuss advertising strategy and branding.

A business plan would also discuss a company’s management, financial projections, information systems, operations, etc.

hi, I want to know the name of some consulting companis which offer serivces like: providing inocation business management solutions to small medium and large scale businesses? which its clients are businesses who want to improve the efficiency of their business operations( finance ,operations, office management, marketing, hr, etc).

Pick any of the big ones. Booz-Allen (sp?) comes to mind.

Go to Yahoo main page, hit finance button, and type DJIA into the little box. Now come back and ask an intelligent question.

I have a job interview next week for a job working with Google AdWords for a small marketing business. In the job description it states that I should have a sound knowledge of ‘the typical marketing solutions available to small businesses’. I have a brief idea but I just wanted to brush-up my knowledge and double check that I have the right idea.

Thanks to anyone who can help

Sam,

I think what they are implying here is that smaller businesses don’t quite have the same budgets as larger entities. Therefore, suggesting channels of promotion that aren’t 1) Expensive and 2) Don’t take a whole lot of direct admin. costs to start working. If you’re discussing Adwords, then there are other online channels of promotion such as social media (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Yelp). You should understand how those work and how to leverage. You can in fact run PPC (pay-per-click) like Adwords in Facebook. If they are thinking traditional marketing mix, then simple direct mailers, flyers, etc. would be what you would want to suggest. In retrospect, larger firms might be investing in focus groups, A/B content testing, and other means that allows them to refine and focus a message. As long as you understand ‘marketing best practices’ then the channel doesn’t really matter. The two elements that are most important here are what is within reach and cost effective. For Adwords in particular, doing extensive keyword research and finding the low lying fruit will get you the best results. Generalized keywords, although have high volume of searches, are also the same words with high level of competition. Finding a niche’ and sticking with it is your best bet.

Its for an on-line store and are there any examples I can look at? Would be a great help. Thanks.

1- Find some backup statistics on the size of your market. You should show that this market in large enough and is not declining. Look at it from every angle and be prepared to answer relevant questions. In your case it could be online sales’ numbers of large websites such as Amazon and eBay, overall e-commerce numbers, online annual sales of similar products to yours.
2- Know your competitors and know your competitive advantage.
3- You should be able to tell them about your target market as well. You should be able to justify in what geographic areas your target customers are and what demographics they have.
4- You should be able to tell them about your marketing strategy, it includes but is not limited to the bundles of products and services you will have for different target markets (it could be just one), your pricing, your promotion and advertising strategies. (Those should be translated to costs and revenues in financial plan of the business plan)

Hi there

Does anyone have any good tips to promote websites?

We are a small marketing company offering marketing solution to small businesses and starters.

our website is http://www.na2media.nl

Currently we already provide the following website promotion services but we are looking for more:

Social media marketing: We optimise sites like facebook and twitter for companies, any tips here?
SEO
Getting the websites on small and large directories
Online advertising like banners etc.

Thank you in advance!

Nice website man!

Are you interested in online project like facebook? I have plan but it needs a lot of money, its even bigger than facebook and focus on facebook’s weaknesses. Its not totally a social network but some of its features are social ones. If interested for a chat you can email me to [metaljuice at gmail]

any one can provide some information of setup (establishment) cost such as equipment ,register cost, rents, electricity, advertising; market, competition and SWOT analysis ; marketing, management and financial plan. for a driving through pizza shop, please!

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