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air or remodeling. Others were holiday promotions, innovative advertising and sponsoring a girls soccer team.

But the point is that any owner of a small business or professi

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Can you come up with five ideas a day to improve your business or professional practice?

When Julie bought an old, cluttered hardware store in the late 1980s, she was the only woman she knew in the hardware business. Ten years later her store was the most successful hardware store in her state of Kentucky and one of the most successful stores in the industry.

Julie says that by making a list of five ideas every day, she was able to turn a very lackluster store into a tremendous success. Just five ideas, but she made her list every day.

Sometimes her ideas led her to put up a new window display or promote a certain product. Other times her ideas have been to conduct “how-to” classes on home repair or remodeling. Others were holiday promotions, innovative advertising and sponsoring a girls soccer team.

But the point is that any owner of a small business or professio

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y woman she knew in the hardware business. Ten years later her store was the most successful hardware store in her state of Kentucky and one of the most successful stores in the industry.

Julie says that by making a list of five ideas every day, she was able to turn a very lackluster store into a tremendous success. Just five ideas, but she made her list every day.

But the point is that any owner of a small business or professi

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Julie says that by making a list of five ideas every day, she was able to turn a very lackluster store into a tremendous success. Just five ideas, but she made her list every day.

But the point is that any owner of a small business or professi

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air or remodeling. Others were holiday promotions, innovative advertising and sponsoring a girls soccer team.

But the point is that any owner of a small business or professional practice can come up with five ideas a day. The discipline is to do it every day.

The Japanese philosophy of “Kaizen” is a way to turn continual small, daily improvements into huge changes. Day by day, these small improvements accumulate into dramatic transformations.

Sit down every day with a sheet of paper. Write out the numbers one through five and ask yourself, “How can I improve my service to my customers?” “How can I reach new customers?” “How can I sell more of this product?”

Don’t stop there, come up with more ideas of your own. Ask yourself questions focused on improving specific parts of your business. Fill in your list every day and put these ideas to work.

Kaizen is t

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There are three key elements to every direct marketing campaign: the list, the offer, and the creative. Experts seem to agree that the single most important element is the list. In fact, many direct marketing professionals claim that the relative ratio of importance is: 70% list, 20% offer, and 10% creative. It is ironic, because this is also the element that is least well understood by small business owners and most often over-looked. Before you start it is important to understand the intent of your campaign and develop a direct mail marketing campaign. Two common goals for small businesses are to either (a) convince existing customers to buy more (loyalty programs), or (b) convince new customers to purchase for the first time (sales prospecting).

Persuasion occurs when your ideas are so convincing that the other party ends up adopting your point of view. With persuasion, there is no compromising as there is in negotiation. Rather, the other party willfully and enthusiastically abandons their position to embrace yours.

Many sales people seem to cross the line all too easily when making sales. Even those we consider honest sales people will tell a line of BS in order to get a sales interview or nudge their way into the sales pitch.

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