Strategies: Relationships & Business
Laura on June 16th, 2010

By Karen Wehrle
Every time you write a blog post for your online home business, you create a piece of content on the web aimed at building customer relationships. Think of yourself as the loopy part of hook and loop tape. Offer a soft, grabby connector for your customer’s searching hooky part.
How to Be Fuzzy, Soft [...]

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Laura on June 3rd, 2010

By Kevin Eikenberry
Early in my consulting career I started telling people the consulting business is a relationship business. I was right, just a little short sighted.
Actually all business is a relationship business.
All work is a relationship business.
All leadership is a relationship business.
And while our focus in this article is on business or professional relationships, I [...]

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By Andre Larabie, Ph.D.
The reason revenue stability is relevant to the topic of sheltering business relationships and personal asset protection is because when you shelter a relationship, your goal is to protect it from a bankruptcy court.
The word “relationship,” in this case, and with respect to the bankruptcy court, refers to assets that can be [...]

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by: Robin Jay

It is no secret that good relationships are the key to success in business. But in our increasingly online and virtual world, where relationships are more often than not conducted on Facebook and Twitter, it can be easy to forget the power inherent in a well-conducted business [...]

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Laura on May 19th, 2010

This is a story that was shared with me many years ago in a college business class:
We’ve all had friends in our circle who were known as “Mary & John”, and when “John” split “Mary” was alone. Mary was the “odd” number at the dinner party and we were all concerned about her.  Well, today [...]

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Laura on May 10th, 2010

by Mark Henson
I finally found a reason why my wife should do all the laundry:
I can no longer distinguish between my wife’s and my daughter’s clothes.
If it is pink, red, or girly in any way, there’s a high likelihood that I will sort it into the wrong pile. This results in a kind [...]

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By Manish Mehta, Vice President, Social Media and Community, Dell Inc.
Many often wonder about whether social media is scalable, especially in light of the benefits social media delivers in terms of connections between businesses and their customers. In fact, as I noted here at the Huffington Post, social media is [...]

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by Kevin Stirtz
It seems natural customer loyalty would follow good service. If you get what you want and you are treated right, why would you not return to a business? But sometimes it’s useful to have more than an intuitive argument. So I have done a bit of research [...]

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Author: Donna Gunter

I’ve tried any number of ways to market my business: attending networking functions, joining professional associations, exhibiting at trade shows, just to name a few of my tactics. However, despite my best intentions, I’ve gotten little or no business as a result of my efforts. I know that part of the [...]

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by: BMA Editorial Team B .
Here I go over 6 ways to getting repeat customers and referrals for more revenue:
#1 Value. Sure they could have saved an extra $50 buying from “Joe Schmoe’s”, but you offer quality merchandise, and for less. Offering quality products at reasonable prices never goes out of style. [...]

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