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	<title>Business's Trick and Information</title>
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		<title>How To Write A Good E-mail Subject Lines That Works?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are the 5 tips how to write good subject:
1. Ask a question. One of the best ways to get a reader&#8217;s attention is to ask a question. But like a trial lawyer questioning a witness on the stand, make sure it&#8217;ll get you the response you&#8217;re looking for. &#8220;What&#8217;s the best way to grow [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here are the 5 tips how to write good subject:</p>
<p>1. Ask a question. One of the best ways to get a reader&#8217;s attention is to ask a question. But like a trial lawyer questioning a witness on the stand, make sure it&#8217;ll get you the response you&#8217;re looking for. &#8220;What&#8217;s the best way to grow your business?&#8221; is a great subject line for business owners. After all, what business owner wouldn&#8217;t want to grow his or her business? Or let&#8217;s say you run a health club. An e-mail with the subject line, &#8220;How can you lose 5 pounds in one month?&#8221; would certainly be compelling. It&#8217;s important your question be relevant to your audience.</p>
<p>2. Be a tease. A clever subject line can be enticing. When it&#8217;s done right, reader curiosity is piqued. They want to know more&#8211;and they&#8217;ll open your e-mail. Writing a teaser-style subject line requires some creativity, and your content needs to deliver. A company that sells high-definition TVs could use the subject line, &#8220;You&#8217;re not going to believe your eyes&#8221; as a teaser to introduce a new addition to their product line.</p>
<p>3. Tell it like it is. Often, what works best is to say exactly what you want your reader to know. Examples of this straightforward approach are, &#8220;Sale on all sweaters this weekend,&#8221; &#8220;Master jazz pianist plays live this Friday&#8221; and &#8220;The seven secrets of a profitable business.&#8221; This just-the-facts approach works especially well when you can appeal directly to your audience&#8217;s interests. It&#8217;s also the best approach to use when you send a newsletter.</p>
<p>4. Remember &#8220;WIIFM&#8221;. When a person gets your e-mail, the first thing they consider is &#8220;what&#8217;s in it for me?&#8221; They have a decision to make. Do they open your e-mail, leave it for later or delete it? If there isn&#8217;t something about the subject line that lets them know why it&#8217;s worth their precious time to see what&#8217;s inside, then the choice will be clear. Keep WIIFM in mind when creating every aspect of your e-mails, including the offer, content, images&#8211;and most definitely the subject line. It&#8217;s all about them. They know that; just make sure you know it, too.</p>
<p>5. Get personal. The more you can make each contact feel you&#8217;re speaking directly to them, the more effective your communication will be. Whatever style of subject line you use, you can make it personal by using the word &#8220;you.&#8221; Professional copywriters know the secret of using this powerful little word. Just look at the advertisements, mail and e-mail you receive. A few examples are, &#8220;Find the right swimsuit for you,&#8221; &#8220;You can save 50 percent on travel,&#8221; and &#8220;You&#8217;d look phenomenal in a custom-tailored suit.&#8221; &#8220;You&#8221; is ideal, but &#8220;your&#8221; works too.</p>
<p>6. Not sure which approach is right for you? Try them all, and then show a friend or colleague to get their feedback. Pick the one you believe will be most effective for your audience. Whichever approach you choose, it&#8217;s always worth spending the time and effort to write a great subject line. Because if your readers don&#8217;t open your e-mail, they&#8217;ll never have the chance to read the important message you&#8217;ve created for them inside.</p>
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		<title>How Important our research paper</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a master degree graduation requirement, Research Paper Writing become the most important thing for every person who want to take their master degree. To make good essay for our research paper, first we must observe our environment. Observe what is the hottest topic at around of our life, and do some research about it, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As a master degree graduation requirement, <a href="http://www.essaycapital.com/research_papers.php">Research Paper Writing</a> become the most important thing for every person who want to take their master degree. To make good essay for our research paper, first we must observe our environment. Observe what is the hottest topic at around of our life, and do some research about it, and after finished our research try to <a href="http://www.essaycapital.com">custom research paper</a>.  <a href="http://www.essaycapital.com/custom_research_paper.php">Custom research papers</a> not so easy as we imagine.</p>
<p>We must find some theory about research which we could make it as our based theory when we were doing our custom research papers. With that theory we could continuing our research and make some conclusion about our research.</p>
<p>After found based theory, now we doing some research about that theory and how we use it in our daily life. make sure that our theory still updated with our daily life, because we couldn&#8217;t use old theory as our research based theory. Take some conclusion and some idea how to using and improving our theory and research to be more useful for human life.</p>
<p>With our research paper, we could add some added value of that theory and make it useful for our daily life. When we know that people around us could use our theory to help their daily life, we could tell that our research is successfull. And our conclusion could be another based theory for someone who want to finishing their research paper, so our research could be continouing by the others and would give positive impact for our life.</p>
<p>The main point in our article, our paper research not just for get the highest mark but more important is everyone could use our paper to help their life. When we know that our research is useful think, it is priceless mark for our proudness, and we couldn&#8217;t compare it even with useless A+ research paper.</p>
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		<title>Credit card Management</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everywhere you turn these days, it seems like          there is a new credit card offer. No interest! Low rates! No payments          for six months! Just turn on the TV, open the mailbox, check your    [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Everywhere you turn these days, it seems like          there is a new credit card offer. No interest! Low rates! No payments          for six months! Just turn on the TV, open the mailbox, check your          email, or listen to the radio and you will be sure to see such an          offer. Credit card offers are everywhere you look, even in magazines.          With the prevalence of such offers comes the increased chance to          fall into credit card debt.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.creditcardconsolidationsecrets.com">credit card consolidation</a> is working to educate the average American on how they can consolidate their credit card debt as a step to being more financially secure. <a href="http://www.creditcardconsolidationsecrets.com/The-Benefits-Of-Credit-Card-Debt-Consolidation.htm">credit card debt consolidation</a> is one of our solution when we want to manage our credit card and prevent to fall into credit card debt.</p>
<p>Sometimes, <a href="http://www.kimberlycredit.com">debt consolidation</a> companies can discount the amount of the loan. When the debtor is in danger of bankruptcy, the debt consolidator will buy the loan at a discount. A prudent debtor can shop around for consolidators who will pass along some of the savings. Consolidation can affect the ability of the debtor to discharge debts in bankruptcy, so the decision to consolidate must be weighed carefully. so beside manage our debt, debt consolidation also have credit <a href="http://www.creditcardconsolidationsecrets.com/How-To-Go-About-Credit-Card-Debt-Reduction.htm">card debt reduction</a> facilities.</p>
<p>Debt consolidation is often advisable in theory when someone is paying credit card debt. Credit cards can carry a much larger <span class="mw-redirect">interest rate</span> than even an unsecured loan from a bank. Debtors with property such as a home or car may get a lower rate through a secured loan using their property as collateral. Then the total interest and the total cash flow paid towards the debt is lower allowing the debt to be paid off sooner, incurring less interest.</p>
<p>There are other alternatives to a debt consolidation loan, where unsecured debt is not &#8220;shifted&#8221; to secured debt, but is eliminated through a settlement or payment plan. Debt consolidation can be confusing for many people, so it is helpful to learn about all of your options, and sometimes with the help of an advisor.</p>
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		<title>Important to track our web traffic</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is important to track traffic on your business website so you know which advertising methods are working best.
1. Your business website will generate more traffic long term when you know which advertisement is better than the rest of the other advertisements.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is important to track traffic on your business website so you know which advertising methods are working best.</p>
<p>1. Your business website will generate more traffic long term when you know which advertisement is better than the rest of the other advertisements.</p>
<p>2. When you keep track of the amount of traffic then you be able to know which advertisements that you need to keep. When you look at any traffic stats then it will usually inform you which website the visitor came from in order to get your website.</p>
<p>3. Keeping track of traffic enables your company to be able to tell which hour your website has the most amount of visitors each day.</p>
<p>4. Traffic stats of your website will sometimes have a feature where you are able to see which pages of your website that the visitors clicked on and read. This will help keep you informed of which page on your website is the most visited along with which pages are the most frequently read.</p>
<p>5. You know for a fact which advertisements are working the best. Long term it will save you money so you know which ones to not waste your money on. This is important since advertisement banners on other websites can cost a large amount of money each month.</p>
<p>6. Some people often will put a link to your business website from their personal website or even their business website. You will be able see on your traffic stats which personal webistes and business websites have a link to your business website too.</p>
<p>7. Traffic stats enable you to know if you are having trouble getting customers to buy your products or service. You will be able tell by the traffic stats each month compared to the number of sales each month. You may want to redesign your business website or make a few updates along with any additional changes such as a special sale deal in order to increase the chance to generate additional sales.</p>
<p>8. Make sure to look at your traffic stats each month usually provided by your web host for your business website. You need to visit any website that leads visitors to your business website. Why? You need to make sure that the website that is bringing traffic to your business website is saying good statements about your company instead of complaints.</p>
<p>Be concerned about any complaints that you may see regarding your company on any website and make sure to e-mail the person regarding the complaint to ask how you can make the situation better if possible.</p>
<p>9. One main reason to track traffic on your website each month is to see how many people are finding your business website from search engines. You want to know how many people actually use the search engines on the Internet to find your business website. You need to know which search engines that they found your business website through such as the most popular ones.</p>
<p>10. In the traffic stats from your web host regarding the traffic that your business website receives each month then you should be able to see search keywords in stats. Search keywords are the keywords entered into the search engines frequently by people when they try to find your business website. The keywords are good to know since it lets you know that the search engines are working correctly.</p>
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		<title>About Business Online</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, we are discussing about online business and how to maximize our online profit. Online casinos, recently become a new trend for online business. Many Casinos make online casino to improving their business.
The plus point is because Online casino is online based on internet network, we could get more customer and our world become borderless. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today, we are discussing about online business and how to maximize our online profit. <a href="http://www.freecasinos.ws">Online casinos</a>, recently become a new trend for online business. Many <a href="http://www.freecasinos.ws">Casinos</a> make online <a href="http://www.freecasinos.ws">casino</a> to improving their business.</p>
<p>The plus point is because Online casino is online based on internet network, we could get more customer and our world become borderless. Every person could come and play, another benefit is we no need to prepare entertainment place with entertainment facility like Casino should do.</p>
<p>Here is example for <a href="http://www.freecasinos.ws/">online casino</a>. There are many kind of game with different risk which could play every time, every where, and of course with many kind of jackpot. We can see another benefit of online casino, for casino player, we could use multi currency when player want to play.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s interesting enough, isn&#8217;t it? But one important things when we want to make online casino, always give a warning that we want kids or teens join and become online casino member.</p>
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		<title>Business Mistakes to avoid</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are You In Business Or Just Self-employed?
What could be the difference between the two? A lot! I myself could not believe it until it was proven by our facilitator during our Ka-Entrep sessions last year at CSE. Our seminar facilitator asked us one by one, and all the while we thought we were in business, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are You In Business Or Just Self-employed?</p>
<p>What could be the difference between the two? A lot! I myself could not believe it until it was proven by our facilitator during our Ka-Entrep sessions last year at CSE. Our seminar facilitator asked us one by one, and all the while we thought we were in business, but as it turn out most were just self-employed, we really don&#8217;t have a business but just a job at home.</p>
<p>&#8220;So what is your business?&#8221; The facilitator asked, &#8220;I do homemade salad dressings, the feedback I&#8217;m getting are good. In fact, I get lots of orders. I can say business is really good&#8221; replied the participant. &#8220;You make the salad dressings yourself?&#8221; the facilitator continued. &#8220;Yes, ma&#8217;m!&#8221; was the the quick reply &#8220;it&#8217;s my own formulation, my secret recipe.&#8221; &#8220;So I take it that you won&#8217;t entrust your secret formulation to anybody else, so only you must work to do your salad dressings, right?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I make personalized items - mugs, plates, t-shirts, keychains, even personalized chocolate bars&#8221; when it was my turn. &#8220;Do you have anybody helping you?&#8221; &#8220;No ma&#8217;m, I do all the work myself.&#8221; She then said &#8220;since you&#8217;re doing all the work yourself, and you are here attending to this seminar, it only means that there is no production happening in your business now?&#8221;, &#8220;Yes ma&#8217;m, but I have no pending orders anyway&#8221;, &#8220;aaahhhh, so you have no pending orders right now. I presume you also do the marketing and promotion of your business right?&#8221;</p>
<p>Most participants almost have the same flow of discussions. It was then that the difference was made clear to us. If your business can&#8217;t run without you, if your items can&#8217;t be produced by someone else, if you&#8217;re doing all the work from ordering, purchasing, marketing, production, selling and so on and so forth&#8230; then you&#8217;re not really an entrepreneur! You don&#8217;t have a business! You just have a job at home. What if you got sick? Or you have to attend to important matters, like this seminar for example, then your business is put on hold. Business should not be like that! An entrepreneur does not always have to be around for his business to function.</p>
<p>A good quality of an entrepreneur is that he can multiply himself&#8230; master the art of delegation, learn how to set specific steps and standards so you can entrust them to somebody and still get the same result as if he did them himself. That is what an entrepreneur is. Only then can he say that he have a business and not just a job at home.</p>
<p>Maybe at the start, it is just home-based work, not yet a real business. With lack of capital, experience and all. It&#8217;s understandable, but it should not stay that way. Remember and learn how to apply these three word&#8230; leveraging, networking and delegating. And elevate your self-employment status to that of a full-pledged entrepreneur.</p>
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		<title>Small Business Insurance</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Basic insurance for a small business should include property, and liability insurance. Property insurance encompasses the cost of the rent to a leasing company, all property in the business (tables, desks, machinery, heating / air conditioning equipment), coverage against losses from crime (theft, counterfeiting, and forgery), and loss of income from a business interruption. Optional [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Basic insurance for a small business should include property, and liability insurance. Property insurance encompasses the cost of the rent to a leasing company, all property in the business (tables, desks, machinery, heating / air conditioning equipment), coverage against losses from crime (theft, counterfeiting, and forgery), and loss of income from a business interruption. Optional additions to the insurance coverage could include for earthquake, and flood damage. Liability insurance should be a Comprehensive General Liability (CGL), which covers loss to third parties. This includes, fire liability, which is required for renting property from a leasing company, as previously mentioned. This would cover the cost of fire damage for the property owned by the landlord, as a result of negligence of the renter. The CGL would cover medical expenses or medical payments. In the event a customer trips and falls in a business, the coverage would include paying for medical cost from a liability suit, for bodily injury. Also, personal injury, that covers violations of privacy, wrongful eviction, and false imprisonment (example: holding a suspect on false premises for shoplifting) Additional coverage for CGL, would include: products and completed operations and / or personal injury and advertising. The additional coverage depends on the type of service or business provided. Also, coverage for professional liability, malpractice or errors, and omission policy would cover certain type of business or practices, such as dentists, doctors, Realtors, attorney, engineering consultants, or any specialize field.</p>
<p>A Business owner&#8217;s Policy (BOP) would include within an insurance package, property, and liability coverage. This would be paid in one premium. This type of policy is only for small, and medium size companies or businesses. Large companies are excluded from this type of policy, because they are considered high risk. The premium amount charged for a BOP considers the following in the calculation: Location of the building, construction material, security of the business, fire hazards, and financial stability of the business or entity.</p>
<p>If a small business, has employees working on a salary Workers Compensation insurance policy required by law. Especially this applies when an employee is injured or disabled at work. The compensation would pay for the medical cost of the injured worker, based upon the policy. Except the policy would be voided by negligence by the employee.</p>
<p>Other kinds of insurance should be considered for a small business. Coverage could include:</p>
<p>Auto insurance for any damage vehicles the business owns, and health insurance for the employees. Also, having an umbrella policy that would likely cover all the cost for liabilities, above the amount coverage for any insurance policy coverage. Consider that pain, and suffering seems to have almost no limit for compensation.</p>
<p>Small business should consider that most insurance premiums are deductible expenses on a business income tax return. Paying a high deductible would lower the premium on a business insurance policy. Insurance companies, can suggest different approaches to lower premium expenses.</p>
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		<title>Save money tips</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Money Saving Tips
1. Utilities
Have you changed your gas and electricity supplier recently? check regularly to make sure you are still getting the cheapest prices. The same goes for your telephone? Think about having a water meter fitted and see if you can lower your water bill. Try to cut down how much electricity you use, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Money Saving Tips</p>
<p>1. Utilities<br />
Have you changed your gas and electricity supplier recently? check regularly to make sure you are still getting the cheapest prices. The same goes for your telephone? Think about having a water meter fitted and see if you can lower your water bill. Try to cut down how much electricity you use, turn off lights when you aren&#8217;t in a room, don&#8217;t leave electrical equipment on standby and change to low energy light bulbs.</p>
<p>2. Mortgage and Loans<br />
How much interest are you paying on your mortgage and loans? See a financial advisor and see if you can cut your payments down.</p>
<p>3. Credit Cards<br />
Try and pay off your credit cards. The interest on credit cards is exorbitant.</p>
<p>4. Mobile Phones<br />
If you don&#8217;t use your phone a lot, think about going onto pay-as-you-go, if you use it a lot, see if a contract phone would be cheaper.</p>
<p>5. Insurances<br />
Don&#8217;t just renew your insurances when your renewal notice comes in. Shop around for cheaper car and home insurances. Check with your financial advisor that your life insurance is the best deal you can get.</p>
<p>6. Car<br />
Do you really need a car or the second car? if you don&#8217;t need a car, why are you paying these? If you do need a car, why not get a smaller one, it&#8217;s better for the environment as well as your wallet.</p>
<p>7. Travel<br />
Try walking or cycling if you aren&#8217;t going far. Buy a season ticket for the bus or the train to save on your travel costs. Book early for low cost flights, there are only a limited number of cheap seats on flights and once they are gone, the price goes up.</p>
<p>8. Banks<br />
Are you paying too much in bank charges? Think about changing your bank account to one which has lower charges.</p>
<p>9. Food Shopping<br />
Try to do all your food shopping once a week, take a shopping list and stick to it. Eat before you go shopping, shopping hungry will make you succumb to temptation. While we&#8217;re thinking about food, take a packed lunch to work, it&#8217;s much cheaper than buying a sandwich every day and you can be more imaginative, probably help with the diet too!</p>
<p>10. Shopping for everything else<br />
Check online before you make a large purchase. There are lots of comparison sites which will show you where you can buy the cheapest television, etc.</p>
<p>With this tips, you&#8217;ll not only save money but you&#8217;ll be much less stressed when it comes to Christmas.</p>
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		<title>retention vs loyalty</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Customer retention measures how many of your current clients were clients a year ago. To calculate retention, divide your number of current clients (who were also clients a year ago) by the number of ALL your clients from a year ago. It&#8217;s good measure for us to measure our customer?? not totally true.
Satisfied customers are [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Customer retention measures how many of your current clients were clients a year ago. To calculate retention, divide your number of current clients (who were also clients a year ago) by the number of ALL your clients from a year ago. It&#8217;s good measure for us to measure our customer?? not totally true.</p>
<p>Satisfied customers are not necessarily emotionally invested.<br />
<strong>Just because a client renews their relationship, it doesn&#8217;t mean they&#8217;re emotionally invested</strong>, a quality deemed critical for loyalty. You may not particularly like your dentist, but you go back year after year because you&#8217;ve neither the time nor energy to look for a new one.</p>
<p>However, a great referral on a new dentist comes your way, and you grab it. Your current dentist is understandably confused. But your perceived loyalty was actually nothing more than convenience. Maybe you complained about him to your spouse and friends, buy you never really articulated your dissatisfaction with him.</p>
<p>Loyal patients tolerate any inconvenience to do business with their preferred dentist. And they send him or her lots of referrals.</p>
<p>There are often no warning signs.<br />
It happens in the ad world everyday. With no warning, an Account Executive from Leo Burnett walks into the office to hear her primary account has signed with Ogilvy. She&#8217;s understandably baffled since she had lunch with her client on Friday and everything appeared fine.</p>
<p>What to do.<br />
There are several things account executives and other customer-facing professionals can do to understand who&#8217;s loyal and who is not.<br />
<strong>Ask your clients if they are happy with you.</strong><br />
Sounds obvious? You&#8217;d be surprised how many unhappy clients don&#8217;t voice their dissatisfaction until it&#8217;s time to dump you.<br />
<strong>Conduct account reviews.</strong><br />
Smart companies conduct quarterly account reviews with the sole purpose of tallying their &#8220;report card&#8221; with their biggest customers. If you&#8217;re not doing this, start it now. It&#8217;s easy. Just schedule 15 to 30 minutes with a customer to review your performance.<br />
<strong>Ask for a testimonial.<br />
</strong>This works really well. You ask a happy client to be a reference or a testimonial. If they hesitate, probe a bit further. They may turn you down because they have a &#8216;no reference&#8217; policy. But if they don&#8217;t, this technique will get clients to open up about their relationship.<br />
<strong>Don&#8217;t just deliver service, deliver a memorable experience</strong><br />
Okay, you&#8217;re all getting sick of hearing this by now, but it&#8217;s growing more important everyday. Companies that create experiences have higher loyalty.<br />
<strong>Measure wallet retention.</strong><br />
Wallet retention measures the amount of contract value you&#8217;ve retained with clients over a twelve-month period. Divide the contract value of clients who were clients one year earlier by the total contract value from a year earlier.</p>
<p>here are some loyalty signs from our customer:</p>
<ul>
<li>You negotiate prices with customers. You negotiate costs with loyal customers.</li>
<li>Customers pay at their discretion. Loyal customers pay on time.</li>
<li>Customers become referrals of your competitors. Loyal customers willingly provide referrals to you.</li>
<li>Generally, you will experience turnover rates of 15% or higher. The turnover rate of loyal customers will be less than 5% and will be for reasons out of your control.</li>
<li>Most customers seek competitive data. Loyal customers share it.</li>
<li>Loyal customers perceive you as a partner not a commodity provider.</li>
<li>Contracts keep satisfied customers in place. You have a virtual lifetime contract with your loyal customers.</li>
<li>Most customers will leave you if they find a better offer. Loyal customers will stay by your side.</li>
</ul>
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		<title>Maximizing IT to maximizing our business and life</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[IT&#8217;s world recently growing in all life aspect and factor, For supporting our business , entertainment, transportation, etc.  The most unique factor, different IT product has different function when we use it. For example when IT as Business support their main function is to cut our cost and expense. We could optimizing our business with [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>IT&#8217;s world recently growing in all life aspect and factor, For supporting our business , entertainment, transportation, etc.  The most unique factor, different IT product has different function when we use it. For example when IT as Business support their main function is to cut our cost and expense. We could optimizing our business with IT.</p>
<p>For example with IT we could minimize our human resource which was unpredictable and change it to IT which is more predictable. Another example we could using IT to save our data and save our expense and environment because with IT support we also support environment program with what we called paperless technology. <a href="http://www.gadgetadvisor.com/tech-news/evaluating-online-backup-services">online backup services</a> is IT technology sample which we could use to support our business. With online backup services, we no need to ask someone to go another place to backup our data. But before use that, we need to sure about their service&#8217;s security and connection.</p>
<p>Another IT application which also could help our life and make it practice and simple. <a href="http://www.gadgetadvisor.com/gadgets/logitech-harmony-advanced-universal-remote-control">Universal remote control</a> is a media which could help us. In our daily life we have many kind of different electrical device with each of them have their remote control. No one wants to keep up with or sort through a dozen different remotes for various devices in a home entertainment system and surrounding electronic equipment. so Universal remote control is a perfect solution. This device support 15 or more devices.  The device database is extensive, and is perfect if you have lost a remote control or have a damaged remote.  Otherwise, you can also program a device from an existing remote control. So we just need one remote control for all our electrical devices.</p>
<p>What i have describe about were about IT device which could help us to save our life, save our expense, make our life simpler, etc. Another IT application is about Maximize our entertainment with entertainment device. One of them is <a href="http://www.gadgetadvisor.com/gadgets/dvico-tvix-m-6500a-network-media-player">network media player</a>, a device which in addition to the network playback support from a PC or NAS, it also offers internal hard drive support for playback without any external source being powered on.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.gadgetadvisor.com/wp-content/uploads/M6500A.jpg" alt="" width="113" height="88" /> <img src="http://www.gadgetadvisor.com/wp-content/uploads/urc.jpg" alt="" width="155" height="93" /></p>
<p>Now there are some <a href="http://www.gadgetadvisor.com">website</a> where we could some information about the newest IT gadget, just explore it to find more IT innovation.</p>
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