As a Las Vegas Based Marketing Coach, I get to talk to some of the brightest minds in business that either live here or visit Las Vegas for conventions and seminars. We still see business owners not doing these 7 great business ideas!

Do you still hear about business owners that haven’t even heard of the following 7 ideas to help grow and improve their business? I’ll get straight to the point for all of you Impatient Entrepreneurs.

1.  Start collecting the names and at least email addresses of every one of your prospects and customers. Then contact regularly to build a relationship with them. It keeps you top of mind, and gives them a chance to learn about, and trust you. Plus, every once in awhile you can make an offer to them

2.  Focus on High Profit areas of your business. Promote those daily. Even if that means giving away something to help a prospect discover the bigger, more profitable product or service

3.  Who is your top competitor? Are they worth copying? If so, become a student of how and what they do. You have to know the competition anyways, why not learn from the best…and beat them.

4.  Use Direct Response Marketing, not expensive branding and advertising that institutions with mega-budgets do. Direct response is trackable, which is why ad adgencies won’t do it. They’d be held responsible for ineffective marketing (Heaven Forbid!)

5.  Be consistent as a sales person and a marketer. You must keep putting you message in front of prospects. They, like you, are distracted and busy. That isn’t branding, I mean offering something of value to the prospect and keep giving consistently. Like my site www.JumpStartJim.com , that offers regular educational seminars and events.

6.  Over-deliver beyond your client’s expectations. Sure, you hear it at every industry convention, but people go back home and deliver the bare minimum. Just staying in touch is more than most business owners do, and if you are really over-delivering, that is how you’ll get referrals.

7.  Learn to use the Internet to your advantage. It is a 24/7 sales team for every business. An amazing amount of people still don’t have a website for their business, so just having that would put you above 30-40% of all of your competitors. Then there is Internet marketing and Social media…contact Cookee for more on how to dominate your marketplace.

8.  Improve your marketing now. Every month (or week for that matter) business owners “intend” to improve their marketing, but budget concerns and being “too busy” hinders us from really learning how and what works. Again, there are plenty of ways to market your business for free or at a very low investment. You just have to commit to your own success. Commit to creating your content and getting it out into the world!

Well, there you have it. 7 (+1) (yea, that was my attempt at over-delivering right in front of your eyes) ideas that people still just aren’t using to help their own personal economies.

Places to find me:

www.gplus.to/JumpStartJim is my Google Plus Profile

www.LinkedIn.com/in/jumpstartjim is my favorite networking site (12,000+ contacts and I’ve done big business deaals from reaching out to these contacts)

www.JumpStartJim.com and www.TheImpatientEntrepreneur.com are the 2 sites I’m going to start promoting for my book launch and seminars.

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How to Increase Referrals and  Reduce Video Marketing Anxiety

Many people get all wound up about creating a marketing video, whether it is an infomercial or a testimony used for referral marketing. The countless cheerful recommendations on the net about “keeping it real” tend to get lost in your anxiety about looking unprofessional or amateurish when you make that first video. But here’s a secret for you, in case you’ve forgotten it: You can always edit!

Editing is the best feature about video marketing. You get to have all the fun of making the video. And then you can sit there and cut out every bit you don’t like, or tighten up the “script”, if there’s a point where what you’re saying on screen seems to drag.

If you’ve forgotten something, you can insert it.

If your target market are all visual learners, you can insert second mini-videos – just drag and drop new clips into your story line – showing them examples of what you’ve just been explaining.

And if you’re demonstrating how to use a physical product – for example, your video is about wood carving – you may not even want your actual recorded sound track at all, for some sequences. You can replace those screeching truck noises from the highway and your neighbour yelling at his dog with appropriate music.

So there you are: You’ve explained how to use the wood carving tools, and now you’re going to demonstrate carving a face into your block of wood. Segue in the music, speed up the action so it’s not dragging on and on – and just show them 1 minute of you actually doing some wood carving, at your speeded-up pace.

Much more entertaining than real-time slow, methodical scraping of wood with trucks roaring by, don’t you think?

Tips for Inserting Missing Information

If you’ve forgotten to include some key point in your video, it’s easy to go back and insert it. Just shoot the “missing bit” – and drag and drop into your storyline.

If it’s something as simple as forgetting your URL at the end of the video, this is easy as pie: However, if what’s missing is you explaining a key point in your “How To” video, you’ll need to make it look as if the new section wasn’t thrown in later as an afterthought.

The first way to keep it consistent is easy: Just wear the same clothes and especially make sure your hair looks identical to the way it was in your original video. But there’s a second part to this, and people often fail to include it.

Make sure your lighting is identical. If you shot your video outdoors, it means waiting for the same sort of weather, and shooting the “fill in” segment at the same time of day. If you shot the original video indoors and there is any source of natural light coming into the room at all, the “same time of day” rule also applies – but you shouldn’t have to worry about weather (unless your video was shot on a bright day, and there’s an abnormally dark thunderstorm rolling in).

Never Forget Your Notes

This brings us to our last tip: Make notes about your video, as soon as you’ve shot it! Include things like the time of day, camera settings, lighting details.

But if you’re really not happy with that first video, and all else fails, you can always go for the ultimate “edit” of all…

You can simply re-shoot.

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This has been one of the most effective strategies for increasing the results of Referral Marketing consultants and coaches for the last several years. Businesses looking to increase their referrals and do it in an automatic fashion need to start utilizing video on the websites and even in their offline stores.

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