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  StartUpBuilder.Com is your source for insights and guidance that you not only want, but need, to more confidently develop your marketing skills.

No matter how much better your product or service may be when compared to the available competitors in the marketplace; if the business does not market itself well, very few prospects or customers will ever know or hear about the business. Having the best offer available to meet the needs of the market will not by itself lead to a single customer making a purchase decision. Small businesses must work constantly to promote, advertise, and market themselves and their products/services - or risk losing their grip on existing customers (and never getting a handle on potential new customers).

As a small business owner, your marketing tasks include identifying current and future business needs of your existing customers; recognizing the needs of prospects you wish to target, crafting messages that resonate with each segment of your targeted market(s); and positioning the messages in places where it will be seen and acted upon by the very targets you are seeking to convert into repeat (or new) customers. The marketing skills required of a small business owner, and the need to strategically make the decisions that will lead to marketing success are complex and even the best business professionals seek help in navigating through the choices and options available - StartUpBuilder.Com is here to assist you along the journey...Don't Go It Alone!


 
Ilise Benun

Ilise Benun is the founder of Marketing Mentor, as well as an author and national speaker.

Her books include Stop Pushing Me Around: A Workplace Guide for the Timid, Shy and Less Assertive (Career Press, June 2006), Self-Promotion Online and Designing Web Sites:// for Every Audience (HOW Design Books). She is also co-author of PR for Dummies, 2nd Edition. She has been featured in national newspapers, including The New York Times and national magazines such as Inc. Magazine, Nation's Business, Self, Essence, Crains New York Business, HOW Magazine and Working Woman.

Benun publishes a free email newsletter called "Quick Tips from Marketing Mentor," which is read by 8000+ small business owners and has been excerpted in many other email newsletters, including Bob Bly's Direct Response Letter and Early to Rise.

     
   
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