What's The Buzz

DO you want to know what the BUZZ is?

Well I’m the "Talk of the town" because my business has just been published on the front page of Business Owners' Idea Cafe, the premiere small business destination.
They were impressed by my profile and published my story as a role model to inspire other entrepreneurs.

Check it out http://www.businessownersideacafe.com/

Well, I’ve freed up some time to celebrate, savor the moment and give myself credit for this accomplishment.


Having a cafe latte, after taking the day off.

Since The Wall Street Journal, Business Week and other major publications pays attention to what's happening at Idea Cafe. I think this will give my business a big buzz and put me at the spotlight.



All dressed up for a fun night with a few girls in town.

You also can be the big buzz in your town

Unless you feel it is absolutely necessary to run large, expensive newspaper or magazine ads, you can attract business just as successfully by running small, inexpensive, in routine newspaper or magazine ads. You might not look as important as the purchaser of full-page ads, but you’ll definitely end up making more money.

Don’t forget, consistency is one of the most important factors in marketing. You can achieve consistency with small ads as well as large ones. The size of your ads does NOT produce the consumer confidence that consistency does. This secret will save you impressive sums of cash.

Start sponsoring some charity events or write several articles with catchy headline about the event and submit them as press release to all medias to get more publicity with the press


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Online entrepreneur Joyce O. Oladipo, "The Giftpreneur Queen," publishes the award-winning 'Gift Basket Success' ezine with 750 subscribers.If you're ready to jump-start your marketing, make more money, and havemore fun in your Gift Basket business, get your FREE tips now at www.GiftBasketQueenSecrets.com

Five Keys To Telemarketing Success

Five Keys To Telemarketing Success
by Joyce Oladipo, "The Giftpreneur Queen"

Telephone can be used to effectively market your business.
Some people have difficulties telling people about their business over the phones.
Here are five guidelines and tips that you can use to grown your business.

1. Have A Script

The real key to effective telephone marketing is having a script. Top of the head answering is not a good idea. A script, an outline, notes, flip cards, some written
tools to help you stay on track are important. Most of the best telemarketing companies create scripts for their business. This scripts are used by there their staff to bring in more business.

2. Courtesy Pays

Courtesy is a very important aspect of telemarketing. The person you are trying to do business with is someone you’re not in main contact with, you can't see you; they can only react to what you are saying and how you're saying it.

3. Don’t Take No As An Offence

Not every one you call would be interesting in your business. So don’t take no personally. It might be that it not what they want at that time. Sometime they can shut you up by hanging up you just have know how to deal with these; don’t let it put you in a shell. Don't take it personally.

4. Practice Makes Perfect

Practice makes perfect, or at least better. You need to call continuously maybe at least twenty or twenty-five calls of a particular type with a particular offer before even beginning to be judgmental about your calling, yourself, your skills or the results. If you've never used a telephone this way before you'll be understandably uncomfortable with the process.

5. Call, Just Call

Until you pick up the phone and call, that's when you will no if it works. Until you keep on calling that when you get perfect.

It's always important to remember that you were not made perfect in a day. Everything you now how to do were once difficult and uncomfortable for you.
Stretching your comfort zones and mastering new skills is an important reoccurring part of living to be enjoyed not feared.

Learning telemarketing skills, mastering them and being able to teach them to others is a way to greatly enhance your value and worth and be able to increase the sales and
profits of just about any business you're involved with.

Unfortunately, I've discovered that many businesses don't like using this tool or because of the DO NOT CALL LIST, they think people no longer use it. For many reasons thatis correct.

But there is one marketing tool every business should 'legally' be using "the phone" in order to grow their business.

Online entrepreneur Joyce O. Oladipo, "The Giftpreneur Queen," publishes the award-winning 'Gift Basket Success' ezine with 750 subscribers.If you're ready to jump-start your marketing, make more money, and havemore fun in your Gift Basket business, get your FREE tips now at www.GiftBasketQueenSecrets.com

8 Fantastic Ways To Multiply Your Sales

8 Fantastic Ways To Multiply Your Sales
by Joyce Oladipo, "The Giftpreneur Queen"

1. Follow Up With Your Prospects

When you sell your first gift basket, always follow up with the
customer. You can follow-up with a "thank you” note or email and mention any other service or products you provide. It’s good to follow up form time to time.

2. Upsell To YOur Customers

You could upsell to your customers. When they place their other you can tell them about addition thing you can add to the basket. Like a nice greeting card and if it’s for a corporate company you can add some customize items like ribbon or included the brochure or business cards in the basket. These are things you can add to their original order.

3. Ask For Referrals

Tell your customers if they refer four other customers to use your service or visit your web site, they will receive a full rebate of their purchase price. This will turn one sale into three sales.

4. Have A Club Card Program

When you sell a gift basket, always mention your club card so that they can get commission if they do recommend your service. This will multiply the sale you just made.

5. Cross Sell With Others

You could cross promote your product with other businesses' products in a package deal. You can create flyer for your gift basket which other can advertise with their product or services. An event planner can be a good person to work with.

6. Include Coupons For Other Products

When you ship out or deliver your gift basket, include a coupon for other related gift baskets you are sell in the package. This will attract them to buy more products from you.

7. Sell Gift Certificates

Sell gift certificates for your gift baskets. People will definitely come and use their certificate.

8. Add Promotion Products

Send your customers free products with their gift basket. The freebies should have your ad printed on them. It could be bumper stickers, ball caps, t-shirts etc. This will allow other people to see your ad and order.


Online entrepreneur Joyce O. Oladipo, "The Giftpreneur Queen," publishes the award-winning 'Gift Basket Success' ezine with 750 subscribers.If you're ready to jump-start your marketing, make more money, and havemore fun in your Gift Basket business, get your FREE tips now at www.GiftBasketQueenSecrets.com

Use Your Answering Machine To Get You More Clients

Use Your Answering Machine To Get You More Clients
by Joyce Oladipo, "The Giftpreneur Queen"

Another effective marketing tool is your answering machine. Most gift basket business owner use it to entertain callers.

Some messages people usually use to entertain are:

“This is the Bobby’s residence. Sorry we are not at home right now. Please leave a message after the tone“
“You have just reach 058 434 43433. I’m not available at the moment…..“

This is not a professional way of doing business and it would not help you get more customers. You should record what you do and the service you provide. It must be used as another way to position yourself as an expert.

Market yourself with your voice

You are going to have a marketing message on your answer machine. Clients that call you are interesting in you business so they would be interested in listen to a message that interest them if you not available.

Answering Machine Script

So, instead of saying, “This is the Bobby’s residence. Sorry we are not at home right now. Please leave a message after the tone“.
Why not say “Hello, Thank you for calling to discuss how to improve your business and get more clients. It’s Joyce Oladipo, The Giftpreneur Queen.”

“I’m quite busy at the moment but your call is extremely important to me. So at the tone, please leave your name, telephone number and a detailed message slowly and clearly and I’ll guarantee getting back to you.”

“All my gift baskets are designed to improve your business and bring you more clients. You can also go to my website to immediately download a report titled ’10 Way to attract more clients to your business’ from www.giftbasketqueensecrets.com”

“Thanks for calling The Giftpreneur Queen and I look forward to speaking with you later.”
The email has a CALL TO ACTION in it; to leave a message and visit your website. So whatever you call to action may be; to sign up for your newsletter, to visit your website, call for a free consultation, or email you to set up an appointment.
Try and use your answer machine in a productive way. It can be used as a way to get and retain new clients. Remember to keep it relatively short or clients will not want to call back.


Online entrepreneur Joyce O. Oladipo, "The Giftpreneur Queen," publishes the award-winning 'Gift Basket Success' ezine with 750 subscribers.If you're ready to jump-start your marketing, make more money, and havemore fun in your Gift Basket business, get your FREE tips now at www.GiftBasketQueenSecrets.com

Inspirational Email I Received Today from other Giftpreneur’s

Dear Joyce;

At the start of my letters I wish to thank you very much on the report of The Six Deadly Gift Basket Business Marketing…

I received it a week ago and I am enjoying reading it.
In spite of that English is not my mother tongue it is easy for me to follow what is written and to understand it.
You explain the material in a clear way, easy and very interesting.
Your examples are very helpful in order to comprehend what you try to convey.
I am learning from the material much and I am confident that this mini-course along with the recommendations and tips that I will receive from you will help me improve systems of my marketing and sell much more.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Dahlia Sztrigler.
P.S. The name The Giftpreneur Queen suits you very much.

Hi Joyce,

I was completely impressed with the amount of information that was included in this report, many key points that had never crossed my mind. I would recommend this report to anyone that is just starting out or is just thinking about starting a gift basket business. I anticipate my sales to be strong and the image of my company to be that much stronger as well.

Sincerely,
Dreana

You can send your feedback through this link www.giftbasketqueensecrets.com/feedback.html in order to get more publicity for your business.

I would be publishing these feedbacks on my site in a few weeks. Over 1000 people visit my site everyday and it inspires them to know you’re in the gift basket business too.

Online entrepreneur Joyce O. Oladipo, "The Giftpreneur Queen," publishes the award-winning 'Gift Basket Success' ezine with 400 subscribers.If you're ready to jump-start your marketing, make more money, and havemore fun in your Gift Basket business, get your FREE tips now at www.GiftBasketQueenSecrets.com

How To Get Free TV Ads

How To Get Free TV Ads
by Joyce Oladipo, "The Giftpreneur Queen"

Here is another interesting marketing idea.

TV is the most costly form of advertising. Nothing else even comes close. So, here is how you can negotiate with some independent TV and cable stations and get your get your business on TV for free? Here's one way.

Give a prize or become a sponsor of an event that will be running a lot of TV ads. For example: Every year there is Bridal Fair here in Luxembourg. By donating a prize your company logo or name appears on all printed advertising and in all TV ads.

You won't be alone but it's a great way to expose your company logo and name to a large number of people

Be sure to go the extra mile to create a product brand in your viewers mind or you've wasted your free TV ad time."


Online entrepreneur Joyce O. Oladipo, "The Giftpreneur Queen," publishes the award-winning 'Gift Basket Success' ezine with 750 subscribers.If you're ready to jump-start your marketing, make more money, and havemore fun in your Gift Basket business, get your FREE tips now at www.GiftBasketQueenSecrets.com

Mother's Day Inspirations

My mother die a few years ago and as Mother's Day approaches I naturally thought of her and the values she has shared with me throughout my life.

Click on the link below to see an inspiring short movie.

This short movie encompasses many of those values. I thought it would be meaningful to you too, especially at this time of year.

May You Be Blessed

Online entrepreneur Joyce O. Oladipo, "The Giftpreneur Queen," publishes the award-winning 'Gift Basket Success' ezine with 400 subscribers.If you're ready to jump-start your marketing, make more money, and havemore fun in your Gift Basket business, get your FREE tips now at www.GiftBasketQueenSecrets.com