How to Write a Business Plan: Free Template, Tips, and Examples

Whether you’re a seasoned business owner or just beginning to think about starting a business, demands come at you fast. Tasks, to-do lists, meetings, and more. Amidst that rush, the idea of writing a good business plan—much less following a business plan template—often feels time-consuming and intimidating. But nearly 70% of business owners who have

Two Relationship Marketing Strategies That Can Help Grow Your Business

Shaan Rais is a professional speaker and leadership and organizational development consultant. getty Most people focus on marketing rather than the relationship in the phrase relationship marketing. They focus on targeting critical opportunities to generate sales and referrals. Though those are part of a good relationship marketing strategy, they should not be the primary focus. At

Five Creative Ideas to Make Your Business Thank-You Letters Unique

Small business owners frequently send thank you cards to business associates, employees, potential employees, vendors and even family and friends. You can make your thank you cards stand out by coming up with creative ways to infuse your company culture into the design. Ensure that your design exudes originality, but still aligns with your overall

15 Successful Text Message Marketing Examples

Almost every American consumer has a smartphone, and consumer research has found that American smartphone owners check their phones an average of 96 times per day, according to data from Asurion. Because people check their phones so often, SMS for business can be a powerful marketing tool for brands wanting to keep their customers in

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Synovus Debuts Mobile Virtual Visa Commercial Credit Card

Synovus on Tuesday (Jan. 4) teamed up with Visa on a mobile virtual commercial credit card that allows businesses to instantly generate and send virtual Visa credit cards to their employees, vendors and contractors through a mobile app that leverages Visa Commercial Pay, according to a press release. Visa Commercial Pay is a suite of

ACH Transfers Make It Easy to Send and Receive Cash. Here’s How They Work

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5 Ways Small Businesses Benefit From ACH Payments

Processing payments are just among the few challenges many small businesses face today. For instance, aside from constantly collecting payments from clients, business owners have to go to the bank to make a check deposit.  Fortunately, thriving companies are now learning the benefits of Automated Clearing House (ACH) payments and how they can make their

Underrated Lead Gen Ideas for Real Estate Agents

The competition in the real estate market has always been tough. Real estate agents are always looking for new and innovative ways to find potential leads. With the help of technology, it is easier than ever before to generate impressive results with lead generation. However, there are some lead generation ideas that most realtors don’t

How Real Estate Companies Can Boost ROI With Marketing Automation

Co-Founder and Managing Director at Edkent Media, a boutique digital marketing agency servicing local, startup and enterprise companies. Getty Marketing is the key to success when talking about real estate or any other form of business, and when you automate some of the work involved in running your campaigns, you can boost your ROI. According to HubSpot, 68%

3 Innovative Ways To Show Customers You Care

3 Innovative Ways To Show Customers You Care Shot of a young call centre agent working in an office gettyYou could create the greatest invention in the world, but it wouldn’t make a difference if you couldn’t find anyone to buy it. Innovation isn’t what drives your business—it’s the customer. Customers ultimately decide whether your

Shot of a young call centre agent working in an office gettyYou could create the greatest invention in the world, but it wouldn’t make a difference if you couldn’t find anyone to buy it. Innovation isn’t what drives your business—it’s the customer. Customers ultimately decide whether your company succeeds or fails. However, you have a

Underrated Lead Gen Ideas for Real Estate Agents

The competition in the real estate market has always been tough. Real estate agents are always looking for new and innovative ways to find potential leads. With the help of technology, it is easier than ever before to generate impressive results with lead generation. However, there are some lead generation ideas that most realtors don’t

How Real Estate Companies Can Boost ROI With Marketing Automation

Co-Founder and Managing Director at Edkent Media, a boutique digital marketing agency servicing local, startup and enterprise companies. Getty Marketing is the key to success when talking about real estate or any other form of business, and when you automate some of the work involved in running your campaigns, you can boost your ROI. According to HubSpot, 68%

How Real Estate Companies Can Boost ROI With Marketing Automation

How Real Estate Companies Can Boost ROI With Marketing Automation Co-Founder and Managing Director at Edkent Media, a boutique digital marketing agency servicing local, startup and enterprise companies. Getty Marketing is the key to success when talking about real estate or any other form of business, and when you automate some of the work involved in running

Should You be Using Real Estate Referral Cards?

If you’re in the business of real estate, then you know that getting referrals from your clients and colleagues is crucial to your bottom line. But did you know that there’s one tool that can improve your referral rate by 50% or more? It’s called real estate referral cards and it works by having potential

3 Reasons Why Sending Real Estate Automated Mailers Should Be Much Easier Than Everyone Makes It Out To Be

These are just some of the things that may come to mind when you hear the term real estate automated mailers. It’s time to take the mystery out of it and show you why we think this should be much easier than everyone makes it out to be. We also want to show you how

What Types of Industries Should Be Using Automated Mailers, and Why Real Estate Agents Probably Benefit the Most from Real Estate Automated Mailers

For real estate agents, automated mailers can be a very effective way to stay in touch with current and past clients, to generate new leads, and to ultimately close more deals on time and under budget. However, deciding what industries should be using automated mailers, and why real estate agents probably benefit the most from

What is a Real Estate Automated Mailer?

Using real estate automated mailers can be one of the most cost-effective ways to get leads and build your brand as a real estate agent or company, but they can also help you if you’re not in the real estate industry at all. What exactly are automated mailers, and how can they help your business?

The Complete Guide to Automating Your Real Estate Mailers

Writing real estate mailers can be both time-consuming and tedious, but there’s an easy way to make it much easier for you without sacrificing quality: automation. By automating your mailers, you can easily create gorgeous mailers in less time than it would take you to do the same thing manually, and you’ll be able to

When You Start Out As A Real Estate Agent, They Don’t Teach You To Use Automated Mailers

Did you know that when you start out as a real estate agent, they don’t teach you how to use automated mailers? We all know that door knocking and selling in person is still the most effective way to get listings, but wouldn’t it be nice if we could spend more time at home with