http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog Small Business Marketing Ideas Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:10:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Learning the best small business marketing strategies can sometimes take up too much of your time. In case you missed them, here is last month's top marketing ideas:LED Sheep - Great Publicity TacticPosted on Thursday, May 21st, 2009 in Marketing Strategies - Comments: (0)I absolutely love this video, it's such ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/marketing-strategies/best-marketing-strategies-from-may/ Just because you are good at what you do - doesn't mean you should be in business. I want to tell you about an experience I am still currently undergoing. I decided to expand my skills and learn about xyz. (names will be changed as the situation is still current) So I'd ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/business-basics/business/ I absolutely love this video, it's such a great marketing and pr tactic. And yes, it was such hard work, but the guys had soo much fun by the looks of it! (hmm, not sure about the sheep though...!) http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/marketing-strategies/led-sheep-great-publicity-tactic/ Welcome to the May 4, 2009 edition of marketing strategies. Stephen Dean presents Conversion Rates Are Relative posted at Copywriting Dean. presents Beginners Simple Guide To Get More Sales posted at Home Business Views, saying, "Do you find yourself frustrated with your promotion andmarketing of affiliate programs? Are the sales that you ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/marketing-strategies/small-business-marketing-strategies-email-marketing/ Learning the best small business marketing strategies can sometimes take up too much of your time. In case you missed them, here is last month's top marketing ideas:Public Relations - How does it work?Posted on Monday, April 20th, 2009 in publicity - Comments: (0)Publicity and writing press releases can yield ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/marketing-strategies/best-marketing-strategies-from-apr/ Publicity and writing press releases can yield plenty of new customers to your business. The best thing is that, done correctly, a publicity campaign can be completely free! Learn how the publicity experts do it. I was recently lucky enough to be part of a brainstorming session conducted by a professional ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/publicity/public-relations-work/ First, tenApril 2, 2009 - This is so simple, it's amazing!! http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/marketing-strategies/top-marketing-strategies-april-9-2009/ Welcome to the April 9, 2009 edition of marketing strategies. If you're looking for plenty of marketing tips and strategies to use in your business, why not check out the Marketing Kit? At only $11, it's a bargain considering it has tools such as Press Release templates, SWOT analysis templates, plus ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/marketing-strategies-april-9th-2009/ Is marketing evil?March 26, 2009 Timeless Marketing Tool: The Power Of TestimonialsMarch 26, 2009 - Testimonials will always be one of the best marketing strategies to use...What is attraction marketing?March 26, 2009 - Many newcomers to the business arena find this type of marketing very refreshing. Gone are the pushy ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/marketing-strategies/top-marketing-strategies-april-2-2009/ Learning the best small business marketing strategies can sometimes take up too much of your time. In case you missed them, here is last month's top marketing ideas:Guaranteed web site traffic...Posted on Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 in Marketing Strategies - Comments: (0)Imagine getting 20,000 unique daily visitors...and how many new ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/marketing-strategies/best-marketing-strategies-from-mar/ When was the last time you received a card in the mail. no, not your email inbox, I mean by snail mail? Well, I've decided to go back to the old ways of keeping in touch with my clients. By sending them cards. And, I've found the easiest way to do ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/business-basics/customer-care/ Imagine getting 20,000 unique daily visitors...and how many new sales that could bring in for you!! I have something so exciting to share with you. But first, I want you to imagine getting those unique visitors directly to your site. Can you also imagine if they were targeted visitors? And what ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/marketing-strategies/guaranteed-web-site-traffic/ ok, so I don't read magazines that much, but I'm reading through my Mums recent issue of "Notebook". Now, this is the first time that I have read it and I'm only a little bit of the way through. But I just had to stop and write about a small ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/marketing-strategies/flat-screen-tvs-is-this-our-problem/ I was reading one of my favourite blogs - http://donna-mariecoggins.com/blog/ and her recent post about customer relationships was fantastic at this point in time so I wanted to share it with you. Her full post is at the bottom. Your customers are your lifeblood. Without them, you don't make any money. ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/business-basics/marketing-strategies-building-customer-relationships/ This is a post I have copied from Entrepreneur.com. It's a fantastic way of describing how to price your product. I can also recommend Dan Kennedy - I have a fair bit of his stuff and have learnt quite a bit from it. Cheers, Emma Diva Promotions -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Price Isn't Tied to Your Product When pricing ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/business-basics/small-business-marketing-strategies-pricing-your-product/ Here's a great article from the flying solo crew all about procrastination. I've copied it here, but you can view heaps of other great articles at http://www.flyingsolo.com.au Seven steps to overcoming procrastination Procrastination isn’t a long term strategy, but sometimes us soloists treat it as though it is! If you're ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/business-basics/small-business-marketing-does-procrastination-get-to-you/ Let's imagine a situation where we have two Internet marketers who know each other. One has a great product that will sell very well but he has no mailing list, no affiliates, nothing. The other is a great marketer with tens of thousands of subscribers in his mailing list, but ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/marketing-strategies/small-business-marketing-ideas-benefits-of-joint-ventures/ Do Your Potential Customers Forget About You? Posted by Tom Kulzer (AWeber CEO) Your web business probably gets product inquiries from potential customers around the globe. Inquiries come via e-mail and your web site, and you try to send information to each hot prospect as quickly as you can. You know that ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/marketing-strategies/small-business-marketing-strategies/ We are all in once piece after the big move, but I can't say that for a couple of photo frames, some glasses and some things that have gone missing... The move was as stressful as you can expect, although a big thanks goes to my friend D, for taking the ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/we-made-it/ Discover The 5 Most Effective Ways to Get More Out of Your Advertising Dollar.   1) What do you want from your advertising? Why are you advertising in the first place? This step is crucial to get right before you undertake any type of advertising or marketing. Ask yourself the following questions. ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/marketing-strategies/small-business-marketing-ideas/ I received an email from someone today with some funny anecdotes about living life, rather than step-toeing around and at the bottom of it was this quote that I find sums me up to a tee: "Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/live-life-to-the-fullest/ http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/business-basics/business-basics-4-crucial-elements-to-success/ You know, I used to listen to people who talked about having faith in everything they did, and my mind always thought about religious terms. Like, god, and Jesus and all of that as 'having faith'. I realise it's not. Well, it can be, if that's what you believe in. But what ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/having-faith/ This list is fantastic, given freely by Robert at the Web Marketing How To Blog. I confess that I use almost all of these plugins. Most people don't realise that there are so many new plugins being added every day, and it's so simple to install them. So here is the list, ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/marketing-strategies/16-wordpress-plugins-you-must-have/ You know all this talk about the global recession is really starting to irritate me. Why? Because it will only effect you if you let it! It's not bothering me in the slightest. There are so many people out there trying to cash in on all the hype with books, magazines, new ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/global-recessionwhatever/ Well, it's been a long time coming, but Diva Promotions finally has a new, functional website. It originally started with a joomla template, but that didn't quite work out the way it was supposed to. With my web programmer on a well deserved month's holiday, it was up to me and ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/finally-a-new-website-for-diva-promotions/ Does you work impact your self worth? Are you so intwinted with what you do that it reflect who you are? There is a fabulous post over that flying solo website that you must read if you are in business for yourself. Read the whole article over here: - http://www.flyingsolo.com.au/p279478226_How-your-work-impacts-your-self-worth.html http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/marketing-strategies/is-this-you/  I found this fantastic article over that the Neuromarketing blog. As consumers, we make hundreds of choices each and every day. For those of us who are parents, we make so many more on behalf of our young children. No wonder that by the time it comes to dinner and ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/marketing-strategies/marketing-strategies-more-choices-less-sales/ Ever wondered how some business owners put out some fantastic emails? Have you heard the stories of those people who make thousands of dollars just from one email? Well it didn't happen overnight. Email marketing takes time and it takes effort. The whole concept of email marketing is to build a relationship ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/marketing-strategies/email-marketing-tips/ @JohannaBD bugger that - remember those times well. have a great sleep! http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/johannabd-bugger-that-remem/ @JohannaBD you not well Joh? http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/johannabd-you-not-well-joh/ @johnreese definitely emails. have to turn the thing off! http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/johnreese-definitely-emails/ turning off your computer early to take some time out does not work - you need to turn it back on in the morning to everything that came in. http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/turning-off-your-computer-earl/ is slowly getting it... moving onto friendfeed now - visit me https://friendfeed.com/divapromotions http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/is-slowly-getting-it-moving/ is working out twhirl, friendfeed and how they all connect to each other... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/is-working-out-twhirl-friendf/ is now organising her school reunion on facebook and talking to some old school mates, and trying to do it in peace! http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/is-now-organising-her-school-r/ is packing her bag for Mal Emery's conference starting tomorrow. Very early start... 4:30am :( http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/is-packing-her-bag-for-mal-eme/ Why is it important? Have you ever skipped doing it? I did, and paid a princely price for it! I learnt the hard and expensive way quite a few years ago. Donna-Marie over the Small Business Diva has the following fantastic post on why market research is so important. What is Market ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/marketing-strategies/market-research/ now looking at rentals in coffs harbour in case we need to rent a house whilst our new one is being built http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/now-looking-at-rentals-in-coff/ finished browsing The Net Effect -first issue from stompernet...ready to put some of it into practice http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/finished-browsing-the-net-effe/ reading my first installment of stompernet - very interesting indeed... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/reading-my-first-installment-o/ I ask an interesting question because according to the guys over at NeuroScience, "television advertisers have a lot to be worried about". This is due to partly to the introduction and expansion of Cable TV such as Foxtel/Austar but also to the new and incoming television experiences such as TiVo. Basically ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/marketing-strategies/television-advertisingfor-how-much-longer/ How many of you really think about your customer service? I mean, really, really think about it? Do you go all the way for your customer, or do you feel that at times you probably could have done a little better? Seth Godin has recently put a blog post on "How ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/marketing-strategies/marketing-strategies-customer-service/ is really getting into all of this blogging stuff cause it's giving me results! http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/is-really-getting-into-all-of/ TIPS FOR MAXMISING THE RESULTS OF YOUR PUBLIC RELATIONS     After distributing a media release, make sure you are contactable at all times on the number/s you have provided on the release. Journalists will only try to contact you once or twice, and if you are not available, will run with another ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/marketing-strategies/public-relations-tips-for-maximising-your-campaign/ Is sorting out my emails and trying to organise myself! http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/is-sorting-out-my-emails-and-t/ updating Diva Promotions - http://www.divapromotions.com.au http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/updating-diva-promotions-htt/ Yet again, Seth Godin has given us a fantastic article about listening to our customers. But which ones should you listen to? Not all of them apparently. Read on from Seths latest post:   Listening to the loud people Of course you should listen to your customers. But which ones? Should you listen to the ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/customer-listening-ever-done-it/ has just updated my blog - made it customised! Take a look http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/has-just-updated-my-blog-mad/ has just applied for a speaking role for the Coffs Harbour Business Womens Network. http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/has-just-applied-for-a-speakin/ is writing yet another article for yet another magazine! http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/is-writing-yet-another-article/ I just updated my Squidoo page: Marketing Mix / http://tinyurl.com/3oyxhk http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/i-just-updated-my-squidoo-page/ setting up Twitter for my Squidoo account http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/setting-up-twitter-for-my-squi/ A new blog has just been started outlining marketing ideas and strategies that can  be put to use. Check out the first post - http://www.marketing-ideasblog.com/marketing-ideas/marketing-ideas http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/new-blog/ watching Frank Kern and Ryan talking about visualisation http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/watching-frank-kern-and-ryan-t/ drinking some wine and doing some blogging. Hmm, not sure those two go hand in hand?? http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/drinking-some-wine-and-doing-s/ Discover How This Powerful Concept Can Be 100% Responsible For Your Success: http://EzineArticles.com/?id=1460571 http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/discover-how-this-powerful-con/ Publicity and Press Releases - What Every Small Business Owner Needs to Know: http://EzineArticles.com/?id=1460475 http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/publicity-and-press-releases/ Top 5 Strategies to Promote Your Business: http://EzineArticles.com/?id=1442556 http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/top-5-strategies-to-promote-yo/ Many people are talking about social media these days. It's becoming a new 'buzz' word. So what does it really mean for you and your business? Should you bother using it? Hopefully this article written by Jacob Morgan can define a few things for you.   If you are an individual or ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/marketing-strategies/social-media-is-it-for-you/ I was reading Seth Godin's blog and found this fantastic post. Remember when you are creating your own marketing mix, that some of the old fashioned ideas will still work - check out what your competitors are doing and then be different from them. Enjoy. Old Marketing With New Tools Remember hand-written thank ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/marketing-strategies/marketing-strategy/ Marketing Mix -”Poor Boy” | Marketing Mix http://tinyurl.com/56j57k http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/marketing-mix-%e2%80%9dpoor-boy%e2%80%9d/ I've been quite busy lately trying to keep up with the thirty day challenge.  The challenge is designed to take you from nothing to earning your first $10 online in only 30 days. The basic concept is not about the money, but the process involved to set up a website or ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/online-marketing-thirty-day-challenge/ one of the first things I ever learnt about marketing was the concept of th 4 P's. I came across this artcle by Nate Stockard and believed that it sums up the definition of the 4 P's. The Marketing Mix For Small Business Marketing All marketing resources will eventually talk about your ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/marketing-strategies/marketing-strategy-the-4-ps/ When devising your marketing mix or action plan, you need to include a variety of different options. I always recommend approx 5 different strategies to incorporate into your marketing mix. Using email marketing is a rapidly developing method, allowing you to keep in contact with your customers and helping you to ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/marketing-strategies/marketing-mix-using-email-newsletters/ I received an email on Sunday evening saying that I was a finalist in the 2008 Australian Home Based Business Awards! Very happy and pleased with myself! The awards will be presented on Monday 18th August at Melbourne Exhibition Centre. I'll most definitely keep you all updated on how I go!! http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/award-finalist/ A brand new website has just started. IT's the cream of the crop in terms of social networking for women in business. Not only does it have very active forums, you can create your very own page that details who you are and how you can help. Everything is linked back ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/business-women-unite/ Ok, so It's been a while since I've written properly in this blog. I've had some family things to deal with- mainly the passing of my father. But I'm back and I want to share with you some of the low cost marketing strategies that are making a huge impact today. I'm ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/uncategorized/low-cost-marketing-strategies/ I've recently been notified of a newish website - http://www.bizthinktank.com.au They are currently running a competition where you can win $10,000 worth of business coaching! It's for small business and soho business so go along and check it out. It's free to enter and you just need to answer 3 quick ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/biz-think-tank/ by Cindy  Nowadays, Social networking sites popularity is increasing day by day like facebook, myspace, orkut, digg etc…., we can say social networking is one of the best and free ways for increase traffic on our site. Social networking is important in blogging and if you can’t do social networking then ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/how-to-increase-traffic-through-social-networking-sites/ I've found out recently that I've been nominated for the Telstra Business Women of the Year Award. I wanted to take the time to say thankyou to the valuable client who took the time to nominate me! I've submitted my entry form which was a mammoth task! I'll ensure that I keep ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/thankyou/ How many times have you...  placed an advert showcasing your website, with the intention of getting more subscribers, only to find that you received some visitors, but very little subscriptions to your database? If you’re still reading, them I’m guessing quite a few times!   Getting people to sign up to your database ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/why-isnt-your-database-growing/ 3 Incredibly Simple, but Outrageously Powerful Keys To Guaranteeing Your Email Messages Are Read By Jimmy Brown There's nothing that comes close to its power in online marketing. In fact, many of the most critical elements of eBusiness are tied to it: joint ventures, newsletter publishing, automated follow-up, article distribution, free reports, autoresponder ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/3-incredibly-simple-but-outrageously-powerful-keys-to-guaranteeing-your-email-messages-are-read/ How To Get All The Free Traffic You Want With Only One Marketing Activity By Jimmy Brown Are you a “traffic juggler”? That is, do you attempt to get traffic to your site by doing all kinds of activities ranging from SEO to PPC listings to buying solo mailings? In other words, do you “juggle” ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/how-to-get-all-the-free-traffic-you-want-with-only-one-marketing-activity/ How To Use Testing For Breakthrough Marketing Results By Yanik Silver www.SurefireMarketing.com =================================== Advertising is expensive. And it costs you the same amount of money to run an ad (or mail a letter) that brings in 2 customers as one that drives in 20 customers. So that difference is in your ad (or letter). Let's ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/how-to-use-testing-for-breakthrough-marketing-results/ Every business should have a database. Actually, you need to have a database. It is crucial that you get one and build on it. I will explain why in a minute. Firstly - what is a database? A database is where you store all of your clients names, emails and details ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/using-a-database/ Diva Promotions is proud to support this event. Are you faced with lack of qualified prospects? Wouldn`t it be nice…. to turn your computer off, say nighty nite to your website, go to bed and wake up with an extra 500 visitors to your site overnight? Imagine how great that would be! ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/marketing-strategies/discover-7-ways-to-generate-qualified-traffic-overnight-turn-your-website-into-a-marketing-machine/ Using email is one way that many businesses communicate with their clients and potential clients. By inserting a simple signature at the bottom of your email, you can increase the chance of turning a lead into a sale. A signature is a small footer placed at the end of every email. ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/email-signatures-for-marketing/ Find Marketing and Advertising frustrating? Well, no longer with the New Diva Promotions Start Up Marketing Kit! Find out how to: Gain new ideas for free/low cost marketing which will help to grow your business whilst keeping your overheads tiny - which will get you in front of your competition! Understand the benefits ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/new-product-launch/ There has been much talk about Social Media recently and how fraudsters are honing in on places such as FaceBook and MySpace etc. How can you protect your identity and that of your business when moving into this marketing medium? 1) Always be suspicious! Before giving away some personal details, ask yourself ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/social-media-and-your-business/ I've recently been looking around for some information products on PR and Publicity. One website I stumbled across is The Publicity Hound. Although they are in the USA, plenty of the advice and information in her ebooks are still relevant to us here in Australia. Joan Stewart is the Publicity Hound, ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/pr-publicity/ Yes, it's on again! Being a proud Women in Business,  Diva Promotions supports events such as this one! If you've not heard of a Mums Night Out yet, let me introduce you to it. Run by Amanda (aka Mad Cow) from Real Mums, the night is soley for mums to go out and have ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/mums-night-out/ A Big Massive Thank You to all those who completed our latest survey. Your comments are incredibly valuable and your input much appreciated. Our winner was Rachel Quilty from Jump the Q. Congratulations Rachel - you've just won 80 "Diva Dollars" to spend anywhere on the site! Diva Promotions- not just advertising. http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/uncategorized/survey-winner/ Is finally finished! After a month long delay in which computer and formatting issues kept doing my head in, the guide has been uploaded and ready to be distributed. You can take a look at it at www.divapromotions.com.au/essentialbusinessguide.pdf A big thankyou goes to the contributers and the distributers of the guide. You ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/the-essential-business-guide/ So in trying my hardest to work my technically challenged part of my brain, I decided to undertake the upgrading of my wordpress by myself. I succeeded and now know more about FTP that I think I would really like to....  :) On the downside though, I didn't back up my ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/uncategorized/slight-mishap/ So I've finally gone and registered for facebook! And, now we have a Diva Promotions facebook group! Please come along and register at this url- http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=22045440034  Facebook is a social networking tool that can be used to help build your business. There are many different paid advertising avenues with facebook, however none ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/facebook-group/ Well, yes we have yet another winner for our competition!  Congratulations to Vicki from Bubble Bubs!! Vicki has won 120 personalied choc bite bars, valued at $75. Courtesy of Lisa at Moments in Chocolate. Celebrate your special moments with Personalised Chocolate Bars.Our lives are full of moments. Moments bring us joy. Moments can ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/chocolate-winner/ The winner has been chosen from our December competition. A big congratulations goes to........ Melinda Dunlop from Virtual Sanity! Melinda won a Mums in Business Membership, and was told on her birthday!! Yes, at Diva Promotions, we know how to keep our visitors happy!!!:)  Stay tuned for a new competition winner to be announced ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/uncategorized/another-winner/ Well as women and mothers in business people tend to often ask- how do we manage? And many of us have our own way of managing, coping, whatever you want to call it! We all have different aged kids and some are at school, whilst others are still babies. So how do ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/how-do-we-manage/ I don't know about you, but I find that getting back into work mode after the holiday period very hard!! Procrastination takes centre stage and that to do list just keeps getting bigger. So if you are finding the same kind of feelings, here is a quick few tips to help ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/uncategorized/is-your-new-year-getting-off-to-the-best-start/ I was reading some statistics from the ABS (Australian Bureau of Statistics) and one of recent media releases talks about businesses having a web presence.  Apparently the figure has grown, but is still only 30%!  And the statistic incorporates those who have a 'web presence'- either their own website, or listed on ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/only-30/ I was reading today about the top 10 franchise predictions for 2008. These are the stats coming out of the US and out of the top 10- only 3 were non- junk food. No wonder we have such an obesity epidemic!! The top 10 were listed in this order: 1) 7-eleven 2) Subway 3) Dunkin' ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/uncategorized/top-10-franchises/ Quick blog to say a merry christmas and a great new year to all Diva Promotions clients and readers. The office will be closed from Friday 21st through to Monday 7th January, however emails will still be checked at times. It's been fantastic working you all this year and I look forward ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/merry-christmas/ Yep, another satisfied client. Kelly from Nuvo Maternity recently ran another advert in the birth.com.au newsletter campaign. And again, it paid for itself plus some and some more newsletter sign ups. This is not the first feedback like this that we've had in regards to our birth.com.au campaign. There have been at ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/fantastic-feedback-again/ Oh, I can just hear it now..."Mum, are we there yet?" and so on..... Car trip- here we come! Christmas is just around the corner, and we can't wait!! Business has died down a little and it seems that people have been on holidays whilst at work for well over a ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/are-we-there-yet/ Hmm... I've had a few pretty busy weeks lately as you can see from my last posts, however I am finding that I am using my diary- lots more!! Working for Mums in Business has been quite busy as Alison has now gone overseas for 5 weeks to visit her ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/general/where-to-begin/ I did my first teleseminar yesterday. As part of Mums in Business, I was asked to come on the call and take the listeners through the steps I took in ensuring the growth of Diva Promotions. We had a fair few people on the call and those that have given feedback ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/uncategorized/teleseminar/ Well, I thought I would take the weekend off work. I felt drawn to the office only a couple of times but held my ground and stayed away. Felt good, although there are a heap of loose ends that need tying up over the coming week. Nearly had a small fatility ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/uncategorized/weekend/ As a member of Mums in Business, I went to their Christmas party. Now, not many networking and business groups that I know of have their own xmas party, so it was great to attend. There were heaps of us there- over 65 I'm told and the food was delicious!! I ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/uncategorized/christmas-party/ Well, following on from my latest forgetfulness, I was getting ready to take Hayden to the speech therapist yesterday, and thought I would drop into the bank beforehand. So, we are getting ready, and I find Haydens scrapbook- with a note on it reminding me that we changed our time to ... http://www.divapromotions.com.au/blog/uncategorized/24/