Pro & Content
Friday, October 30, 2009 VOLUME 4 ISSUE 4  
Be a Resource

Once the sale is done, how do you reinforce the relationship with your customer and ensure that it lasts a long time? It is important to continue to provide your customers with valuable content. They will be grateful for the information and will value your relationship.

Click the link below to read more about being a resource of useful information to your clients.


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Happy 40th Birthday, Internet!
http://www.pcworld.com/article/174667/happy_40th_b...
by Jared Newman

On October 29, 1969, the Internet came in not with a bang, but with a "lo."

Letter by letter, UCLA computer science professor Leonard Kleinrock sent a message from his school's host computer to another computer at Stanford Research Institute. Kleinrock was trying to write "login," starting up a remote time-sharing system, but the system crashed after two letters, and lo! The Internet was born with the first data message sent between two networked computers.
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Celebrate Your Customers
http://www.openforum.com/idea-hub/topics/managing/...
by Mark Stevens

Do you ever give your customers a standing ovation? I mean a real flag waving hoopla?

Do you make a fuss over them? Do you go over the top in demonstrating that you see them as the royalty of your business?

Or do you think it's good enough just to have your invoices printed with 'Thank You' at the bottom? Maybe you send a 'Merry Christmas' email dutifully every year because the business-as usual playbook says so.
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Social Media is Tailor-Made for SMBs
http://www.clickz.com/3635468
by Dave Evans

What do a paint company, a wakeboard manufacturer, and an audio technology firm have in common? They're doing smart things with social media based marketing. In this column, I want to focus on the efforts of America's backbone: small to medium-sized businesses, or SMBs.

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SURVEY
How do you communicate to your current customers?

Email

Print Materials

Web site

A combination of the above

What type of content do you provide your customers?

I provide helpful tips and tricks relevant to my products/services

I provide a user manual to all of my customers

I provide a mix of content - some instructional, some fun tips

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SURVEY RESULTS
Does Your Content Solve Their Problems?
In our last issue, we talked about offering up solutions to your audience’s pain points through your content. When you provide valuable content to your customers and prospects, they will view you as a trusted source of information and will be more open to building a relationship with you. We asked our audience how their content addresses the needs of their audience.


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Archive
Find the Solution
September 2009
Vol. 4 Issue 3
Speaking Their Language
August 2009
Vol. 4 Issue 2
Winning the Battle for Content
July 2009
Vol. 4 Issue 1

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