Recent content by AdrianF

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    Bulk emailer software?

    looking to start sending out newsletters etc and find MailChimp too limiting - eg I have a PA's email address and want the email to be addressed FAO to the boss what do people find works? free is good but willing to pay if we have to
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    Canon versus Nikon

    or Olympus Pen et al for same/less than a decent DSLR ?
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    Canon versus Nikon

    Funnily enough I went through this when I swapped film SLR for DSLR. Couldnt get on with Canon at all, Nikon was nice but Pentax got my money - it felt right, worked how I wanted it to and took loads of old glass I wanted to play with As others have said, be clear what you want it to do and...
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    Phone solution - 3 sites/3 folks inc port business number from Virgin?

    We currently pay for a virgin business landline to one site that is regularly transferred to various mobiles as we are out of the office a lot. We are 3 folks working out of 3 home offices and use Skype a lot internally and a conference call service occasionally with clients we need to move to...
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    Online hire - Does anyone do this for a living?

    not sure if the business model would work but there is a middle ground in product hire that works well for niche products stuff like TENS machines are hired out for use during child birth, the typical hire business model varies but you might pay 25 to 50% of the value and agree if it isnt...
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    Buying Telesales lists - who is really good?

    Chris - what make you say that? we did a "proof of concept" last month and got 2 warm leads from 18 calls, we are meeting with the 2 this month - even if they don't buy now they know who we are and what we do
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    What giveaways for a B2B Prof services company?

    excellent questions We do Ethical and Collaborative Organisational Change (so it could be consulting, facilitation, training, coaching etc) Target are typically HR/OD Directors and Change Leaders
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    What giveaways for a B2B Prof services company?

    We are looking at a marketing campaign this Autumn and one thing I like the idea of is some branded follow up items toward the end of the year - either for prospective clients yet to join us or (more likely) happy ones any top tips on who to get them from? And what people like best?
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    Buying Telesales lists - who is really good?

    thanks Beasty, looking at the B2B list we wouldnt have picked them anyhow MarketingFile seem to have the right data sets for our needs, it would be good to hear from a satisfied customer though - or to hear of someone who has been used with good results
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    Buying Telesales lists - who is really good?

    Should have put some detail in before, sorry folks. It is professional services b2b, we are looking at Director/Budget holder level in "bigger" organisations. We figure a couple of hundred calls will give us maybe 1% new clients - but this is about raising our profile with folks who don't know...
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    Advice Needed for approaching organisations

    I too am getting to grips with this cold calling malarky One of the things I found most useful was to use my wife (or business colleague) as the recipient of the call and practice quite a bit role play style The real calls have been quite easy, it is amazing how helpful people can be if you...
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    Buying Telesales lists - who is really good?

    I am looking to do a marketing campaign for my business in the next few weeks and plan to buy a bunch of phone numbers for cold calling MarketingFile came recommended by a friend and their search allows some good discrimination of roles etc But I am interested to hear who else people use as...
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    Business Banking - what do I need to know?

    Sole Trader as an Associate right now but putting everything in place for Ltd - as soon as I get a proper paying client : Ltd, Bank, Insurances etc can all get sorted
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    Starting a website usings templates

    in my experience Joomla has a learning cliff! not learning curve!! Took me weeks to get my head round the wierdness of things - but it sure is amazingly capable once you "get it". I recently built a dual language forum and it was pretty much plug and play - awesomely satisfying for a non techy...
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    Starting a website usings templates

    carin - yes I know how you feel only reason I ended up with Joomla was a client of mine offer to help me get started. Wordpress is apparently much easier if you want to get to grips with it - once a website is set up properly it should be very cheap to maintain (I spend £50 a year on domains...
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