You have been reading about this….

Some of you have heard stories about people who are growing their business.

Some small businesses are expanding, and hiring new people, and at the very least retaining the employees they do have.

These results posted above are from a survey of over 40,000 small businesses.  Of those that responded over 40% said it caused them to increase sales, and 34% also increased their margins – because of this one thing.

Now, I am all for increasing your sales & increasing your margins. But when you start to hire new staff because your business is growing – you must be doing something incredible, right?

You would be surprised how simple this is to do and how few people actually do it.  Quite frankly, I am thinking of making it a requirement for people I do business with in the future.

And – the cost?  Zero.

My advice to you is to find out what this one thing is, and take advantage of it. 

You can guess what this one thing is over on our facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/ProfitableProperty

If you want to learn how to start growing your business again, you need to join us on Sept. 17th at our next WREIA meeting Monday night.

In 2012 we have been focused on introducing you to local professionals who have been working our business.  Monday night we continue  – and I share some insight into my own business results.

I am going to share a guest speaker with a powerful info-packed presentation.  The presentation will include updates on :

• Email Marketing
• Direct Mail Marketing
• Social Media Marketing
• Mobile Marketing
• Reputation Management

He will also be sharing some insight into topics I don’t completely understand, but he loves to work with every day including:

• Search Engine Optimization,
• Search Engine Marketing,
• Mobile Ads,
• Marketing Test Results (One slide has results from 19 recent tests.)

When we talked last week, he wanted my permission to share some results from some of my recent campaigns.  I approved all of them.

Most of you are going to be shocked by the results a few campaigns where the total ad budget was just a hair under $10.

That’s not a typo – you will see ad campaigns with a budget of less than $10.

Don’t forget – At our meeting, I want you to bring in your Smartphones, fire up Twitter, Facebook, and make sure you have a LinkedIn account.

When you leave Monday night, you will have all the information you need to completely duplicate my business – and stamp your own personality on it.  It may surprise you, but it doesn’t make me the slightest bit nervous.  In fact – I want you to take the information and get started making improvements to your business on Tuesday!

If you are willing to hustle, work hard – and learn how to help a LOT of people in the next 2  years – join me on Sept. 17th at WREIA.

John Peterson

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