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Free Small Business Education Events in Southern California
We provide educational events for small business owners on a variety of topics along with our business partners. Infusionsoft Users Group Meetings | Recommended Tools
We provide a series of How to's and recommended products and techniques to build small businesses. Feel free to use these instead of writing notes in our educational seminars....we provide recommendations on mind bending tools to supercharge your business. We Recommend:
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Recommended Vendors for Small Businesses
I find it helpful to use vendors who other small businesses have used and enjoy success with. Consequently, I am building a list of vendors who I recommend and know very well.
Merchant Credit Card Processing - Lincoln Pay
Legal, Payroll, Tax Planning and Bookkeeping - Small Business Package
Appointment setting for sales reps- Getting appointments with top executives
Recommended Books
There are many books that help small business owners select strategies and improve their business.
Infusionsoft customer references
Infusionsoft is the choice of over 8,000 businesses to help with their sales, marketing and CRM challenges. Click here to learn what small businesses are saying about Infusionsoft.
Click to see the many effective small business owners, consultants and teachers, who use and endorse Infusionsoft
Micheal Gerber Author of the E Myth
Dan Kennedy- Business advisor extraordinaire
Perry Marshall- E Marketing legend
InfusionCon- 2009 Infusionsoft user Conference
March 10-12th Infusionsoft users gathered in Scottsdale, AZ to learn more about how to effectively grow their small businesses. It was an unbelievably valuable event. Roughly 650 small business owners gathered to learn and share techniques which allowed 20% of them to double their sales in 2008.
I sincerely hope your competitors were not in attendance because you are in trouble if them implement a few of these techniques.
Every business owner I spoke with thought the event was motivating, fantastic and they were going back home with ideas to implement to grow their business. Clate Maske challenged everyone to immediately start implementing improvement.
Inspite of down economy..Infusionsoft is growing.
GILBERT, AZ (August 11, 2008)—Despite recessionary pressures hitting consumers and businesses alike, Infusionsoft, the leader in marketing automation software for small businesses continues its momentum with twenty percent increase in employees and expanded offices. Fueled by increasing demand nationally among small businesses for automated marketing software that helps them attract leads, automatically follow up and close more prospects, without the need to grow staff.
Over the last six months, Infusionsoft has completed its expansion of its office, adding 8000 square feet of space to accommodate its growing workforce of technology, product development, marketing, and administrative staff.
"As a company, we are entirely driven and impassioned by the plight of the small business owner and how we can help them gain greater control over the success of their business," said Clate Mask, Infusionsoft president and CEO. "We're fortunate and proud to be able to attract the best and the brightest in Arizona, and across the country to help thousands upon thousands of entrepreneurs every day."
Infusionsoft is quickly becoming one of the leading tools small businesses turn to streamline and dramatically improve the efficacy of their sales and marketing efforts.
Dan Kennedy Press Release: Fix Your Follow-up Failure
Following the Leader Marketing pro Dan Kennedy and Infusionsoft offer marketing advice for small businesses.
By Lauren McKay Posted Aug 8, 2008 From DESTINATION CRM
“Everybody shows up once,” offers Dan Kennedy, author, marketing guru, and presenter at New York’s Infusionsoft marketing event, “Fix Your Follow-Up” tour. Kennedy took to the stage in four cities over four short days, instructing audiences that contacting customers once is not enough -- in fact, the absence or inadequacy of the follow-up is the biggest expense a company will face, he says. Kennedy shares some of his marketing secrets, all of which he says wouldn’t be possible without Infusionsoft’s marketing automation software. Infusionsoft sponsored the event and the company’s CEO and president articulated his vision for true small businesses and entrepreneurs.
“All businesses have some success at sticking to the operations system,” Kennedy says. “Hardly anyone has a marketing system. Most people have random erratic acts and because they don’t have a system, they can’t do good follow-up.” Kennedy, an author of 13 books and a marketing coach for many high-level companies, provides that the average customer is susceptible to 13,412 marketing messages per 24-hour cycle. To prove his point about the importance of following up, Kennedy shares details of a home-grown experiment he conducted after buying a new house. When home mortgage postcards and mailings began to flood his mailbox, Kennedy laid all of the printed flyers, postcards, and letters onto two large tables. By the end of an eight-week period, the two tables were covered end to end with home mortgage mailings from different companies. However, only in two cases, did a company send more than one mailing and in only one case, did he have three postcards from the same company. “Everybody shows up once,” he reiterates, emphasizing the point of making and keeping contact with leads.
“Trust is built with a certain number of contacts, conversations, communications, and showing up a certain number of times,” Kennedy says. Building trust leads to closing sales – something that just can not be done with one measly postcard mailing. Kennedy offers some of the reasons why companies may not follow up with prospects. One of which is due to manual headaches and overall business complications. However, he advises, the more complicated the marketing system, the better."
Click here for full Press Release
DemoCo Fictional Company- Demonstrates Infusionsoft capabilities
We developed a fictious company website, DemoCo to illustrate some of the capabilities of Infusionsoft. We show the capabilites of Infusionsoft while you interact with the DemoCo website. Detailed Demo Guidelines Here
Brief Guidelines for a Personalized Web Demo
Step 1. Please send an email to: cjacobson@openspaces.com with subject line: "Personalized Demo Request". We will send an invitation to join a webmeeting to view the Infusionsoft demo.
Step 2. Click here to view the DemoCo site in a new tab. You will be interacting with the demo website and observing the actions initiated within the infusionsoft system. If you open two tabs, you can toggle between the browser tabs to view the DemoCo site and our webmeeting showing our Infusionsoft site.
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