<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:blogger="http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8657550349460807725</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Fri, 08 Nov 2024 15:37:31 +0000</lastBuildDate><category>small business</category><category>Entrepreneur</category><category>Marketing Advice</category><category>Marketing plan</category><category>entreprenour</category><category>marketing</category><category>sales goals</category><category>start up</category><category>tips</category><title>Life In Small Businessville</title><description>Running a small business has its ups and downs.  This blog is dedicated to everyone who lives their life in persuit of the American Dream.</description><link>http://smallbusinessville.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (The Mayor)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>6</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><language>en-us</language><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><copyright>This podcast is offered as a free service from InnovativeImpulses.com</copyright><itunes:keywords>small,business,marketing,sales,orginization,entrepreneur</itunes:keywords><itunes:summary>A podcast designed for everyone who runs a small business or is thinking of starting up. This show offers tips on marketing, orginization, scheduling and anything else a small business owner would want to discuss.</itunes:summary><itunes:subtitle>Anything and everything small business</itunes:subtitle><itunes:category text="Business"><itunes:category text="Management &amp; Marketing"/></itunes:category><itunes:author>The Mayor Steven Q</itunes:author><itunes:owner><itunes:email>steven@innovativeimpulses.com</itunes:email><itunes:name>The Mayor Steven Q</itunes:name></itunes:owner><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8657550349460807725.post-8434792915311599400</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-06T23:55:27.280-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Entrepreneur</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">entreprenour</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">marketing</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Marketing Advice</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Marketing plan</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">sales goals</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">small business</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">start up</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">tips</category><title>Holiday Marketing Plan Day 4 – Identify your target part 1</title><atom:summary type="text">Today in Small Businessville we are going to discuss how to identify your target market and then how to look for ways to reach them. To do this we are going to need to break this step down over to days.  Today you will review your client list and identify those trends you noted a few days ago.  You are now going to match your clients to your new pricing structure.  We need to take note of what </atom:summary><enclosure length="0" type="audio/mpeg" url="http://innovativeimpulses.com/lisbv/lisbv6.mp3"/><link>http://smallbusinessville.blogspot.com/2008/11/holiday-marketing-plan-day-4-identify.html</link><thr:total>0</thr:total><author>steven@innovativeimpulses.com (The Mayor Steven Q)</author><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:author>The Mayor Steven Q</itunes:author><itunes:keywords>small,business,marketing,sales,orginization,entrepreneur</itunes:keywords></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8657550349460807725.post-4772387502749022924</guid><pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 05:26:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-05T23:36:54.036-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Entrepreneur</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">entreprenour</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">marketing</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Marketing Advice</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Marketing plan</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">sales goals</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">small business</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">start up</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">tips</category><title>Holiday Marketing Plan Day 3 - Pricing and Branding</title><atom:summary type="text">It was a landslide and I want to thank everyone for voting me back into office as Mayor of Small Businessville.  Hopefully yesterday you got a chance to find your break even point and then you figured out how much money you would need to make in sales to cover those expenses and give yourself a comfortable salary.  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Because it is Monday and you probably have a ton of others things to do today we are just going to go over one small part of the plan but it is the most important part.  Today you are going to set your goals for the plan and what you would like to accomplish.  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So what I am going to discuss today are some things you can do to get ready for the holidays and the new year. That’s right I did say new year. 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