What are small business owners reporting about their optimism for the rest of 2009? Gail Goodman reports on a recent Constant Contact survey with Jim Blasingame about how small businesses feel about 2009 growth opportunities. Plus, they also discussed the survye results on social media.
Love conquers all the saying goes, but in a struggling economy, will this prove to be true for small businesses this Valentine's Day? Gail Goodman talks with Jim Blasingame about the results of Constant Contact's Valentine's Day outlook survey.
What are small business owners saying about the holiday season prospects? Gail Goodman talks with Jim Blasingame about the results of a recent survey of small businesses about the holiday season. They also talk about what to do to maximize your sales opportunity.
Did know that Mother's Day is the second largest national holiday for retail? Gail Goodman joins Jim Blasingame to talk about her company's recent survey on what businesses are planning to prepare for Mother's Day shopping. They also talk about email marketing as a valuable 21st century best practice.
What do consumers think about the economy? Gail talks with Jim about research her company conducted on consumer plans for Valentine Day spending and it reveals a lot about what we think about the economy.
What's it like to go public? Gail's company just had their IPO and she begins her visit with Jim talking about that process. They go on to talk about recent research on how small businesses feel about their prospects for the holiday season.
Gail joins Jim to report on the 2005 holiday spending survey Constant Contact conducted to see how much the cost of fuel will impact holiday spending. They go on to talk about how small businesses can help their customers hold down gas prices by using email marketing campaigns.
After talking about the process her company went through changing their name, Gail and Jim talk about how to collect custoomer and prospect contact information, how to build it into a resource you can use, and how to deploy that resource to get more business.
Gail and Jim talk about existing customers, a business' most promising marketing plan.
Jim and Gail talk about the importance of building a customer and prospect database.
