Aug

15

Here’s How Asking for Customer Feedback Grows Business Fast

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Creating and distributing surveys isn’t a glamorous task.

However, the feedback you receive will help you to craft better marketing messages, and that leads to increased sales.

Isn’t that the glamour factor you want to achieve?

Here are three tips for setting up your survey.

1. Choose the distribution method.

2. Ask clients no more than 12 questions.

3. Offer an incentive for timely response.

These tips were explained fully in Basket Biz, the long-running newsletter that’s published every Thursday and delivered by email.

Want to get your copy? Click here to subscribe to Basket Biz, the free online publication, on this page at GiftBasketBusiness.com.

Jun

9

You Can Put 10 Things into a Small Gift Basket – Maybe

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How many items do you put into a small gift basket?

How about a medium one or a large size?

This week’s newsletter explores the balance between size and number of products, and you’ll be surprised to learn why the ratio rules the gift basket industry are not as complicated as you think.

Subscribe to the Basket Biz newsletter through this link. It arrives by Email every Thursday with lot of ideas and tips to make terrific gift baskets as a hobby or a business.

You’ll also find out about the upcoming teleseminar, How to Not Let Chaos and Distractions Stop You from Starting and Succeeding in Business, scheduled for Tuesday, June 21.

Dec

9

How the Holidays Help to Boost Your Business Next Year

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Holidays are not only a beautiful time to enjoy the sights and sounds of the season, it’s also a time to see gift basket designing at its best and most bountiful.

This is when you see how your designs stack up next to the competition.

  • Do they use design elements you’ve not considered? Take note of that styling for future implementation in a manner you see fit.
  • Are their baskets and containers the type you haven’t seen in the past? Make mental note of those vessels to search for them through wholesale sources.
  • Can customers choose their own products for custom designs? Perhaps you can offer the same in some capacity at your store or online.

Consider this season as more than what the media tells you it is. It’s certainly a time to be with family and friends, giving and receiving when seeing each other.

It’s also the perfect season to view the artistry offered by competitors who sell gift baskets so you can set a great plan to capture more sales next year.

LAST CHANCE FOR TONIGHT’S TELESEMINAR: Join me this evening (Thursday) at 8:15 pm EST to hear nine secrets I learned to finally work for myself, making gorgeous gift baskets on a full time basis without depending on outside employers and how you can do the same.

Can’t attend the hour-long event? Sign up, and you’ll receive the audio CD by mail, which is sent out to you the very next day. Click here for more information and to register.

Nov

18

What’s Missing from Your Business and Stopping Your Success?

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Can you design like a pro but your office paperwork is a disaster?

Is your administrative section in perfect alignment but you don’t know how to tie a bow?

Can you take an order but quickly lose that same order because it’s written on a stray piece of paper?

Each of us has business strengths and weaknesses. Once you know where your strengths lie, you’re always pleased with the results, because it’s guaranteed that the task will be done right.

But how about the tasks that aren’t as much fun, the ones that cause you to stumble while fulfilling a customer request or create returned orders because the shipping labels aren’t correctly typed?

That’s when it’s time to look at all of your business’s components, find out what’s not working, and create a program that will ensure your complete success each and every time a customer orders.

Since it’s a well-known fact that you only get one chance to make a great impression, the weakest link in your business is guaranteed to sink your enterprise.

It’s time to map out a strategy to strengthen that link before the year winds down.

When will you commit to fixing what’s missing from your business?

FIND OUT HOW I MADE THINGS RIGHT: Problems and struggles are a part of every business, including my own in the early days. When I focused on the problems, fixed them, and made sure the solutions were part of my customer care program, my gift baskets sold faster than I could have imagined.

Want to learn how I turned a messy business into a million dollar enterprise? Then join me for the one-hour teleseminar, How I Made the Leap from Struggling Entrepreneur to Million Dollar Designer, and How You Can, Too. The date, time, and details are on this page at GiftBasketRadio.com.

If you truly want to step into the winner’s circle in 2011, you’ll sign up to hear my story and how what I achieved can create the business of your dreams.

Nov

11

Three Things to Keep in Mind for Next Year’s Success

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What’s the plan to start or grow your gift basket business in 2011? To answer this question, there are three things to keep in mind.

1. The big picture. How do you see the business operation ten years from now?

2. The missing parts. What don’t you have in your business now that’s necessary to thrive?

3. The customer service. How will all the pieces that connect the service dots come together?

If you’re comfortable and happy with your business the way it is, that’s fine, especially if you’re sales levels are where you predicted long ago.

If you desire growth beyond where you are now, the answers to and plan management of these three questions will get you where you want to go.

Start devising a strategy before you wake up one morning and find that next year is right now.

HOW TO GET HELP: Members of the Golden Basket Club and Baskets 411 Club completed their 2011 plans and are already working on its success. How about you? Do you need help to see the big picture for your business and life?

Visit the Golden Basket Club and Baskets 411 Club to learn how these programs will expand and increase your success this year and throughout 2011.

There is limited space in both programs, and while the Clubs are not for everyone, they are for designers who see their businesses as the ultimate way to build new homes, fund their children’s educations, and enjoy vacations in exotic places, all by enjoying their businesses but not being tied to it day after day.

See the Clubs’ features here:

Golden Basket Club
Baskets 411 Club

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