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Dec 3rd

Survey to choose the BLUK logo using Tweets, emails, phones

By Jon Davey
  • Which will win the rabbit or the hair?
  • Which will win the Business Leads UK choose a logo competition?
  • Will it be A, B ,C or D ... will it be Twitter, online form, email or phone?

    BLUK logo options - click to VOTE NOW!

    Jason Orange, no sorry his branding is all orange, Jason Hopkins from Inspiro Creative Communications forwarded to me the 4 logos to choose from and I figured let us ask the audience ... but also, let’s see which technology they prefer!


    VOTE NOW! 
  • Which logo does it for you?

    Pick your favourite logo above A, B, C or D and then respond using your favourite current method of communication.


    1. Complete an online form ... ask a question, post a comment?
    If YES, compete the form below...

    2. Send an email
    If YES, send an email to jon . davey @ businessleadgeneration.co.uk (with no spaces!)

    3. Use Twitter - Tweet
    If YES, copy the following into your Twitter add a,b,c or d and hit send:
    #BLUK @jondavey I love Twitter, answer

    4. The Phone
    Call 01753 852904 and leave a message with Verbatim, THE call answering service, saying BLUK a, b, c or d


    Business Leads UK is Jon Davey’s venture into the business side of social media, creating a business social network using the latest bells and whistles. It is free to join ... if you want to be a group / thought leader, then you pay £5 per month for the privilege.

    Thank you.

    Jon

    Oct 4th

    What marketing tools are best to close sales?

    By Malcolm Wicks

    I recently carried out a survey of over 60 companies that asked which marketing tools are best for acquiring new customers. In #1 slot was Face to face networking. In #2 & #3 slots were Partners & agencies and Articles & white papers.


    Many prospects use their perception of Relationship, Expertise and Trust (RET) to help select suppliers. The top 3 certainly help support this view.
    By comparison the bottom three marketing tools were: Call centres, Price cuts and Cold calling. None of these are very likely to help anyone’s RET rating.

     
    We carry out RET customer surveys for individual clients and while results do vary the results of this multi company survey are pretty consistent. I can certainly see that RET is becoming increasing important to prospects as the economic environment becomes harsher. Hence the increased drive to be more customer focused in everything that we do.


    To read more about the survey results on the best marketing tools visit www.simpleplans.co.uk/7.HTML   Be interesting to hear if you get similar results.