Relationships Matter

Fact: success in business is always characterized by success in two areas:

• Relationships
• Follow up

Observation: these are the to-do’s that most often get pushed to the bottom of the list – even in these troubled times when “marketing” screams for your attention.

Fact: it’s a lot less expensive to work with the clients you already have than to generate new ones.

Let us help. We help small businesses reach out to your clients and prospects.

BizWorks Studio provides simple and effective communications, and we customize them for you, your business, and your VIPs. Those tools could include:

• E-Newsletters
• Personalized cards
• Facilitated conversations
• Brochures
• Website support
• Blogs
• PowerPoint presentations

We provide turnkey service or do the parts you don’t want to or can’t do - either individually or in targeted campaigns.

Business Community

One way to look at your business is as a community – one that includes workers and leaders, suppliers and associates, clients and prospects. Your business ties together this community to accomplish a purpose: your business mission and vision.

In the past, we’ve substituted many different words for the notion of “community,” including, most recently, “networking.” In olden days, people lived together in closely-knit families, tribes, and towns. These days, it’s difficult to identify the physical ties that bind us together. It’s cyber space – a global village.

But how does community work in this new age? How do your form a business community? How do you grow and communicate with your business community? How do you tap into it?

We don’t know. That is, unless we experience it. You may have experienced a powerful sense of unity on a team or as part of a musical group. We’ve experienced the feeling of community while volunteering. In those moments, everything is working, humming. Is your business like this?

What we offer is simple, effective ways to connect with members of your community – whatever kind of group it may be.

In these challenging times, it’s more important than ever to connect with your community. And we know that on a deep level.

Newsletters

Reaching Out is our free biweekly newsletter about building community – on many different levels. It’s one way we regularly connect with our community.

Your newsletter is intended to connect with your community. When you connect, you’ll just want to be yourself. Sound simple? It is!

There’s no need to sell here - to teach or to preach. You’ll just want to make your newsletter interesting and valuable.

People in your community want to hear what you think and feel about important issues affecting them. You have a unique point of view. You provide value to your community by sharing that point of view.

So, in your newsletter, you simply share who you are.

We enjoy helping people like you create your newsletters – from identifying your community through emailing your message. It’s easy for us, because we love to talk with and listen to you. We respect you and your unique point of view. We just capture that.

Cards

The vision we adhere to when giving or sending cards is a simple one: changing the world one card at a time. We offer ways to make sending cards fun and effective.

As we see it, cards serve two very important and often challenging functions: they help us acknowledge and they help us follow up.

In all our work with people, we still can’t get over how difficult it seems to acknowledge the contributions made by those around us. Cards make it easier.

And we all know that follow-up is what separates those who accomplish what they set out to do and those who do not. Using cards as part of a follow up system can be simple and rewarding.

We like getting cards – especially personal ones. We bet you do too. Imagine what it would be like if each of us sent out cards regularly.

Conversation

Although marketing is very difficult for most of you, talking about your passion is not.

Our simple system for generating meaningful conversations provides a unique marketing tool which allows you to maximize your best marketing skill: sharing your knowledge, experience, and passion. Our proven conversation format is simple, easy, and inexpensive. Our facilitated conversations encourage participation by diverse groups of clients, prospects, workers, or suppliers

We use conversation to explore ways value is exchanged when diverse people connect - sharing ideas, feelings, and experiences in a spirit of respect, curiosity, and caring.

Our conversations encourage participation and collaboration, and provide opportunities to learn, connect, and grow. As your conversations expand and eepen, members of your business community inevitably continue to uncover more ways to provide value to each other.

Collateral Material

It’s critical that every contact with your business community tells your story effectively and consistently. Getting the story right and making sure it shows up in everything you say and do is just as important as looking good.

Why not have both?

We love creating snappy brochures that tell your story elegantly and simply.

We love suggesting ways to improve your website and crafting tighter copy.

We love writing blogs to capture the imagination of your business community.

And yes, we even love assembling powerful PowerPoint presentations.

If you need help paying better attention to members of your business community – if you’re ready to begin improving the return on your marketing investment – let’s talk!