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The Economics of Engagement: Quantifying the Link Between Engagement and Growth

Engaged interaction reduces the need to chase down new prospects or return clients to grow your business. This video includes a link to the Rosetta® article that describes, The Economics of Engagement: Quantifying the Link Between Engagement and Growth.

JNL Creative Tours, LLC - we provide engaged tours so your prospects may step onto the bus as individuals but will step off to your venue as a part of your expanded network. Just one positive comment from your newly enhanced network provides your company with an invaluable recommendation.

Having Fun to build enhanced Business Relationships

This video is about having fun as a critical technique to enhance your business relationships. The included FedEx link shares tips on, 'Unforgettable Customer Relationship Events'.

https://smallbusiness.fedex.com/plan-some-fun.html.

JNL Creative Tours, LLC generates referrals designed to enhance your organization or company's bottom line, through creative tour events.

Growing your business through Linkedin

Sharing how using my Linkedin tools more productively has generated a stronger network for my business. This 8 minute YouTube video also includes a link providing '8 Ways to Grow Your LinkedIn Connections'.

JNL Creative Tours, LLC generates referrals for your business designed to enhance your company's bottom line, through creative tour events.

Tips for Building Strong Business Relationships

This video shares tips for Building Strong Business Relationships and includes the article, How to Network with a Purpose, to enhance your business prospecting.

JNL Creative Tours, LLC generate referrals to enhance your company's bottom line.

Network Building for Business Success

Are there 'bad' reasons why one may choose not to do business with you? 

Here's how I've begun changing some of those prospect's 'no's' and 'maybe's', to (now) my clients saying 'yes', through engaged networking. Included with this (approx. 4 min) video is a link to an article that provides 7 Habits of Highly Effective & successful Entrepreneurs. 

How enhanced networking increasingly has my new clients approaching me with new business

Accelerate your Business Growth through enhanced Relationship Engagement.

Growing a business can be very rewarding as it is also time consuming and challenging. This video will summarize my 2 year evolution from basically chasing after prospects to increasingly sitting down over coffee to brainstorm new ventures.

This article, 3 Rules of Building Business Relationships, has been extremely useful in my growing success. I suspect your business will also benefit.

Share your Expertise, Show your Value, Build your Business through JNL Creative Tours, LLC.

Share your Expertise - Show your Value - Build your Business

 

Investing the time to build relationships can generate invaluable referrals for enhancing your company's bottom line. Look at it like having a residual income that keeps working all by itself, for your business, in the form of referrals that does not inflate your budget or add excessive time to your clock.

This 2 min video nicely summarizes the concept of sharing your expertise to grow your business, through better value branding. 

This article provides 10 ways to share your expertise. Both resources are designed to get results for your company.

The common theme is to engage your audience, share common values, as you develop mutually beneficial relationships designed to strengthen your/their company's bottom line.

JNL Creative Tours, LLC is a creative events tour company that generates viable referrals leading to a stronger bottom line for your business. Your prospects, or clients, may step onto the bus as individuals but will step off to your venue as a part of your expanded network.

Why Exactly Do We Toast with Wine?

The holiday season is, once again, already rushing upon us. The more ingenious types among us will find numerous, and very valid, reasons to toast various celebratory moments.

I've always wondered why wine seems to be the preferred drink in many parts of the world. I gladly share a toast to this article on the history of toasting with wine.

Enjoy

Joe
JNL Creative Tours, LLC

I work Hard for my Money so why should I give any to You?

I work hard for my money, and I barely know you, so why should I give your business more of my time or money?

Do you, waaay too often, bump into this attitude both from your current clients and fresh prospects? You've already given them your business card, met over lunch and followed up with several phone calls. What's left?

According to a recent study by FedEx®, there is a proven marketing solution, ROR, that can elicit greater customer loyalty and patronage. Their study demonstrates that a company can anticipate up to 30% increased business growth, both in numbers and volume, by developing a solid ROR (return on relationship) marketing program.

ROR is about building relationships with your clients and prospects that can produce a stronger and more consistent bottom line. Discover, for your business, what FedEx® already uses for their business growth. The same ROR factor can ideally work for nonprofits to raise much needed funds for growing missions, also.

JNL Creative Tours, LLC provides creative bus tour events that are designed to build relationships that can lead to endorsements to create a stronger bottom line for your business. Your prospects may step onto the bus as individuals but will step off to your venue as a part of your expanded network.

7 Rental Car Tips for Families

Some trips are best served by bundling the family into a rented car for a very personally shared experience. Until now, I have always been confused about how to avoid the pitfalls of car rentals.

This article nicely clarified the air and I think you'll find it as useful as I did.

Joe
JNL Creative Tours, LLC

Relationships, do they create Distractions or, Resources?

This article is written to actively seek your experiences and opinions.

I have a trait shared by many of my entrepreneurial associates, being so focused on my business success that I tend to not 'hang-out' with the crowd. I simply have too many things to get done, as of yesterday. The people I associate with are inclined to be like minded.

Our focus is clear and our efforts are driven.

Yes, in the Linkedin family you Do get to Choose your Relatives

We anticipate certain things from family, such as support and loyalty. We tolerate certain things about family, such as habits and attitudes. After all, family is family, and we don't get to choose how those genes spill out into the world. 

It's often said that one doesn't get to choose their family members. So, it’s not unheard of that we may also try to keep any family skeletons hidden away.

The Linkedin Family

I have discovered a certain affinity to Linkedin as an extended family. I assume that members are savvy to understand, and sharp enough to act on the potential resources offered by Linkedin. After all, I joined Linkedin with the intent to enhance my business success.

When I meet a new contact, and as we exchange cards, I ask if they belong to Linkedin. If they say yes, I smile...I've just discovered a new family member that I can interact and grow with.

Building your Business can be less stressful

My natural skills is servicing my business. I'm very good at what I do and I offer an excellent product that's backed by fantastic service. However, I'm aware that networking is an important tool to build my business but I often find that the process can be very stressful. 

Some people seem to thoroughly enjoy networking events. They're surrounded by an ever present and tight circle of friends. The continual roar of dialogue bangs against my eardrums.

Excellent Business is Exceeding Expectations

I recently read an update from a member of my Linkedin network that, good business is meeting the needs of your client. My response was we have found that, excellent business means exceeding the expectations of your client.

As we talk about 'generating business', we may overlook that we actually mean we're 'interacting with people'. Here at JNL Creative Tours, we've learned that people more readily trust and respond to relationships that they feel good about. 

We've observed that prospects in the second group are much more likely to brag about their experience from and value of your business, to their associates. Some would call this a recommendation, likely to have far more value than any formal presentation by your company or organization.

We call this good marketing.

JNL Creative Tours, LLC, building relationships for a stronger bottom line through creative bus tour events.

Building Relationships - critical for these 3 key points for Fundraising on a Tight Budget

Not for Profit organizations are increasingly challenged to meet the needs of their served population despite shrinking budgets in an increasingly competitive industry. However, each organization potentially has untapped access to almost unlimited and affordable resources, to help grow their program.

This article, by The Non Profit Times, provides 3 key ingredients for fundraising. The core theme is to develop solid relationships for strong growth, despite a tight budget.

Valentine's Day, highlight your great relationship with the perfect match of Wine & Chocolate

I enjoy wine because of the varied flavors, body and nuances that wine provides. I even know enough about wines that you pair red wine with red meat and, white wine with just about everything else.

However, I definitely didn't know that the percentage of cacao in the chocolate will determine what wine pairs best with chocolate. Anything that's going to make my wine world (I mean relationship) better is, of course, worth learning and sharing.

The Royce® company wants to share their formula for a perfect match, of wine & chocolate. with the special people in your life.

Enjoy and, Happy Valentine's Day!  -The JNL Creative Tours family

Why I stopped passing-out at those networking events

A few years back I often found myself passing-out at networking events. I had business cards printed with bold lettering, embossed design and a holographic logo. I spent a lot of time of the card's design because I was convinced that these special cards would make my business pop.

I was primed, with cards in hand, to attend the very next networking event. I'd made it a point to arrive early so I would have maximal opportunity to immediately begin passing-out my business cards. I would extend to right hand not to shake their hand but to pass out my newly created business icon.

Beginning to get the picture?