Larson & Associates / Target Marketing & Telesales for New Account Acquisition

Monday:
Tuesday: Sept. Producer Price Index (B-), Sept. Housing Starts and Building Permits (B-)
Wednesday:
Thursday: Weekly initial jobless claims (C+), Sept Leading Indicators (D-)
Friday: Sept Existing Home Sales (C+)

Larson note: Looking to keep the upward outlook this week. I am looking for producer pricing so say flat and housing starts to continue to go up and home sales to contintue strong as though the end of November with the government tax credit of $8000… Continue

Facebook, twitter, ning sites and other social medial sites are great ways to engage your customers. There are many ways you as a marketer can take advantage of this new and misunderstood phenomenon.

1. Incorporate social media networking into a header or footer in your email template. You can keep it simple with a little link to your facebook fan page of your business twitter account; of you can make it quite complex and encourage sharing to Digg, Delicious or other sites. If you… Continue

Monday:
Tuesday:
Wednesday: Retail Sales, Business Inventories
Thursday: Weekly initial jobless claims, Consumer Price Index, Crude Inventories
Friday: Industrial Production, Capacity Utilization

Larson note: I was a little surprised by the retail sales report for September as were a lot of people. I guess school supplies were really selling like hot cakes. That and consumer bowering going down will only help in the long run. But it is still employment. Do you add pe… Continue

If your company does not have anything to talk about, go out and find or make something happen. You need to get out from under your rock and say all those great things you and your company are doing to the world as we know it.

1. Tell the people something new. People love to find new things and make new discoveries. If you provide interest items on your SM or Blog sites let your customers and prospects find them so they can help you spread the word.

2. Find out who’s talking. Twi… Continue

Monday:
Tuesday:
Wednesday: Consumer Credit, Treasury Budget
Thursday: Weekly initial jobless claims, Wholesale Inventories
Friday: Trade Balance

Larson note: I was ready this week. Auto sales drop, employment rate higher. Still I like what I and my people are hearing off the street.

This week, don’t expect anything good report wise. We need inventories to keep low and I am not sure if they are low enough. My only suggestion is to pick your battles and push forward.… Continue