If you run a small business, private practice are you indeed communicating with your potential customers out there?

Is your message simple and strong?

Is your marketing informative and to the point?

Are you marketing in such as way that you are telling the public or your target customer of your unique skills, services, superior abilities?

Are you showing your customers the advantages they receive when they buy your products or use your services?

Now I realize this is nothing more than marketing basics and that you probably are aware of such things and the needs to be able to answer these questions and perhaps you can. But when was the last time you asked these questions to yourself about your market niche? What unique skills or superior abilities and advantages do you have? You must have a realistic idea of your unique skills and superior abilities if you are to sell your products or services. You must be able to define these and also explain them in a simple way to your customers, prospects and potential clients. If you fail to define these things you are cheating yourself and your sales and someone, most likely your competition will come along and define them for you. Consider all this in 2006.