{"id":28600,"date":"2024-08-27T17:30:43","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T17:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/margretjons.com\/?p=28600"},"modified":"2026-05-09T16:48:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T16:48:01","slug":"5-mistakes-youre-making-in-your-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traffic-tap.com\/lifebeyondoffice.com\/5-mistakes-youre-making-in-your-business\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Mistakes You&#8217;re Making In Your Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hopefully you are the exception to these mistakes. If you&#8217;re not, take heart: 9 out of 10 online marketers make these very same mistakes. Here&#8217;s how to rise above your competition and <strong>increase your bottom line<\/strong> simply by NOT making these 5 mistakes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/homebusinessideas.com\/images\/learnfrommistakes.jpg\" alt=\"5 Mistakes You're Making In Your Business\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Spamming on social media<\/strong>. You opened your X account with the best of intentions to Tweet valuable content and answer questions, but now nearly every tweet you send out is a link promoting a product. If this is you, then it&#8217;s time for a change. Promotion is fine as long as it makes up only 20-30% of your tweets at MOST. The rest should be content rich and helpful to your followers. And this goes for every social media network, not just X.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Not testing<\/strong>. You create a new squeeze page but you don&#8217;t test one headline against another. Result? Every day that goes by, you are losing money. Test everything and eventually the exact same effort will yield 1.5, 2 or even 3 times the results.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Not asking for the sale<\/strong>. Whether you&#8217;re looking for an opt-in, a share or a sale, tell them exactly what you want them to do. If you don&#8217;t make your call-to-action clear, you will get less than stellar results every time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ignoring your current customers<\/strong>. Are you so busy looking for new business that you forget to pay attention to your most important asset &#8211; your current customers? These are the people who already trust you enough to have purchased at least one of your products. That&#8217;s why your current customers are actually your best future prospects in the world \u2013 treat them like gold.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Talking about you, you and YOU<\/strong>. Do you know who your customers care about? Themselves. <u>They don&#8217;t care about you, only about what you can do for them.<\/u> This sounds harsh, but it&#8217;s true. Yes, you can tell them an anecdote about what happened to you last weekend, but it better have something in it for them. Your customers don&#8217;t want you or your products. They want solutions to their problems. Remember this and you can&#8217;t go wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hopefully you are the exception to these mistakes. If you&#8217;re not, take heart: 9 out&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1585,"featured_media":28601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2926],"tags":[3002],"class_list":["post-28600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-online-marketing","tag-5-mistakes-youre-making-in-your-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traffic-tap.com\/lifebeyondoffice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traffic-tap.com\/lifebeyondoffice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traffic-tap.com\/lifebeyondoffice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traffic-tap.com\/lifebeyondoffice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1585"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traffic-tap.com\/lifebeyondoffice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/traffic-tap.com\/lifebeyondoffice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1002190,"href":"https:\/\/traffic-tap.com\/lifebeyondoffice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28600\/revisions\/1002190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traffic-tap.com\/lifebeyondoffice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traffic-tap.com\/lifebeyondoffice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traffic-tap.com\/lifebeyondoffice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traffic-tap.com\/lifebeyondoffice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}