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marketing ideas
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Questions for Small Businesses: Ask the Right Ones
What’s limiting your company’s growth isn’t your marketing strategy. It’s your ugly baby. Small business owners often come to us with tactical sales and marketing questions in their effort to attract more customers and improve...
April 11, 2016
5 Marketing Lessons We Can Learn from Google
I am always looking for marketing lessons to help my small business clients get better results. This week I got an unsolicited telephone call from Google, of all companies, which started me thinking. Why is...
May 21, 2012
86 Common Sense Marketing Ideas for Startups
When starting a business, marketing is (or should be) the business owner's biggest priority. Yet many startups have no clue about marketing. With that in mind, I thought who better to learn what works in...
May 11, 2012
10 Budget-Friendly Ways to Market Your Business
Every business owner needs to make the most of their marketing dollars and sometimes thinking outside the box can help you do much more with less. Here are 10 great ways to market your business...
April 22, 2012
5 Creative Marketing Ideas for Mother’s Day
Mother's Day is Sunday May 13th, 2012, and is an excellent opportunity to build buzz for your business with some creative marketing! From Mother's Day Contests to Mother's Day themed promotions, here are 5 creative...
April 15, 2012
9 Big Marketing Ideas for Small Business
Small business owners are always on the lookout for that one big marketing idea that will catapult their business into the stratosphere. What I've found, however, is that it isn't just one marketing idea but...
March 25, 2012
30 Ways to Make Your Business Stand Out From the Crowd
Let's face it, starting a business can be very easy, but staying in business can be very difficult given that our customers have too many choices on where to spend their hard-earned cash. So the...
January 15, 2012
28 Small Business Marketing Resolutions for the New Year
It is common practice to set New Year's resolutions in our personal lives, but how often do we do it for our business? As you look forward to running your small business in 2012, think about...
December 19, 2011
Seasonal Branding: How It Can Increase Sales
I received this post about seasonal branding in an email the other day and I liked it so much I thought I would share it with you. Question: Do you do any seasonal branding? If...
September 9, 2011
9 Unusual Low Cost Marketing Ideas with Extraordinary Results
Whether you're a startup or you've been in business a while, you don't have to spend a lot of money on marketing to get extraordinary results. Here are some usual marketing ideas that reaped extraordinary...
September 1, 2011
Small Business Marketing Ideas for September
If you're a business owner looking for some creative marketing ideas, you've come to the right place. Let me tell you something- If it's being talked about on the news or on the Internet, then...
August 15, 2011
9 Sizzling Summer Marketing Ideas
Many business owners say that their sales slow down in the summer for various reasons. But just because it's summer doesn't mean it has to be slow for your business. Here are 9 summer marketing...
June 5, 2011
Are Traditonal Marketing Strategies Still Best?
A recent survey about marketing to marketers examined how marketers want to be contacted. It claims they do not want phone calls, they prefer an e-mail with links. They say they don't want cold calls...
February 21, 2006