The Most Rewarding Marketing Mistake I Ever Made

Recently, a colleague asked me, “What was the most rewarding marketing mistake you ever made in business?” It’s a great question, and I quickly had an answer for him because it was an incredibly painful marketing mistake. However, it pro...

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Trade Shows Expert Shares 3 Cutting-Edge New Technologies

‘Jetson’-Age Tools Click with Big-Event Planners Most of us think about technology on a mostly two-dimensional plane as we flick our way from screen to screen on touch glass. But today’s tech includes applications that are far from flat, s...

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John Child: Top 5 Small Business Marketing Books

Top 5 Small Business Marketing Books There is certainly no shortage of great small business marketing books out there, but I thought I would take a shot at putting together my personal top 5. There's not really a science behind them, they are ju...

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Small Business Internet Strategy for Main Street

By now every company of every size has a web site of some sort, from a highly developed site created by world class designers, to Wordpress sites like this one, to database driven e-commerce web sites, to simply a Facebook page. What's often mis...

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Small Business Internet Strategy for Main Street

By now every company of every size has a web site of some sort, from a highly developed site created by world class designers, to Wordpress sites like this one, to database driven e-commerce web sites, to simply a Facebook page. What's often mis...

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Will Your Online Strategy Be Worth The Time and Effort?

Business owners always wonder, "Will my online strategy be successful?" That seems like one of the questions that is heard the most and is considered first before launching a serious effort into this previously unknown area of business. Whe...

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Looking For Small Business Marketing Success? Go Fly Fishing

Small business marketing success is a result of adding today's technologies to the tried and true strategies of the past - such as fly fishing. Small business marketing success today comes from the blurred distinction between sales and marketing t...

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The Internet Marketing Strategy for Small Businesses Explained

Steps to Choose Internet Marketing Strategy for Small Businesses Rising effectiveness of Internet marketing (IM) has necessitated small business owners to adopt efficient techniques to promote their businesses. As an owner of small business, ...

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Small Business Internet Marketing and Fishing, The Connection

When it comes to small business Internet marketing the key is to be right there, where the people already looking for what you're selling already are, always in easy reach when they are all set to take action. So if your small business Interne...

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Small Business Internet Marketing Research

Small Business Internet Marketing Step By Step Internet marketing for small businesses often revolves around the various elements of what is loosely referred to as "content marketing", the most common of which is article marketing. Article ma...

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Micro-Niche Marketing, A Crucial Element of Business Accomplishment

What on earth is nichemanship and is it still relevant to corporations and people attempting to develop or refine their strategic marketing plans and tactics? According to an online marketing directory, nichemanship is a expression used to ref...

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The Three Important Keys to Strategic Business Marketing

When it comes to developing a marketing strategy, remember the age old principle of accuracy first, momentum second. In terms of developing a marketing strategy, do you know why so many entrepreneurs are in such a rush to get momentum, to get tr...

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What Is The Link Between Web Marketing and Fly fishing?

Perhaps you have taken a shot at Montana fly fishing? You're the one out in nature all on your own wading in an ice cold creek with its bluish blue water flowing by. The sun's glistening reflection will make it hard for you to see more than thr...

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The Most Rewarding Marketing Mistake I Ever Made

Recently, a colleague asked me, “What was the most rewarding mistake you ever made in business?” It’s a great question, and I quickly had an answer for him because it was an incredibly painful mistake. However, it proved to be an invalua...

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Flat-Rate Webinar Tools Make Business Marketing Quicker

This isn't brain surgery. To market more of what we have to offer we have to get in front of the right people. We will need to connect with individuals who are in search of the solutions we provide, who're ready to buy those services, have the mo...

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What is Affiliate Marketing?

In a nutshell, affiliate marketing is selling a product or service you did not create - for a share of the sales price. I guess your local Chevy dealer is some sort of affiliate marketer then. In the auto industry and most of the world of phys...

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