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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Return on Networking – the ROI of Social Media

I was never a fan of the cocktail party-variety networking scene. I will never be one to dart around a room shoving business cards into people’s hands. I prefer meaningful conversations with people, getting to know them and vice versa. Bu...

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Lost Sales Leads: 4 Common Problems & How to Correct Them

U.S. businesses spend billions of dollars generating sales leads only to lose more than 70 percent of them simply because they don’t make contact quickly enough, according to one study. But that’s not the only way they’re losing out on oppor...

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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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Getting The Most Out Of Your Next Trade Show

Trade shows are a key component of every industry, association, and professional meeting. Their importance cannot be over stated for the attendees, the sponsoring organization, and the exhibitors themselves. Trade show attendees have access to...

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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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Niche Marketing Strategies for Small Businesses: Find Your Niche First!

Niche marketing strategies for small businesses will allow you to spend you efforts and your marketing budget attracting the best prospects, those who are already looking for what we're selling. While that's obvious is it too simplistic? If al...

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Strategic Marketing Implementation

Strategic marketing implementation is what's important to your success. It really doesn't matter how much research you do, even though that's that's the second most important element of developing you marketing strategy - unless you execute th...

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Small Business Marketing Research Requires Focus

Small companies think they have an easier time of it when it comes to marketing compared to the giant public companies. They believe that because they have a smaller range of products and intend to market them in a more easily defined area. ...

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Marketing Advice For Small Businesses: Develop Relationships First

Here's a little marketing advice for small businesses you can quite literately take to the bank. In today's world of automated everything, "old fashioned" relationship building is critical - it will in fact set you apart from your competition. ...

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Small Business Internet Marketing Strategy

A small business Internet marketing strategy will differentiate your company from your less savvy competitors. And it will make your outfit a more attractive vender, supplier, joint venture partner for those next generation leaders who will deter...

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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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Niche Marketing Success Requires Research

Niche marketing is the key to ending up were you want to go. Who is your target, your ideal customer? Who can you serve most profitably, who is looking for what you're selling? Niche marketing research helps you identify them specifically. ...

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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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