February 7, 2012 - 12:50 pm
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Is Your Marketing Producing the Results You Expected
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The poll question above is a bit loaded and, not that I want to skew the results, the answer for most lies in the fact that they don’t really know what results they expected or what result they are actually [...]
February 7, 2012 - 7:41 am
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But it is the new reality for just about every organization.
Vertical marketing means the marketer (the one with money) is in charge. Vertical marketing starts at the top and involves running ads, sending out direct mail and pushing hype through the media. Your money, your plans, your control. It might not work, but generally the [...]
February 5, 2012 - 12:50 pm
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There are two types of entrepreneurs: those that jump into a new business headfirst, and those that dip their toes in the water. One’s not better than the other, though the second one is probably more prepared for what lies ahead. In Making the Jump into Small Business Ownership (@MakingtheJump), authors David Nilssen (@DavidNilssen) and Jeff [...]
February 5, 2012 - 12:51 am
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That one company mentioned? It happens to be mine. Early on, much wasn’t being spent on marketing simply because the funds weren’t available. Some dabbling was done with the usual suspects: the Yellow Pages, online ads, etc. None seemed to do more to build my brand online. So now, five years later, surprisingly nothing is [...]
February 3, 2012 - 12:51 am
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How much time have you wasted going round and round on solutions that just didn’t work? Or what about a mix and match business strategy? Where you do a little bit of this and little bit of that, does it really work out in the end?
I mean for a business, or any dream for that [...]
February 3, 2012 - 12:51 am
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How much time have you wasted going round and round on solutions that just didn’t work? Or what about a mix and match business strategy? Where you do a little bit of this and little bit of that, does it really work out in the end?
I mean for a business, or any dream for that [...]
February 1, 2012 - 12:50 pm
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Does Your Marketing Make the Grade
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A number of years ago Hubspot created something called the Website Grader, a tool that graded a [...]
January 30, 2012 - 12:51 am
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It might be hard to read those little baskets on the desk, but they’re labeled “Frying Pan” and “Fire.”
I’d love to take more credit for this, but it’s based on an old co-worker’s desk. She had the traditional “In” and “Out” paper bins, but she also had one labeled “OMG!” where I’m assuming she kept [...]
January 28, 2012 - 12:49 pm
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Many small business owners work from home, but very few of these same owners would be comfortable inviting a prospective client to see their home office. The home office often ranges from controlled chaos to a black hole where invoices and client information are never seen from again. Organize Your Home Office for Success – [...]