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Marketdna – The Ultimate Edge For Short-term Trading
Dec 18th
Marketdna Is Unlike Any Other Indicator Available. It’s Not Based On Prices. It Is Based On The Markets’ Own Internals In A Proprietary Formula That’s Recorded On Your Screen In Real-time. For Tradestation Or Thinkorswim Platforms Only. The Ultimate Edge.
Marketdna – The Ultimate Edge For Short-term Trading
Postcard Mailer Marketing Tool – Cutting Edge Business Model!
Aug 2nd
This is the most effective marketing tool you will ever see! Watch the video and learn. Everyone wants to make extra cash these days, and this product teaches them how to build a Real business and expect Real, Immediate results!
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Cutting Edge Marketing from the Front Lines
Jul 15th
If you’re looking for the future of small business marketing, look no further. Here are the top stories from the cutting edge with ideas ready for your next marketing campaign on the small business front lines. Got a tip, technique or strategy of your own you’d like to share? Leave a comment below and add to our list of marketing tips from small business leaders just like you.
Marketing Trends
The power of the simple text. Whether marketing for a “cause” or for your brand or business, don’t underestimate the power of the simple text message. With other marketing technologies exploding out there, Joe Waters observes, it remains the one kind of communications almost everyone in every demographic knows how to use. Have you considered text messaging for your business? Huffpost Impact
Is Google Plus the new frontier? The search giant has thrown down the challenge with its new social platform containing many features that may already be familiar to Facebook and other social network users. But the question is whether the new social universe created by Google can attract the overall volume and level of acceptance that makes it appealing as a marketing platform. memeburn
Latest Tech
StumbleUpon upgrade holds new possibilities. Marketers know the unique power of StumbleUpon to drive big traffic in the social universe. Though, as Cynthia Boris explains, this traffic comes at a price. So how will a new iPad upgrade of the popular social bookmarking site affect its overall effectiveness as a tool for online marketing? Marketing Pilgrim
Online marketing hits the mainstream. A few years ago, Emily Ditman’s full-time job driving traffic to sites operated by the hotel industry might have seemed as improbable as her ambitions for a professional career in dance. Today, online marketing is an increasingly important part of promoting businesses large and small. What’s the next step in marketing your small business? The New York Times
Tricks of the Trade
Twitter tricks for maximum exposure. When outspoken rapper Lupe Fiasco suddenly gave up his Twitter account just one day before fellow recording artist Nikki Jean’s most recent album hit stores allowing her to tweet to more than 722 thousand followers in his place, at least one fan suspected an ulterior motive. Was Lupe’s social media burnout really a clever marketing ploy for Nikki? SOOH.com
The art of silence. Just as in a conversation the things you leave out can be just as important as what you say, so marketer Carolyn Higgins insists your marketing message can be improved by the right ommissions. What messages are you incorporating into your marketing campaign? Are there things that would be better left unsaid? Fortune Marketing Company
Contributor of the Week. We didn’t ask her to, we swear, but Susan Oakes did an interesting analysis of a new effort on our sister site BizSugar designed to drive involvement on both the main community and Facebook. We won’t yammer on about it because Susan does a pretty comprehensive analysis and we’re all VERY proud of how it’s going. M4B Marketing
News & Comment
Cutting marketing in a tough economy? While no one could fault businesses for belt tightening and trying to do more with less in lean times, the logic of cutting back on marketing in an effort to preserve already reduced profits seems somewhat misguided. Marketing need not be expensive but it is the one part of your business absolutely imperative when seeking to boost the bottom line. The Guardian
Customer service as a marketing tool. A recent survey suggests some American consumers may be willing to pay at least 10 percent more for good customer service making it an important potential product differentiation when marketing any product or service. Have you thought about how your customer service impacts your bottom line? Are there ways you could increase the level of customer service in your business? Daily Markets
Old School Solutions
Humanizing your small business? If customer service is a form of marketing, then blogging for your business is a step in the same direction. Using a business blog to engage customers directly on a personal level remains the very essence of customer service and relationship building. Are you using a business blog to market and provide customer service for your brand? Canada One
Cutting Edge Marketing from the Front Lines
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The Trade Show Edge
Jul 4th
Discover how trade show exhibitors can attract and satisfy the trade show attendee with a compelling exhibit experience! You can achieve a greater return on your trade show investment. Its your key to extra profits! – $37.95 – *Has a 50% affiliate payout
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Optimized Reviews May Be the Next Local SEO Edge
Jun 14th
Optimized Reviews May Be the Next Local SEO Edge
This content from: Duct Tape Marketing
I’ve suggested often that reviews in your Google Places and Yelp pages have become a very necessary aspect of trust building as well as local SEO. So much so that getting proactive in stimulating reviews in all the right places must be on the checklist of marketing action steps.
Today Google added an interesting twist to Google Maps searches called Descriptive Terms that injects another dynamic – search optimized reviews. Google has started indexing local search results with phrases that accompany things like reviews. So if you search Marketing Agencies Kansas City, MO you get one set of listing and if you add something like “digital work” to the search the list changes based on words in the reviews.
Right now this is just a Google Maps function, but Google claims it will spread in Place search on Google.com and Google Maps for mobile soon!
Better start suggesting keyword phrases for those reviews people are anxious to write.
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Social Media Enthusiasm Gap Gives Republican Candidates A Landslide Edge Over Democrats
Sep 26th
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Chattanooga’s speedy Internet may give it jobs edge
Sep 26th
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Small Business News: The Competitive Edge
Sep 8th
Small business is not for the faint of heart. And, while we’re on the subject, it’s not for those who want a predictable existence where everything stays the same. Making your small business work and then grow will require sharp thinking and decisive action. But most importantly, it will require a competitive edge. For any small business, survival will depend on going head to head with larger companies that are, in many cases, better financed and more experienced than you and coming out on top time and time again.
Tips
Don’t like change? Tough. Todd’s video post is brief and to the point but also happens to be the “top pick” by BizSugar visitor’s today. He’s got a great quote on change and a message that applies to everyone in small business today. Todd Youngblood’s “SE” Blog
Reaching those crazy-busy customers. No matter if you’re part of the sales force or the sales manager of an small to medium sized business or the owner of a little company trying to make that first sale, Tibor’s advice is to get used to dealing with busy prospects who have no interest in your product and no time to listen to your pitch. The Pipeline
Success Stories
15 entrepreneurs tell their stories. It’s safe to say most big businesses start as small ones so what we can learn from entrepreneurs who’ve built big and successful companies can be very informative to anyone starting their own small business. In this series of interviews, David Siteman Garland talks with 15 entrepreneurs who have succeeded in building $1,000,000+ companies. The Rise to the Top
Self-development
When David meets Goliath. S. Anthony Iannarino’s post aptly includes a photo of a slingshot, an obvious reference to taking on the big guy, a common experience for any small business owner or employee working for a smaller firm. Competing against larger established companies is a fact of life for small businesses, particularly startups, and succeeding against the odds is a matter of survival. The Sales Blog
Your attitude is everything. Whether you’re the guy out with prospects, customers and clients selling your own product as the head of your small firm or have a small sales force to do it for you, setting the tone with a positive attitude is critical. This post looks at how to cure your attitude as a sales professional, but as a small business owner you’ll be the lead sales person whether you’re the one going door to door or not. Sales Blogcast
Tech
Small town business survival. Martin Lindeskog interviews Small Biz Survival blogger and rural small business expert Becky McCray in this podcast covering the technologies and techniques that help small town businesses survive and thrive in the era of the Internet and how geography need no longer be a boundary for any entrepreneur. Ego
Contests
Have you contributed to the SugarTone Sweet Business Blogging Contest? The submission portion of the contest has ended but members of BizSugar.com and Bloggertone.com still have until Thursday to vote for their favorite blog or leave a compelling comment. The winning blogger will receive $350 in prizes and the winning comment $250. BizSugar Blog
Book Shelf
Clutch: Why Some People Excel Under Pressure But Others Don’t. Pierre DeBois reviews a book that could be about your business…or not. One thing for certain is that all small business owners face some level of stress and the trick is how the best respond. Small Business Trends
Competitive Selling: Out-Plan, Out-Think, Out-Sell to Win Every Time. Real success in small business comes down to being able to out perform the competition. And for companies short on financing and resources, this comes down to sales and lots of them. Good then that we have this book from professional sales trainer Landy Chase about the key to getting it right reviewed by Ivana Taylor. Small Business Trends
Conclusion
Giving yourself time to recharge. For Barry J. Moltz this means getting off of the Internet or off “the grid” as he calls it. But whatever it is that helps you rest and regroup is an important part of keeping that competitive edge. Without it, burnout will overtake the most dedicated entrepreneur and where’s the competitive edge in that. Your Business Unstuck
Small Business News: The Competitive Edge
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America is Losing its High Tech Entrepreneurial Edge
Aug 2nd
Observers have long pointed to the United States as a shining example of entrepreneurship and innovation. In 2006, the Economist magazine gushed, “No country has mastered innovation and entrepreneurship as effectively as America.”
Perhaps that was once true, but it’s not anymore.
In a speech introducing the President’s new National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke said, “America’s innovation engine is not as efficient or as effective as it needs to be, and we are not creating as many jobs as we should.”
Recent data suggests that Secretary Locke is right. A study by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation looked at the progress at innovation that 40 countries made over the past decade. The U.S. came in dead last. That is, whether they were ahead or behind us at innovation in 1999, the 39 other countries examined gained ground on us over the past ten years.
Fortunately, we were doing pretty well at innovation in 1999 so we still came in sixth in 2009. But the trend doesn’t bode well for the future.
Other studies also show our less-than-stellar innovation performance. A recent report by the Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD) looked at the per capita rate at which inventors in 38 nations filed for triadic patents – patents for the same invention filed in the United States, Japan, and Europe. The data shows that, in this event, we’re out of medal contention in eighth place, well behind countries like Switzerland, Japan, and Sweden.
Of course, while American business overall may be lagging in its innovativeness, our entrepreneurs might still be top of the heap at innovation.
The OECD data suggest not.
Looking at two measures – the share of companies less than five years old that file patents and the share of patents that went to companies under the age of five – across 13 industrialized countries, the United States came in third, after Norway and Denmark. While a respectable showing, it’s not where we need or want to be.
Moreover, the numbers have been getting worse, not better. As I explained in an earlier post, data from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office shows that in 2001, 25.9 percent of U.S. patents went to small entities. By 2009, that number had dropped to 19.9 percent.
We aren’t investing in high tech start-ups the way we used to. In an earlier post, I pointed out the unhealthy trends in the U.S. venture capital industry. The number of deals made, capital invested, and exits are all down from their levels back in the mid 1990s, before the Internet bubble hit.
Venture capital accounts for less of U.S. economic activity than that of many other countries. As the figure below shows, in 2008, the U.S. invested a smaller share of its gross domestic product in venture capital than ten OECD countries, and a larger share than only twelve of them.
While the U.S. still remains a solid player at high tech entrepreneurship, the trend over the past decade makes it difficult to say that “no country has mastered innovation and entrepreneurship as effectively as America.”
America is Losing its High Tech Entrepreneurial Edge
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Search Engine Optimization Company Offers Edge in Website Optimization and Link Building
Jul 21st
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