Bootstrap your marketing: Market your business in unlikely places

Posted on Jul 14 2011 by

Welcome to part two of this multipart series on bootstrapping your marketing. Here’s a quick, easy way to promote your business with all of your outgoing documents.

Don’t Take Emotions Or Pricing For Granted

Posted on Jul 14 2011 by

If you are trying to sell something you don’t always have to appeal to your customer’s logic. If you can play off of emotions, you can easily make a sale. In many cases actually appealing ot emotion is stronger than appealing to logic.

Bootstrap your marketing: Be an online expert

Posted on Jul 08 2011 by

 It doesn’t take a ton of money to market your small business. All it takes is determination, combined with a little strategy. In this, the first of a multipart series, I’ll walk you through basic, low-cost marketing techniques that any small business can use to boost their marketing to the next level. On the [...]

Getting Maximum Use Out Of Your Summer Slow Time

Posted on Jul 06 2011 by

Simple tasks to take during the summer months to help your business stay on track.

Build Customer Loyalty and Increase Sales

Posted on Jul 05 2011 by

Can you think of business to which you are regular, repeat customer?  Why?  What does that business do for you to make you loyal? Is it extraordinary customer service, quality product, personalized service, all of the above?  For me it’s Dick Ponds, my local running shoe store.  They understand my needs, have a great staff, [...]

How to Measure Your Social Marketing Returns

Posted on Jul 01 2011 by

In my last post, I gave you three tips for generating leads with social search. Now it’s time to think about measuring the return on social marketing. There’s no question that social media has value. In a May 2011 online poll conducted by social marketing platform company Roost, more than 71 percent of the local [...]

Top Three Ways to Generate Leads With Social Search

Posted on Jun 28 2011 by

It’s a new era in social media — one where it’s not enough simply to create a Facebook page for your business and hope to attract fans. Welcome to the age of social search — and, for your small business, social marketing.

Should you clip coupons from your marketing budget?

Posted on Jun 21 2011 by

Coupons remain an effective marketing tool for both online and offline marketing campaigns.