I have to be honest, I don’t know the answer to this but I’d love to know your opinion.
I attend Jeff Schneider’s Sandler President’s Club. Its a sales training program and it is excellent — ask me for Jeff’s contact info if you need sales training, but I digress — anyway, at the Presidents Club [...]
Do Cute 30 Second Elevator Pitches Work?
Small Business PR
My experience is that few small businesses do much in the way of PR. It is largely an afterthought and so no wonder that when they do give it a try they are not successful. To make matters worse, many small business owners are “product centric”. While it is understandable that they are excited [...]
The Power of Niche Marketing
I heard a great segment on National Public Radio the other day which demonstrated in spades the value of niche marketing. It was about some folks who wanted to learn how to make a website and thought it would be funny to create a site for what they called the “Prairie Tumbleweed Farm” - a [...]
Top Management Can Actually Help
I read an interesting article in this month’s Marketing Management. It was about a study recently published by Rodrigo Guesalaga of Emory University’s Goizueta Business School that looked at the involvement of top level management in closing sales deals.
For small companies, often the top level management is the sales manager and the finance manager and [...]
Tag Cloud
-
Advertising ad words adwords american marketing association competitive difference cool Cornerstones dictionary Duct Tape Marketing environmental stewardship four hour work week google green grow sales ideas Internet introductions john jantsch local search marketing Marketing Strategy Networking oregon PBA podcast portland Portland Business Alliance productivity prospecting referral flood referrals Sales seminars small business small business marketing strategic alliances sustainability testing tim ferriss training vancouver visuwords washington women entrepreneurs
WP Cumulus Flash tag cloud by Roy Tanck requires Flash Player 9 or better.
New DTM Software
Categories
Archives
Login, RSS, etc
Upcoming Events
-
Introductory teleseminar to help small businesses grow their sales.
One hour bi-weeklyYou can get more information here.
The blogs I read
- Portland Small Business Blog
- Adverbox
- Portland's Finest Advertising Blog
- Small Business Building Blocks
- Duct Tape Marketing Blog
This random selection from my daily reads changes each time the page is refreshed.
Translators
