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Start your 2009 Success with our Kick-Start Marketing “Book Club”!

Published in November 20th, 2008
Posted by Michael in Uncategorized
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Get a Start on 2009 Success
Get a Start on Your Marketing Plan
It’s amazing how quickly the year has flown by and if you are like many small business owners you still don’t have a marketing plan.
But without a plan how can you expect to meet your goals?
In difficult economic times like this it is more [...]

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Social Media for Small Business

Published in November 13th, 2008
Posted by Michael in Business tools, Marketing Strategy, Networking
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John Jantsch from Duct Tape Marketing has put together an e-book about how to use the various Social Media. Its a free download and you can get it by clicking on the link below.
Standing out and marketing a business takes work, but many of the social media tools make that work much easier and, for [...]

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Grow Your Business with this Free Marketing Seminar

Published in November 9th, 2008
Posted by Michael in Events
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Tired of wasting your marketing dollars on activities that don’t work? Lacking a plan for growth?
This marketing teleclass (held by phone and internet) will help you identify the key areas that will enable you to position your business for growth.
In our one hour seminar you will learn why and how to:

Narrow your marketing focus
Find and [...]

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Post Election Vibes Good For Business?

Published in November 5th, 2008
Posted by Michael in Business trends, Social trends
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The election is over and wow, what an interesting evening it was. I get the sense that in a few hours the mood of the country changed. My friend Phil Bernstein said it so very well on his blog this morning:
Last night on CNN, I watched John McCain deliver a gracious and respectful concession speech. [...]

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Marketing Information Seminar November 13th

Published in November 4th, 2008
Posted by Michael in Events
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If you are interested in some marketing help but are not sure where to start, I am hosting a one hour marketing teleseminar on Thursday November 13th at 2:00 pm. The seminar is called “The 7 Steps to Small Business Marketing Success” and it will be for one hour including questions.
There is no charge to [...]

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Do Social Network Profiles Help Your Business?

Published in October 30th, 2008
Posted by Michael in Blogging, Business trends, Social trends
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I recommend this excellent post from John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing about the value of social networks for business.
Read on:
“Sometimes people question the benefits of belonging to multiple social networks and building out all those detailed profiles on each.
I don’t know that I want to use this post to try to convince you on [...]

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Act today and get 25% off a Marketing Intensive Seminar

Published in October 24th, 2008
Posted by Michael in Events
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John Jantsch, author of Duct Tape Marketing wants to help you
create your marketing plan in person, in the beautiful Sonoma
County region of California -
Spend two transformative days with him and the folks at E-Myth
Worldwide Thursday, November 13 and Friday, November 14 to
develop the marketing and lead generation systems that will take
your business to the next [...]

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Marketing in a Recession?

Published in September 22nd, 2008
Posted by Michael in Marketing Strategy, Podcasts
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With all the bad economic news many companies cut back or postpone their marketing. I know if sounds self serving (since I am a marketing coach) but if you think about it, marketing is an investment in growing your company. It is not just a cost. If you are spending money on marketing and it [...]

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Marketing Plan Pro Software Now Powered by Duct Tape Marketing

Published in September 14th, 2008
Posted by Michael in Business tools
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It’s been about a year in the works but Palo Alto Software’s Marketing Plan Pro software is now powered by Duct Tape Marketing. What this means is that the software’s methodology has been modified to use the Duct Tape Marketing process. It lines up nicely with the workbooks and is something I will be using [...]

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Duct Tape Marketing Book the Subject of Book Club

Published in April 30th, 2008
Posted by Michael in Networking
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The Clark County Chamber has a book club and they are in the process of studying John Jantsch’s book “Duct Tape Marketing - The World’s Most Practical Small Business Marketing Guide”. I have been invited to be there to answer questions and provide extra insight. Its a good group of people so I encourage you [...]

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