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Are your marketing messages crafted through a business owner’s eyes or through a potential client’s eyes? A business owner sees the cost, the time, the effort and energy that goes into creating a marketing piece. The business owner’s perspective is that marketing is meant as a means to sell something. A potential client
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Monthly Archives: July 2008
Orange County Earthquake and Predictable Disasters
An earthquake is not exactly a surprise, especially if you live in California. You always know that an earthquake could happen any day, but it's always a surprise when the earthquake hits. Orange County earthquakes are a predictable disaster. Isn't the same thing true for business?
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5 Tips for Hiring a Graphic Designer or Marketing Agency
Here are 5 tips for companies hiring graphic designers and marketing agencies.
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Are you changing the right piece?
I was sitting and watching TV with my husband last night and one of the Volkswagen “autobahn for all” sales event commercials came on. We have a DVR so it is rare for us to watch the commercials, but I am actually entertained by the Volkswagen ones. They are clever,
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Coaching Excellence Series with Stephen M.R. Covey
So far in John Jantsch's Duct Tape Marketing Coaching Excellence Series, we have had some amazing interviews, and the next session looks to be no different. On August 18th from 12pm-1pm CDT (10am-11am PDT) , John will be interviewing Stephen M.R. Covey. They will be discussing Covey's book
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Google Keyword Tool
Today, John Jantsch, the author of Duct Tape Marketing, wrote a great post about Google’s Keyword tool that I just had to pass on! We have used it so many times for our pay-per-click campaigns and have just started using it for keyword suggestions for our websites, just like John
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3 almost free ways to improve your marketing
Simply put: marketing is one of the most important things that your business can do to get more business. And it can get expensive in a hurry. But, there are some easy ways to increase your marketing without increasing your marketing cost. Here are 3 of the tactics that we use,
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Orange County Marketing Agency introduces a new small business marketing website
Orange County Marketing Agency, Tornado Marketing, introduces a new small business marketing website Tornado-Tools.com Self-Service Marketing Website for Small Businesses ORANGE COUNTY, CA – July 18, 2008 – Orange County marketing agency, Tornado Marketing, recently launched a website advising small businesses on which marketing tools are most effective for
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Connecting Social Media Sites
Connecting online through social media has quickly become one of the most effective and affordable ways for regionally-based small businesses to connect to their target audience - at first virtually, and then hopefully off-line.
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Tornado Marketing and ElaborateSEM Blogging workshop
At the Tornado Marketing blog, we work hard to always provide you with quality content that will help you grow your business. Blogging is also an easy and fun way to promote your business – BUT if you don’t have your blog set up right, you won’t be getting the
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