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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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Category Archives: Tips and Tricks
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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Marketing lessons from the poker table
I just got back from Las Vegas, watching thousands of people risk thousands of dollars to play for fame and fortune at the World Series of Poker. There’s a reason so many successful poker players are also successful entrepreneurs. The skills overlap. Here are some lessons from the poker felt
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Why did we create the Tornado Marketing blog?
Tornado Marketing posted it’s 100th blog yesterday!! Time to break out the premium coffee (I would say champagne…but I still have to get some work done today!) Writing our 100th post is definitely a milestone worth celebrating, but it is also cause for reflection. I spent a little time looking back
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The all-important referral
There is no ‘one way’ to get referrals, but there are a lot of simple things you can do to make it easier and more likely that you will get them! But, when I am talking to my clients about getting more referrals, I usually tell them to follow these
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Do you know a good advertisment when you see one?
I was looking in the newspaper the other day, and my eyes ran across an advertisement for dental implants. Normally, I don’t pay much attention to the ads, but this one stopped me in my tracks. Unfortunately, not because it was a good one. After looking at it for a couple
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Tame the Tornado
Adrianne Machina, Authorized Duct Tape Marketing Coach, and Owner of Tornado Marketing reveals the 7 top tips for taming your personal tornado (i.e. Getting organized, and living your best life!)
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Tornado Marketing via Wordle
Wordle is in one word: Fantastic! It doesn’t have any social media capabilities, it doesn’t connect you to a bunch of people and it doesn’t make it easy to read all your blogs. But, it does allow you to bring out your creative side, share it with the world, and
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Keys to Keywords with PPC Advertising
In August, we here at Tornado Marketing are planning to do some co-marketing training sessions with Steve Wiideman of ElaborateSEM. So this week I sat in on one of his pay-per-click training sessions to see how we could build on each other's expertise. With Steve's permission, we thought we'd
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Come meet the Tornado Marketing Team
Tonight and tomorrow Adrianne Machina and Kirsten Wright from Tornado Marketing will be presenting at two Small Business Meetups in the Orange County / Irvine area. For the last week we have been prepping our material, planning our presentations and getting very excited! After the meetings, our presentations will be available
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