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24 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

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While I would like to say there was a very expensive marketing and PR campaign for our company that really was not the case. PR gets a bad rap for spinning stories, but I believe that telling great, authentic stories is the real heart and soul of communications and public relations. 15-I wanted an ocean-related name.

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Blending Paid Social with Organic Social :: Small Business.

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While initial social media initiatives were focused primarily on building and engaging in organic ways, smart marketers are now adding paid campaign support to the social mix very much like search engine marketing relies on PPC ad support.

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Weekend Favs May Twenty Eight :: Small Business Marketing Blog.

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GaggleAMP – tool that let’s you get your customers and partners involved in amplifying your social media campaigns. Image Pascal Mages via Flickr Good stuff I found this week: Gridly – Agency like templating system that makes it very easy to create consistently branded print materials. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

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Understanding the Most Fundamental Shift in Marketing :: Small.

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The idea behind this graphic I call the Marketing Hourglass is that marketing is no longer a hunt and close business, it’s a be found, build trust, nurture, wow and refer business.

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5 Practical Tips for Getting More from Facebook :: Small Business.

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Apps and contests and campaigns to get more Likes are all fine, but the real payoff is at the wall. Particularly true of mobile users.) What this means is that you must commit to making your Wall and your status updates frequent, human and compelling.

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What to Leave In, What to Leave Out :: Small Business Marketing.

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You should also add a series of routine systems and tools to all of your campaigns, calls to action and Web pages as striking the right balance of elements, colors, words, and images can send your conversion rates soaring with very time and money invested.

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Okay, I'm Creating Content How Do I Get Someone to Read it 4.

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Stop thinking from a campaign mentality. Your content is competing with everyone and everything, even traditional media companies. Make your content unique, interesting, fun (if possible), multichannel and execute the crap out of it. 5. Lack of a Content Calendar. Content for your customers is a promise.