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I Have a Web Site, What Else Should I be Doing Online 2 :: Small.

Duct Tape Marketing

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! Make customers aware of the review page via: Business cards – on the back: “Love our service?

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Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Startup Lessons Learned

It was fall 2004, and the presidential election was in full swing. Finally the day came, we unleashed the landing page, emailed our existing customers, and started advertising online. Depending on the type of product, postings on forums, classifieds and emails could give enough information to help gauge potential response.

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Wednesday Guest Stars :: Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct.

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SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! All rights reserved.

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How to Run Effective Online Sweepstakes Campaigns

ConversionXL

We connect them to hundreds of thousands of potential new customers using email marketing, social networks, and display ad campaigns. Viral aspect of the campaign: The more sharing, the more points, and the greater the chances of winning in both the weekly and main prize (luxury all-inclusive weekend in Vihula Manor) draws.

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Should Founders Be Allowed to Take Money off the Table?

Both Sides of the Table

We trade emails on the topic of entrepreneurship often. But more spend = more viral opps = more revenue down the road. >50% of our revenue in now viral. Ironically our business started to perform very will by 2004 but by then management had lost the dream of a huge upside. He’s been at it since 2005.

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How Businesses Can Successfully Brand Themselves On Social Media

YoungUpstarts

It’s far more complicated right now to keep a bad experience from hurting your business, viral marketing can fire back. Unlike email, Facebook provides you a huge wealth of information. Serban Enache is the CEO of Dreamstime , the stock photography site he founded in 2004. Photo credit: www.kozinets.net].

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

We had email, instant messaging, group calendars, discussion boards, etc. They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others.