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Help! My Business Needs a Marketing Plan and I Don’t Know Where to Start

Up and Running

Marketing is essential to business success, making your marketing plan an integral part of the planning process. You are among a select number of small business owners and executives who recognize the need for a marketing plan. As a marketing strategist, I recommend a marketing plan to all of my clients.

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Growing a Profitable Marketing Consulting Practice: My First Year as a Duct Tape Marketing Consultant

Duct Tape Marketing

Growing a Profitable Marketing Consulting Practice: My First Year as a Duct Tape Marketing Consultant written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. My first interaction with John Jantsch was in April of 2016 at the annual Social Media Marketing World conference in San Diego, CA. Sorry, John.).

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Big markets are spinning up and disappearing faster and faster

The Equity Kicker

One shows the newspaper industry growing steadily for fifty years and then declining for ten and the other shows the Japanese fixed lens digital camera market growing from nothing to 120m unit sales in ten years and then dropping by 80% in the seven years after that. Other examples I can think of include.

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e-Commerce: Why You Need It And How To Do It Right

YoungUpstarts

E-commerce is well within reach of virtually every small retail business, and with consumers demanding an easier way to find and purchase products, businesses need to incorporate an online sales strategy to remain relevant. Test your marketing channel options to see which will be the most effective driver of your new online sales.

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

Both Sides of the Table

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. We’re going to start aggressively spend money on marketing our product. We want a strong balance sheet (um, ok.

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The Future of Ad Tracking: Navigating the Google Analytics Landscape

Duct Tape Marketing

In 2015, he launched the MeasureSchool YouTube channel to reach out and teach this new way of marketing to others. In 2015, he launched the MeasureSchool YouTube channel to reach out and teach this new way of marketing to others. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! So Julian, welcome to the show.

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Google Finally Weaving Local Strategy :: Small Business Marketing.

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! The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch.