crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 20, 2017

Thinking of ways to market your small business can be overwhelming, especially when you consider the cost and return on investment. Big companies spend millions of dollars every year marketing and building their businesses. Small businesses have a similar need to get the word out but have much more modest budgets.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 20, 2017

Thinking of ways to market your small business can be overwhelming, especially when you consider the cost and return on investment. Big companies spend millions of dollars every year marketing and building their businesses. Small businesses have a similar need to get the word out but have much more modest budgets.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. So, you’re a small or medium-sized business, and you want to build a Facebook, mobile or web app. Image credits: Flickr, goincase.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Transcript of What Small Businesses Need to Know About Google Ads written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. She is the Product Leader and General Manager, Ads for Small Business and Emerging Markets at Google. Probably, in some ways, many of them are missed by small businesses. Transcript.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 30, 2020

While it’s not traditional word-of-mouth, having positive reviews listed on your site, within your Google My Business listing, or anywhere else performs almost the exact same function. It helps similar customers relate, and provides authentic and trustworthy sources for them to reference when deciding to make a purchase.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

A firm offering outsourced Chief Financial Officer services to small-business owners. With his extensive experience in financial management, Todd is a leading expert in implementing strategies to protect small businesses from embezzlement while enhancing their profitability. 03:08] What is employee dishonesty insurance?

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Up and Running

AUGUST 31, 2021

Brand awareness is a marketing term that is used to describe the degree of consumer recognition of your business and/or product. From social media campaigns to PPC advertisements, there are many strategies companies use to promote brand awareness. Let’s say that you do a television campaign to promote your business.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 9, 2017

Tech Target defines brand recognition as: …[the] extent to which a consumer can correctly identify a particular product or service just by viewing the product or service’s logo, tag line, packaging or advertising campaign. As Ryan Erskine of BrandYourself points out : If I don’t know you, you’ve automatically lost my business.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 9, 2017

Tech Target defines brand recognition as: …[the] extent to which a consumer can correctly identify a particular product or service just by viewing the product or service’s logo, tag line, packaging or advertising campaign. As Ryan Erskine of BrandYourself points out : If I don’t know you, you’ve automatically lost my business.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 19, 2019

You should hire a company nurse and a company doctor for your business, especially if your business deals or works with heavy machinery and equipment. For your safety guidelines, make sure to post visible work safety charts or boards for your employees to refer to now and then. Consult a Workers Compensation Specialist.

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Up and Running

MAY 12, 2020

Choose a legal structure for your business and register your business (sole proprietor is a popular entity for many home-based entrepreneurs). Obtain your federal business tax ID number (often referred to as your EIN) if necessary. Set up a business bank account. Set up a business email account.

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Brandanew

OCTOBER 19, 2015

There are many ad campaigns from the yore that nobody remembers now although they might have worked back then. Here are a few great campaigns that are our favorites. Here are a few great campaigns that are our favorites. 5 Old Brand Ad Campaigns We Still Love. What are some of your favorite brand campaigns?

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

These articles provide awareness, education, and marketing campaign ideas. They share amazing tips on content writing that everyone should refer to. This digital magazine provides digital marketers with digital marketing advice and insights on digital business ideas as well as digital marketing tools for digital marketing campaigns.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 16, 2014

by Mark Satterfield , author of “ The One Week Marketing Plan: The Set It & Forget It Approach for Quickly Growing Your Business “. Autoresponder systems are great marketing tools that every small business owner should be taking advantage of. That’s what you will refer to in this email.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Hello Alice is a free, data-driven, and multichannel platform helping small business owners on their entrepreneurial journey by providing access to relevant funding networks and technical assistance tools while increasing owner success rates. 2:20] Why the Lewis Carroll reference? [2:59] Carolyn Rodz (01:45): Yeah, hello.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 28, 2022

But as I've grown my business, I've realized that this is a huge opportunity for me to create a much more personal connection with my clients. When I do this, they come back to me again and again—and they refer me to others. In most small businesses, employees are required to wear many hats and hone a diverse set of skills.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 12, 2015

Business cards have been around for a really long time and they do have that unique ability of making a really strong impression on the customers. When referring to the small businesses, there is this growing trend of not printing these cards since there is the general belief that they are not going to help.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Advertising Your Small Business: Small Budget, Big Results written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. If you’re a small business owner with a modest budget, you may be wondering where to begin with advertising. It’s critical to keep the messaging consistent throughout all your campaigns.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Small business owners have a million things to do. No SEO campaign is complete without configuring Analytics. Selecting keywords is central to any small business SEO process. Although it’s accessed through AdWords, you don’t need to have a pay-per-click campaign to use Keyword Planner. The bottom line?

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Not only that, their Kickstarter campaign is a bottom-of-the-barrel, barely passable attempt at seeking significant funding. While you may be able to get your campaign approved by the Kickstarter crew, if the diagnosis from potential backers is “could do better,” your campaign won’t get a second glance. Report back often.

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Up and Running

JULY 24, 2018

It has taken on different forms and uses—you might hear AI referred to as machine learning, deep learning, or cognitive computing depending on the frame of reference. How AI can help you run a smarter small business. Segmenting email lists will help you create customized email campaigns that better serve your customers.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

4:41] What have you found are some of the biggest growth killers, particularly for small businesses? [7:15] 7:15] How do you manage the fact that somebody is hiring you to do marketing, but you can’t really do marketing if you don’t get into every aspect of their business? This is John Jantsch, my guest Clare Price.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Any information that helps support your business idea goes here, including market studies, legal agreements, photos of your products, and more. For more information about how to create a business plan, the Small Business Administration has you covered. Click here to see their complete guide to writing a business plan.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Of the 543,000 new small businesses started each month, approximately 52 percent of them are home-based. It’s no surprise really when you consider the primary reason for starting a business from home has to do with money (or lack thereof). Obtain your federal business tax ID number (often referred to as your EIN) if necessary.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 23, 2014

You must also know when to ask for help, and be able to leverage your personal and professional contacts to access the resources you need—whether that’s business advice, references, or simply some honest feedback. Attracting and retaining high-performing employees is vital to the success of your business. Interpersonal Skills.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Strong media relationships matter in business. Small businesses don’t always have a dedicated PR department, or even a dedicated person to handle media relations and press. Therefore, it is not always as easy for small businesses to build media relationships because a small business owner must wear so many different hats.

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Up and Running

MARCH 3, 2021

47% of small business owners execute marketing campaigns entirely on their own. In this article, we will cover what exactly PPC marketing entails, why PPC marketing is a beneficial tool for small businesses, and some PPC basics and best practices to get you started. Let’s get started. What is PPC?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 24, 2013

What if - instead of relying on expensive paid ad campaigns and direct sales, your business thrived on referrals from happy customers? That’s the promise of a book I read a few months ago that profoundly changed my business – The Referral Engine. If You Liked This Post. :

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 25, 2013

The technology, metrics, measurements, testing, and goals are the science part of it while the creative campaigns and intuitive ideas are a critical part of the art of inbound marketing. Always one more video campaign. Reference Your Goals. What are some ways you check the “finished” box for your inbound marketing campaigns?

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 5, 2023

The literal definition of the word: ‘guerrilla’ is “a member of a small independent group taking part in irregular fighting, typically against larger regular forces.” In reference to marketing: “referring to actions or activities performed in an impromptu way, often without authorization.”

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

And these don’t have to be directly related to your business: For example, I find that I love working with small business owners who are involved in their industry and local community. Similarly, you can include the form in drip campaigns with warm leads who you’re nurturing with an automated email process.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

John Jantsch (13:33): So did the duct tape marketing podcast is brought to you by Sendinblue and all in one digital marketing platform, empowering small businesses to build stronger customer relationships through end to end digital marketing campaigns. And I'm like, okay, we need to do just a little subtle admiration work.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

We hear all the time about the importance of hiring the right people and the expanding universe of advice can be overwhelming; hire slow and fire fast, only hire the “right&# candidate; ask probing questions; check all references; blah blah blah. Related posts: Ten small business tax planning tips for 2010!

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Yet it remains, that the old media outlets are still the most trusted, highly trafficked, and consistently referred-to sources for information for individuals and businesses. So how does this impact on small businesses? When experts tell you that a social media strategy for small business is critical, they are right.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Each block in a blockchain contains a reference to the previous block, ad infinitum — a “chain” of self-referential blocks. What does this mean for your business, though? allow cryptocurrency holders to rapidly and easily trade cryptocurrency for other currencies, allowing businesses to access fast fiat cash flow when needed.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 30, 2019

Most startups and small businesses have limited budgets for marketing. So what’s a startup or small business to do when their need for marketing is big, but their budget is small? National television campaigns are definitely out. How you can put this lean marketing framework to work in your business?

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 30, 2012

The seven stages of the hourglass are: Know, Like, Trust, Try, Buy, Repeat and Refer. In an effective customer relationship view each of these stages would have intentional tools, processes, actions, products, services and campaigns all designed to move someone in one stage on to the next.

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