online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Small Business. Consumer Products. Paper & Forest Products. SMALL BUSINESS. more in Small Business. Harvard professor Noam Wasserman and WSJ small-business editor Vanessa OConnell took reader questions about avoiding start-up pitfalls on Sept. Loading… Asia. Management.

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JANUARY 25, 2016

For business owners and even for many marketing consultants, search engine optimization can seem like a headache – especially when it comes to any level of technical SEO. Product ratings in Search results. I found no comprehensive, easy-to-use structured data plugins for small business websites or for local search engine optimization.

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MARCH 28, 2016

Let’s face it, most of us are skeptical when we visit a business website for the first time. This is why it is essential for your small business website to convince new visitors that you are trustworthy and why you are the company they should choose. He owns & operates Kansas City Web Design and Kansas City SEO.

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OCTOBER 3, 2018

And you are based in Kansas city? John Jantsch: I am in Kansas City, Missouri. If you are actually in a small business or, I would say, a mid size company, and having sales people speak and talk about the brand, is probably not their thing. So Pam, thanks for joining me. Pam Didner: My pleasure.

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Mike Michalowicz

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Many men and even other women will tell you to “be more like a man,” to succeed as a woman in business. Be yourself —whether you’re a Kansas farm wife, or Las Vegas Mafia wife arm candy or a NYC Trophy wife or a San Franciso Lesbian…be yourself. Every business has at least one area for improvement.

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APRIL 22, 2011

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! As the importance of Facebook as small business marketi.

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MAY 22, 2019

I live in Kansas City, Missouri. In other words, if you’re trying to check on results and track results, sometimes it’s a little challenging if your IP address is in Kansas City, Missouri. John Jantsch: So if somebody was in your shoes or just even somebody like myself. I have clients in Canada and different places.

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AUGUST 21, 2019

John Jantsch: This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by Gusto, modern, easy payroll benefits for small businesses across the country. John Jantsch: You also have the distinction of being one of those very few Kansas City guests that I end up having on the show, so I always love that. Back to Podcast.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Today I’m thrilled to share the story of my long-time friends and Kansas Citians Casey and Sloane Simmons, co-founders of a store called Stuff , as a part of the “Amex Welcomed” program with @americanexpress , which is showcasing the people behind our favorite local businesses that welcome American Express.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2015

At Duct Tape Marketing, we only have two team members that work out of the home office in Kansas City. Check out the screen shot below to get an idea on how we use Asana: We have several projects in Asana for clients, content production, and various projects we have going on. In fact, they actually work out of a co-working space.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Five Selling Mistakes that Cost You Marketing Dollars written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Most businesses these days seem to take a sales or marketing approach to business development instead of a sales AND marketing approach. You rush to make presentations.

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JANUARY 8, 2019

This episode of The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by Asana , a work management software tool that we use to run pretty much everything in our business. All of our meetings, all of our product launches, all of our tasks. John Jantsch: So a lot of my listeners are solopreneurs, very small businesses.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

Weekend Favs September Six written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. How about those first place Kansas City Royals! Knowtify – data driven, automated, email digests that become an extension of your product. photo credit: jeffisageek via photopin cc.

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DECEMBER 9, 2014

5 Local Search Tactics You Must Employ Today written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Reviews are one of the many ranking factors Google throws into what businesses show up for a local search. If you are a U.S.-based

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JANUARY 7, 2020

And with all of the various ad products available, they’re giving paid search results more and more space at the top of SERPs. I recently did a search for a local business: I Googled plumbers in my hometown of Kansas City. Which brings me to the topic of Google’s Local Services Ads product.

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Mike Michalowicz

JUNE 3, 2013

You can live in a tent in a cornfield in Kansas and do business. Or, you can kick back on some beach in Tahiti and sip drinks with those little umbrellas in them, while doing a face to face (ahem, Skype) business deal with a guy in Russia. There is no question that technology has given us the ability to get work done.

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MAY 7, 2012

See, here’s the deal – Google wants to give people interesting search results and as often as possible that includes a mix of local Places pages, videos, products, images and blog posts all mashed together on page one for specific search phrases. I am hosting a couple workshops in Kansas City in June. So, here’s what I did.

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JUNE 27, 2014

written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. As a small business owner, what is more rewarding than focusing on the area of your business that you are most passionate about? Closing a big sale, writing a book, designing a new product, understanding expenses.

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DECEMBER 7, 2013

Weekend Favs December Seven written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. This is the old TWA rocket atop Barkley Advertising in Kansas City.

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JULY 19, 2017

.” That’s what Peter Drucker said and I think a lot of people took that to mean that you had to create a company that disrupted an entire industry and you should be looking for ways to innovate on your products and services like nobody ever thought about, but I really think it was misunderstood. That’s important, right?

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Why Online Reviews Are Almost As Good As Actual Referrals written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. As a business owner, there isn’t much better than a good referral. Entrepreneur Lead Conversion Lead Generation Referral Marketing Small Business Jason Keeler'

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FEBRUARY 27, 2020

AWeber is the market leader in making email marketing powerfully simple for a small business. I then moved my family to Kansas to be a music guy out there. For our clients, they’re all what we call brainiac B2B clients, which basically means they have a complex product or service. This is where my story gets crazy.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2012

Claes Oldenburg sculptures outside the Nelson Atkins Museum Kansas City, MO. Great for creating instructions for products or processes. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from Flickr or one that I took out there on the road. Perfect Audience – Do It Yourself ad retargeting platform changes the game in this space.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

They all contribute to the company in ways large and small and their talents and skills are always worth recognizing. This year I wanted to give some thought to a story that is currently in the news and that deserves to be noticed by managers and owners, particularly of small businesses and startups. Related posts: Labor Day!

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FEBRUARY 22, 2016

This is a nice way of saying that Google has monopolized the way we search for products, services and information on the Internet. If you are a small business owner, people now judge your entire life’s work based on the design and content of your website. That’s more than 40,000 searches per second. You know it’s true.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

The word growth carries a strategic element to this topic and as you’ll hear in this episode I think basic SEO practices must become a part of planning, messaging, editorial decision making and even to some degree the products and services offered by a business. SEO for Growth is Your One-Stop Digital Marketing Guide.

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MARCH 5, 2013

My hometown, Kansas City, was founded at the confluence of the Missouri and Kansas Rivers and the visual of these two powerful channels coming together, to form something even more potent, suggests the perfect metaphor for how community prospers and grows. Communities don’t generally form around, products, services or companies.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2018

She has written books called The Writer’s Process about the inner game of writing creatively and productively, and The Workplace Writers’ Process, something that all these content marketers probably need to know a little bit about. This is John Jantsch, and my guest today is Anne Janzer. Anne Janzer: Indeed, indeed.

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MARCH 12, 2020

AWeber is the market leader in making email marketing powerfully simple for a small business. Grant Baldwin: Meaning, John, if you and I were going to go, we’re looking for a good steak dinner, we could … Actually, you’re up in the Kansas City area. Visit aweber.com for a 30-day free trial. Is it Q something?

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FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Questions to Ask Yourself Before Defining Your Marketing Strategy written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. That means another year of customers, products, and sales. What are you doing to reach your customers, promote your products and improve sales? Need a New Strategy?

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DECEMBER 5, 2018

I rarely get to do a Kansas City show, so, even though we’re just across town, it doesn’t get much closer than this. We are a health and wellness facility here in Kansas City. We actually have some digital products that we now do remotely with some different offices around the Midwest. Matt Scanlon: Yeah.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Five Ways You’re Not Going To Get An Investor For Your Startup written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is Weston Bergmann – Enjoy! Ability to build your own product. Remarkable education.

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MAY 22, 2012

There’s a traditional, somewhat logical, pattern to how business has always been done. The seller describes a product or service, promise benefits, maybe even paints a rosy picture of the prospective buyer’s life with said product or service, and asks the buyer to pay a set price in order to acquire it. Problem #1.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

I love it because as entrepreneurs we need to constantly be reminded that if our product does everything it does nothing. I’ve been running my own business since 1993, and there have been many instances where I’ve thought of a product or service that did not exist, and I simply jumped in and created it.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

John Jantsch: Well, certainly small business owners could probably use a dose of that. As small business owners, we need to understand people because that’s how we grow our businesses. People are the heart of these businesses. Sabrina Starling: We as small business owners kind of take that for granted.

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JULY 10, 2015

5 Online Assets That Are Worth Your Time written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. You’re likely already doing most of these things to market your own products and services. People want to know what the product looks like. But is it working? Social Media—Personalized.

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AUGUST 10, 2015

5 Steps to Optimize Your Website Like a Pro written by Alex Boyer read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Everyone uses search engines to find products and companies these days. Things you are doing on your website (posting new content, new products or pages) can slow your website down.

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