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Small Business Speaker Series at CES
Small Business Speaker Series at CESThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing If you are planning to attend the Consumer Electronics Show (CES ) in Las Vegas Jan 7-10 make sure you check out the American Express OPEN Booth in the South Hall. They are s...
7 Reasons Why Small Businesses Should Take a Look at Foursquare
7 Reasons Why Small Businesses Should Take a Look at FoursquareThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing In an end of the year prediction post I wrote for OPEN Forum, I listed location aware social media tools as something that would get big time atten...
Is Social Media Killing Your Business?
Is Social Media Killing Your Business?This content from: Duct Tape Marketing I know today’s short post might come as a surprise to regular readers of this blog, but even though I promote the heck out of social media use for small business, I see a...
Small Businesses Will Simply Become More Naturally Social
Small Businesses Will Simply Become More Naturally SocialThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing This past year brands large and small rushed head on into social media marketing. They had to learn about all things Twitter, hire social media consultan...
How Local Businesses Use Social Media
How Local Businesses Use Social MediaThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing So many local businesses assume social media is just for people wanting to reach the masses around the world – right, just like using email and having a web site used ...
Yourl Very Own Branded Link Shortener
Yourl Very Own Branded Link ShortenerThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing Google and Facebook both announced link shortening services this week – Google’s – goog.gl and Facebook’s fb.me (mostly used in twitter and mobile sh...
Practical Guide to Social Media
Practical Guide to Social MediaThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing Marketing podcast with OpenForum (Click to listen, right click and Save As to download – subscribe now via iTunes The above podcast is an interview I conducted with OPEN Mic...
How to Measure Social Media Like a Scientist
How to Measure Social Media Like a ScientistThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing Marketing podcast with Dan Zarrella (Click to listen, right click and Save As to download – subscribe now via iTunes There are a lot of social media marketing b...
Creating and Using Web Video Never Easier
Creating and Using Web Video Never EasierThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing Video on the web has simply grown to become an expectation. Sites these days feature video for every imaginable use and visitors and users have grown to anticipate this ...
Real Time is Big Time
Real Time is Big TimeThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing In this week’s article for AMEX OpenForum I wrote what I see as 5 Trends That Will Shape Small Business in 2010 – #1 on the list was – Real time is big time At some point ...
Introducing Social Media Pro
Introducing Social Media ProThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing Warning: A bit of a straight commercial post here. If you’ve subscribed to the Duct Tape Marketing newsletter or read this blog for any amount of time you know I use social med...
Blogging – It’s Not Just For Breakfast Anymore
Blogging – It’s Not Just For Breakfast AnymoreThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing You know I’m a huge fan of blogs for small business and an equally big supporter of the WordPress blogging platform. The wide adoption of WordPre...
TweetDeck Adds Lists and LinkedIn
TweetDeck Adds Lists and LinkedInThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing The popular 3rd Party Twitter desktop client TweetDeck finally caught up with the recent Twitter add-ons with a significant update and I think they got it right. As all these ne...
7 Simple Truths of Social Media Marketing
7 Simple Truths of Social Media MarketingThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing The first truth I need to reveal is that the idea for this post is a bit of a response to a post by Sonia Simone of copyblogger titled – The 7 Harsh Realities of ...
Will Customer Opinion Overtake Search?
Will Customer Opinion Overtake Search?This content from: Duct Tape Marketing Right now showing up on page one of the organic search results is the holy grail of small business online marketing. Any business that spends significant time consistently ...
Update of My Free Social Media Ebook
Update of My Free Social Media EbookThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing Social media and online marketing tools and tactics are an evolving lot. What was true last month may have a new twist this month. With that in mind I am happy to report tha...
Stop Wasting Your Time With Social Media
Stop Wasting Your Time With Social MediaThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing If you have no precise marketing strategy, or even a simple set of marketing goals, social media participation will only serve as a glorious way to highlight that your bu...
What the Heck is Integrated Marketing Anyway?
What the Heck is Integrated Marketing Anyway?This content from: Duct Tape Marketing When I first started my business, several decades ago, I was determined to tell people that, mine was an integrated marketing firm. To which, I generally received po...
3 Tools to Make Twitter Lists Even More Useful
3 Tools to Make Twitter Lists Even More UsefulThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing I’m a big fan of the newish Twitter List function. I wrote about it last week – 5 Reasons to Use the New Twitter Lists Feature Now that I’ve you p...
Winner of the Social Media Library
Winner of the Social Media LibraryThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing In case you missed my post on Friday I offered one signed copy of One these seven books: Trust Agents by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith, New Community Rules by Tamar Weinberg, S...
Win a Social Media Marketing Library
Win a Social Media Marketing LibraryThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing In a fit of collaboration goodness I would like to gift one set of seven awesome books to the person that most creatively answers the following: I get the biggest return for ...
Getting Bloggers to Write About You
Getting Bloggers to Write About YouThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing I get daily pitches from PR folks and business owners asking me to write about their news, launch, product, or survey. On one hand, I still think it’s awfully cool that ...
Platforms Change, Marketing is the Same
Platforms Change, Marketing is the SameThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing The video below, staged by the Business Marketing Association (BMA) during their annual conference, should be shown to every business marketer alive. It’s an update ...
Twitter and LinkedIn Finally Sync Up
Twitter and LinkedIn Finally Sync UpThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing LinkedIn and Twitter announced an integration today that should be interesting. Starting sometime today, LinkedIn users can automatically feed their Twitter status updates to...
5 Reasons to Use the New Twitter List Feature
5 Reasons to Use the New Twitter List FeatureThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing Twitter added a new feature recently called Lists. I have to admit, at first I thought this was no big deal. I use desktop twitter clients like TweetDeck and Seesmic...
Social Media Training Course Beta Testers Needed
Social Media Training Course Beta Testers NeededThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing This whole social media thing for small business can be confusing, I know, I speak to groups of small business owner routinely and hear things like – “...
Biznik Blends High Tech with High Touch
Biznik Blends High Tech with High TouchThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing Fortunately, it’s starting to feel like the wave of social media hype has crested and small businesses can turn their attention to understanding social media “...
Blogging Plugin Adds Rich Mutli-Media Content
Blogging Plugin Adds Rich Mutli-Media ContentThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing There are a few plugins and services out there for blogs that automatically create links to content on the web. Some of these tools, such as Chitika are simply ways ...
The Inbound Marketing Guidebook
The Inbound Marketing GuidebookThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing Hubspot co-founders Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah have synthesized, condensed and packaged what I believe is one heck of a book on the new reality of lead generation. Inbound Ma...
The Inbound Marketing Guidebook
The Inbound Marketing GuidebookThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing Hubspot co-founders Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah have synthesized, condensed and packaged what I believe is one heck of a book on the new reality of lead generation. Inbound M...
