here is an interesting article about getting customer reviews on Google!!
http://www.semreportcard.com/small-buiness-tips-for-local-online-customer-reviews/
I have been reading Tom Feltenstein’s 401 Killer Marketing Tactics… so my marketing muscles are looking rather buff.
One idea I found in the book that I am applying as we speak for a client is the idea of a customer map.
The map would have pin-points at the address of each current/past customer. (actually all customers [...]
Jaxworks.com, a brilliant small business website I found circa 2004, has an excellent Strategic Planning worksheet.
I had a printout of it in my binder since November 2004 and gave it another look. Wow!
I will certainly be using this in my consulting work.
Book Yourself Solid by Michael Port is expanding into a certified consulting program.
I am not one for being overworked and overbooked by any means and believe that balance and living are more important than money, so at first I judged the book negatively by its cover. (that is never a good thing…)
Finally curiosity got the [...]
I have been quite busy lately with various projects for myself and clients.
I have a large online project that I currently maintain and I am launching an online marketing campaign for a new client.
I have three personal online marketing projects that I am working on. And I have two local marketing campaigns I am maintaining [...]
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Posted 06 October 2009
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Also tagged: advice, books., decentralised organisations, local marketing, marketing epidemic, project management, publicity, small business, social networking, tipping point, traffic, viral marketing
*frustrated exhale*
I have been ranting about frustrations with client expectations lately.
One of the areas (for me) where this is the most frustrating is in the realm of SEO. Clients have all kinds of seo misconceptions that they are so sure of when the reality is totally the opposite.
So today I am googling (for later [...]
I am definitely having “one of those days.”
I have clients ask me for ridiculous things all the time.
Here is my theory as to why this happens (particularly to technical people like myself).
As a techie I like to wow my clients with the amazing things the technology can do. I like to show them a [...]
Well, it is Monday and I am online finding a solution to a client’s problem: a canned response with an image.
Google Mail (gmail) has canned responses (also known as email templates, etc.) that let you create standard emails for standard responses.
In this case they want to be able to fax a picture of [...]
