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Mother’s Day is Sunday May 13th, 2012, and is an excellent opportunity to build buzz for your business with some creative marketing! Here are 5 ideas to get you started!

Sometimes it is as important for business owners to understand what not to do as it is to know what they need to do. It is also important to remember that not every tactic or strategy is right for every business. What can turn out to be the worst marketing advice for one business may be marketing gold to another. Having said that, her are 6 marketing tips that qualify as the world’s worst..

Starting a business can be very easy, but staying in business can be very difficult given that our customers have too many choices on where to spend their hard-earned cash. Here are 30 ways to make your business stand out so that potential customers choose to spend their money with you!

It is common practice to set New Year’s resolutions in our personal lives, but how often do we do it for our business? Here are 28 Small Business Marketing Resolutions for the New Year that will inspire you to write your own.

Whether you’re a startup or you’ve been in business a while, you don’t have to spend a lot of money on marketing to get extraordinary results. Here are some usual marketing ideas that reaped extraordinary results from nine business owners across the US. Use their ideas to come up with your own unusual marketing ideas.

Word of mouth marketing is a mystery. How do you get people to spread the word about your company to their friends so you can grow your business? Here are four tips gleaned from the success of Pandora radio.

If you’re a business owner looking for some creative marketing ideas, you’ve come to the right place. Let me tell you something- If it’s being talked about on the news or on the Internet, then your customers are talking about it too. Become a part of the conversation with your out-of-the box marketing ideas and you’ll turn your business into a customer magnet.

Many business owners say that their sales slow down in the summer for various reasons. But just because it’s summer doesn’t mean it has to be slow for your business. Here are 9 summer marketing ideas that will help keep your business sizzling all summer long.

I recently read a fabulous article about social media marketing for dentists by Dr. Jason Lipscomb.

The article states that dentists have been very slow in adopting social media as a tool for marketing their practice, preferring to stick with traditional marketing methods, such as direct mail, because that’s what’s always worked. However, the traditional marketing methods aren’t working so well anymore. Here’s why medical practices need to rethink their social media policy.

In the late 60’s Andy Warhol proclaimed his belief that everyone was destined for at least 15 minutes of fame.  While the definition of “fame” may be up for interpretation, the prediction does hold some truth.  It also begs a question for companies.  Will your brand be ready?  If yes, your 15 minutes could easily [...]