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The following guest post addresses an important need for every small business owner - how to get more clients. The right mix of marketing and getting your story in the newspaper through public relations are great ways to get customers. But there are other factors involved in business development, as described below. Read More

Should a customer loyalty program come with fine print and what basically amounts to black out dates? You know, the program that offers you points or discounts by coming back, but you can only get those rewards on certain days. Or sometimes the rewards aren't eligible during other promotions. Read More

Even though the rough economy has hit the trade show business, many companies still rely on such gatherings to drum up business. For the Marion Group, the challenge is creating something unique in a decades-old industry. The small business creates trade show displays and, among other advertising offerings, brochures and newsletters. It also does digital marketing. Read More

Accountancy firms that increase their marketing output will greatly improve their chances of surviving the recession, a commentator has said. Discussing marketing options, Mr Goldsmith promoted the use of direct mail as an effective and simple method of communication. Read More

Here’s a good story about an entrepreneur using small business online marketing ideas who found a great niche and is now utilizing the Internet to “grow her footprint” in business. Diana Vanover is a woman with big feet. She always found frustration when trying to locate comfortable and stylish shoes in her size because few retail stores actually carry them. So she set out to create change. Read More

We all love presents, right? Of course. Think about the times you’ve received a gift from a vendor. It probably made you smile, and you likely felt it was pretty thoughtful (unless you got fruitcake. Then you might have felt confused). Now think what you did after you got the gift. Did you buy from that company again? I bet you did. Read More

Here are 54 PR tips, that TPEs have shared. Pick the ones best suited for you and get some front page PR. Read More

To be creative artfully requires a dynamic mix of imagination and understanding of how the world might work. This is not a matter of being correct, but rather a matter of making the audience wonder, provoking a self-referring reverie that elicits an expanded idea of ones-self and how the world works. As a result, we see anew. Read More

Marketing writer Georgina Laidlaw said in a blog post for the online business adviser Sitepoint that promotions do not have to entertain and amuse clients to remain effective. Read More

Here’s an example of a company creating a completely out-of-the-box idea by mixing in a little creativity, a little timeliness and a whole lotta controversy resulting in some incredible publicity. Too bad some thought the ingredients proved only to result in bad taste rather than a successful publicity stunt for small business. Read More