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Mothers Day is one of the most important days in the florist and restaurant calendar. It’s estimated that consumers will be spending $18.6 billion for someone special this Mother’s Day! With this in mind, business owners are presented with a massive opportunity to increase sales by connecting with customers through lovable and cuddly marketing ideas.

By now, you’re probably well aware of Pinterest.  If you’re in need of a quick primer, then here’s how it works: Pinterest allows users to “collect” their favorite things – everything from recipes to cars to design inspiration.  They can then organize these favorite things using image-based pinboards.   Other users can re-pin or “Like” these [...]

In this brave new digital age it’s really easy to forget the importance of print marketing.  As technology becomes ever more sophisticated, businesses should consider using print, not as an alternative to digital, but as a way of bridging the gap between these two essential marketing tools.   My own experiences in digital marketing reflect [...]

For marketer who would like to get free advertising on Google, an Austin, Texas, firm plans to facilitate the placement of QR codes on rooftops. Phillips & Co.’s new service, called Blue Marble, offers a “space-accessible profile” for businesses, cities, schools that want to raise their profile. In addition to catching the attention of the [...]

Neither style is better than the other. Each one can be successful, or fail spectacularly. Finding the style that matches your personality will help you by reducing your stress level and by optimizing your efficiency.

Trying to work in a style that doesn’t fit with your personality will only make you miserable, unhappy and more likely to abandon your quest.

Like the story of the Tortoise and the Hare, there are generally two kinds of entrepreneurs.

Testing is one of the fundamental tools employed to improve the efficiency of marketing campaigns.

A/B or Split-Testing are two names for the way the results of one element of a campaign – an email, a landing page or a banner ad – is compared with another to determine the effect a specific variable has on the outcome.

Often people think that a healthy relationship “just happens.” Unfortunately, what your mother used to tell you, “just be yourself and everyone will love you,” isn’t always true. So if you’re responsible for the care and feeding of an online community for yourself or your business, here’s some advice that will help you attract and retain members rather than being a lonely community of one.

An impressive number of small businesses are involved in innovative marketing campaigns utilizing social media. These companies prove that making a splash in social media isn’t about the size of your budget — the only limits are creativity and a willingness to experiment.

Building an online community begins by discovering a common bond that is shared among a group of people. Experiences are often the common interest about which a community is created. Another example is a passion for collecting a specific item – say vintage post cards.

Human beings are showered with promotional messages and visuals everywhere — on TV, in magazines, in the street, and even on the clothes of people walking by.

For those who are looking for a method to measure branded search volume, here is a handy and FREE tip.

Lee Wojnar, VP of Marketing for the O Bee Credit Union in Tumwater, WA (the prosperous credit union of the now extinct Olympia brewery) really pushed the envelope with this promotion that tied in with several partners in the Olympia area.

Significant buzz was generated by this promotion — more than 360,000 pages of coverage were posted according to Google.

With social media marketing, it’s almost impossible to divide the hyperbole from the reality. Communities are inaugurated with hoopla and high spirits only to waste away into the oblivion of countless other online has-beens.

Is your company guilty of this unpardonable offense? Sending out a constant stream of sales messages asking recipients to buy, buy, and buy.

Talk about a paradox. Writing is hard. Writing less is even harder. A limit of 140 characters makes telling it like it is quite a challenge.