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Sink or Swim? How SMBs Can Overcome Digital Marketing Challenges

The Realtime Report

How SMBs Can Overcome Digital Marketing Challenges While digital marketing can provide targeted access to buyers at budgets within reach of small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), potentially leveling the playing field, it can also result in quickly escalating costs with little to no results. In the United States, 33.2

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Interview With a Small Business Owner Crushed by Google

Bill Hartzer

May is small business month, so as a follow-up to a blog post I wrote recently , I tracked this small business owner, Ira Zoot from TicketStub.com, and interviewed him. Mr. Zoot originally claimed that he, as a small business owner, has been crushed by Google. The average traffic for Ticketstub.com®

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60+ Creative Marketing Ideas for Small Business

Writtent Blog

If you’re a small business or new startup, you don’t have money to waste on expensive advertising like your bigger competitors can. Start by brainstorming with your business partners and connections to come up with several cheap outside-the-box marketing tricks. List your business in local business directories.

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The Perfect Website For Off-Line Marketing

Small Business Mavericks

There is a nominal fee, however, you can charge your members a fee for attending your meetings (but you should think about it before you decide to do that) and you can take sponsors for your group to allay the costs of your Meetup group (some groups even turn a profit). You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

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When I Couldn’t Find Marketing Outlets to Elevate My Brand, I Created My Own

Buffer Social

which helped us cover event costs while making sure that they are accessible to those who want to attend. In the early days, I was doing much of this by myself (we now have a team of eight), and each event would take me about 10-15 hours and cost $50-$100 to make happen.

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Why Press Releases Are Still a Viable PR Techniqiue

Proactive Report

Yahoo News and Google News are #1 and #2 on the list of the Top 10 News Sites. Not at all – while technology has disrupted PR in many ways it has also made it more accessible to the small business owner with a tiny budget. Even your Facebook Page if you want to – all at no extra cost. Google maps.

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Which Social Media Channels Should I Use For My Business?

yMarketingMatters

Statistics show that there are between 130 and 150 million users , but you need to understand the demographic of these users and determine if this is the right target audience for your business: The majority of users (70%) are female between the ages of 18-35. Foursquare. Social Bookmarking, Local Search and Review Sites.