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Start-Up Marketing and Yourself: Don’t be a Swiss Army Knife

Waxing UnLyrical

Image: UOregon Conference Services via Flickr, CC 2.o. Like this: Image: Nisa yeh via Flickr, CC 2.0. But this is the approach I see in the early days of a lot of start-up marketing. Unfortunately, most of these ideas fail because they fail to successfully hit their mark in the open market. Imagine you’re at a party.

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15 Places to Find Free Images for Your Blog

Writtent Blog

The ancient saying that a picture is worth 1000 words comes as no surprise to content marketers. Even some of the sharpest content marketers have no idea that Google Advanced Search exists! Wikimedia Commons. CompFight is a super-fast, easy-to-use alternative to Flickr Search. It’s certainly possible to buy images.

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The 5 Commandments of How to Raise $1Million on Kickstarter

Waxing UnLyrical

Image by Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung (Flickr: Kick-Tipp) [ CC-BY-SA-2.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons. Christopher Wallace is Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Amsterdam Printing , one of the nation’s largest providers of promotional products for businesses large and small. That’s no longer the case.

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Open Community Case Study – American Library Association

SocialFish

Clay tablet, 3100-3000 BC, photo by Takomabibelot (Flickr). The 15th century container, Latin manuscript, photo by Bazylek100 (Flickr). In a smart marketing move, the scheduler also shows other association products that match attendee interests. The new container: iPad, photo by FHKE (Wikimedia Commons).

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Open Community Case Study – Empowering the Periphery

SocialFish

Clay tablet, 3100-3000 BC, photo by Takomabibelot (Flickr). The 15th century container, Latin manuscript, photo by Bazylek100 (Flickr). In a smart marketing move, the scheduler also shows other association products that match attendee interests. The new container: iPad, photo by FHKE (Wikimedia Commons).

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How to Win Customers’ Hearts with The Art of Storytelling

Writtent Blog

Stories are how smart marketers win their customers’ hearts. Clearly, stories are powerful tools for content marketers. Image credit: Flickr. Strong characters are crucial to content marketers’ storytelling because they are the connection between storyteller and audience. Image credit: Wikimedia. draws you in.

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Where to Find Free Images Online

ProBlogger

Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons has almost 25 million freely usable media files. Creative Market. Creative Market is a paid service, with a weekly grab-bag of free images, fonts and other goodies to use on your blog. Flickr Creative Commons. All without asking for permission or setting a link to the source.