tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137313682024-10-07T01:40:05.277-04:00Strategy Planning Resources for Small and Medium BusinessesBizPlanHelphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06778951456765965313noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13731368.post-15043529238149861672017-02-18T11:26:00.001-05:002017-02-18T11:26:25.982-05:00

In the Email Marketing Challenge, over the next 7 days, we’ll go over a variety of tips and techniques that will help you improve your email marketing game. Some of the challenge will involve planning so you know what to email about. Additionally, we’ll talk about relationship building and how to make sure you give your readers what they need. Along the way, I also have some great

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Scarcity Marketing Campaigns: Your Guide to Building Scarcity Social Media and Email Marketing Campaigns was originally published on Amazon in April of 2016. The second edition was recently released and it has climbed to #1 in Direct Marketing and #1 in Small Business Marketing on the Amazon Best Sellers lists. On May 12, 2016, and May 13, 2016, Scarcity Marketing Campaigns is

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Scarcity Marketing Campaigns (eBook) is your guide to building scarcity social media and email marketing campaigns that convert customers and grow sales. Are you just getting started with social media and email marketing and need help with your strategy? Are you already producing social media and email marketing campaigns, but can’t get your followers to buy? Are you frustrated with marketing

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Growth Hacker Background At this point, I am sure most of us have heard of a growth hacker, growth hacking, sales hacking, or life hacking. Maybe, in the past when you see growth hacker or one of the other terms, you ignore. Maybe you don't know what a growth hacker or think it is a tech business thing? It is time to pay attention. You have a website, twitter account, facebook account,

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Can high revenue concentration cause future problems for SiriusXM Satellite Radio provider? A lesson in Pareto (80-20 rule) and revenue concentration. This article was originally published on LinkedIn on December 1st, 2015. If you want to leave a comment or prefer reading on LinkedIn, you can go here - Is Howard Stern SiriusXM's Walmart There are a lot of big names in the title of this

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Canva, Evernote, and Dropbox are free business tools that are really free and really great! Here are three free productivity tools that I use every day and they are really free. These tools don’t have free trials and you pay up in a few day if you want to keep using. They have free versions with enough features that you can get real work done right away. Free Productivity Tool #1: 

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I watched this web cast live on Wednesday October 6, 2011 and think it is worth the 50 or so minutes for you to watch the replay.  The presenter is Chris Bogan, President of Human Business Works.  Here is the teaser for the web cast: One in eleven humans on the planet have a Facebook account. Social networks are now the #1 most visited site category on the Internet. Not since

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I am in the process of going through the new followers for my Twitter account - @SMBStrategy - as well some accounts that I monitor for clients and still cannot believe that businesses setup a twitter account and do not fill in the profile.  I am looking at a car wash/detailing business that is following me to see if I should follow back.  To decide if I want to follow back I go to

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Jan 7, 2011 - Bridgewater, NJ - Eagle Strategy Group LLC (Eagle) has release a case study for a completed project that included an Internet and Social Networking Strategy. Eagle's client was an Airport Parking Operator near a major airport that competed for parking customers with the airport, other off-airport parking operators, and airport hotels. The client was looking for a marketing

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November 23, 2010 - BizPlanHelp.com - The day has finally come, iOS 4.2 is here!  For iPad owners this day has been much anticipated as it brings a much needed feature - Multitasking.  If you bought an Apple iPad prior to today, as I did,  multitasking was one of the most noticeable features missing. What does multitasking bring to the iPad?  Finally, you can listen to your

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I am not a Digg power user and I have not used Digg continuously. I check out Digg from time-to-time and usually because I get directed there by a 3rd party to read an article. But with the recent changes to the “New” Digg, I actually signed up for an account (Profile: SMBStrategy) and have been gradually adding links to my web sites. I am also working with a client right now to include Digg

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I found out about LongUrl.org while reviewing the web log files for a client. The site is a new site, so there was not a lot of traffic, so even though there were not a lot of visitors coming from the url, it stuck out. When I looked at log files from other sites, I saw the url as referrer in each site. I needed to investigate... LongURL.org's message is "Avoid phishing, malware, and viruses

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A few weeks ago I tweeted: Are you ready to say goodbye to email and email marketing? - All Email is Spam http://bit.ly/cNTBqC #Baseline The article referenced in the tweet is an article from Baseline Magazine by Samuel Greengard. The gist of the article is that Mr. Greengard has returned from vacation to an inbox with 3,600 emails. He questions the value of all the various newsletters and

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When I opened my Crutchfield catalog I new I was destined to write about mobile barcode tags. The subject has been coming up more and more lately. Then this afternoon I am listening to the No Agenda Podcast, where barcodes are mentioned, then I open up the Crutchfield catalog and bam, on page five a barcode. Sorry about the quality but I snapped this with a Blackberry Storm and then

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Before spending time on directories review your profile. Most directories show your profile in search results and allow one to search on a profile. The same care should be taken when writing your Twitter profile as any web site Search Engine Optimization (SEO) exercise. A good correlation is comparing your Twitter profile to the meta description tag on a web site. Your profile should include

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From local small businesses to global corporations, more companies are turning to social networks as a way to get their message heard. I have been working with clients over the last couple years to navigate setting up LinkedIn or including Twitter and Facebook in marketing strategies. Now I am working on tying foursquare into a marketing program for a client. What is foursquare? Well it is a

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After playing with some work arounds and trying to find a solid free app that works with Blogger, I have given up. I forked over the $2.99 on the Apple App store for BlogPress. I choose it because it seemed to come up the most when I searched for iPad blog apps on Google and it works with other social media like Twitter and Facebook. I am writing this post with BlogPress and I have the Twitter

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I have 30 days under my belt with the Apple iPad and find that the go to app is Twitter. I have been a casual user of Twitter and have even helped clients include Twitter in their marketing programs. I have Twitter on my Blackberry but find it slow and only useful for reading tweets, but the iPhone app that I loaded is packaged nice and easy to use. Even though it does not take advantage of

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It looks like I made the write choice on holding off on buying a word processor app for the iPad. In the June 2010 issue of PC World titled iPad vs. Everything Else the sidebar is titled Does the iWork Suite Work? Not Yet. The Not Yet part of the title sums it up - read the article at PCWorld. Remote Access App iRdesktop is a remote desktop app. I was able to setup a remote connection to a

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It's Saturday and I decide to postpone my previous return to blogging subject and instead blog this series on the iPad. I decide to write the blog on the iPad. I could use Evernote, but decide to go with google docs instead. I have been using google docs exclusively with one of my clients, so being able to use on iPad would be another set towed labeling the iPad legit for business. I open

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It is day 2 and I can already see big problems with the iPad - I'm addicted!!! I wake up and check the weather on the Internet using safari, then check the news using the USA today app. I have to go to work and like everyone else in New Jersey want to get my work done and get out early to beat traffic. I leave the iPad charging in the kitchen and head to work. Out of sight, out of mind… The

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I have been using an iPad 16GB WiFi/3G since Thursday – doing the math on my fingers that is 5 days. To put this in real world terms, that is the amount of time for the Chia Homer on my desk to grow almost 2 inches. I have made some strides figuring out how to use the iPad for work, but I find myself going down rabbit holes as I download different apps. Take note, I turned to the dark side,

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How to Do A Web Meeting or Comference Call for Free... Well Virtually Free Anyway I have been using Free Conference (www.freeconference.com) for over 5 years. It is an easy way to schedule and setup conference calls with up to 99 people. The base service, which requires each person to dial in on a long distance number is free. So, with the proliferation of VoIP and unlimited long distance land

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Finding a Niche Market - Apple, Nike, and Grantwood Have Done It!I love gadgets. I am an athlete, well at least right now I consider myself an athlete because I am working out 5 to 6 times per week. My work outs include running, biking, weights, and yoga. Once the weather gets colder and I pickup more projects I will go into hibernation for months and will not be an athlete anymore. I have

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How a Rocketfish USB Hard Drive Enclosure Saved My NeckI am a consultant that spends more than 75% of my time on the road. I rely heavily on my laptop to complete these projects and backup my laptop before every business trip. I have never thought about bringing my backup with me until now. I was at a client site for a week about 6 hours from my office. The second day into the trip my two year

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