How to Recognize Which Customers Are Bad for Business

Q & A article post that I think many will find very good read!

by Joe Worth

View article here -
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/225017#

The Marketer's Guide to Instagram

by AJ Kumar

"From a marketing perspective, the community's enthusiastic fan base and built-in social aspects make it an ideal place to connect with potential customers and build brand recognition. Here's how your business can take advantage of Instagram's potential..."

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http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/226014

73 Excellent Marketing and Business Networking Blogs

A Discussion About Referral Marketing and Business Networking

Read list here
http://www.referralkey.com/small-business-blog/2009/08/26/marketing-and-business-networking-blogs

Focus On Your Content, Not Just Marketing!

Posted by Sandeep Rohilla

Millions of clicks by millions of readers are traced every second on search engines. The modern consumers have become tech-savvy. They use Google, Bing, Yahoo! Or Ask.com to make informed purchase decisions. Content (both text and images) is a king that rules the web market. Gone are the days you applied your SEO tricks (spam links, unethical link building techniques, etc.) to convert site visitors into customers. The contemporary consumer is immune to info graphics.

Read post here
http://socialmediatoday.com/techgain/1219756/focus-your-content-not-just-marketing?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Social+Media+Today+%28all+posts%29

Marketing Strategies That Empower Success (Lessons)

A 3 part lesson on "Marketing Strategies That Empower Success," posted by Smiley Webb

To view these lessons click below -
http://www.ryze.com/posttopic.php?topicid=946824&confid=1022

10 Personal Branding Trends for 2013

Posted by William Arruda

At the end of each year, I predict what personal branding trends will be valuable to career-minded marketers in the coming year. In writing this article, I continue the series with much enthusiasm, because many exciting changes are afoot that will simplify building your brand in 2013.

Part 1:Topics - Curation, Customization, Mobile, People and Pictures

Read more here
http://www.marketingprofs.com/articles/2013/9886/personal-branding-trends-for-2013-part-1

Part 2:Topics - QR codes, Timeline, Teams, Validation and Video

Read more here
http://www.marketingprofs.com/articles/2013/9941/10-personal-branding-trends-for-2013-part-2

10 Ways to Build Secure Traffic for Your Website

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http://www.globalguideline.com/articles/analysis.php?k=10_Ways_to_Build_Secure_Traffic_for_Your_Website

15 Ways to Boost Your Sales, Traffic and Productivity

Posted on March 4, 2011 by RevenueGal

This has been a super busy week — but I had so much fun working on this week’s post. I wanted to share some valuable tips that will help you with your online business. After all, most of us struggle with productivity and all of us could use extra traffic and sales — right!?!

Read article here
http://mommyrevenue.com/index.php/2011/03/04/15-ways-to-boost-your-sales-traffic-and-productivity/#axzz25v9Stsky

Keeping Loyal Customers Loyal

"The long-term goal for most marketers out there is to gain customers and successfully keep them coming back for more," writes Kristen Gregory at the Bronto blog...That's where loyalty programs come into play—and for email marketers, they fall into two general categories..."

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http://www.marketingprofs.com/short-articles/2541/keeping-loyal-customers-loyal

How to Make a Tradeshow Profitable

by Vanessa Merit Nornberg

"...there are a lot of companies that exhibit at this show which don’t do as well as we do—yet they have paid the same money, and often times, a lot more, to be there. When they return home, I imagine they lament that it was not a good show for them and worry about how they are going to recoup their expenses..."

Read more here
http://www.inc.com/vanessa-merit-nornberg/how-to-make-a-trade-show-profitable.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+inc%2Fheadlines+%28Inc.com+Headlines%29&utm_content=Yahoo!+Mail

Free Course: Creating Fat Content for 2011 (PDF)

The course comes as a PDF file, which means you have to have software to read PDF files. Your computer probably came pre-installed with Adobe reader, but an excellent free alternatives is Foxit reader.

Feel free to give this course away to anybody you think might benefit from it. Just send them the URL of this page.

View details here
http://ezseonews.com/creating-fat-content-for-2011

FREE Webinar for Simple Online Marketing that Works

Courtesy of TeamMom member, LaTara Bussey Ham-Ying

"7 Ways To Simplify Your Message and cause IMPACT for Profit"

Are You Trying Too Hard To Sell Your Message? Stop Selling It! SIMPLIFY IT! Join Me May 31 at 8pm EST For A FREE Tele-Seminar.

View details or to sign up, click here
http://www.latarahamying.com/free-webinar-for-simple-online-marketing-that-works/

Top 10 Direct Mail Mistakes

by Barry Feig

In order to make a direct mail campaign work, it’s important to avoid common pitfalls. Mistakes can be in your copy, your list, and even on what you put on your envelope. Here are ten common mistakes people make that sabotage sales.

Read article here
http://www.businessknowhow.com/directmail/response/mailingmistakes.htm

How to Build a Winning Brand

by Craig Reiss

Create your image, get known and give your customers what they want. Just leave the ego at home.

Read article here
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/219314

Why Marketing Begins After The Sale

By Joe Love

All business begins and ends with the customer. The company with the most customers wins, which is why successful companies know that the real marketing begins after the initial sale has been made. They know doing everything possible to retain the trust and the business of current customers is the essence of marketing.

Read article here
http://www.ryze.com/posttopic.php?topicid=684278&confid=1022

Stop Chasing Your Prospects

The Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto...
by John Kellerman Posted 9/13/09

If you’re just getting started in network marketing and are’nt sure how to proceed or if you’ve been in the industry for a while and want to make your business really take off, this report is for you. In The Attraction Marketers Manifesto, Sieg fills in the blanks for you and shows you how to generate massive amounts of leads online.

Read more here
http://www.onlineglobalbiz.com/the-attraction-marketers-manifesto-stop-chasing-your-prospects

Free Marketing Webinar: Value of Social Media

Presented by Social Media Guru, Chris Brogan

This free webinar will cover:
How to show the value of social media to your boss
How to develop a social media strategy that aligns with key business goals

Tools and resources to help you start, manage, and measure your social media efforts

Sign up to download
http://www.hubspot.com/marketing-webinars/social-media-value-archive

10 Low-Cost Easy Ways to Promote Your Business

by Susan Ward

Business promotion is to running a successful business as practicing scales is to playing the piano well; it may not be a thrilling activity in itself, but you just have to do it! You should spend at least an hour a day on business promotion or planning how to promote your business (and more is better, if you can fit the time in)!

Read her article here
http://sbinfocanada.about.com/cs/marketing/a/bizpromotion.htm

Big List of Marketing - SEO Blogs

Read the list here
http://www.toprankblog.com/search-marketing-blogs

The 7 Harsh Realities of Social Media Marketing

by Sonia Simone

"....So in honor of Dan Kennedy, who sometimes styles himself as the “Professor of Harsh Reality,” I thought I’d talk today about some of the not-so-kumbaya aspects of social media marketing."

Read her tips here
http://www.copyblogger.com/harsh-social-media-marketing