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Geek Marketing 101
I found a great blog entry that explains technology marketing. Here are the first three elements of this top-ten list:

The definition of branding
One of my readers pointed out that they really appreciated the definition of marketing that I use throughout Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing is getting someone who has a need to know, like and trust you. Most small business folks, exposed only to more academic definitions, really seem to appreciate the truthfulness of that characterization. This same reader (Eddy) also asked then for my definition of branding (as it might relate to marketing)

Those idiots in sales just don’t get it
I’m presenting a workshop this week titled - How to get sales and marketing on the same page.
Co-Creating Know, Like and Trust
I am giving a talk this afternoon at the Inbound Marketing Summit in Boston and here is the essence of the message I plan to deliver.
Digital Marketing
Simply "Digital Marketing" = Marketing through "mobile devices" + "Internet". If blogspot allows a few GBs of space for a post, then we can probably think of expanding the latter two quoted words. Mobile devices may include a basic mobile phone, blackberryz, iPad etc and Internet includes Email marketing, Affiliate, popups, referrals, social media and so on. The effectiveness of communication through these mediums depends on how innovative one is, there are no limits in ways one can use these mediums. Digital marketing is a term that has been around for quite sometime but hasn't been very well defined, encompassing things like banner advertising, search engine optimization (SEO) and pay per click. However, this is too narrow of a definition. What about email, RSS, voice broadcast, fax broadcast, blogging, podcasting, video streams.....
What Is Marketing And How Did It Change?
Many people have wondered what exactly is marketing. Marketing started out as a certain location where people would go to make transactions or trades. Consumers and potential customers would go to the market. Times have change the location of the market. It still carries out transactions of the needs and demands of customers; just now it's on the Internet.
How To Effectively Research So You Can Write Powerful Sales Copy
One of the biggest mistakes many business owners make is to focus more on their product than their marketing. The greatest product in the world will not sell without great marketing. Marketing is a major requirement in the success formula of a business and a huge part of that is copywriting. Therefore, you cannot run a successful business online without good copywriting.
Does Marketing Work?
I was at a networking event the other day, explaining to someone what we did. In response, I received a smile back and the comment “well, marketing doesn’t really work anyway does it?” Interesting question! And I can completely understand why he said that. For a lot of small business owners, that’s exactly what they find – that marketing doesn’t work. The result is that many business owners feel frustrated with marketing and give up on the process, choosing to rely instead on referrals and word of mouth.

Why Market Your Products, Services or Ideas At All?
How to develop a marketing mindset. To develop marketing mindset mindset you need to have a very open mind that looks far beyond the initial transaction to see all the dormant possibilities of re-working, cross-selling, and follow-up. In addition, you must be willing to experiment and look at your business related activities in unorthodox ways.
The Power of Integral Marketing
Many small business owners know they need to have some type of marketing program in place, yet many are unsure just how to develop one that will maximize business profits. This article outlines a simple system to help ensure you maximize the effectiveness of your marketing.
6 Critical Elements in Creating Successful Web-Marketing Campaigns
Marketing can be an extremely frustrating and expensive exercise if we mistakenly view it as merely an advertising function. Any discussion of marketing should be preceded by a definition of exactly what we mean by marketing: marketing is not just sales, or advertising, or promotion, but rather a combination of all these functions plus more.
Internet Home Based Business - What To Look For In A Quality Leader
When it comes to having success with your internet home based business, there are a number of crucial facets you will need to focus on. Something that often gets overlooked is the quality of the leader who is running the business you join.
7 KEY STRATEGIES TO BOOST YOUR BUSINESS
Learn all you can about marketing. Marketing is absolutely crucial to the success of your business and you avoid it at your peril! New business owners can think that marketing is quite a complicated process. However, it's not rocket science and the basics can easily be learned.
Your Clients Are Waiting For You!
Do fears about marketing get in the way of letting your market know about you and therefore become a barrier to having paying clients? Use these three steps to continually reframe your thinking about marketing over the next 90 days. Your new more powerful mindset will make your marketing more effective and fun!

Marketing and Advertising
We hear about them all the time, and people tell us they are good – no, essential – for our company, but what are they really? What is the difference between marketing and advertising? Is there even a difference? Well, in this article I hope to show you that yes, there is indeed a difference between the two, and it is one you need to be well aware of if you are going to take advantage of them for your company.

Establishing Customer Relevance Drives Sales, Spells Relief
Those companies that have a tighter grip on the customer than their competition know the key to keeping and winning customers is what it has always been – relevance.
Dropping the Ball
CEOs must take a more active role in the marketing of their business. More money is spent in this function without a thorough understanding of how or why B2B marketing really works than in any other business function. If the job of marketing is to create a strong environment for a sale to take place, then the CEO ought to be involved in the marketing process to give direction and guidelines that align with the corporate vision. Those CEOs who choose to ignore the complexities of marketing are dropping the ball.
Getting Into Marketing Momentum
Do you know the #1 reason why most businesses fail and why you could become a fatal statistic as well? The answer is ... MARKETING, MARKETING, MARKETING. Marketing is the “life blood” of any business. Without marketing, there are no revenues. Without revenues, there is no business. So what is blocking you right now in your marketing efforts? What will it take to get your marketing into high gear? The following five principles are your essential starting point.

Marketing Basics
To succeed, entrepreneurs must attract and retain a growing base of satisfied customers. Marketing programs, though widely varied, are all aimed at convincing people to try out or keep using particular products or services. Business owners should carefully plan their marketing strategies and performance to keep their market presence strong.

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Getting Into Marketing Momentum
Do you know the #1 reason why most businesses fail and why you could become a fatal statistic as well? The answer is ... MARKETING, MARKETING, MARKETING. Marketing is the “life blood” of any business. Without marketing, there are no revenues. Without revenues, there is no business. So what is blocking you right now in your marketing efforts? What will it take to get your marketing into high gear? The following five principles are your essential starting point.

Create, Optimize, Monitor, Enhance – The Search Engine Marketing cycle
If you want to increase online revenue, optimizing your website and setting aside a budget for online marketing campaigns, is a must. Like any other marketing initiatives, online marketing should be a component of your marketing plan. If it isn’t, you are losing out on a huge opportunity to make money. Online marketing campaigns range in cost from $10,000 to around $30,000 annually. They generally require eight weeks to implement and result in long-term benefits for you. Search Engine Marketing includes components such as Search Engine Optimization, Link Building, Paid Marketing or Pay per Click, and content writing. It is also known as web marketing, internet marketing, and search marketing.

Are You Guilty of One-Dimensional Marketing?
So if all marketing tools can work, how can this be? Far too often people treat their marketing like a one hit wonder. Someone tells them a certain marketing initiative was highly effective for them and off they go to try the marketing idea of the week. But alas, they don’t get the same result. This is because they are practicing one-dimensional marketing.
Effective Efficient and Affordable Marketing
A new marketing era has begun. The marketing 2.0® model has begun to revolutionize how marketing is done not only for clients but also for the marketing companies themselves. Just as Wal-Mart utilized technology to become more effective, efficient and affordable in the area of discount retailing, the marketing industry is also making changes to help benefit businesses of all types and sizes.

HOW TO MAKE YOUR WEBSITE GET LIFE CUSTOMERS
On my first day in a marketing class the lecturer asked me what is the relationship between sales and marketing. Those days I was newbie in marketing and all I knew about marketing was the word sales. To me marketing was synonymous with sales. Back then I did not know what I know today that sales is one part of any business marketing activities. Therefore I had no clue what marketing was. To me, marketing was sales. The lecturer went on to tell the class that the role of marketing in an organization is to chart the way forward on: 1. What products to produce.

The 3 most common reasons why marketing fails
As the CEO of a marketing firm and a marketing copywriter, I see horrible marketing every day. Here are the 3 most common mistakes I see businesses make with their marketing which causes their marketing to fail...
6 "Easy-To-Implement" Marketing Mindsets
Marketing is not an exact science. It often takes trial and error to determine what marketing strategies and tactics will work best for your business. However, you can create some marketing momentum by getting your mind in marketing shape. Here are 6 ways you can jumpstart your marketing.

3 Simple Steps to Creating Your Marketing Calendar
What is a marketing calendar? This article asks and answers the questions what is a marketing calendar and offers in three easy ways for you to create your next marketing calendar. First you'll need a strategic marketing plan with all your marketing tactics ready to be put into your new marketing calendar. Then you'll need use your marketing calendar to kick all your marketing into fast action.
How Does pURL Marketing Work?
Personalized URL (pURL) Marketing seems to have taken internet marketing to a higher level and made direct mail marketing much more effective. But how does pURL marketing work and what makes it more useful than traditional marketing?
Top 5 Reasons Why Mobile Marketing Will Increase Your Profits in 2011
Mobile marketing is in its infancy, going through the same growth pattern that I saw Internet marketing go through in the late 1990s. Rather than resist something new, which is what I did with Internet marketing, I'm embarrassed to admit, I've decided to embrace mobile marketing as a new frontier and fully explore the marketing opportunities for this medium in my business. Here are the top 5 reasons that you need to use mobile marketing in 2011 to increase your profits:

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