Posted by ddidier in advertising, small-business Friday, 15 January 2010 12:11 No Comments
Choosing an email marketing provider is a very relevant pursuit. I have had experience with a number of different email marketing solutions. From open source free solutions like Mail Press to paid services like iContact or Constant Contact, there is a huge market out there for email marketing services.
Do not get me wrong, many of the tools the paid services use are based off of previously open source solutions. The features of a paid service are sometimes only marginally better. Furthermore, extra services such as surveys, polls, etc. are thrown in to help make the paid services better.
This article gives you a nice matrix to evaluate the needs you have and the services that the vendors offer. A lot of time can be saved figuring out the right provider in advance rather than finding out the hard way later on.
Click here for tips from the Effective Marketer Blog
Posted by ddidier in small-business Tuesday, 4 August 2009 02:05 No Comments
The Disney Entrepreneur Center
For those reading that own small businesses in Orlando, Florida you should know that there are many resources available to you. This article from the Orlando Sentinel speaks to those resources. From the Disney Entrepreneur Center, to tax breaks for hiring within the city limits, there are many opportunities that the city makes available to us.
Posted by ddidier in Newsletter Thursday, 30 July 2009 09:00 No Comments
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 It has been a sweltering Summer, but our team has been hard at work pounding the pavement -making videos and adding some social networking capabilities to our sales mix. We are working with Wall Street Plaza on both their Twitter and Facebook presence and have acquired over 600 fans in 5 weeks! There is more in the works, and we will let you in on the details in a future newsletter. Of course if you need some assistance with your social media endeavors, let us know. |
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 Call To Action: A Must in Today's Economy
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 Chik-Fil-A's Giveaways, Stunts Lead to Sales
By Advertising Age ' News Want to boost sales? Test your customer's engagement by having them do outrageous things. Chik-Fil-A proves that using some grass-roots marketing and some zany ideas you can get your customers to bend over backwards. This article from AdAge.com does a great job of showing customer commitment in a way that many businesses can learn from. more... |
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| 'Tis the season for discounts. The economy has spurred every company out there to engage in discounting and price drops. We already offer a great price and value on our video screen advertisements but we think there's room for some other great offers.
To kick off our new social media offerings we would like to provide you with a $200 social media setup package. This would include Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn setup. We will create a unique landing page for Facebook and background for Twitter for you. Let us take the hassel out of creating these pages. Call us at 1-888-85MEDIA (63342) or email us if you are interested. |
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Posted by ddidier in advertising, small-business, twitter Monday, 27 July 2009 15:31 No Comments
This is a great article from the folks at Site Pro News. It quickly goes over the 5 reasons why every small business should be embracing social media.
While a couple of the points are a bit common sense two strong points remain: start with social media today - your competitors are and so you must start, too and the second strong point is that frequency is just as important as content.
You cannot start a campaign or marketing effort without a full commitment. If you choose your social media campaign that way, you will fail. Being consistent with you message and consistently communicating on the social media platforms is important to remain relevant. more...
Posted by ddidier in advertising, small-business Friday, 24 July 2009 14:03 No Comments
By Mark Walsh
In this informative article about the success that Starbucks is having with it's Facebook page we learn their secrets to Facebook success. This week they surged past Coke to have the highest number of fans on all of Facebook.
The formula is easy: offer coupons. By continuously engaging their customers, offering incentives to revisit and giving away freebies, Starbucks has been extremely successful in promoting to their fans.
Small businesses can learn a lot from Starbuck's example. Creating a Facebook Fan Page is straightforward, but to generate buzz you have to continually update it and pay attention to it. Your customers demand that you interact and you have to give them a reason to return. Coupons are great, but so are contests that test your customers level of commitment.
Read on for more detail on Starbuck's achievement.
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=110369