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Posted on 20 February 2012. Tags: advertising, awards, Become an Award Winning Company., business plan, Consulting, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, M & E Painting, marketing, marketing plan, Matt Shoup, PR, Shoup Consulting, small business awards, speaking, strategy, winning business awards, winning small business awards
Bio of Matt Shoup A lifelong entrepreneur finds himself with $100 to his name and nearly $100,000 in debt. This is March 2005. Fast forward seven years. The company he founded with the last hundred dollars is a multimillion dollar, award-winning brand and a household name in Northern Colorado. With close to $10,000,000 in company [...]
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Posted on 21 January 2012. Tags: advertising, business directory, business listings, business searches, free advertising, online yellowpages, phone book, yellow pages
What is your product or service? Qurkl http://www.qurkl.com is a free online yellow pages site that was started in the fall of 2009. Qurkl is free for businesses to list or edit and free for consumers to search. Why did you start your company? Due to my frustration with yellow pages type websites (as a [...]
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Posted in Shoestring Startup
Posted on 08 December 2011. Tags: advertising, design, Digital, Emerging Technology, Interactive
Headline: Catch the Eye of Your Next Client with DAMN Digital Interactive Digital Products Name of your company and URL? DAMN Digital Studio, LLC. (http://damndigitalstudio.com) Date started? DAMN Digital was launched in July 2005. It took on the name Mass Designs Studio after absorbing Daniiboi Productionz Corporation. The agency then changed its name to DAMN [...]
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Posted in Shoestring Startup
Posted on 15 November 2011. Tags: advertise, advertising, brand, company, contests, Entrepreneurs, freebies, giveaways, marketing, prizes, promote, promoting, Promotion, small business, social media, startup, sweepstakes
Why did you start your company? Even in difficult economic times like these, there are always opportunities present for those who notice them and are willing to take advantage of them. In this terrible economic environment, my partner and I are able to make a living by giving away free stuff. Sounds crazy, doesn’t it? [...]
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Posted in Shoestring Startup
Posted on 25 July 2011. Tags: advertising, app, charity, mobile app, mobile marketing, Mobile text, mobile website, non-profit, not for profit, school, small business, Text, text advertising, text message, wireless
What is the name of your business and URL of you APP? Our business is; Call 2 action Mobile, our website is www.call2actionmobile.com. A brief synopsis of the smart phone app : We provide a mobile communications platform, optimized for all small to medium size businesses and non-profits that enables real-time communications with your customers, [...]
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Posted on 02 August 2010. Tags: advertising, advertising placement services, AOL, banner ad, banner ads, banner exchange, banner exchanges, Bidvertiser, business, Click-through rate, contextual, Dish Network, e-bannerx, Electronic commerce, exchange member, exchange rates, exchange service, exchange software monitors usage, exchange technology, impressions, Information technology management, Internet marketing, Link exchange, live person, marketing, math, network member, online advertising, percentages, porn hacks, revisions, robots, search engines, shoestring, SkyscraperAds technology, undesirable activities, Web advertising, web analytics software, Web banner, Web site owners, World Wide Web
Let’s say you truly are running a shoestring venture with precious little cash to spare for Web advertising. You can leverage the value inherent in your Web site by joining a banner exchange where you trade ads with other Web site owners. In essence, you get to place ads on other sites for “free.” But [...]
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Posted in Banner Exchanges
Posted on 29 July 2010. Tags: advertising, advertising initiative, advertising tool, AdWords, appearance, background Web resource, Click-through rate, context advertising, cyberspace, direct response advertising, Electronic commerce, email advertising, free software, Google, graphics animation, hand web, Information technology management, initiative, Internet marketing, Link exchange, marketing strategy, media ads, media advertising, Media placement, media players, Microsoft, online advertising, online video, Pop-up ad, pricing models, quantitative work, search engine, Search engine advertising, search engine marketing, search engines, search words, shell out, software interface, stand-alone applications, streams, text ad services, text advertising engines, tv ad, Web ad, Web ad format, web ads, Web advertisement, Web advertising, Web advertising formats, web analytics, Web banner, Web first, Web media placement, Web owners, Web resource, Web site content owners, Web site owners, web users, Web-served goodie, widget advertising services
No matter what your marketing strategy, at some point you’re going to entertain a serious Web advertising initiative. You will have extracted as much value as you can from search engine marketing and link exchange, or you’ll just get the itch to start prospecting in different streams. Web advertising can be much easier and cheaper [...]
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Posted in Web Advertising
Posted on 26 July 2010. Tags: Abraham Maslow, advertising, affiliate marketing, Al Riess, American Marketing Association, arcane art, Arthur Levitt, business activity, business marketing, business to business, complex art, CRM, cycle management, David Aaker, demonstrations Presentations Trade shows/conferences Exhibits Brand ambassadors, Direct Marketing Association, empty bank account, entrepreneur, Entrepreneur Magazine, finance, find Entrepreneur, Focus groups General marketing Interactive marketing International research Market research Multicultural, general business resources, general marketing resources, Global marketing, greatest challenge, Guerrilla marketing, hell, high water, integrated advertising plan, Integrated marketing, interactive advertising, Internet marketing, Internet marketing Media Marketing research Marketing strategy New, Jack Trout, Kenichi Ohmae, knowledge management, Larry Porter, lemonade stand, link management, marketing advertising, maximum exposure, media advertising, Nike, Online affiliate marketing Pay-per-click advertising Social network, Online forum, online magazine, online magazines, online marketing tactics, outdoor advertising, pay-per-click advertising, prime bookmark site, print advertising, product placements, Promotion, promotions, promotions―advertising, public relations, public relations web, relationship management, response advertising, search engine, Search engine marketing Summits Web site technology, search engine marketing―working, search engine rankings, search engine results, sidewalk, single most important aspect, viral marketing, web marketing, Web marketing Web site, web placement, Web site technology, Web―you, word marketing
When you hear the word “marketing,” what comes to mind? “Advertising,” you might say. “Selling.” “Public relations.” Yes, but not quite. Marketing comprises far more than “advertising” and “selling,” which are only one part of a business’ marketing functions. Marketing is, in fact, the engine that drives almost every business and it consumes a significant [...]
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Posted in Promoting Your Company, Product, or Service
Posted on 21 May 2010. Tags: advertising, how to start a business, Jim Blasingame, richard hooker, shoestring, small business
Tune-in to Jim Blasingame. Richard will be discussing some tips on how to start a business and the updated Shoestring Venture: The Startup Bible coming out in June 2010. Here is the link to Jim Blasingame’s interview on May 21, 2010 @ 7:00 a.m. EST. - http://www.smallbusinessadvocate.com/show/schedule If you miss it, this link will have [...]
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Posted on 17 December 2009. Tags: Accenture, advertising, Carl's Jr, celebrity, Paris Hilton, Tiger Woods
Because I’ve been neck-deep in a consulting gig these last three weeks, I’ve little time for what matters, let alone leafing through all the reading material piling up neck deep in my kitchen. So I just got around this afternoon to leafing through last week’s Forbes magazine and there in living color is reason number [...]
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Posted on 01 December 2009. Tags: advertising, direct marketing, DMA, marketing, post office
The Post Office makes most of its money from junk mail. So why not junk trucks? Junk post offices? In further evidence that “Richard needs a life,” the USPS inspector general has a fascinating blog today (yes, the U.S.P.S. inspector general has a blog — tagline (I’m not joking): “pushing the envelope” (*grooooooan*) — and, [...]
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Posted in marketing
Posted on 01 December 2009. Tags: adicons, advertising, banner ads, Web advertising, web marketing
That is one tiny ad. But it gets bigger when you click it. This has to be some sort of Guinness world record. The New York Times Web edition this morning opened up with the tiniest banner ad I’ve ever seen. Even the Lollipop Guild will probably think this a mighty teensy ad. At around [...]
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Posted in web marketing
Posted on 27 September 2009. Tags: advertising, Carly Fiorina, Microsoft, seth godin, Value Voters Conference, Windows
Who not to invite to your Windows 7 party. It’s been a pretty sad week in marketing, from the “AIDS is like sleeping with Hitler” commercial in Germany to Carly Fiorina comparing herself to a dog in, well, Carlyfornia. So, in honor of all the hard-working marketers and ad-men who daily struggle against looking like [...]
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Posted on 10 September 2009. Tags: advertising, Apple, credit, credit cards, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, iphone, iphone apps, iTunes, Kevin O'Leary, marketing, Mattel, Shark Tank, small business startup, startup, The Learning Company
Startup success comes from many things, but NEVER from wasting time watching garbage on TV. I’m not a businessperson in real life, but I play one on TV! Kevin O’Leary stars on ABC’s new business reality show Shark Tank as one of five executives who vet business ideas pitched by would-be entrepreneurs. O’Leary often delivers [...]
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Posted on 04 August 2009. Tags: advertising, design, stock photos
Got no money to buy a stock photo of money? This sawbuck is free at MorgueFile.com. In our previous post, we compared photos from the number one free stock site, stock.xchng, to your quotidian stock photos from a pay site, like Corbis. Free is great on a shoestring budget, but, as we demonstrated, you get [...]
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Posted in tip sheet
Posted on 31 July 2009. Tags: advertising, bank bailout, economics, economy, GDP, marketing, recession, wine
They’re having a great recession on Wall Street! The big bonus was for scamming the Bush Administration. Nine banks that received government aid money paid out bonuses of nearly $33 billion last year — including more than $1 million apiece to nearly 5,000 employees — despite huge losses that plunged the U.S. into economic turmoil. [...]
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Posted on 30 July 2009. Tags: advertising, design, stock photos
Normally a stock photo like this will cost you $50 (Web) to $200 (print). At Dreamstime it’s selling for the everyday low price of . . . free. Perhaps one of the most significant bummers of running a shoestring venture is that “free” is often the highest price you can swing. And in those rare [...]
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Posted in design
Posted on 30 July 2009. Tags: advertising, Apple, Boeing, iphone, Web advertising
Hackers can get total control of your iPhone by sending you 512 text messages. All you have to do wrong is turn on the phone. Apple, welcome to Microsoft’s nightmare. Miller and his fellow cybersecurity researcher Collin Mulliner plan to publicize Thursday at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas. Using a flaw they’ve [...]
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Posted on 20 July 2009. Tags: advertising, economy, Microsoft, recession, Starbucks, Walmart
I hear they’re hiring at CIT. The good news first? The bad news isn’t as bad as we thought. More plans to build homes, higher stock prices and fewer people filing first-time claims for jobless aid sent a private-sector forecast of American economic activity higher than expected in June. It was the third consecutive monthly [...]
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Posted on 08 July 2009. Tags: advertising, Amazon, Google, Kindle, marijuana, Microsoft
And just how prophetic was Sara B’s Microsoft Google bomb, eh? Now that’s a Google bomb. The final element in Google’s drive to reshape the computing landscape fell into place on Wednesday when it unveiled plans for a PC operating system that would compete directly with Microsoft’s Windows. . . . Given Windows’s deeply entrenched [...]
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