Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing

Google Maps (Google’s local directory) has recently started showing user reviews in it’s business directory listings.
First, off if you haven’t listed your business in Google Maps – go here now and do so. Even if your business is in the listing take the time to sign up for a free account and enhance your [...]

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Lots of big research companies put out survey results that claim to tell the small business story.
For some reason, I never feel like these firms end up understanding a darn thing from their research because they don’t understand small business in the first place. I’m pretty close to my [...]

Great site for those who do a great bit of their own web design and need a reference site for using the right html tag – HTML Playground, html, css reference by example
This is a very useful way to learn XHTML and CSS by seeing tag descriptions, example code, and results all with the click [...]

Small business owners are often confused about the term brand, and rightly so. Big businesses obsess about this thing called branding, yet I think on the whole it has become a pretty souless term.
Every small business has a brand? The question is whether the make-up of the brand is created intentionally or accidentally. There is [...]

The delicious bookmarking tool has a fairly little known feature that bloggers can take advantage of. With the right settings you can have delicious post your bookmarks to your blog once a day as content. Here’s an example post links for 2007-07-27 | nicharalambous.com
If you have a delicious account (heavens knows you should) and you [...]

A few weeks ago I teamed up with WordPress Theme designer Cory Miller to create a business oriented theme for WordPress. The response to this release was great.
The one request I received the most was to release a version of the theme that would allow the user to create and upload their own custom graphic [...]

A few weeks ago I wrote a post pointing out the growing usefulness of Facebook as a business tool. It isn’t that I am so enamored with the social network as I am optimistic that the new open platform will allow developers to create some very useful business applications.
Today I want to tell you about [...]

Todd Andrlik, a marketing and PR guy known to most as Todd And and creator of the Power 150 – top marketing blogs, announced today that AdvertisingAge will be taking over his little creation and plans to integrate it into their coverage of marketing and media.
I think it’s a tribute to some hard work on [...]