Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing

Here are a few recent interviews I thought I would share.

USNews – Blogging to Small Business Success

Action Coach – You vs. The Economy: 5 Fresh Answers for Small Business From Seth Godin and John Jantsch

Online Marketing Blog – Interview with John Jantsch

As social media and social network sites such as Facebook grow in popularity and utility for business, it’s no wonder that professionals are building businesses around showing other professionals how to get the most bang for their social networking buck.
For a recent episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast I spoke with Mari Smith who [...]

As you may know I’ve launched a marketing planning software tool called Marketing Plan Pro powered by Duct Tape Marketing. The approach we took to create this (with the help of Palo Alto Software) was to make it something completely different from anything out there.
As feedback starts coming in, comments like the below make [...]

Google, Yahoo and MSNLive are just itching to get to know more about your website and they are steadily adding tools to make it easier for you to tell them more, learn more and analyze just what’s going on in their world when it comes to your websites.
Time was when figuring out how to get [...]

If you provide a service, and you charge for your service by the hour, you’re headed for trouble. You are essentially selling a product with a limited supply. The only way to increase your business is to raise your rates. But even that will catch up with you because at some point the old apples [...]

What is social media? Well, that’s good question and the complete answer could fill pages without really delivering the clarity that a small business marketer might desire.
So here’s the simple definition for the purpose of this blog.
Social media is the use of technology combined with social interaction to create or co-create value.
In a way [...]

Technology and data speed advances have made the use of web meeting technology a no brainer for even the smallest of businesses. In the fast paced world we live in, the ability to get a group of folks together online is such a powerful way to conduct business.
As more and more folks use this [...]

Join me live – Wednesday, Sept 24th Noon CDT – for a conversation with Alan Weiss, author of Million Dollar Consulting. Register here
Anyone who is currently a coach or consultant or who wants to become a coach or consultant can learn a great deal about the industry from one of the biggest names in [...]