Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing

The latest version of QuickBooks is a big step outside the box for the leading small business accounting software.
Building on Intuit’s Connected Services Strategy announced last year, QuickBooks connects to several new online services that enable small businesses to extend the power of their information already in QuickBooks
QuickBooks Pro and Premier 2010 feature the all-new [...]

When I first started my business, several decades ago, I was determined to tell people that, mine was an integrated marketing firm. To which, I generally received polite nods and the occasional more truthful – “What the heck is integrated marketing anyway?”
Well, c’mon I would mutter, “everyone knows it’s a management strategy and meta-discipline focused [...]

Marketing podcast with Mike McLaughlin (Click to listen, right click and Save As to download – subscribe now via iTunes

Social media has certainly changed marketing, but few people are addressing just how dramatically it’s changed sales. In this interview we hit that subject pretty head on.
My guest for this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing [...]

I’m a big fan of the newish Twitter List function. I wrote about it last week – 5 Reasons to Use the New Twitter Lists Feature
Now that I’ve you pumped up about using lists, I want to talk about a few tools that I think can make the feature even more useful.

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In case you missed my post on Friday I offered one signed copy of One these seven books: Trust Agents by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith, New Community Rules by Tamar Weinberg, Six Pixels of Separation by Mitch Joel, Web Analytics 2.0 by Avinash Kaushik, Duct Tape Marketing by well, me, Whuffle Factor by Tara [...]

I’ve added a weekend post routine that I hope you enjoy. Each weekend I write a post that features 3-4 things I read during the week that I found interesting. Generally speaking it won’t involve much analysis and may range widely in topic. (Flickr image included here is also fav image of the week)

Enjoy!
Good stuff [...]

In a fit of collaboration goodness I would like to gift one set of seven awesome books to the person that most creatively answers the following: I get the biggest return for my business using social media when I [fill in the blank]
I’m the only judge and I’m going to pick the answer I [...]

I get daily pitches from PR folks and business owners asking me to write about their news, launch, product, or survey. On one hand, I still think it’s awfully cool that people think enough of blogs and this blogger to pitch me. (Can’t imaging what some really big blogs endure.)
On the other hand, I sure [...]