Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing

This is a special guest post as part of Make a Referral Week 2009
By Susan Wilson Solovic, co-founder of SBTV.com
Everyone talks about the importance of networking. Every motivational speaker, small business expert, business coach, and self-help/business author: They all at some point include the boilerplate networking banter. It’s become so common that [...]

This is a special guest post as part of Make a Referral Week 2009.
By Pamela Slim of Escape from Cubicle Nation
As small business owners, the line between our business and personal lives can be a little bit challenging to define. Some people worry that the term “personal brand” means sharing about their twelve cats, [...]

This is a special Make a Referral Week 2009 guest post
By Scott Allen, author of The Virtual Handshake
The best way to increase the number of referrals you receive is to increase your worthiness of receiving them. Part of that has to do with your competence, i.e., how well do you know your stuff? All other [...]

This is a special Make a Referral Week 2009 Session

The Referral A-Team consisting of Ivan Misner, founder of BNI, Bob Burg, author of the Go-Giver and Bill Cates, author of Get More Referrals Now! joined me for a live web conference yesterday to talk about, what else, referrals.
You may listen to the session here (1h:15m)

You [...]

This is a special podcast as part of Make a Referral Week 2009
Marketing podcast with Michael Port (Click to listen, right click and Save As to download – subscribe now via iTunes
Today’s special guest interview for the Duct Tape Marketing podcast is Michael Port. Michael Port has provided coaching and consulting services to over 20,000 [...]

This is a special guest post as part of Make A Referral Week 2009
By Anita Campbell of Small Business Trends
Like most sole proprietors and small business owners, I often felt I was going it alone. It was me against the whole world – until, that is, I learned the power of partnerships.
A properly [...]

This is a special podcast as part of Make a Referral Week 2009
Andy Sernovitz, author of Word of Mouth Marketing: How Smart Companies Get People Talking. chatted with me for this special episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast.
Andy shares a wealth of information on his blog DamnIWish and is offering Make a Referral Week [...]

This is a special guest post as part of Make A Referral Week 2009
By Scott “The Nametag Guy” Ginsberg
Potential customers, fans, friends, family members, audience members, readers of your material, website visitors, and pretty much anyone else that comes into contact with your business needs to know three things:
1. What you DO.
For a living, as [...]