John Jantsch is right on target with the Changing Face of SEO

This is what I have been talking about for so many months and John says it so eloquently: Read this post at least twice. This content from: Duct Tape Marketing encourage you to read the entire post and the comments. Search engine optimization has changed dramatically over the past few years. The shift is from Read More …

Microsoft Insight – Develop a Game Plan

The Microsoft Newsletter this month had some great material in it. As far as newsletters go, I recommend this one. This is a short excerpt.  Welcome to Small Business+ Insight, the newsletter that delivers custom small business advice and technology information to help you succeed. Look for the plus sign to identify Small Business+ exclusives. Read More …

Marketing Power Groups

Are you a small retail store? Maybe a local manufacturer that knows you could go further? You just don’t have enough horses, do you? This is an interesting twist to this dilemma, creating a marketing power group. I know, you have heard all of this before with network groups and it just always seems that Read More …

SECOND-STAGE ENTREPRENEURS – Is that you?

Characteristics of Second-Stage from the Edward Lowe Foundation: Second-stage companies are those that have grown past the startup stage but have not grown to maturity. They have enough employees to exceed the comfortable control span of one owner/CEO and benefit from adding professional managers, but they do not yet have a full-scale professional management team. Read More …

Lean Marketing House – Foundation

The foundation of the Lean Marketing House is where the work is done. The stronger the foundation the larger or more pillars it can support. It is these actions that most people really believe makes up the marketing process. Events, Ads and Brochures make up these actions and what I call, executable or check-off type Read More …

Lean Marketing House Overview

Lean Marketing is the Future of Marketing Released as an ebook, Lean Marketing House is now available on the website. “When you first hear the terms Lean and Value Stream most of our minds think about manufacturing processes and waste. Putting the words marketing behind both of them is neither creative nor effective. But the Read More …