Small Business Trends

Duct Tape Marketing: The World’s Most Practical Small Business Marketing Guide – A Book Review

After you read John Jantsch’s book, Duct Tape Marketing: The World’s Most Practical Small Business Marketing Guide, you will understand that marketing should be an integrated part in all your firm’s business activities. The outcome of marketing is to create a complete system that ...

Top 100 Influential Online Marketers List

Invesp Consulting has released their first annual list of the Top 100 Most Influential Online Marketers for 2008.  Among the top 10 are Jackie Huba, Darren Rowse, Brian Clark, Aaron Wall, and Guy Kawasaki.  Oh, and number 1? That would be ...

Making the Best of Low Market Share

I’ve said before that I love a good graph joke, but I mostly do line graphs or the occasional bar graph. There’s a lot of opportunity to play visually with those.

Pie graphs are harder because they’re always the same shape. You ...

Best Business Books - Readers’ Choice

I thought it would be fun to ask for input into the top business books for 2008. So I polled people on the social media site Twitter, and chose 10 responses. While not all books were new to 2008, they certainly look to be valuable.

A Planner’s 3 Rules on Resolutions

In 30-some years of professional business planning, I’ve developed a few theories on what works and what doesn’t when it comes to trying to get something done. Usually I’m talking about business planning, and how to make plans into actions, how to make it planning ...

SnackFest of Small Business Marketing Advice

John Jantsch at Duct Tape Marketing put together short “snack size” bits of advice about small business marketing for 2009.  All of the advice is from folks who are active on Twitter, which is currently the rage in social media sites. 

The advice is snack size ...