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Your Small Business Holiday Survival Guide The holidays provide a wonderful time for small businesses to increase sales, customer loyalty and their overall reputation. But with so much hustle and bustle, planning and preparing can be difficult. In order to help our small business entrepreneur friends, we've put together a short holiday survival guide – a...

5 Tips for Avoiding the Spam Folder: May The Odds Be Ever In Your Favor

5 Tips for Avoiding the Spam Folder: May The Odds Be Ever In Your Favor Any marketer can feel a bit like Katniss Everdeen of the Hunger Games during the holiday season – maneuvering from one promotional battle to the next trying to keep emails alive and out of spam folders. It’s an email marketing game and...

Holiday Marketing Trends and Predictions for 2014

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Learn How to Market from Your Smartphone: What You Need to Know about Google’s Latest Marketing Tool

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7 Tips for Socially Responsible Marketing

7 Tips for Socially Responsible Marketing Smart hustlers know that no business owner is an island. By getting involved in your community, you’ll build a reputation as a caring business owner and keep your company top-of-mind when customers seek to buy what you sell. Here are 7 tips for integrating social responsibility into your marketing...

4 Biggest Marketing Blunders of All Time

4 Biggest Marketing Blunders of All Time In an era when marketing campaigns can be launched within minutes of conceptualization, it’s easy to make mistakes. But marketing blunders have been made throughout history. Before you post your next status update, take a look at these major marketing blunders as a reminder that your campaigns should...

How to Make the Most of Email Marketing for Your Growing Business

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