I’m honored and excited to have been chosen as a beta tester for a new marketing training course developed by John Jantsch (Ducttape Marketing).
The training course is called the Ultimate Marketing System (UMS) and over the next few weeks a handful of people will be reviewing the course material and providing feedback before the public launch.
John has been refining and simplifying his Duct Tape Marketing system for about ten years and has a real passion for helping business owners understand marketing and use it to grow their businesses. One of the foundations of the Ducttape marketing system is the belief that marketing doesn't need to be complicated in order to be effective.
For local business owners, online marketing can be a bit of a mystery. The facts show that most people turn to the web when searching for local products or services. This means that if you don’t have a quality web presence your prospective customers may not find you and you are missing out on potential sales. If you own a local business and want to jumpstart your online marketing and start attracting customers, a good place to start is Google Places. I put together a quick start guide to help you put your business on a solid online foundation. You can download my free guide to using Google Places to attarct more customers here.
I just read about Groupon’s plans to launch a new service called Groupon Stores. The service will allow business owners to create their own mini site on Groupon and manage their own deals. Users could then follow a company’s Groupon deal feed to keep up on their offers. As a user you would then have the ability to subscribe or unsubscribe to the company’s you want, giving you the power of permission. A really amazing feature of the data feeds will be the ability to connect them to your Facebook page so your friends can see the deals as well. The ability to connect to Facebook could exponentially increase the audience available to even a local business. I can’t wait to see and try this new service. Here are a couple of links to articles if you want to read more.
Just read to interesting posts from Dan Zarrella about how information is shared on Facebook.
Here are the links.
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