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Twitter Guide - Business use explained

Monday, August 4th, 2008

THANK YOU JOHN JANTSCH!
Recently I spent some time trying to explain Twitter for business to a client. After the conversation, I kept thinking ’someone should write a guide’ but just didn’t have the time. Well thankfully I wasn’t the only one in need, and John Jantsch has answered my request. If you are wondering about [...]

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So far in John Jantsch’s Duct Tape Marketing Coaching Excellence Series, we have had some amazing interviews, and the next session looks to be no different. On August 18th from 12pm-1pm CDT (10am-11am PDT) , John will be interviewing Stephen M.R. Covey. They will be discussing Covey’s book “The Speed of Trust” and cover a range of topics including leadership and authenticity.

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Google Keyword Tool

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Today, John Jantsch, the author of Duct Tape Marketing, wrote a great post about Google’s Keyword tool that I just had to pass on! We have used it so many times for our pay-per-click campaigns and have just started using it for keyword suggestions for our websites, just like John suggests:
I’ve found that this tool [...]

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Simply put: marketing is one of the most important things that your business can do to get more business. And it can get expensive in a hurry. But, there are some easy ways to increase your marketing without increasing your marketing cost. Here are 3 of the tactics that we use, and suggest that our clients [...]

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Connecting Social Media Sites

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

Connecting online through social media has quickly become one of the most effective and affordable ways for regionally-based small businesses to connect to their target audience - at first virtually, and then hopefully off-line.

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Tornado Marketing posted it’s 100th blog yesterday!! Time to break out the premium coffee (I would say champagne…but I still have to get some work done today!)
Writing our 100th post is definitely a milestone worth celebrating, but it is also cause for reflection. I spent a little time looking back at those 100 posts and got [...]

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Tame the Tornado

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Adrianne Machina, Authorized Duct Tape Marketing Coach, and Owner of Tornado Marketing reveals the 7 top tips for taming your personal tornado (i.e. Getting organized, and living your best life!)

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Tornado Marketing via Wordle

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Wordle is in one word: Fantastic! It doesn’t have any social media capabilities, it doesn’t connect you to a bunch of people and it doesn’t make it easy to read all your blogs. But, it does allow you to bring out your creative side, share it with the world, and as an added benefit, it’s [...]

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Keys to Keywords with PPC Advertising

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

In August, we here at Tornado Marketing are planning to do some co-marketing training sessions with Steve Wiideman of ElaborateSEM. So this week I sat in on one of his pay-per-click training sessions to see how we could build on each other’s expertise. With Steve’s permission, we thought we’d share one of the most important take-aways of the day - focus on the keywords.

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Directory of Web 2.0 Sites

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Wow!  This directory is packed with over 250 pages of Web 2.0 and Social Media sites that small businesses, entrepreneurs and individuals can use to connect and share information. 
 

Web2-Directory - Upload a Document to Scribd
Read this document on Scribd: Web2-Directory

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