The Main Street Alliance hosted a press call and Q&A for small business owners on COVID-19 grants and loans programs recently. Small business panelists shared their frustration about the difficulties they had navigating through the bureaucracy. The Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) and Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) are included in the CARES Act. They are […]
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My first interaction with John Jantsch was in April of 2016 at the annual Social Media Marketing World conference in San Diego, CA. I had just begun my digital marketing consulting business a few months prior and, to be honest, hadn’t read his popular book Duct Tape Marketing nor did I know anything about running
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We live in the most technologically-advanced era in human history. It would be reasonable to assume, therefore, that businesses are moving faster than ever, assisted by these technological improvements. In fact, there’s evidence to the contrary: the pace of business is slowing down. One survey of four hundred recruiters showed that in 2015 it took
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Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch on To Niche, or Not to Niche in Your Business? There’s a big movement today of people selling advice, programs, and courses about how to build your business that all sound like this: “Find a niche, run Facebook ads to this niche. Then become specialized, and get rich.” While I
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Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch on the 3 Step System to Keep Clients 3 Years or Longer I’ve been a marketing consultant for many years, working with all sorts of small business owners. Not only that, but I’ve also spent a lot of time with fellow marketing consultants, having developed the Duct Tape Marketing Consultant
Marketing Podcast with Jim KukralPodcast Transcript Today on the podcast, I chat with marketing and branding expert Jim Kukral. He is a keynote speaker and author of several books, including his latest, Your Journey to Becoming Unskippable in Your Business, Life & Career. As an entrepreneur, he has started and sold two of his own
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If you’re just getting into email marketing (or even if you’ve been at it for a while!), you may be unaware of some of the rules and regulations that come along with managing a mailing list and launching campaigns. While you may be eager to get things up and running, there are some legal guidelines
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My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you to check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from an online source
It’s the start of summer and that means thousands of seasonal businesses across the country finally get to open their doors to customers again. But it also means that authorities in communities across this country may be issuing citations that stomp out the entrepreneurial spirit in those most vulnerable of all summer entrepreneurs. We’re talking
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