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Twitter over some Pizza!
Here’s a “Big Idea” for Restaurants who deliver.. and those who don’t.
How cool would this be? – think about it.
Let’s look at it from your ‘Customers’ perspective.
Joe is sitting in his cube on the 22nd floor… it’s 11:30 or so – almost time for him to grab lunch.
Since Joe ‘follows’ you on [...]

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While doing a bit of shopping today… this story came to mind.
John was just getting ready to close up the feed store and head to the house… it was one of your typical North Texas Winter nights.
Twenty degrees… snowing… sleeting… raining … winds howling from the north… it was just flat out nasty and cold [...]

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Own a business in a Strip Shopping Center?
Here’s one way to help prevent the Shopping Center from becoming a Ghost Town (and help you stay in business).
Something you can easily implement and do today.
Leveraging the Obvious
Start a ‘joint venture promotion’ with other business owners in the same shopping center… that’s an obviously easy thing you [...]

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But I need to know all that web tech stuff, right?
What prompted this post was a conversation I had with a new client this past week.
First, she asked a couple hundred internet marketing questions.
How to set up her blog… how to make those pretty web 2.0 graphics — squeeze pages, setting up an autoresponder, newsletter [...]

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It was just a matter of time… but it’s now official.
The Search Engines surpassed the Printed Yellow Pages when customers are looking for local information, products or services.
If you own an offline business of any type… Pizza shop, Hardware Store, Accountant, Landscaper, Ballet School, Roofing Company, Fitness Trainer… doesn’t matter, your ‘potential’ customer will become [...]

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Email Marketing for the Offline Business.
The September issue of my printed, and snail mailed “Big Ideas Marketing Strategies Newsletter” was dedicated to email marketing for the offline business (as you already know if you are a subscriber).
The newsletter goes out to local businesses I work with in McKinney and Collin County Texas area… and a [...]

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Testing out a new service, UMapper.
So take this for what it is, a test post… since I have no idea how it will look until I hit the ‘Publish’ button.
This could be a great tool for local businesses.
You can move the map around… zoom in… basically do everything you can do if you were on [...]

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