Weekly Wrap Up: Marketing Resources

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This was our sixth theme based week on Success Begins Today. The theme was marketing resources and featured quick response business cards. Due to some additional resources we spent two weeks on this topic. Theme: Marketing Resources Post 1: Low Cost Marketing Materials in Just Minutes Business Cards, Promotional Cards, and Nameplates are discussed Post [...]

Create Marketing Cards With MS Publisher

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In our last post we talked about creating a mini-one-sheet with Photoshop. This is a great program, but it is expensive and has a relatively large learning curve. As an alternative you may want to look at other programs that will output a high quality photo file. Many versions of the popular Microsoft Office suite [...]

Mini One-Sheet Tutorial

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Creating a mini one-sheet for your business is a great way to highlight your services to others. In our simple tutorial today, we’ll use Photoshop to create a 4 x 6 inch graphic file at 300 dpi that we can have printed at almost any one hour photo lab. This tutorial requires that you have [...]

Creating a Mini One-Sheet

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A few weeks ago, a friend of mine from Toastmasters invited me to a local small business group mixer. The meeting was to be held at a small wine bar in town, and would be a great way to meet fellow entrepreneurs and business people. She said in passing, be sure to bring lots of [...]

3 Reasons I Will Choose Your Small Business

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Have you ever had a problem at home and needed to find someone to help? Maybe you needed a plumber or electrician. Maybe you needed a handyman to do some work around the house. If you are like me, you probably went to the yellow pages or online and searched for a local small business [...]

What To Do When Setbacks Come

I just got back from a Caribbean cruise for creatives that was one of the highlights of my life. I met some very interesting people, heard great speakers, and had a chance to share ideas and brainstorm. I also had a chance to climb a waterfall and experience a foreign marketplace. When I got back [...]