How a Small Business Can Market like a Large Company

Are you thinking and acting as big as you can? Years ago when I worked for one of Donald Trump’s businesses, I would hear “Think Big” all the time around the office.  It was so prevalent it was meaningless.  However, I think that the concept can suggest a number of effective marketing angles that many […]

12 CyberMonday Ecommerce and Marketing Failures at Teavana

Let’s get right to the point. Teavana messed up big time on a big promotion and ecommerce day. This post is all based on my personal experience placing an order during a CyberMonday sale. I would love to hear from any marketer who can change my mind on this topic.  Clearly some issues are not […]

Marketing Tip – Monitor Your Brand Online Part 2

In my last marketing tip I wrote about how you can use Google Alerts for managing your brand and a few other marketing related ideas.  Not too long ago I learned about a new use for Google Alerts. How would you like to know whenever someone links to your blog or site? All you need […]

Marketing Tip – Monitor Your Brand Online

A lot has been written about why it is important to manage your brand and online reputation. Every business owner should monitor their brand online (personal or professional). One easy way to do this is to set up a Google alert. A Google alert will deliver an email to you with links to any content referencing […]

Monitor Your Brand Online Part 3

I have been “playing around” with Twitter (you can follow me if you would like) for almost a year and there always seems to be something new coming out for Twitter.  In addition to meeting some new folks and following some interesting people there are some definite business uses for the application. Twitter search allows […]