Distributor Websites Thrive

UPDATE: We’ve had a great response to the launch of Promo Marketing distributor websites. I’d like to thank everyone for the feedback and assure you that it won’t fall on deaf ears. Thanks to distributor site owners we have added new address privacy functionality and are in the process of providing more customization options.

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Create a No Cost Marketing Blitz

I know there are many distributors out their who simply don’t get the whole Facebook thing, how it is useful, how it can help grow your business, etc, etc. Just how useful it can be to your business depends on how much you put it to work for you. Today may be your lucky day in learning what Facebook can do for your small business.

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Now That’s Good Coffee! Will Starbucks Profits Predict Economic Recovery?

Do you remember a few months back when I wrote about the Starbucks Index? The basic gist was this: “In his February 19, 2009 editorial entitled ‘Starbucks becomes a harbinger of the economy.”

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30 Blogs in 30 Days–Why None of Us Should Refudiate Googleability!

So here goes my own personal challenge, 30 blogs in 30 days. I am constantly discussing the power of the blog. How it is paramount for the small-business owner to be actively blogging on the web, creating a viral marketing campaign and getting involved in social media.

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A Citizen of the World

The recent wave of suicides at the Foxconn manufacturing plant in China has served as an eye-opener to what life is like living in a factory culture. Proposed wage increases across Chinese factories have created a dialog in the U.S.

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Entomologically Correct Bug Plushies

This morning (April 21)  the Wired.com blog Geekdad reported on an online store that sells entomologically correct insect plushies. The stuffed animals at the aptly named “Weird Bug Lady” store are created by a zoology student at McGill University who will soon be pursuing a Ph.D. in evolutionary biology and entomology at the University of Connecticut.

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