#136 How to enter a crowded market place.
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Four years ago, Daniel Flynn had a big idea. Some would say an epiphany. Appalled to read that 900 million people had no access to safe water and equally angered by the idiocy of bottled water in a country where the tap is safe to drink from, the 19-year-old university student wanted to do something.
He decided to start his own bottled water company (as if that market place wasn’t already over-crowded!) that would channel all its surplus revenues into funding water projects rather than making a profit.
This is another inspiring story of starting a business and doing the world of good. Not unlike my fireside chat with another social entrepreneur in Rebecca from Streat late last year.
PLUS in this episode of the Small Business Big Marketing show I help listener Christian promote his local bookkeeping business having been made redundant from his full-time job PLUS I share what’s happening inside the Small Business Big Marketing Forum.
More email marketing tips and tricks …
My recent fireside chat with email marketing guy Shayne Tilley clearly highlighted the fact that email marketing is a topic that continues to frustrate many small business owners. Not only was the episode
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Think your business could perform better if you had some guidance around marketing best practices?
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How do you tease your prospects?
In the local seaside village where I live there’s two new businesses opening. And both of them are teasing me to varying degrees. And I love it! One’s got some crazy
A Letter To My Listeners – February 2013
Timbo here from Australia’s #1 marketing show.
Boy is there plenty of marketing gold floating around the Small Business Big Marketing HQ at present.
Thought it was time to share it round.
Read up as I cover what works on Facebook (it’s a tad rude!), some great news from a recent guest, there’s an invite to a webinar I’m co-hosting with Andrew Griffiths, Netregistry have a 4-hour online marketing workshop coming up and plenty more.
Enjoy!
Cha-Ching! The sweet, sweet sound of small business marketing success.
I wrote this book about five years ago. It contains 49 marketing ideas, supported by examples, to help you create more awareness around your business, attract more customers and close more deals. What I love is the fact that it was written during my push in to marketing a business online, so it contains a lot of old-school marketing ideas as well as new ones. Something we don’t see a lot of these days!
Action creates reaction. AKA get stuff done.
Over the past three years on the The Small Business Big Marketing Show, I’ve interviewed 120 highly successful small business owners who have used marketing in some remarkable way to
