Marketing Ideas

5 Top Freelance Forums

Yesterday, we listed top freelance blogs that we think are useful to both full-time and part-time freelancers. To help you further open your doors to work opportunities and knowledge on freelancing, we came up with a list of five of the best freelance forums — those with wide communities, plenty of active threads and of course, loads of resources for tips, tools, and opportunities to earn more.

Date: 10/18/2009 | Under: Marketing Ideas | 14 Comments

Postcards are for More than Mailing

Postcards are for more than mailing. In fact, I’d probably describe them as one of the most versatile and multi-talented printed materials out there. Sure, they’re just a plain old rectangle of cardstock, but it’s what you do with them that counts:

Date: 02/26/2009 | Under: Marketing Ideas | No Comments

Business Card Marketing – Your Brand

Your business cards are like a tiny piece of marketing material. Whether it’s for a company that employs 100-people or little, ol’ freelancing/job-hunting you, the cards have to reflect the brand.

Date: 02/20/2009 | Under: Marketing Ideas | No Comments

Printed Postcards: The Cheaper Custom Stationery

Printed postcards are normally the domain of marketers and advertisers. They’re used as takeaway flyers to promote an event or service, design tools or as direct mail marketing pieces. But that doesn’t mean they can only be used that way.

Date: 02/19/2009 | Under: Marketing Ideas | 1 Comment

Brochure Marketing – The Call to Action!

If you’re thinking about creating and printing a brochure for your business, your first question should be why? Basically, what do you want your customers or potential customers to do after they read your brochure? Do you want them to call you? Do you want them to buy something? Do you want them to visit your website

Date: 02/18/2009 | Under: Marketing Ideas | No Comments

Can’t Decide on a Postcard Direct Mail Design? Test

If you’re about to launch a direct mail postcard campaign, you may be hemming and hawing over the creative (the copy and design). One postcard design may really sell your promotion while another seems to be more effective at pushing your overall brand. So, how do you choose? Easy – test.

Date: 02/09/2009 | Under: Marketing Ideas | 1 Comment

Are Direct Mail Postcards Outdated?

In today’s online world, something as seemingly clunky as a postcard can seem outdated. They’re paper, they’re expensive or, worse, they’re old-fashioned. The thing is, they’re also one of the most effective selling tools for targeted marketing.

Date: 02/04/2009 | Under: Marketing Ideas | 3 Comments

Top 10 Freelance Blogs

To help professionals who have bravely set out on their own to make a name for themselves and not bank on the brand of big agencies and industry giants, we’re featuring our picks for top 10 freelance blogs. Included here are some of the best freelance blogs that not only contain useful technical resources on the different freelance ventures but also interesting insights on freelancing itself.

Date: 01/14/2009 | Under: Marketing Ideas | 15 Comments

How to Promote Your Business on Digg

Digg is a social marketing power-house and anyone who can conquer this behemoth of a site is bound to be rewarded with traffic gold! This is no easy task though and a variety of elements must come together, with of course a bit of luck. Since Digg’s algorithm is secret and always changing no one knows for sure how it all works, but we have a pretty good idea and that’s enough to give you a better chance at making the front page!

Date: 10/30/2008 | Under: Marketing Ideas | 4 Comments

How to Promote Your Business on StumbleUpon

StumbleUpon is one of the greatest, if not the greatest websites for gaining exposure quickly, but in order to make the most of StumbleUpon you need to know how it works! StumbleUpon users install the toolbar and then select categories based on the interests. Once they select categories they can stumble through websites related to those categories and give pages a thumb up or a thumbs down.

Date: 10/28/2008 | Under: Marketing Ideas | 2 Comments