In this video, Shelly Allen shares news about the fact that Verizon Communications is stopping white page distribution in some states. How can this bit of news influence business owners’ marketing practices in the future? Join Shelly as discusses possible trends and marketing avenues.
In this video Kristen Darkenwald shares with you how a mortgage broker used this offline marketing technique and tailored it by adding the New York Football Team Schedule to his local business card.
However, the problem with this strategy is that after the football season is over so will be the need for the magnetic card.
Join Kristen as she discusses a much more cost effective and permanent way for local businesses to use this marketing strategy.
Are you interested in finding money to fund your business? I came across The Amber Foundation Grants that WomensNet.Net started in 1998.
WomensNet.Net is a community of entrepreneurial women who seek to help other women who are attempting to start their small, home, or online business. This group of women felt it honorable to set up a grant to remember a 19-year-old young woman who died in 1981.
According to their site, “the purpose of the Amber Grants is to help other women achieve the dreams that Amber could not in her short time with us.”
The small $500 grants are awarded quarterly and require a $5 application processing fee along with the completion of an online application. The monies given are encouraged to be used for the upgrade of equipment, pay for a web site, etc. They consider that often these “small but essential expenses can make the difference between getting started or being forever stalled.
No repayment is required or expected, although it is hoped that you will pass on the kindness by mentoring & helping others along the way.
Although the grant program is run as a foundation to the extent that [they] accept applications and award grants, all grants come from private not government or solicited donations or funds.”
Take a look at this funding source and this resource and community of women. According to the WomenNet.net site, they boast that award-winning and nationally-renowned business author Marcia Layton-Turner has joined this group of entrepreneurs. So there is lots to explore on this site.
Kristen Darkenwald shares a review of Jack Canfield’s Book, The Success Principles- How To Get From Where You Are To Where You Want To Be.
Jack Canfield has been featured in the movie, The Secret and is best known as the co-creator of the bestselling book series, Chicken Soup For The Soul.
In Success Principles, Jack Canfield delivers practical advice, gives specific techniques, and breaks down each success principle into segments, all the while providing great examples and stories of people from different industries.