A couple of new marketing coaching opportunties for entrepreneurs, non-profits, and small businesses!

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This fun event honors select men and women under the age of 40 who are helping to shape the future through their business and community involvement. They are leaders today and are sure to be part of the next generation that will make Tarrant County a great place to live and work.

Who will you nominate?

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One of our clients is having their annual Dinner & Auction tomorrow night.  We are currently involved in their website redesign as well as printing all the materials for this event.  It is also a charity that is closely tied to our Greater Things Initiative, so we are thrilled to support them.

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MARKETING RESOURCE SPOTLIGHT:

When it comes to getting a hosting account for your website, we suggest using HostGator. Excellent customer service, affordable prices and more!  Monthly hosting at less than $10/month . . . can’t beat it!

If you are looking for one of the very best email marketing programs around, you can’t beat one that allows you to send emails to up to 500 contacts for less than $10/month . . . hey this $10/month seems to be a theme today.

Have a great weekend!

-Randy

* Be watching next week for a rollout of a series of coaching program announcements as well as “The Boot”!

For those of you who are visiting our site after coming to our Meetup.com – Small Business Marketing Workshop – click on the appropriate icons on the right sidebar to connect with us on Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter!

While you are here, look around for a number of great marketing resources – email marketing, web hosting, etc…. plus there’s a place down farther on the right side where you can search our site – type in an area of marketing that is of interest to you and see if we’ve written anything on the subject. I would bet we have, but in the event we haven’t send us a message and we’ll try and cover the topic soon.

-Randy & Donny

PS – Keep watching for “The Boot” – coming soon!

As Fort Worth’s only Duct Tape Marketing authorized coach, I am excited to tell you that before this month is done, you’ll hear about our newest Marketing Coaching program and how to sign up (actually, if I’m on the ball, you’ll hear about several options!)

Participation will be limited so as to maximize the group discussion – so check back soon on when you can sign up.  I can’t believe it’s the end of 1Q09 and this is our first coaching sessions of the year!  The spring and summer are going to be busy for us so we hope we can you have you join one of our coaching programs.  Keep it here for more details very soon!

Meanwhile, here are a few good words from fellow Duct Tape Marketing coaches around the country – this is an incredible network of men and woman all over North America.

John Jantsch – as the creator and founder of Duct Tape Marketing, he gets top billing – check out what he says about PODCASTING – if you are not doing it, John offers practical ideas on how you could use podcasting in your business to get people to KNOW, LIKE and TRUST YOU!

Michael Thompson – my Oregonian friend posted a good word on HP’s Creative Studio site – he notes that almost half of small businesses are still not on the web (especially not in a findable way!)  Reading Michael’s ideas will no doubt inspire you to get online!

Scott Campbell – from Atlanta, Scott shares at least 2 of the marketing mainstays, even in hard time – and these 2 things are the key to your success!

Brenda Mahoney – my new Canadian Duct Tape Marketing colleague offers some free marketing tips on growing your business in 2009 – you gotta get to #7 in the list – it’s the biggest mistake most small businesses make in their marketing!

I just picked a few of them today – but my fellow Duct Tape Marketing Coaches are some of the most creative, innovating and inspiring marketing folks around – I’m thrilled to join them and bring the advantages of a simple, effective and affordable small business marketing system to your business!

WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT DUCT TAPE MARKETING? Come to our local Small Business Marketing Workshop every other Tuesday – next meeting is tomorrow, 3/24 at NOON!  Click here to learn more…..

- Randy

PS – Oh, also be on the lookout for a new e-book by The Marketing Twins – all we can tell you today is that it has to do with giving someone (or some people) in your organization THE BOOT!