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Marketing Ideas and Examples

Marketing Ideas & Examples

Get inspired!  Get ideas for marketing strategies, how to get customers, ideas for retail marketing, seasonal marketing, social media marketing, low cost advertising and more! 

Marketing Ideas and Examples for Your Business

Marketing Ideas

 

  • Retail Store Marketing Ideas

45 marketing ideas to help you attract more customers to your retail store.

  • Seasonal Marketing Ideas

Seasonal marketing ideas for major holidays like Back to school, Christmas, Halloween, Labor Day and Thanksgiving. 

  • How to increase website traffic

Quality website visitors are people who will buy something or ask for a price quote or download a report to learn more about what you are selling.  

  • Best Free and Low Cost Advertising Ideas

Looking for ways to advertise at little or no cost? Get tips on the best ways to get your message out about your small business that don't cost a lot of money.

  • Facebook Marketing Ideas

 

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Get Inspired with these Marketing Ideas

 

  • MarketingZone Blog Post - Integrated Marketing Works Best When It's Built on a Big Idea.  Lots of ideas and examples on this blog post.
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  • See Award Winning Marketing

Get ideas for your small business marketing campaigns by reviewing award winning marketing campaigns created by other companies. 
  • Advertising Ideas and Examples

See the best advertising to get ideas and examples as you create your small business or non-profit advertising.  

  • Business Card Ideas and Examples

Your business card is like an ad.  It should work to help you attract new customers and get more referrals.  Here are some ideas to help you do just that.


  • Direct Mail Ideas and Examples

Need some inspiration to create your direct mail?  See industry award-winning direct mail campaigns.

  • Email Marketing Ideas and Examples

Get ideas and examples for email newsletters to help you determine what you want to create and send to your customers and prospects.

  • Flyer Ideas and Examples

Flyers are effective and inexpensive ways to attract new customers.  And they're something you can create yourself with new templates and tools that will make your flyers look like they were done by a professional graphic designer. 

  • Advertising Jingles

Taking a look at some of the classic jingles in American advertising history might help you create your own. Here is a list of some of the all-time great jingles.

From our experience
From our experience:  It's very, very, very hard to come up with a great jingle.  But if you do, it can really work for you because that little song gets stuck in people's head for years and maybe even decades, and can become synonymous with your product or service or company.
 

  • Packaging Design Ideas and Examples

See the best packaging to get ideas and examples as you create your packaging.  This article is for Premium Members.  It a consolidated list of the best websites to see award-winning packaging and examples of great packaging.

  • Tagline Ideas and Examples

From our experience it isn't easy to create a great tagline that stands the test of time. But if you do, it can become synonymous with your product or service. The most famous taglines cross over into popular culture and can continue to influence customers long after the original campaign has ended. Here's a list of influential and memorable taglines.

  • Website Ideas and Examples

Get inspired by looking at what other companies have done with their websites.  Just like if you were building a new home, you'd look at magazines and floor plans to get ideas for what you want in your home, you should do the same thing in "collecting ideas" you want to use on your website.


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