MarketingZone.com is an online resource center for small business on marketing. All the how-to guides and articles are written by marketing industry experts and continually updated. It's like an always-being-updated book online to help you grow your business and spend less time and money on marketing. One source. One stop.
MarketingZone.com = Credible Content + Community + Connections
Credible Content. Our Editors, who are marketing experts, have written all of our 3,000+ articles. This is marketing insider information now available to small businesses on how to get your marketing done better, faster and less expensively.
Our Editors are continually updating our how-to guides and adding links to the best research and articles online on the topic. In that way MarketingZone is like your online filing cabinet on how to do marketing.
Community. We're starting the conversation. MarketingZone members join a social media professional idea exchange.
Connections. For most small businesses, finding marketing companies, agencies, consultants and freelancers has been a word-of-mouth driven, luck-based process. MarketingZone.com aims to be a helpful professional "matchmaker" to help small businesses find marketing experts to hire.
Big companies have full-service agencies and purchasing departments.
Small businesses have MarketingZone.com.
Successful small businesses want what big companies have: Experts who find and filter the best and most actionable information on how to do marketing, along with gathering and updating information on marketing costs and suppliers, organized in one place. That's MarketingZone.com
Credible content from experts in marketing
Susan J. Curtis, Publisher
Susan started her career in business publishing and advertising, working for publishers like Ziff-Davis and IDG. She's been the Publisher of Mobile Office, Portable Computing, and Cellular Business -- from launch to sale. She's also run her own professional recruiting firm and a social media marketing firm.
Susan's been a Board of Advisor for MarketingZone.com since the inception. As Publisher, she's now responsible for running and growing MarketingZone.com as well as leading content marketing licensing and custom publishing. Send Susan an email
Derrith Lambka, MarketingZone.com Founder
Derrith brings all her accumulated expertise and industry-insider knowledge to MarketingZone.com to help small businesses with how to do marketing better, faster and less expensively. During her career Derrith has worked directly for, or as a marketing consultant to, world-class brands including Adobe, Apple, Cisco, Deluxe Corporation, Gateway Computers, GlaxoSmithKline, Google, HP, Linksys, McDonalds, Microsoft, and WebMD. She's managed marketing budgets of $100 million and as little as "what can we do for free?" She's worked for ad agencies, large companies, global market research firms, and run her own consulting business with F100 clients. See Derrith's Full Bio
Derrith and Page personally wrote many of the how-to guides and articles.
Page Donovan, Managing Editor
Page shares her insider-knowledge about marketing from working for agencies helping clients grow their businesses. Page has specific expertise in online marketing (search/media/email), new media (blogs/RSS/social media); and strategic website development. She's worked at agencies helping small business clients develop marketing campaigns using online and traditional media. She's had the privilege of working on marketing campaigns for many well-known brands including Jenny Craig, Marriott, Wolfgang Puck, Sunkist, NBC Universal, the San Diego Padres, and Taylor Morrison Homes.She's an expert in online marketing. Page has built hundreds of websites, and created and optimized thousands of email, online and search advertising campaigns. She's led social media programs and written blogs. She's developed online marketing programs for hundreds of clients. She's also the owner of a small business Pony Expressions. See Page's full bio
Our Board of Advisors includes some of the most well respected marketing professionals in the industry.
MarketingZone.com helps small business get marketing done
Small businesses want to spend less time on marketing. MarketingZone is organized around marketing tasks.
We are marketing "tactic-neutral". We don't promote one marketing approach over another. We share the pros, cons, costs and alternative marketing techniques.
The articles are continually updated by the Editors.
- From The Wall Street Journal "Books That are Never Done Being Written" digital text is ushering in an era of perpetual revision and updating
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