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3 Ways To Overcome Marketing Overwhelm

If you're like many entrepreneurs, the thought of marketing makes you slightly sick to your stomach.

And it's more then a simple like or dislike of marketing, it's the idea of trying to fit it into your to-do list. You already have a million things going on, how can you possibly fit marketing in?

So, instead, you end up not doing anything...until you run out of work that is. Then you desperately race around, trying to cram as much marketing as possible into as short amount of time as possible to try and ramp up your business. Business picks up, you stop marketing again.

As I'm sure you already know, this isn't a great way to grow a business on any level. But what do you do? You're already overwhelmed with everything you have to do in your business, not to mention everything you have to do in your life, so how can you possibly fit marketing into that?

Never fear, that's what the below 3 tips are designed to do, get you out of marketing overwhelm and into marketing superstar.

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Textbooks For Rental

BookRenter.com is yet another example of a web start-up leaping into a nightmarish logistics problem to make life easier for its customers. The US venture has amassed a multi-million-volume library of new or near-new textbooks, which it rents out to students at college campuses throughout the country.

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Bamboo Cellphone

Here’s a great idea for a cell-phone that is thoroughly green in every way: from its biodegradable bamboo materials, to its thoughtfully considered lifecycle, to its ingenious use of kinetic human power to charge the battery with renewable energy. The ‘Bamboo’ phone is coming to a store near you.

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World’s First Organic Cod Farm

It was the perfect product for modern green consumers. For the first time, they could buy Britain's favourite fish - cod - with a clear conscience. It even had a smart, sassy brand name: No Catch. This cod was ethically farmed in the cool, clean seas off Shetland, and it was organic.

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Bedside Entertainment for Patients

MEDIVista from Lincor Solutions is an intergrated solution for delivery of digital entertainment and communication services to the patient bedside. MEDIVista has been developed with increasing demand from healthcare providers and hospital admins worldwide for entertainment in enhancing patience experience.

   Read More | Comments | Technology | Article by Trend Insights

Very Smart Mobs

Smart mobs re-chart direction - from business to pleasure. The fuel behind mob mentality evolves from its infancy in civil disobedience and business demand to art and social effect. As the days of rights movements and tuangou (Chinese team buying) plateau, group thought accelerates in-step with art and technology.

   Read More | Comments | Online & Social Network | Article by Katie Sherman

Free Jewelry, Anyone?

LA-based SilverJewelryClub give away many of their jewelry pieces to spread the word about the quality and craftsmanship of their designs. Customers just have to pay for shipping. The club's homepage displays four pieces at a time and visitors have 15 minutes to order each piece.

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Luxury Shower

I must not have been living right because I never knew such things as this existed. This thing is a Burke-Williams in a box, containing 6 shower spray functions, 5 whirlpool jets, halogen lighting, temperature control, foot massage, FM/CD connections, and a geisha girl. Just kidding about that last one.


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Seven Sure Steps To Choosing A Franchise

Franchising is a wonderful way to go into business for yourself. So many things have already been established for your benefit: branding, marketing, processes, products, systems, etc. If you are convinced that you want to investigate franchising for your next career move, how do you go about finding just the right one?

   Read More | Comments | Franchise | Article by Kim Ellis

Shattering The “Passive Income” Myth

Passive Revenue. The words jumped off the website page and hit me like a thunderbolt! I thought I even heard angels singing. It was the golden idol; the Holy Grail. My heart skipped a beat and went ka-ching! As a freshly-minted solo entrepreneur, I had never heard two sweeter words than Passive Revenue.

   Read More | Comments | Entrepreneurs | Article by Lou Bortone

You Create Your States of Procrastination & Motivation

Has there been another time when you felt totally motivated in getting started on a project? We have to understand that we create entirely different states using our physiology and internal re-presentation. When we understand this, we will be able to change, interrupt and change states whenever we need to.

   Read More | Comments | Success Attitude | Article by Adam Khoo

The New Way Crafters Are Working From Home

One of the oldest and most traditional ways to work from home is to make and sell handmade crafts. In the past, crafters would sell their wares at craft fairs, flea markets, consignment stores and more recently, on eBay or their own websites. Fortunately, there is now Etsy.com, where crafters can sell their homemade goods.

   Read More | Comments | Success Attitude | Article by Jill Hart

Cold Calling Get Over The Fear & Improve Your Success

Most sales people hate to cold call. It is frequently considered by many to be the single most stressful part of selling. So much so that many people have given up this noble and proud profession for non-selling positions. There are several reasons why sales reps consider cold calling one step below getting a root canal.

   Read More | Comments | Sales & Marketing | Article by Russ Lombardo

Improving Customer Service Customer Retention Levels

The obvious importance of the collection of accounts receivable is, that a sale isn't a sale until you're paid, and that all businesses run on money. A less obvious but important reason is that of customer service and retention levels. In most businesses the largest percentage of past dues are tied to something going wrong there.

   Read More | Comments | Customer Service | Article by Abe WalkingBear

8 Rules To Finding Success As An Entrepreneur

I became fascinated with the idea of working for myself soon after I moved to Costa Rica. I am part of a new generation: one of tech-savvy travelers and risk-taking diplomats. We are a generation that's primed to break serious entrepreneurial ground in Panama, Central America's hottest bed for success.

   Read More | Comments | Operations | Article by Matt Landau

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