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<!--Generated by Squarespace Site Server v5.0.0 (http://www.squarespace.com/) on Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:44:00 GMT--><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><title>Marketing is Your Key to Success</title><subtitle>Marketing is Your Key to Success</subtitle><id>http://www.simply-home-business.com/success-through-marketing/</id><link rel="alternate" type="application/xhtml+xml" href="http://www.simply-home-business.com/success-through-marketing/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.simply-home-business.com/success-through-marketing/atom.xml"/><updated>2008-10-30T05:05:00Z</updated><generator uri="http://www.squarespace.com/" version="Squarespace Site Server v5.0.0 (http://www.squarespace.com/)">Squarespace</generator><entry><title>Home Business Marketing</title><category>Marketing</category><id>http://www.simply-home-business.com/success-through-marketing/2008/4/9/home-business-marketing.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.simply-home-business.com/success-through-marketing/2008/4/9/home-business-marketing.html"/><author><name>Achieve Marketing</name></author><published>2008-04-09T18:25:39Z</published><updated>2008-04-09T18:25:39Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<p><strong>Marketing is the engine of home business success.</strong> If I could only give you one tip, one suggestion about how to build a successful home based business it would be this:</p><p><strong>Think of marketing as a process, an on-going cycle of business activity which can be duplicated and used over and over again.</strong>&nbsp;</p><p>One of your first projects is to design and build your marketing strategy and write a marketing plan that will serve as a roadmap keeping you and your business on track--on time and on target. Choose your marketing tactics carefully and choose a minimum of 5-6 tactics (both online and offline).</p><p><strong>Offline marketing strategies and tactics include:</strong></p><ul><li>Fliers</li><li>Newspaper ads</li><li>Business cards</li><li>Radio ads</li><li>Public speaking</li><li>Free workshops or seminars&nbsp;</li></ul><p><strong>Online marketing strategies and tactics include:</strong></p><ul><li>Blogging</li><li>Social marketing</li><li>Google AdWords</li><li>Pay-per-click (PPC) campaigns</li><li>Email lists and email newsletters <br /></li></ul><p>There's a master out there--a master of marketing according to a roadmap that keeps you on track. His name is Robert Middleton and his business is <a href="http://www.actionplan.com" target="_blank" class="offsite-link-inline"><span class="offsite-link-inline">Action Plan Marketing</span></a>. Robert has Free Stuff for your home business start up at his web site that I recommend you take advantage of:</p><ul><li><a href="http://www.actionplan.com/freestuff.html" target="_blank" class="offsite-link-inline">Marketing Plan Start Up Kit</a></li><li><a href="http://www.actionplan.blogs.com/" target="_blank" class="offsite-link-inline">More Clients Blog</a>&nbsp;</li></ul>]]></content></entry></feed>