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Today’s featured ebook download is 6 Tips to Small Business Success (159 KB, 15 pg) – It’s a tough business environment but there’s hope for the small business owner to succeed in 2010. We’ve compiled six tips to help you re-think the market and how to approach it in today’s developing market.

What you can learn from this ebook

Tip #1: Don’t Take Notes From Big Business

Is your marketing not yielding results justifying the investment? Before you react, consider your view of marketing itself. There’s a tendency for small business owners to consider marketing in the way big businesses practice it.

To illustrate the point, think of five advertisements. Now, compare your marketing budget to theirs. Do they compare?

Celebrity endorsements, television commercials and billboard ads are expressions of marketing that typically come to mind. It’s natural. We’re a product of our environment and we’re constantly saturated with corporate messaging.

How businesses have marketed over the past 80 years is a result of mass production. Large-scale output led to mass marketing and created mass media. Like its products, companies found that packaging and delivering marketing content was also an efficient business practice.

Businesses wanted their messages to be seen by the most people possible. The bigger, the better philosophy worked because demand exceeded supply. “Market” evolved into a verb. It became something that producers did to customers.

Plus five more tips…

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