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Marketing Ideas
- Create “deals” or “coupons” on popular social sites
- Post a limited time coupon on your twitter feed and/or on facebook
- Create a one-time special deal on deal of the day sites like Living Social, and Groupon
- Use the new tag feature of Google maps to promote special offers
- Manage online profiles that are “findable” and “sharable”
- Google Places
- Foursquare
- Try using a QR code that customers can scan with their mobile phone to get more information
- Promote your social profiles on your brick and mortar storefront
- Place links to your website and social profiles (ie find us on facebook) on your printed materials like brochures and fliers.
- Get transparent stickers made for your front window
- Collect email addresses from customers and create a customer database.
- Give them a $1 coupon in return for their email address
- Send a monthly newsletter with store specials
- Send a birthday coupon for something free
- Every email should have a primary call to action
- Make sure there is high value in every email
Business Resources
- Getting Things Done
- Firetask (mac, iPad, iPhone, paid)
- The Hit List (mac, iPhone, paid)
- Basecamp (online saas, paid)
- Tada List (online saas, free)
- Google Tasks (online saas, free)
- Screencasting
- Screenflow (mac, paid)
- Planning & Research
- Mindnode Pro (mac, paid)
- Mindmeister (online saas, paid)
- Brand Development
Online Tools (SAAS)
- Event Registration
- Customer Feedback
- Email Marketing
- Project Management
- Receipt Scanning & Tracking
Computer Basics
Development Resources
- HTML5 Boilerplate
- jQuery Resources
- Mobily Blocks (cool effect for showing share links, etc)