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Freebies For You – Week of June 25, 2012

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Ready for some more freebies? It can be difficult to track down a good freebie. They are scattered across the internet, and are not always heavily advertised. It takes a lot of time to search through various coupon blogs in order to find them. Here are a bunch of freebies for you that are conveniently placed into one blog. Chili’s has a “Kid’s Eat Free” deal going on. This deal is good on June 25, June 26, and June 27 of 2012. Get a FREE Kids’ Meal with the purchase of an adult entree. Make sure that you print out … Continue reading →

Freebies For You – Week of June 19, 2012

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It is time, once again, for another freebies blog! You could say that the freebies blogs are “like a box of chocolates”, because you never know what you are going to get. It’s always nice to find a freebie, no matter what it happens to be. If you can’t use it, then you probably know someone who can! Here are this week’s freebies for you. Walmart has a freebie by Kotex. Get a FREE clutch and U products from Kotex when you go onto the Walmart website and design a board with your favorite quotes and decorations. This is being … Continue reading →

Create Your Own Event

I wrote about how to use other charity events and auctions as a means to promote your own business—but what about creating your own signature community or sales event. Events are a fabulous way to promote even the smallest of businesses. Additionally, you can involve other “companion” businesses and create something spectacular that draws in tons of prospective customers! The things to consider when you want to create your own event are: where will you hold the event? What time of year or season is best for your business and works with what else is going on in your community? … Continue reading →

Auctioning Off Your Products or Services

I wrote about how you can promote your business by donating to charity events, but I thought I should expand on HOW to get your products or services in an auction—and what you can do to make it a successful way to market your business… You may be surprised at how many opportunities there are to auction off your products or services and this can be an excellent way to get them into the hands of prospective customers or clients. Also, you do not have to donate a product or service in order to have it in an auction—while this … Continue reading →

Understanding Visibility for Your Business

There is a difference between public relations and “visibility” when it comes to your business marketing and promotions. Visibility refers to how visible your business is—how “out in public” it is and how aware your public or market is of your business and what you do. Visibility can be a real problem for home-based businesses since many of us don’t have a physical location or “store” where we can draw attention to our operations. This reality doesn’t have to mean that we toil away in obscurity, however. In this day and age, we can create visibility for our businesses without … Continue reading →

Donating Products and Services to Charity Events

Looking for ways to market and promote your business and do good in your community? Donating products and services from your business is one way that small businesses can have an impact, all the while getting the word out and creating good will around their business efforts. Consider the benefits of donating products and services to charity events… Chances are, your community has plenty of fundraising events and charity auctions and you may already get personal solicitations inviting you to attend or contribute. The silent auction has become the mainstay of many nonprofit organization’s fundraising events and those auction committees … Continue reading →

Should You Use Promotional Products?

What do you think of when you think of promotional products to market your business? Do you think of the annual calendars that your hardware store or bank gives out? Or, perhaps all those ball point pens you’ve collected with the names of various businesses written across them? The idea of putting a business name or brand on a useful item as means to promote the business is an old one, but it does still work. Have you given much thought to ways you can use promotional products to get the word out about your home business? In addition to … Continue reading →

“Self Promotion” is NOT a Dirty Word

I admit that when I hear the phrase “self promotion,” my immediate reaction is to think of some know-it-all who barks nonstop about his or her business and all the things he or she does and knows. Now that I have admitted that is MY first reaction, I will also say that as a small business owner, I know very well that self promotion is important and that it doesn’t have to be sleazy or annoying. Self promotion is NOT an undesirable part of business—in fact, it is imperative… Self promotion or promoting yourself and your business does not have … Continue reading →

Shrek—Health Role Model For Kids?

He’s the animated ogre who taught kids to love their appearance—no matter what. He was a hit on the big screen and was later adopted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to be a health advocate. But, now the green guy’s role with the department may be in jeopardy. A children’s advocacy group wants the Department of Health and Human Services to strip Shrek of his role as spokesperson (spokes-ogre) for an anti-obesity drive. Executives with the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood say the latest Shrek movie–“Shrek the Third”—which is scheduled to be released next month, has … Continue reading →