Entrepreneurs Get Help Birthing Your New Business

March 27, 2010

My friend, Margo Geller has found that this recession is that it has generated lots of people being ready to bring their pet dreams and business ideas to fruition, ready to start a new business. Maybe they have lost their jobs, maybe they have decided they could not sit in the cubicle any longer doing [...]

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Packaged to Sell: Make Your Product or Service Extraordinary

March 24, 2010

Seth Godin wrote a great post today on being extraordinary using the example of the marketing of this $20.00 bottle of soap. Now why would someone buy a bottle of soap at $20.00 when you could get a similar product for $3.00?  Read his post to find out what the extra $17.00  is for. Maybe [...]

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How to Choose Your Clients

March 23, 2010

This morning I got a couple of e-mails from Gerald from Canada who is starting his own web design business . I am including our exchange on my blog since I think this is a good topic that relates to marketing any type of business. Hello Judy My name is Gerald  and I came across [...]

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Tips for Graphic Designers Customizing WordPress Themes

March 18, 2010

How I got into the WordPress Business: I got into building WordPress websites five years ago when I put the name of my loft development  business into Google and what came up was my dogs blog on Dogster. I asked people about it and they said it was because Dogster was a blog. I thought [...]

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New Tricks Coaching Delivers Page One Google Listing in One Day.

March 4, 2010
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By Maureen Nolan. . . . My new website was designed and created by Judi Knight, of New Tricks. Judi also designed my new personal avatar and gave me marketing refocus by creatively branding  my Atlanta ADHD coaching practice to be Your Attention Coach. Judi is fun to be around during idea and web design, [...]

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Dirt Roadies

February 19, 2010
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Project Highlights : This is the social network site that is linked to the Dirt Road Delight Web Site. New Tricks Services: We created a site on Ning and customized it with a complementary color and header to distinguish it from the main site. Budget: $

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Blogging Tips from New Tricks Academy

February 19, 2010
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I have a weekly marketing group for small businesses that meets for 90 minutes each week. In the group we are setting measurable goals and learning to target activities such as writing blog posts to help reach their goals.  I wrote these tips for them but wanted to share them here too. Blogging Tips 1. [...]

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Seth Godin’s Linchpin Inspired Art by Hugh MacLeod

February 9, 2010
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I just finished reading Seth Godin’s new book, Linchpin and one thing that struck me was his focus on the need for right brain activities in the business world. In fact he said, “All Artists are entrepreneurs and all entrepreneurs are artists”. What he is saying is that what we need and is now valued [...]

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Why Re-Design Your Website?

January 28, 2010

I  just read a great post called Why Redesign Your Website? by HubSpot which is a SEO marketing Company that is pretty darn on target. I really liked what they said. One of the main points is that sure you have to have a well done site that is polished and put together, but…. the [...]

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” It is our duty to catapult each other into Greatness”

January 22, 2010

In the words of my friend Grant Henry…” It is our duty to catapult each other into Greatness” Now is the time…. Are you ready to step up and work on your business, your marketing plans, your website and help others do the same?  What I’m talking about is all about your willingness to step [...]

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