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The Advanced Marketing Plan
Here's an Advanced Online Marketing Plan for those who have a few tools under your belt and are looking for clients around the country (or the world!). Continue reading
The Simplest Marketing Plan
Here are the 3 tools recommended in the Beginner Online Marketing Plan, which is also what you'll learn in the new online marketing course through HOW U. Continue reading
How to spend your daily marketing hour?
In last week's peptalk/webinar, I suggested that creative professionals should spend 1 hour per day interacting with prospects. Here's how you can spend that hour. Continue reading
Free marketing webcast Thursday (Jan 12)
Sign up for my hour-long free webcast to find out the simple “to dos” that will keep your pipeline full and your Marketing Machine humming all year long and get a kick in the butt! Continue reading
LinkedIn for Creative Pros
In my free webcast this Thursday (Jan 12 at 3 PM ET but you'll get the recording if you can't make it live), I'll be giving my annual marketing "pep talk" and focusing especially on how creative professionals can use LinkedIn to find your best prospects. Continue reading
Free Webcast: The Only Marketing Tools You Need
Find out which marketing tools will get you the best clients and most lucrative projects for 2012 in a free webcast, "The Only Marketing Tools You Need for 2012" on January 12, 2012 (3 PM Eastern). Continue reading
Start Your 2012 Marketing Today
Today is the best day to start your marketing for 2012 and we've got the 3 tools you need to make it work (this time)... Continue reading
Best of Best of Blogs
I love love love this quiet week between the holidays when things slow way down and there's time to think and read! So if you're in that boat too, here are a few I've enjoyed reading... Continue reading
The 50-word Marketing Plan for Freelancers
Your marketing plan for 2012 in 50 words from Marketing Mentor's Marketing Plan Bundle, available in MyDesignShop.com Continue reading
Make Your Voice Heard (and get a mug)
Contribute $30 to the Freelancers Union PAC by December 31 and get a limited-edition Freelancers Union mug as a thank-you gift – which you can use while watching the debates. Continue reading



