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Review: 101 BIG IDEAS FOR PROMOTING A BUSINESS ON A SMALL BUDGET
Reviewed for Sbshow.com by Gene Fairbrother, MBA Consulting Inc.
(posted March 29, 1999)

One Hundred One Big Ideas for Promoting a Business on a Small Budget
By Barbara Lambesis
Publisher: Marketing Method Press
ISBN: 0962479802


When it comes to marketing, most business owners admit they don't feel confident and great sums of money can be wasted on ill-planned efforts that produce little or no results. But, on the other hand, without good marketing, most businesses will have a tough time surviving. The situation is compounded even more by the fact that many small business owners don't have the available money to afford professional marketing guidance. A real "chicken and egg" dilemma!

One Hundred One Big Ideas for Promoting a Business on a Small Budget can be a good solution to many of those businesses by providing marketing and promotional ideas you can implement with limited resources.

A lot of good marketing books on the market today will help you define who your customer is, where your market is or how your competition is affecting you -- but few of these books provide the answers on how to promote your business realistically if you only have a small marketing budget. This is where One Hundred One Big Ideas picks up the slack, providing 101 real ways to promote your business. It even helps you plan your budget.

|From advertising to sales tools to incentives, One Hundred One Big Ideas helps you determine if you should spend your hard earned marketing dollars through the classifieds, magazines, radio, newspapers, balloons,decals , newsletters ... or 94 other options.

This excellent marketing idea book will help you spend you =marketing dollars more wisely and is a book you will pull off the shelf time and time again as you search for ideas on how to attract more customers.


About the reviewer

Gene Fairbrother is the president of MBA Consulting, Inc., and one of the leading small-business experts in the United States. Fairbrother is a frequent contributor to numerous small-business publications and is often interviewed by such national publications as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes, Fortune and other publications looking for professional expertise about marketing, finance and entrepreneurship. He appears as a speaker throughout the country, addressing a wide-variety of business topics.

Fairbrother also directs the popular ShopTalk 800 service offered to members of the National Association for the Self-Employed.



ONE HUNDRED ONE BIG IDEAS FOR PROMOTING A BUSINESS ON A SMALL BUDGET
By Barbara Lambesis


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