http://www.roostermoon.com Practical Marketing Strategies for Small Business Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:31:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.roostermoon.com http://www.roostermoon.com/wp-content/mbp-favicon/favicon.ico http://www.roostermoon.com/small-business-marketing-tool/psychology-purchase/ http://www.roostermoon.com/small-business-marketing-tool/psychology-purchase/#comments Thu, 24 Mar 2011 01:49:10 +0000 Sherri Stockman http://www.roostermoon.com/?p=2837 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://www.roostermoon.com/small-business-marketing-tool/psychology-purchase/feed/ 0 http://www.roostermoon.com/small-business-marketing-tool/business-house-calls/ http://www.roostermoon.com/small-business-marketing-tool/business-house-calls/#comments Sat, 22 Jan 2011 19:35:54 +0000 Sherri Stockman http://www.roostermoon.com/?p=2526 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } If you have a service business that travels to your customers, or if you sell goods at a farmer’s market or another location away from “home base,” taking payments has been somewhat limited. To accept credit cards meant an expensive merchant account and portable card reader. That extra expense can cut deep into the profit [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://www.roostermoon.com/small-business-marketing-tool/business-house-calls/feed/ 0 http://www.roostermoon.com/small-business-marketing-tool/funny-looking-symbols-qr-codes/ http://www.roostermoon.com/small-business-marketing-tool/funny-looking-symbols-qr-codes/#comments Thu, 20 Jan 2011 15:20:26 +0000 Sherri Stockman http://www.roostermoon.com/?p=2521 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } If you live or work in the city, you’ve probably been seeing QR codes for awhile (in rural areas like me? not so much…YET). These are scan-able bar codes, similar to the ones the grocery store uses to ring up your purchases, except you can access them on your smartphone. They can be used as [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://www.roostermoon.com/small-business-marketing-tool/funny-looking-symbols-qr-codes/feed/ 1 http://www.roostermoon.com/small-business-marketing-tool/managing-online-reputation/ http://www.roostermoon.com/small-business-marketing-tool/managing-online-reputation/#comments Wed, 29 Dec 2010 19:42:10 +0000 Sherri Stockman http://www.roostermoon.com/?p=2389 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } You know how it works: if a customer absolutely adores you, and if it’s convenient, they will leave a positive review for you…. somewhere. But when customers aren’t happy – for whatever reason – it seems as though they will climb mountains and jump through whatever hoops necessary to make sure everyone knows what a [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://www.roostermoon.com/small-business-marketing-tool/managing-online-reputation/feed/ 0 http://www.roostermoon.com/small-business-marketing-tool/facebook-biz/ http://www.roostermoon.com/small-business-marketing-tool/facebook-biz/#comments Thu, 23 Dec 2010 19:51:05 +0000 Sherri Stockman http://www.roostermoon.com/?p=2341 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Undoubtedly, Facebook has made huge strides (leaps and bounds, rather than steps) in the past year. There are so many new features, you couldn’t possibly even use them all. This article in Web Pro News outlines, month by month, just what Facebook accomplished in 2010. Here is a taste: Remembering What Facebook Has Done Since [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://www.roostermoon.com/small-business-marketing-tool/facebook-biz/feed/ 0