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Idea Cafe's BizGuide, Links to Business Resources

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Here's a guide to thousands of service and product resources for your small business, from Art to Worldwide Business Services. Our online business directory is expanding constantly, so check back often if at first you don't see what you're looking for. Add your own free listing to our small business directory, and please take a minute link back to us. Here's a description, link and logo you can use.
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A Web Marketing Strategy That Makes Sense

http://www.ideasformarketing.com/web-marketing.htm

In web marketing, a strategy is simply a PLAN of action that takes into account... how to properly position products or services for web sales; how to get lots of traffic; and how to sell a visitor once they arrive. Nail these three, and profits will go through the roof!

Automate Testimonial Requests and Customer Referrals

http://www.kudosboard.com

KudosBoard helps businesses automate customer referrals by providing the tools that their customers need to provide testimonials and to recommend them to friends.

BIZine.com Small Business Marketing

http://www.BIZine.com

Small and home-based business marketing and start up ideas. Includes articles, free newsletter, business profiles and resource links.

BuyerZone.com

http://www.buyerzone.com

Online marketplace for buying and selling products and services to small businesses. The site features over 100 buying guides to help in making purchasing decisions.

Crash Course in Joint Ventures

http://www.jointventuretraining.com?c=ideacafe

Crash Course in Joint Ventures is a multimedia training CD that combines Text, Audio and DVD-quality Video to teach you the most powerful marketing techiques in the world. Just ONE of these techniques helped me generate $10,000 in just my first 18 days.

Duct Tape Marketing

http://www.DuctTapeMarketing.com

Small business marketing ideas, tips, strategies, real life examples, and resources.

Gift Ideas UK

http://www.gift-idea-online.co.uk/

Looking for a unique gift or unusual present? This is not a store but a collection of the UK's finest gift companies brought together under one roof.

How To Market, Advertise And Promote Your Small Business

http://www.smalltownmarketing.com

Small Town Marketing.Com offers over 300 pages of FREE articles and tips to help market, advertise and promote your small business.

Leapfrog Consulting

http://www.leapfrogconsulting.com

The site offers information, tips and a place to network---- a discussion board offering special scheduled interview sessions with other business owners. A resource site (a directory of Canadian small businesses), loaded with online courses and a free business plan outline. A monthly ezine entitled "Leaps & Bounds" keeps the information and tips coming to your inbox!

Lizard Brain/Monkey Mind: Small Business Books and CDs

http://www.lizardbrain-monkeymind.com

We are a publishing and educational house offering Simple Step Guides, books, manuals, videos, audio CDs and interactive CDs filled with useful information on marketing, sales, financial management, and leadership for business owners.

Low Cost Tabletop Display

http://www.TradeshowDisplayPRO.com

The Tradeshow DisplayPRO is an ideal portable tabletop tradeshow display for small businesses and large sales forces. This versatile table top trade show presentation display comes with many standard features.

MarcommWise

http://www.marcommwise.com

Marketing communications articles, news, forums, book reviews, resources, ROI calculators, vendor directory and glossary.

Sales Horror Stories

http://www.salesautopsy.com

Selling disasters are located here at the Sales Horror Story Library. Read 'em and weep (or laugh).

Salpare' Marketing Strategies

http://salpare.com

Salpare' Marketing Strategies (www.salpare.com) is a full-service, marketing resource LLC. Business plans. Financial planning. Market research and marketing plans. Distribution. Direct-response television. E-Commerce.

Theimagineer

http://www.creativethinking.net

Leading creative-thinking expert in the U.S., and author of three best-selling books on creativity in business