The Small Business Big Marketing Podcast with Tim Reid

What...no guest! Never mind, we still manage to fill around 40 minutes with small business marketing drivel (we mean ideas!). This time they're our ideas...our top 7 in fact that performed the best for our various businesses over the past 12-months. We also share our thoughts on what we can learn from U2 as a well-oiled marketing machine...Yellow Pages have responded to our interview with them...Tim talks about key take-outs from the Small Business Big Marketing Intensive...and we reveal our guests for our next show. Oh...and Lukeee finally reveals the website he purchased a few months ago. About bloody time!

Show Links & Resources

The Small Business Big Marketing Academy - Join before December 31, 2010 and save.

$20 Banner Ads - Yep, $20 banners!

Audacity - Free podcast recording software.

BoatsPlus - (One of) Lukeee's new businesses.

Small Business Big Marketing Facebook Fan Page - Tell us what you really think!

Cha-Ching! - Tim's best selling marketing book chock-full of marketing ideas for small business owners

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The marketing world has changed, goddammit! We, the small business owner, can do anything. Anything the big boys do but better. It’s time for us to strike back with a

The marketing world has changed, goddammit! We, the small business owner, can do anything. Anything the big boys do but better.

It's time for us to strike back with a vengeance.

To this end, in episode #37 of the Small Business Big Marketing podcast we interview Wendy Blume from Vegie Smugglers ... a stay at home Mum who's gone ahead and published, single-handedly, her very own cook book. She shares with us the secrets to doing so, how to become an author and reap the benefits.

We also launch the Small Business Big Marketing Academy with a very special listener offer. Lock in as a member between now and December 31, 2010 and you'll protect yourself from all future prices rises. Th Academy is our way of giving you, the small business owner, a truck load of marketing stimuli each month, delivered straight in to your in box. It will have you doing much more with less. We review productivity tools, provide detailed HOW TO sheets, give you 5-minute power tips PLUS you'll receive additional exclusive interviews with each guest who's been on the show where they share some additional gold never heard before.

Show Links & Resources

Join the Small Business Big Marketing Academy now and receive a very special offer

Book now for the Small Business Big Marketing Intensive

Will you be our friend?

Vegie Smugglers - Wendy Blume's website

Scrivener - Helps you write a book

MagCloud - Publish your own magazine

Cha-Ching! - Tim's book chockablock of marketing ideas for the small guy

LuLu - Get your book published

Blurb - Make your own book

Flying Solo - Our partners in all things micro and small business

How to self publish a book (PDF Transcription)

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In this jam-packed episode you’ll discover how Google is knocking on Microsoft’s door with their amazingly free and highly effective Google Apps product. Michael McKinnon, from AppsLife, tells us exactly

In this jam-packed episode you'll discover how Google is knocking on Microsoft's door with their amazingly free and highly effective Google Apps product. Michael McKinnon, from AppsLife, tells us exactly how it's revolutionizing the way us small business owners can access our email, calendar and all document types - spreadsheets, documents, slides, forms and drawings. If you've heard the phrase - living in the cloud - but don't get it, then all that's about to change.

Plus Tim's passes comment on what's happening on his marketing book bookshelf, Luke talks about two other podcasts that are much better than ours (!), we share some great feedback from a dedicated listener, another one offers a free helicopter flight to anyone in Brisbane who books in for our upcoming Intensive...oh, and Tim gets on his copy writing high horse again.

So, grab that pen and paper ... sit down and strap in for the ride.

Show Links & Resources

Get Google Apps - Michael McKinnon's Exclusive Offer.

Get your own internet TV series (6 x 4-5minute episodes for $1,995!) - An exclusive offer from Paul 'The Burf' Burfett....email him here. And here's his website.

Spend two days with Tim - Small Business Big Marketing Intensive.

A free helicopter ride - For any Queenslander that attends the upcoming Intensive and mention AeroPower (a big thanks to Chopper Boy Mike Cullen).

Buy The 22 Immutable Laws Of Marketing - In our top 3 marketing books of all time.

Signature Clothing - Thanks Arn for your kind words.

Time Bridge - Scheduling meetings made easy.

SBBM Facebook - Will you be our fwend?

Sign up for our 52 free marketing ideas - delivered fresh weekly.

Buy Tim's book - Cha-Ching! The sweet, sweet sound of small business marketing that works.

Flying Solo - Our partners in all things small and micro business.

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Imagine launching an information product and within 90-minutes earn yourself a sweet six-figure income. That’s exactly what our special guest, James Schramko does. Seriously! As the ex-Sales Director for Mercedes

Imagine launching an information product and within 90-minutes earn yourself a sweet six-figure income. That's exactly what our special guest, James Schramko does. Seriously! As the ex-Sales Director for Mercedes Benz Australia, James realised that he could earn a lot more money and lead a less stressful lifestyle by building online businesses. He now has well over 1,000 turning a handy multi-million dollar a year income for his wife and four children, as he really does live the four hour work week. And here's the very cool thing... James not only reveals a whole lot of 'how to's' during our time with him...but he also makes an exclusive offer to all of us of a 50% discount of his Fast Web Formula product... a 12-DVD set plus workbooks that really does lift the lid on how to make good coin from the internet. Luke and I love it so much that we've already bought our copies... and we've written a blog post on the exciting arrival of it! (Sick, isn't it?!).

Show Links & resources

James Schramko's Fast Web Formula - 50% off this amazing 12-DVD set of how to make it big using internet marketing

Our upcoming 2-Day Marketing Intensive - Is this Australia's most useful Marketing workshop?

Small Business Big Marketing's Facebook Fan Page

Buy Tim's marketing book Cha-Ching! - It's got more marketing ideas in it than Tim's had hot breakfasts (well, not quite!).

Send Out Cards - Try it free...especially with Xmas approaching.

Our next guest will be the Sales Director from Yellow Pages...interesting stuff! Stay tuned.

Australia's leading Internet marketer, James Schramko reveals his secrets (PDF Transcription)

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Retail is highly competitive, particularly when you’re in the coffee business. Callum from Espresso Elements explains how he’s created a point of difference in his cafe by designing a customer

Retail is highly competitive, particularly when you're in the coffee business. Callum from Espresso Elements explains how he's created a point of difference in his cafe by designing a customer experience. Callum’s background is in five star hotel management and coffee wholesaling and he's worked and lived all over Australia, the UK and Ireland. As usual, we also share what's been on our marketing mind and share a few ideas along the way.

Show Links & Resources

Espresso Elements
David Jenyns
Pete Williams

Creating a Customer Experience (PDF Transcription)

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In episode 32 of Small Business Big Marketing, Tim squeezes in a brief interview with the father of creative and innovative thinking, Dr Edward De Bono. We also answer listener