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How to keep it Zen: Tips and wellness giveaways – Canada

Owning a business and hard work go hand-in-hand. These self-care tips and wellness giveaway ideas can hel...

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Bleisure travel: Mix business with pleasure

Bleisure travel combines company trips with personal time for staff members. Share bleisure travel tips w...

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Bleisure travel: Mix business with pleasure – Canada

Encourage staff to fit some personal time into their business trips with these bleisure travel tips.

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Fun holidays to celebrate throughout the year

Celebrate quirky, fun holidays for an experience customers and employees won't soon forget. Give away sma...

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Fun holidays to celebrate throughout the year – Canada

Celebrate little-known fun holidays to capture customers’ attention and boost employee morale. Small bu...

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How to snag customers with geofencing

Give customers a virtual tap on the shoulder with geofencing and marketing promo items. They’ll walk th...

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How to snag customers with geofencing – Canada

Encourage nearby customers to stop in with geofencing notifications. Use marketing promo items to get sta...

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5 types of videos perfect for your small business

If you’re looking to implement video marketing, these 5 types of videos, along with small business prom...

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5 types of videos perfect for your small business – Canada

Video is a powerful tool to connect with and sell to customers.

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Sell to the senses with these tips and small business giveaways

The five senses can be powerful advertising tools.

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Sell to their senses for an unforgettable experience – Canada

When you extend your brand to all five of the senses, you create an experience that customers won’t soo...

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Why micro-influencers are a fantastic fit for small business

Micro-influencers aren’t only authentic and engaging for your brand, they are a cost-effective tool for...

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Why micro-influencers are a fantastic fit for small business – Canada

If your small business is looking for ways to build the community’s trust, improve brand awareness or i...

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Dive into the digital age and go paperless! – Canada

Did you know the Ontario Government’s Treasury Board Secretariat projects it will save $26,200 a year j...

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Unpack these ideas for a share-worthy unboxing experience

One of the best ways to make sure your box is worth sharing is to create a series of small surprises.

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Unpack these ideas for a share-worthy unboxing experience – Canada

Every month, 90,000 people search for unboxing videos on YouTube®.

Sandy describes ...

Collect your money—offer mobile pay to customers and clients!

Times have changed—and so has technology.

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Collect your money—offer mobile pay to customers and clients! – Canada

Times have changed—and so has technology. According to one survey, 50% of people carry cash less than h...

Mark writes ...

Tips and new hire swag to get freelancers started

According to a recent poll, 1 in 5 American jobs are held by a contract or freelance worker.

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5 fun ways to improve and personalize customer service

Everyone knows that customer service is important. But do you know just how important?

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5 fun ways to improve and personalize customer service – Canada

Studies have shown 86 percent of buyers will pay more for a great customer experience.

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Co-marketing: The smart strategy to expand your reach!

Businesses are always looking for ways to stretch their marketing dollars while reaching new customers.

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Co-marketing: The smart strategy to expand your reach! – Canada

Co-marketing can help with both. It involves building strategic partnerships with businesses that are rel...

Daryl discusses ...

How to drive customer traffic to your door during road construction

Communicating early and often about impending street repairs not only prepares customers, but it also kee...

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How to drive customer traffic to your door during road construction – Canada

Did you know that Canada’s road network is long enough to circle the equator more than 19 times? That�...

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Recruitment tips and giveaways to target top talent

By networking, making potential employees aware of your company benefits and recruitment giveaways, you�...

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Recruitment tips and giveaways to target top talent – Canada

When it comes to running a small business, hiring is a good news/bad news situation. On the one hand, it ...

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Social media engagement tips that deserve a thumbs up

Read on to get some social media marketing ideas for small business. Then pair them with social media giv...

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Social media engagement tips that are worth the share – Canada

It may come as no surprise that 94 percent of small businesses use social media for marketing.

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Kick your new sales year into high gear – Canada

As the holidays wind down, it’s time to get creative with new year sales. Use sales swag to entice cust...

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Kick your new sales year into high gear

When it comes to your bottom line, the holidays are critical. After all, 20 to 40 percent of yearly sales...

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Go big for little cost, thanks to guerrilla marketing ideas for small business – Canada

To Levinson, guerilla marketing campaigns were meant to be inexpensive, nontraditional, unexpected and me...

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Go big for little cost, thanks to guerrilla marketing ideas for small business

In 1984, Jay Conrad Levinson created the term “guerrilla marketing” to describe a strategy of impleme...

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Market your way to the best Small Business Saturday® yet

Participating in Small Business Saturday is a great way to kick off the holiday season. With these tips a...

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5 steps to hosting a successful open house – Canada

These tips, combined with small business promotional items, are sure to help you host a successful event....

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5 steps to hosting a successful open house

An open house can be a great promotional tool for your small business, allowing you to introduce new prod...

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Eye-Catching Small Business Displays

You can’t judge a book by its cover.

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Eye-Catching Small Business Displays – Canada

With a little creativity and some promotional products for small business, you can pull off a wow-worthy ...

Zach recommends ...

Incentives for survey participation

Surveys are a win-win scenario for businesses and consumers. Customers offer you feedback that you can th...

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Incentives for survey participation – Canada

 Surveys are truly a win-win scenario for businesses and consumers. Customers offer you feedback that yo...

Andrea describes ...

Grow your reach with marketing campaign ideas for small business – Canada

It is estimated that consumers are exposed to as many as 10,000 messages from brands every day.

Amanda suggests ...

Grow your reach with marketing campaign ideas for small business

From digital to outdoor marketing, there is more advertising noise today than ever before.

Sarah recommends ...

3 effective places to ask for customer reviews

For many people, the most important information comes from your current customers.

Amie discusses ...

3 effective places to ask for customer reviews – Canada

It’s easier than ever for prospective customers to learn about your brand. In fact, information is ofte...

Amy describes ...

Clever welcoming ideas to warmly receive new hires

Being the new kid in the neighborhood, at school or on the job is difficult.

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Clever welcoming ideas to warmly receive new hires – Canada

All too often, current employees aren’t aware a new team member is starting work on a given day.

Gail discusses ...

Celebrate with giveaway ideas for Small Business Week

National Small Business Week is here again—and so is our annual list of Small Business Week giveaway an...

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Smart job-fair tips for boosting staff recruitment

Looking to participate in a job fair? Learn staff recruitment success tips, plus gain valuable insider in...

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Smart job fair tips for boosting staff recruitment

Looking to participate in a job fair? Learn several staff recruitment success tips, plus gain valuable in...

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5 opportunities to generate growth in small business employees

Finding ways to foster growth in a small organization can be hard. Try these tips to bring growth opportu...