New York, NY, September 9, 2009 – Fast and affordable online service for image editing and photo design – PhotoHand.com is quickly turning into one of the most valuable online resources for small/SOHO business, entrepreneurs and professionals looking to boost their images.

Traditionally limited by modest marketing budgets and now influenced by the current recession, professionals and small businesses are reconciled with the fact that their promotional images can’t rival those of corporations. PhotoHand.com is changing this perception by bringing Madison-Avenue quality image editing and photo design to Main Street folks.

The strictly online mode of operation might not fit the processes of large companies but it is perfect for Actors, Models, Consultants, Dentists, Indie Designers, Small Manufacturers, Beauty Professionals, Tattoo Artists, E-shop Owners… the list goes on.

Just upload your photos through PhotoHand.com website, supply your directions in plain language (what you want or what you don’t like in the photos) and in three business days you have the images that will make you or your business stand out – all without breaking the bank.

PhotoHand’s fees start at $3.50 per photo for complete cosmetic retouching. For $11.95 your product photo will be altered into an ad worthy of glossy magazines. Online proofing and changes are free.

Unlike many photographers, PhotoHand works under the “work-for-hire” clause and thus does not claim copyright over retouched photos or photo designs. This means PhotoHand’s clients have the full ownership of their images and can take them to any printing company of choice.

PhotoHand.com works with amateur photos as well as with professionally shot images. The company realizes that many business owners or professionals take one shot at a time when they are ready with a new sample and paying $75-150 an hour for one-two photos is excessive. Most of them have long figured out how to use powerful digital cameras and how to set up the lights for a shoot.

Naturally, such DIY photos need some editing help but so do professional shots, as PhotoHand can attest. With a little bit of post-production TLC, PhotoHand makes such photos shine.

After all, it’s 60% how you look, 35% what you sound like, and 5% what you say.

Aug 25, 2009, Noida, Hellotrade.com – The global trade search engine announced the launch of a Marketing Channel for the Small Business today. Given the necessity of helpful advice that small business setups with limited means so often require, the marketing hub is an attempt to address these by offering relevant and useful information to small business owners worldwide. The channel will draw upon some of industry’s best resources to provide answers to marketing issues, problems, and dilemmas faced by small businesses every day. Information on a wide range of sales and marketing topics will be featured as articles, practical tips, expert opinion, latest trends, and helpful insights.

The Small Business Marketing Resource is Hellotrade’s second launch in a series of small business information resources it will be bringing out in the near future. The first was a Small Business Finance Resource launched just a few weeks back.

The Small Business Marketing Resource

Hellotrade encourages industry experts and small business owners to generously participate in sharing their insights at the marketing resource.

Some areas to be covered include

• Sales Promotion
• Advertising/Branding
• Useful online resources
• Public Relations
• Marketing Trends
• Sales Tips/Advice

About HelloTrade.com

HelloTrade.com is a generation next global trade search engine which intends to make the process of online B2B business easy and free for all the users. Hellotrade intends to offer all marketplace facilities absolutely free to its members. Some of the features freely made available on HelloTrade are:

• Free Tenders
• Free Catalogs
• Free Events Information

And many more to follow. In totality Hellotrade.com offers a win-win solution for global buyers and sellers.

Company Information

Company Name: Hellotrade International
Contact Person: Manish Gupta
Email: [email protected]
Address:E-46, Sector 30, Noida, UTTAR PRADESH – 201301, India
Phone: +91 9999042716
Company Website: http://www.hellotrade.com/

London, UK ( Prfriend ) August 7, 2009 – It’s certainly something lots of marketing experts are talking about, but just how small businesses should go about building an online community is harder to understand. Ben Dyer has built a 10,000 member community for his business and he shares the lessons he’s learned in a new article on Marketing Donut.

Dyer says that while a community is a powerful way to engage with your customers, building one requires patience and perseverance.

“For every community I have seen fail due to lack of traffic, two have the plug pulled because of a perceived lack of progress” he says.

Dyer says the other key ingredients of success are: leadership, ground rules, taking criticism on the chin, and making sure the community caters to everyone, not just the “fanatics”.

“Running a community is hard work, but it can be a fantastically rewarding experience for both you and your customers. The reality is that if you have a successful company, product or service, your customers will be talking about you anyway. What you need to decide is whether you are willing to facilitate the conversation.”

Backed by Google and Royal Mail, Marketing Donut is a free marketing resource that’s been developed specially for small business. Practical and no-nonsense, Marketing Donut covers all aspects of small business marketing, from branding through to internet marketing, from direct marketing through to generating PR for your business.

Further information:

* The Marketing Donut is at http://www.marketingdonut.co.uk

Contact details:
Mick Dickinson
BHP Information Solutions
tel: 0117 904 2224
[email protected]

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London, UK ( Prfriend ) July 17, 2009 – Making your most valuable customers feel valued with a carefully-selected gift could deliver the same return as a direct mail to 1000 people or an advert in the local newspaper, says a new expert article on free small business marketing resource Marketing Donut.

“Merchandising might seem like an unnecessary cost during the recession, but if you set clear objectives and select the right merchandise for your target audience, it can generate a valuable return on investment,” says the article on Marketing Donut.

The article says merchandising delivers benefits such as: connecting with customers, raising awareness of the business, and driving sales.

Marketing Donut expert Andy Preston says that with merchandising it’s important to be clear about what you want to achieve. “For example, do you want customers to sign up to your newsletter and communicate with you more, or to drive new customers to your website and increase online sales?”

It’s also important to choose an item of merchandise that’s appropriate for your business.

“So if you’re in financial services you could portray your reliability with something practical, and if you’re in the leisure sector, you should create something fun. For example, a go-kart business could distribute wind-up mini racers.”

The article also has advice about choosing suppliers and methods of distribution.

Marketing Donut is a free marketing resource that’s backed by Google and Royal Mail. It’s got thousands of expert tools and information covering all aspects of small business sales and marketing.

Further information:

* The Marketing Donut is at www.marketingdonut.co.uk

Contact details:
Mick Dickinson
BHP Information Solutions
tel: 0117 904 2224
[email protected]

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Vancouver, BC, Canada ( Prfriend ) June 27, 2009 -Sue Clement, the Vancouver, B.C. business success coach famous for starting an employment agency from scratch and growing it into a multi-million dollar business, just launched her new membership program.  In the program, she combines coaching with teleseminars, expert interviews and other resources to help business owners and entrepreneurs dramatically improve the results of their marketing efforts.

Clement is known for suggesting that people might as well throw their networking event business cards out the window, for all the good they do them if they approach networking the traditional way.  That’s because she has much better strategies, and anyone who joins “Your Marketing Edge” will get valuable tools they can put to use immediately as they grow their business faster than ever before.  They can even try it for free — there is no charge for the first month.

So many small business owners had great dreams and visions of success when they first started their business.  And yet, they find themselves bogged down in lots of details they don’t enjoy.  And they’re not making enough money either.  The truth is, they’re approaching marketing all wrong, which leads to them to having fewer clients than they should have — and often they have clients that aren’t even ideal for them.  So neither party is very happy.

“That’s no way to run a business,” Clement says. “It certainly drains away the joy and enthusiasm you had for that initial dream…”

“And it literally hurts me to even watch,” Clement continues.  “Fortunately, once I start working with my clients, their businesses turn around quickly.  It’s been my delight to work with and help many small business entrepreneurs such as yourself reclaim the success and financial rewards they originally dreamed of when they started their businesses.”

“But unfortunately, there’s a limit to how many people I can work with one-on-one.  And besides, many business owners who need my help the most can’t really afford it,” Clement says.

Her coaching program is the answer to that dilemma: Your Marketing Edge will allow her to coach many more people and help them get their marketing right — and effective — at last.

What will new members get?  Right now, during the pre-launch period, they will not only get the first month of their membership free, but they will also get five teleseminars as audio downloads along with action sheets.  Plus, they will be able to lock in a lower price for the duration of their membership.

And as part of the regular membership, they will get to discuss their marketing and business questions with Sue Clement directly in monthly one-on-one turbo coaching sessions.

Members of “Your Marketing Edge” will also get a monthly teleseminar, where they learn in-depth insider secrets to a different aspect of marketing each month.  In addition, there will also be a podcast  featuring a special guest — a well-known expert on that month’s strategy — who will spill the beans and answer the members’ questions.

For more information, please contact Sue Clement by email at [email protected] or by phone at 1-866-85-COACH.  Sue’s website is at http://www.sueclement.com, and the sign-up page for her membership program is at http://www.YourMarketingEdge.com

Contact Information:

Success Coaching | 2471 East Kent Ave | Vancouver | BC | V5S 2H7 | Canada,
email: [email protected] or phone: 1-866-85-COACH
Website for membership program:  http://www.YourMarketingEdge.com

[Note FYI: Sent by Sue's VA: contact information:  Elisabeth Kuhn, [email protected]]

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Vancouver, BC, Canada. January 28th, 2008 – Make Anything Work co-founder and CEO Alex Read has been awarded the “Business In Vancouver: 40 Under 40” award for 2007. This is partly in recognition for the business he helped create, “Make Anything Work” that was founded on one simple principle: to do everything possible to help entrepreneurs and small business owners beat the odds and build successful businesses. In addition to this Alex was also recognized as an avid volunteer, giving back to his community in several ways, including being a regular guest speaker and trainer for Junior Achievement of BC.

By using the principles outlined by Make Anything Work, Alex also regularly consults with young entrepreneurs (18 – 30) all across North America to help them build strong, sustainable and fun filled businesses. In fact, with February being “National Youth Leadership Month” Alex has dedicated to opening up his schedule to take on board 10 new exclusive young entrepreneurial coaching clients.

“This award is an amazing recognition for all the hard work that we’ve put into the development of this amazing business (Make Anything Work) that’s dedicated to the development of entrepreneurs all across North America.” says company CEO, Alex Read. He continues, “Our aim is to help develop a global plethora of successful entrepreneurs. We hate to see small business owners struggle to succeed and often fail. It’s especially relevant in the current economic climate when business owners need all the help they can get in order to beats the odds and succeed. The feedback we’ve received so far on our amazing new Bookinar program ‘Make My Marketing Work’ is certainly proving that we’re helping business owners not just survive, but also aggressively grow! As a team we’re looking forward to helping even more entrepreneurs successfully grow their businesses as we move into 2008 and beyond.”

About Make Anything Work:

Launched in 2007, www.makeanythingwork.com is the ultimate small-business resource for business owners looking to develop or enhance their business skills. The content, delivery system and course design & creation, as well as the resources provided free through our blog and to our mailing list, have all been created to help small business owners beat the odds and build successful businesses. For a limited time, to find out how to Make My Marketing Work visit www.makemymarketingwork.com.

Contact:

Alex Read

Chief Enterprise Officer

Make Anything Work Holdings Inc.

604 – 628 – 6646

[email protected]

http://www.makeanythingwork.com

Vancouver, BC, Canada. December 20, 2007 – Make Anything Work was founded on one simple principle: to do everything possible to help entrepreneurs and small business owners beat the odds and build successful businesses. As part of that goal, Make Anything Work Holdings Inc., a Vancouver, British Columbia based training and education company for entrepreneurs and small business owners recently launched their new corporate website.

Within the first three months of this site going live Alexa.com has ranked the site within the top 220,000 websites globally. This is a higher ranking than such well known local Vancouver companies as; Blast Radius, Coast Capital Savings, Finning, Intrawest, Shred-It, North Shore Credit Union, and Cossette Communications.

With the recent launch of a marketing home-study program (called a Bookinar) for small business owners titled Make My Marketing Work (www.MakeMyMarketingWork.com) that took place on October 10, 2007 at 10am (10-10-10), Make Anything Work is looking forward to increasing this ranking over the coming months.

This is an amazing achievement for the entire team. It really shows what a Vancouver success story can really achieve on the global stage.” says company co-founder Alex Read. He continues, “Our aim is to help develop a global plethora of successful entrepreneurs. We hate to see small business owners struggle to succeed and often fail. Our new website, with its high traffic ranking will certainly help to ensure that we get our message out to as many business owners as possible.

About Make Anything Work:

Launched in 2007, www.makeanythingwork is the ultimate small-business resource for business owners looking to develop or enhance their business skills. The content, delivery system and course design & creation, as well as the resources provided free through our blog and to our mailing list, have all been created to help small business owners beat the odds and build successful businesses. To find out how to Make Anything Work visit www.makeanythingwork.com.

Contact:

Alex Read

Chief Enterprise Officer

Make Anything Work Holdings Inc.

604 – 628 – 6646

[email protected]

http://www.makeanythingwork.com

Vancouver-based training company Make Anything Work launches a revolutionary new training concept – the Bookinar – that’s creating a major buzz in the training and internet marketing worlds.

Make Anything Work was founded on one simple principle: to do everything possible to help entrepreneurs and small business owners beat the odds and build successful businesses. As part of that goal, Make Anything Work, a Vancouver, British Columbia based training and education company for entrepreneurs and small business owners recently launched their proprietary new training concept, the Bookinar.

The Make Anything Work Bookinar is the perfect blend of traditional book learning combined with live seminar training. The Bookinar concept forms the backbone of all Make Anything Work training programs, such as the hugely successful Make My Marketing Work recently launched at 10am on the 10^th October 2007.

“This is an amazing development in the training tools available to new business owners. The Bookinar concept not only allows business owners to easily digest all the information needed to successfully manage their business, but it also ensures they put it into action.” says company co-founder Alex Read. He continues, “Our aim is to help develop a global plethora of successful entrepreneurs. We hate to see small business owners struggle to succeed and often fail. Our new Bookinar concept will certainly help to ensure that we get successful business habits developed within as many business owners as possible.”

About Make Anything Work:

Launched in 2007, Make Anything Work is the ultimate small-business resource for business owners looking to develop or enhance their business skills. The content, delivery system and course design & creation, as well as the resources provided free through our blog and to our mailing list, have all been created to help small business owners beat the odds and build successful businesses. To find out how to Make Anything Work visit www.makeanythingwork.com.

Contact:

Alex Read

Chief Enterprise Officer

Make Anything Work Holdings Inc.

604 – 628 – 6646

[email protected]

http://www.makeanythingwork.com