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John Jantsch
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About John Jantsch

John Jantsch is a veteran marketing coach, award winning blogger and author of Duct Tape Marketing - The World's Most Practical Small Business Marketing Guide (foreword by Michael Gerber, author of The E-Myth) published by Thomas Nelson - due out in the fall of 2006 He is the creator of the Duct Tape Marketing small business marketing system and Duct Tape Marketing Authorized Coach Network. His Duct Tape Marketing Blog was chosen as a Forbes favorite for small business and marketing and is a Harvard Business School featured marketing site. His blog was also chosen as "Best Small Business Marketing Blog" in 2004, 2005 and 2006 by the readers of Marketing Sherpa.



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Blurb Books a Great Tool for Telling Your Story
- For more on John Jantsch visit www.ducttapemarketing.com

I ran into a service called Blurb at the SXSW Interactive Conference this March and think they have a tool that has some great small business marketing applications. The service lets you take written words and images and turn them into very professional looking hard bound books in small quantities.



Blurb originally developed a bit of a following among bloggers wishing to memorialize their writings in a nice printed form. (I know, we're kind of geeky.) Looking at the final product however gave me some ideas of how small businesses could employ these books - blog or no blog.



Imagine a real estate agent snapping photos of your current home and your new home and putting together a scrap book. Or, what about a home remodeler chronicling a project before during and after and presenting the homeowner with a memory book to show their friends - of course, one page might have some information about the contractor and designer too. (Looks like a nice referral tool to me.)



What about a financial planner wanting to stand out and impress high net worth investors with a hard bound storybook. The technology is useful for anyone who can envision a beautiful presentation book in very small or personal quantities. The cost is so affordable I could see using these for specific proposals and presentations.



The printing process is pretty straightforward after you get the hang of the custom software and layout tools. Check them out here - Duct Tape Marketing readers can get free shipping to





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Linda Richardson is the Founder and Executive Chairwoman of Richardson, a global sales training and performance improvement company. As a recognized leader in the industry, she has won the coveted Stevie Award for Lifetime Achievement in Sales Excellence and she was identified by Training Industry, Inc. as one of the “Top 20 Most Influential Training Professionals.” Ms. Richardson is credited with the movement to Consultative Selling and is the author of ten books on selling and sales management, including Sales Coaching — Making the Great Leap from Sales Manager to Sales Coach, and Stop Telling, Start Selling. She teaches sales and management at the Wharton Graduate School of the University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton Executive Development Center. Linda is a frequent speaker at industry and client conferences, has been published extensively in industry and training journals, and has been featured in numerous publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Nation’s Business, Selling Power, Success, and The Conference Board Magazine. Learn more about Richardson's sales training and performance improvement solutions at http://www.richardson.com web - Visit Linda Richardson's Website

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