FREE marketing ideasFREE alert reveals proven marketing strategies, tips, and methods to grow your business...My guaranteed Super Bowl® prediction- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Whether you're a football junkie or not, I'm now ready to reveal my prediction of the winner of Super Bowl 2005... ... I suggest you bet the house on Bob Parson's team. Go behind the scenes on how Mr. Parson wins Sunday's big game at...http://www.marketing-ideas.org/commercials-during-Super-Bowl.php?I=12345&T=&PC=-RS... Charm shoppers into buying tonight- (Found July 2, 2008 ) We all know the drill... when we're shopping at the mall, the dialog goes somethin' like this: Retailer: "Can I help you" Me: "Just browsing." And I'd bet 9 out of 10 times, these retailers never make the sale. 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Apparently, the same phrase is used by illustrators, comic book artists, and designers as well. For the rest of us, a "morgue file" is an amazing, searchable photo bank of high-resolution, digital stock photographs and images... available to download for either corporate or public use -- mostly no charge! ... Search this amazing (and nifty) online digital library at...http://www.marketing-ideas.org/public-domain-photography.php?I=12345&T=&PC=-RSS Outsource everything, except this- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Perhaps one of the biggest mistakes I've made was not outsourcing everything. Whether you're looking for Web design, stuffing envelopes, or even answering angry customer service emails, there's someone on this planet that can do it better and cheaper than doing all the work yourself. But there is an exception... ...I find it's nearly impossible to outsource copy writing -- writing persuasive advertising, emails, or sales letter. 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