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Recent Advertising Articles

How Would You Sell Custom Stuffed Animals?

Four entrepreneurs offer marketing strategies to a start-up that sells custom toys.  Read more

10 Eye-Catching Ambient Ads

What ads did you see on your way to work this morning? Trouble remembering? Here are 10 smart advertisements and marketing campaigns that generated buzz and ...  View slideshow

How Would You Sell Temporary Wallpaper?

Four seasoned entrepreneurs offer marketing strategies for Tempaper.  Read more

How to Buy TV Advertising on a Budget

For small businesses, here's the reality of TV -- the medium can be an affordable messenger.  Read more

8 Ideas for Rocking Fashion Week

We've tapped the strategies of some of the best young companies trying to get noticed by the style-makers and influentials at New York's Fashion Week.  Read more

7 Secrets to Getting More from Google AdWords

Everyone knows that Google's Adwords service, and other key-word based advertising, works something like an auction. But in fact, it's not that simple. Raisi...  Read more

How to Buy Radio Advertising on a Budget

Video may have killed the radio star, as the old pop song goes, but advertising on the AM and FM airwaves could be an affordable savior for small businesses.  Read more

An Ad Man Who Had a Very Good Year

Entrepreneur John Most describes how his ad agency quadrupled in size between 2008 and 2009.  Read more

How to Blow Up an Armored Truck in 12 Steps

Looking to pull off a brash PR stunt? Here's how to engineer an explosive marketing campaign in 12 easy steps.  Read more

Facebook Takes on Foursquare

Social media giant's entry into location-based services could help the market go mainstream -- and give small businesses a better way to target advertising.  Read more

Facebook May Be Popular, But Not Well-Liked

Privacy concerns, frequent design changes and aggressive advertising earn the social-networking giant low marks on a consumer survey.  Read more

On-Air Endorsements

The radio pitch makes a comeback.  Read more

Inc. 5000 Applicant of the Week: AArrow Advertising

How an 18-year-old kid took $500 and built a guerilla marketing agency with franchises in 30 cities and $4.5 million in revenue.  Read more

Facebook Juggernaut Rolls On

The social networking site has topped Yahoo to become the web's biggest ad publisher.  Read more

The Truth About Who's Using Twitter

A new report reveals some surprises about who's using the microblogging service, why they love it, and how Twitter can affect your brand.  Read more

Could You Market Chocolate Filled With Air?

John Scharffenberger and other entrepreneurs offer advice to Bubble Chocolate.  Read more

Online Ads That Follow Your Customers

Scottevest uses behavioral retargeting to bring customers back to its website.  Read more

Behavioral Retargeting for Small Business

How services from AdRoll, Fetchback, and Google keep tabs on your website's visitors.  Read more

How to Make Your First Advertising Buy

A look at smart ways to get your feet wet in print, broadcast, and online media.  Read more

How Facebook's New Features Could Help You

Facebook's latest offerings allow users to see what their friends like as the pals shop, read the news, and listen to music online -- all information you can...  Read more

Facebook Advertising To Get Creepier

Taking a page from the Google playbook, Facebook is poised to up its game on targeting ads based on user behavior throughout the web. Let's back u...  Read more

A New Way to Make Yourself Heard on Twitter

After months of speculation, Twitter announces its plan to make money: Promoted Tweets. What does it mean for you?  Read more

Should You Advertise on Twitter?

A new start-up from paid search inventor Bill Gross lets you bid on keywords to give your tweets top billing.  Read more

Facebook Users Object to Privacy Erosion

A new survey says users overwhelmingly are unhappy with Facebook's plans to allow third party websites (maybe your company's) access to personal information.  Read more

Apple Announces iAd

Apple is starting to look more like Google, while acting more like Wal-Mart. This week Apple unveiled its new mobile advertising program, iAd. It ...  Read more