Don’t have time to read all this or just don’t want to? Then just scroll down a bit and you’ll find my 3 recommendations for how to get the most out of this site and how to get started marketing your business for growth and success…
Welcome and Howdy!
Hi there! I’m Marty Marsh, your host here at Marty Ink.
You’ve landed here most likely because you’re in business for yourself and you’re struggling with how to go about marketing your small business or practice without making too many mistakes and without breaking the bank. You’re not interested in selling with hype but you DO want to sell your stuff. You just want to do it with some integrity.
You’d like to make the big bucks — tomorrow isn’t quite soon enough, thank you very much — but you’re also smart enough to know that very likely, it’s going to take a bit longer to fill your bank account than what most online marketers are promising you.
And, if you’re anything at all like me, you’re also likely feeling quite overwhelmed, too, what with all the different strategies you could be using and confused as hell because so many marketing “gurus” are telling you that you should be doing this and you should be doing that.
If you’d like to stop all that “shouding” on yourself and break away from all that Internet “shouting,” then you’ve landed in the right place. We take a more genteel approach to marketing a business and in learning how to do it. You won’t hear us shouting here and you won’t find us hyping up something just for the sake of making a buck or two off of you.
Sure, we’d love it if you’d buy our stuff from time to time, but we also know that you work pretty hard to earn your money and that you want to make wise choices when investing in your business. So we’d love it even more if you’d just hang out with us for a while. Let us get to know you and you get to know us and see how we might help each other out along our parallel paths toward success.
There are a lot of folks out there promoting and selling marketing information. Duh! We know that you have lots of choices and you’re probably wondering what makes us so different here.
You see, there are lots of people in business online today who like the idea of being completely anonymous in their transactions with you. They want your credit card number but they aren’t much interested in you.
They want your money, but they don’t really care too much about whether you actually use the information you get from them. Most likely, they’d be delighted if you never opened the ebooks they send you or listen to their recordings because then you’d find out that what they’ve promised ain’t exactly what they’re delivering. They write really good sales copy but little else.
So we remind ourselves every single day that there is a real live human being at both ends of every transaction. You are a living soul to us and therefore we’d like to get to know you as a real person. Because you’re unique, we treat you that way. And we’d like you to get to know us, too. We have no interest in hiding behind the anonymous face of the Internet because we’re real people, too. We don’t want anonymous transactions, we want relationships. It makes doing business online a lot more fun and a lot more creatively profitable — for both of us.
And I suspect you feel the same way or else you probably wouldn’t have come here in the first place nor stuck around reading this far. You want to have relationships with your clients and customers, too. You want to know who you’re working with. You want to know who’s buying your stuff, and you want to help them solve their problems. It’s really hard to solve people’s problems with just an ebook and an audio recording.
Having said that, however, I also want you to know that the information found in our ebooks and audio recordings is put there not just to educate you but as another way of connecting with you. We pack our free — and our fee — stuff with so much good information that if that’s all the interaction you have with us then you’ll be better off than you were before. (Provided you put some of that information into bona fide marketing action.) And we’ll be the first to encourage you to do the same things for your own clients and prospects.
In fact, we hope that you’ll emulate whatever you find us doing and learn from those things just as much as from anything formal you might buy from us.
While I can’t promise that I can offer something to fit every budget, please stick around anyway because you’ll discover lots of great information and resources here that doesn’t cost you a thing except for the time that it takes to put the great ideas into action.
Bottom line for you is that we can help you discover a variety of ways to market and promote yourself and your business based on a foundation of building relationships with people first, so they get to know, like, and trust you enough to buy from you. I’d like the chance to earn your trust as well.
Bottom line for me is that I love sharing what I know when it comes to design, marketing, promotion, and printing so that I can help as many small business owners and service professionals as I can to grow their business to any size they want. And when you get what you want and need out of our association, then my job is done.
So how do you get the most out of this site and how do you get started?
Here are my 3 recommendations…
1. Subscribe to my Marketing Ink eZine. Even though you get a lot of eZines, we do our best here to share only the best and worthwhile information we can. Our eZine is a learning tool just like everything else you’ll find here. In addition to receiving great information and resources by email, you’ll also receive by postal mail actual samples and examples of creative proven-to-work marketing ideas that you can implement in your own business or practice. Click Here to Subscribe and also get your free copy of my “Guide to Creating the Right Marketing Mix for Your Business” available for immediate download when you confirm your desire to subscribe.
2. Attend my next Complimentary Teleclass, “Marketing to the In-Box Weary: How to Reach Your Target Audience — Even When They Won’t Open Your Emails.” Presented live every month, this is an information-packed teleclass, not a glorified sales pitch. While we do record all of our teleclasses and make them available to member of my Golden Tribe (see #3 below), folks who attend live get fun gifts and offers that we delete before posting the recording. Click Here [COMING SOON] to find out when the next teleclass is being presented.
3. Visit the Marketing Ink Resource Center. This is my online business community center where members get FREE access to ALL of my Soul Proprietor Guidebooks and recorded programs along with special discounts on everything I offer including marketing resources, consulting, graphic design, specialty items, printing, and mailing services. My members always get advance notice of training events, workshops, teleclasses, product launches and service offerings before the general public, always with members-only discounts. More member-only perks are added all the time. Click Here [COMING SOON] to learn how to get your free membership and be a part of my tribe.
I’m looking forward to helping you grow your business!
All the best,
Marty Marsh
P.S. We also offer a number of Done-4-You Solutions. Marketing materials and promotions that are pretty much done for you except for filling in the blanks with your customized information.. It’s a fast, affordable way for you to get into marketing action without delay. We do most of the work because we know you don’t always have the time to do it yourself.
P.P.S. Read on if you need more convincing that you’re in the right place.
Does this sound like you?
- You’d love to have nice looking — and effective — marketing materials to promote your business or practice but you just don’t feel like you can afford the services of a professional designer or copywriter.
- You’d love to have a plan in place that included the perfect marketing strategies that would help you attract just the right kind of client you’d most like to work with, but you don’t know where you’d start even if you had the time.
- You’ve signed up for every marketing and traffic building program that has come along and yet you still aren’t sure exactly what you should be doing to market your business without wasting a lot of money.
- You’d love to see your logo on all kinds of nifty advertising and promotional specialty items like pens, magnets, key chains, coffee mugs, t-shirts, calendars and water bottles that you can give away to prospective clients to build goodwill toward your business, but you don’t know where to go to get the best prices and the coolest items and besides, you have no idea how to prepare the artwork for any of those things.
- You’d love to mail out a promotional post card once a month and a quarterly print newsletter because you know direct mail is a great way to reach your prospects but you’ve heard that direct mail is expensive and you need a graphic designer, plus you really don’t want to pollute the environment and wonder if there really is such a thing as an eco-friendly printer.
If any of this sounds like you and you’re a small business owner or service professional who wants to grow your business while being a responsible citizen, then you’ve come to the right place.
What’s this site about?
MartyInk is all about The Creative Side of Marketing. Marty Marsh is here to help you attract more of your perfect clients — and then keep them around for a long time to come.
It is about teaching you to market your business or practice in a variety of ways using proven and effective on- and off-line marketing strategies and tactics without hype, without shouting, without overwhelming you.
It is about helping you create great looking and effective marketing and promotional materials including newsletters, postcards, business cards, advertising specialty promotion items like pens, mugs, t-shirts, and magnets, and producing all of it for you with state-of-the-art eco-friendly printing and manufacturing processes.
Who is this site for?
- Life and Business Coaches
- Holistic Health Practitioners
- Healing Professionals
- Chiropractors
- Owners of all types of small businesses
- Solo-Entrepreneurs
- Service Business Professionals
- Home-Based Business Owners
- Network Marketing Business Owners
- Any business owner or service professional who is serious about growing their business — fast!
If you’re a person who is serious about growing a business or practice — and want to have fun doing it — and are willing to market consistently and with integrity will find lots of great information and resources here to help attract, nurture, and keep your perfect clients.
If you are open to new ideas, willing to explore new (and perhaps some older tried and true) options and are ready to take action, are serious about growing your business, serious about marketing, and serious about doing the work required, you will likely find great success here.
You’ll discover tips and strategies and tactics here, but best of all, you’ll also have access to lots of done-for-you-marketing-tools that will save you time, effort and money. In most cases, all you have to do is fill in the blanks to have exciting promotions ready to go in a matter of minutes.
So scroll back up there and re-read the 3 best ways to get started at this site and start taking advantage of everything we offer here.
Then, write to us and tell us what your hopes and dreams are for you business, ask us questions, share your success stories. We love hearing from our readers and site visitors because we learn as much from you as we hope you learn from us.