Don’t Pull The Plug: Shifting Marketing Approaches In An Economic Downturn
Rethinking marketing, sales and advertising strategies to address today’s realities is key for long-term success. Marketing during an economic downturn—or dare I say, recession—comes with unique chall ...
4 Tips To Cope With Money Anxiety, From A Financial Planner Who Gets It
Money stress can quickly turn into financial anxiety, which can make you feel powerless in your situation and unable to make any changes. If you struggle with financial anxiety, you're not alone.
11 Tips To Create A More Personalized Marketing Campaign For Your Target Audience
When creating a personalized marketing campaign, marketers may want to focus solely on creating for their target audience based on the audience persona or other interest that they have. From integrati ...
Seven Ways To Maximize Effective Communication In Small Businesses
The business industry knows that effective communication can bring powerful benefits, including mitigating conflict and improving employee engagement. ...there are communications techniques companies ...
12 Tips for Creating the Best Email Subject Lines (with Examples)
Email subject lines are arguably the most important component of your emails. After all, the subject line is what subscribers see in their inbox, and is what determines if they even open your email or ...
Why Startups Need To Build A Social Media Marketing Strategy
In today's ever-changing business environment, connection is critical to the growth of a company. As a result, social media has become an essential component of any digital marketing strategy B ...
Small Business Website Design Best Practices & Examples
Small business websites must have an eye-catching design and compelling copy to make a positive first impression on visitors. Small business owners may not have the budget, skills or resources to make ...
How To Start A Small Business
As appealing as working for yourself sounds, there’s a reason why not everyone owns their own business: It’s hard...In this guide, we’ll help you sort out the main steps to starting a business., inclu ...
How Worrying About Money Can Affect Your Health
Worrying about money can affect you in more ways than you may realize. New research has found that the risks of several significant health problems increase when people are worried about their financi ...
Prepare Your Small Business for a Potential Downturn with a Few Strategic Steps
Whether you’ve been in business for quite some time or your endeavor is relatively new, preparing for revenue ebbs and flows is key for long term profitability and growth.
How to Create a Modern Newsletter Email Template
We're Constant Contact partners! If you’ve never created a newsletter email template, or are starting to wonder if your current newsletter needs an overhaul, this post is for you. Whether you’re an ol ...
7 Ways to Boost Your Small-Business Marketing
These marketing strategies can help small businesses gain new customers and increase repeat business. Image credit: Shutterstock Kimberly de Silva Marketing is important to every ...
Brass Ring Multimedia Wins 2017
La Jolla Village News Readers Choice Award!
THANK YOU! to the readers and good folk at La Jolla Village News for Brass Ring Multimedia's FOURTH (2014, 2015, 2016 & 2017) Reader's Choice Award for Best Web Design. It's a great honor to be r ...
Small Biz Owners Almost Always Fail With Their Marketing Because of These 3 Things
Today I want to talk to you about some ways small business owners almost always fail when it comes to their marketing because they don’t do three specific things. By Brad Swezey First, they don’t ha ...
Fear and Entrepreneurship: The Psychology of What Scares Us
Your stomach ties itself into a knot and your heart races nowhere as your mind sorts through every conceivable worst case scenario. We call it “fear” and our instincts scream for us to avoid whatever ...
10 Things Your Small Business Can Learn About Marketing from Apple (INFOGRAPHIC)
Building a universally loved brand without engaging in price wars against competitors is not easy. But one brand that has achieved this seemingly impossible feat is Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL). Behind Apple’ ...
Brass Ring Newsletter: September 2017
TOPICS IN THIS ISSUE: How Healthy Is Your Website? 27 Amazing Online Marketing Tactics for Small Businesses With Low Budgets, by Neil Patel How to Create a Social Media Marketing Content Plan ...
27 Amazing Online Marketing Tactics for Small Businesses With Low Budgets, by Neil Patel
I love small businesses. As a small business, there are many opportunities for growth with a smart marketing strategy. But you’ve probably noticed a problem. Most of the marketing tactics out there ...
How Healthy Is Your Website?
Neglecting your website health means lost customers and lost income. Just like ignoring your body's health is very risky and can result in you feeling lousy, ignoring your website health is something ...
Is Your Generic Voicemail Losing You Business?
Reaching a generic voice-mail greetings is one of my great frustrations (pet peeve?)...and I don't leave messages, typically, if I can't determine if I've gotten the right number. Why do so many peopl ...

The Important Tax Break Most Renters Miss
By Kelly Phillips Erb | March 7, 2016 Apartments used for business can also qualify for IRS deductions, but make sure you know the rules and exceptions. You can read the article HERE in its entire ...
Distraction Detox
Life balance elusive? (You're not alone) If you, like me, are a home-based entrepreneur, then balancing the various aspects of your life can pose quite a challenge. Even if you're not home-based, the ...
NEW SITE! Phillip’s Hobbies Website Design ($397 Brass Ring Multimedia WordPress Special!)
WordPress website design for Phillip Huston, one of Southern California premiere model building authorities. His business, Phillip's Hobbies in Lakeside, California offers everything the plastic model ...