Basic Bananas Journal

The latest tips from the Basic Bananas team

From Praise to Publicity – Jess B (Intern)

From Praise to Publicity – Jess B (Intern)

The importance of testimonials for marketing Praise from an existing customer is increasingly important to a prospective customer‘s perceived value of a product or service. It‘s kind of like online word-of-mouth marketing between complete strangers...

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Marketing Trends for 2013

Marketing Trends for 2013

Good news or bad news? Let‘s look at a few small business marketing trends for 2013 Wow, over the last few weeks I must have been asked this question at least twenty times! What‘s going to happen in the small business marketing world in 2013? So I...

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Lessons from Mongolia (Part 1)

This article is coming to you from somewhere in between Mongolia and Russia as I‘m sitting on the Trans-Siberian railway admiring the landscapes and thinking about how there is so much we can learn from the Mongolian nomads. Living with the nomads...

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NEWS: Give this whale a name!

Basic Bananas is the first business ever to adopt a whale through the Icon Humpback Project! Help us find a name for the whale (it's a girl:-)).      

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