Alissa Rothstein of Alissa Rothstein Design Studio\u00a0in Woodbridge, NJ, writes:<\/p>\n
“I am a graphic\/web designer, and I’m stuck when it comes to marketing.<\/p>\n
“I’ve tried email blasts to different industries, postcard mailings, and am a member of the Chamber of Commerce which, incidentally, had promised but never provided any leads.<\/p>\n
“I am not really targeting small businesses because I find that they can’t or don’t want to pay for designer services and I have to fight the ‘I can do it myself’ mentality.\u00a0 Or, they think that they can save money by hiring\u00a0 a cheap intern or a kid out of college.\u00a0 While they can do graphics, web and e-marketing activittes themselves, they just can’t do it very well and it’s a poor reflection on their company.<\/p>\n
“Help! I need marketing and publicity ideas from your Hounds. I have Facebook, MySpace and Twitter pages, although I’m not very active.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Alissa Rothstein of Alissa Rothstein Design Studio\u00a0in Woodbridge, NJ, writes: “I am a graphic\/web designer, and I’m stuck when it comes to marketing. “I’ve tried email blasts to different industries, postcard mailings, and am a member of the Chamber of Commerce which, incidentally, had promised but never provided any leads. “I am not really targeting\u2026 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":6,"wds_primary_category":612,"footnotes":""},"categories":[612],"tags":[246,432,34,684],"class_list":{"0":"post-5261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-online-marketing","7":"tag-chamber-of-commerce","8":"tag-facebook-pages","9":"tag-help-this-hound","10":"tag-twitter-promotion","11":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41993,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5261\/revisions\/41993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}