All posts by James D. Burbank

James D. Burbank has worked for years in traditional as well as online marketing. He has worked in Central Asia, Europe and Australasia for years, helping US-based companies exhibit at trade shows in those parts of the world, among other things. He’s been on the ground for years and for the last few years, he has also been working in online marketing. James is currently on well-deserved hiatus and blogs about his experiences, the stuff he’s learned and more. Business and marketing all the way. He is also a father of two and a huge Utah Jazz fan.

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Filling a Niche Need: How a Business Founded on $500 became an Academic Service Powerhouse

Today, we are doing something a bit different on BizzMarkBlog. Namely, we will be featuring a success story about one of Europe's Academic Service Heavyweights – ACAD WRITE, a business that started with a truly modest initial investment and grew...

/ December 4, 2015
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Take the Trailblazers’ Path to Global Business Expansion

International expansion is very useful both for companies that are doing well on domestic market and those that have problems with presenting their set of products or services to the home crowd. First group of companies use international expansion to...

/ November 17, 2015

How the Amazon Story in the New York Times Shook Workers Worldwide

It was August 15th 2015, and New York Times published this informatively captivating, yet peculiar article about the labor conditions and expectations in one of world’s biggest electronic commerce and cloud computing companies there is. It turned out to be...

/ September 8, 2015

Top 7 Tech Startups in 2015

Every year, countless new startups enter the business arena. Building a solid brand from the ground up is a formidable task, and requires thorough planning, expert leadership and ingenuity. Tech startups are in their natural environment in an information age,...

/ August 28, 2015
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Greatest Marketing Campaigns of All Time

What is it that makes a great campaign? The answer to this question is not that simple but at the same time not even that complicated. The answer lies in the words that the great Humphrey Bogart said in a...

/ July 24, 2015

How to Network Like a Boss

The key to success in any line of work is not a singular thing which can be easily pinpointed. It is a set of different abilities and factors which need to be all at admirable level in order for things...

/ June 26, 2015

Learn a Thing or Two from Elon Musk

The Man Who Will Change the World The business and entrepreneurship world has a long history of spawning people who went on to become superstars, like Richard Branson or Steve Jobs, but very few of them became actual superheroes.  As...

/ June 12, 2015

Putting Together the Perfect Trade Show Team

Although it is true that today, a large portion of “serious business” is being conducted online, this still does not mean that the traditional notion of doing business has become obsolete. First of all, because of the infinite sea of...

/ May 12, 2015

Shane Smith’s Truth Was His Road To Success

In today’s world, with such massive amount of media houses and services everywhere, is it even possible for one to start from the scratch and reach the very top? If asked this question directly, most people would probably answer that...

/ March 25, 2015

15 Dumbest Mistakes You Make While Being Interviewed For a Job

Avoid the mistakes It is important to be thoroughly prepared when you are going to a job interview, and it goes without saying that you should avoid making some of the most common dumb mistakes if you want to be...

/ February 24, 2015