Now that the hustle and bustle of the holidays have ended it’s time to get back to business. This year JigSaw Marketing Solutions plans to help you become more marketing-savvy with a monthly e-newsletter designed to assist you in piecing together your marketing puzzle. Embrace the mad marketer inside you with our monthly tips, and make time for marketing in your busy schedule with quick marketing strategies from our 5-Minute Marketing column.

Tip of the Month: Be Consistent

Make it your New Year's resolution to make marketing a priority. We understand that your focus is on running your business, making it easy for marketing to fall to the bottom of the priority list. Yet consistency in marketing is key to its success. Sporadic marketing initiatives do not deliver results, no matter how much money you put in to them. This year Be Consistent with marketing. JigSaw can help you develop a simple marketing communications plan that is effective and do-able with your busy schedule. Or, get the ball rolling now by following this month's 5-Minute Marketing tip!

A Look Back at 2010

As we ring in the New Year we want to take one last look back to 2010 and celebrate what made it a great year for JigSaw and its clients:

• The addition of marketing assistant Jessica Dixon Bieber, who has been a great asset to the firm
• The launch of new websites for biotech Noble Life Sciences and science and computing firm Stone Ridge Technology
• Development and execution of a unique marketing initiative for Floura Teeter Landscape Architects' 10th anniversary that helped the firm win a Mayor’s Business Recognition Award and a feature in the Baltimore Business Journal
• Being selected as part of the non-profit Live Baltimore's 2011 Creative Pool

JigSaw is ready to conquer 2011, how about you?