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on Thursday, 28 April 2016.
Posted in Business Strategy, Marketing Tips
The Christmas tree has been secured in its box for another year, the tinsel has been taken down and the colored lights are already a fading memory. Yes, the holidays are over, and it’s time to get serious about your marketing for 2016. Right?
Well, not so fast. For smart marketing people, the holidays are never over. Even though the major ones like Christmas and New Years have passed, there are still plenty of smaller ones throughout the year. Each one of these presents an opportunity for creative marketing.
on Wednesday, 03 February 2016.
Posted in Business Strategy, Marketing Tips
If the thought of what to do for your Halloween marketing this year has you yearning to hang a “Gone Trick-or-Treating” sign on the door the first day of October, then this post is for you!
Marketing for Halloween is a must, of course, if you're selling Halloween-related products. Even if you’re not however, it's a great way to generate goodwill, keep your name in customers' minds, and kick off your other holiday sales. Besides, everyone needs a little Halloween fun!
Long before October 31st you should be posting some Halloween related content on your website and through social media.
on Tuesday, 06 October 2015.
Posted in Business Strategy, Marketing Tips
A few years ago there was an article on using email to increase your revenue on the Glazer-Kennedy Insider Circle (GKIC) site, an online entrepreneur marketing network.
The article emphasized three important ways to maximize the returns (ROI) of e-mail marketing:
- Setting up automated email campaigns
- Gaining valuable information from email
- Using email to build brand loyalty
Not getting the results you want?
on Tuesday, 11 August 2015.
Posted in Business Strategy, Marketing Tips
There probably isn't a week that goes by when you don't notice an ad on a website or in your email talking about “creating killer content”. So what does it really mean, and why do you need to do it?
Content marketing is often sought out by customers. It offers them the information they’re looking for when they need it the most.
Here's how to make it work for you:
on Tuesday, 14 July 2015.
Posted in Business Strategy, Marketing Tips
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Herding cats is hard work. Just ask any of the ranch hands in the award-winning EDS ad made back in 2001. The slippery felines gave them all they could handle and more. Proud, independent and stubborn, every cat wanted to make its own way whether the ranch hands wanted it to or not. Does it sometimes feel like keeping your customers happy is a lot like cat herding?
A key recommendation by Dan S. Kennedy, the marketing expert, is to build a fence around your cats (customers) to keep out poachers and to prevent them from going off on their own. Just because your customer has made a purchase from you in the past doesn't mean he or she is your customer forever. It's important to try to offer your clients extra products and services -- extra value -- that will keep them coming back to you.
on Tuesday, 07 July 2015.
Posted in Business Strategy, Marketing Tips
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For years now, anyone of my marketing coaching or Infusionsoft clients who asked me about open rates of their Infusionsoft emails (or emails in general), I have said something along the lines of: "Open rates are very unreliable....if it says that the email was opened, then it was, but if it says it was unopened, you have no idea if it was opened or not."
On top of that, many email clients (Outlook and Apple Mail for example) are configured to have a preview list on one side of the window and the email itself on the other. If you use your arrow keys to move up and down the preview list, then as you pass emails, they become "read"....you know that you haven't read them....you are passing them so you can get to the latest comment on your cat video Facebook post. But all the ones you scrolled through will be reported back as read.
Written by Dom Cassone
on Thursday, 30 April 2015.
Posted in Marketing Tips