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Improve Marketing Results with Closed Loop Marketing

As a business owner or manager, it's highly likely that you're thirsting for a better way to keep a closer eye on the prospects that arrive at your website via your online marketing initiatives. Better yet, a demonstrable majority of Intern...

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19 Ways To Attract Higher Paying Clients

Some people have little difficulty attracting andmaintaining clients who have higher discretionary funds tospend for solutions. Others can't get to first base. If youare one of those and want clients that can pay more and youcurrently aren'...

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Say It Like You Mean It!

Many people approach marketing with a focus on goals. Sure, you must have goals, but can you truly know our goals without first defining our problem? The problem creates the need for the goal, and so the problem defines the solution.Defining and unde...

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6 Steps To Get Slightly Famous

A few years ago, Bruce Smith experienced a slowdown in his Salt Lake City-based travel agency. Airlines had eliminated his sales commissions. The recession and recent terrorist attacks also took a toll. And because the travel industry was ultra-compe...

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Strategies For Building Client Retention

Traditional marketing strategies encourage business owners to continually grow their businesses by adding new customers. It today's competitive world of business, it is more important than ever to aim for more transactions with existing customer...

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Are You A Pelican Marketer

Watching the pelicans catch fish near my housereminded me of how some online marketersbehave. These pelicans fly high over the waterwhere the unknowing fish don't notice them.The pelicans spot a big fish and dive athigh speed into the water. A f...

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No Marketing Budget, No Problem!

So you’ve got a great business idea, and you’ve spent some time setting up a basic website to tell the world about it. Good for you, but the idea is only half the battle. Communicating your idea to the masses through marketing is the key to drivi...

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Selling Ideas How Ideas Transform Non-Buyers into Customers

A few months ago my friend was in the midst of web site redesign. Her son, who had just left a web design firm to start his own company, was doing the work for her. Several times she suggested that I might want talk to him.Believe me, it was the last...

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Optimizing Marketing Programs through Customer Feedback

As Marketing professionals, we are all aware of the need to measure program results. We can measure website hits, bingo card responses, 800-number calls and increased product purchases. Unless we ask our customers, however, we will never know WHY par...

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Times Square vs. chocolate e-mail marketing

Times Square is a marketeer's ego wall. With more billboards than there is coffee at an AA meeting, Times Square is the Internet's ground zero for spray-and-pray marketing. Definition of spray and pray: (1) in near panic, spray fresh VC fun...

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