crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2010

A strong website can help a small business to more effectively market its products or services – even if the small businesses’ customers are all local. If you need help, you can leverage crowdSPRING’s community of more than 67,000 designers and writers for your custom web design. Consider Site Load Times.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

Here’s an example: let’s say one of your business goals for the year is to increase renewal business from existing customers by 15%. To develop your marketing strategy, think about the marketing efforts it would take to get more customers to renew.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

Explain how you love providing great service and encourage customers to review your service. Make customers aware of the review page via: Business cards – on the back: “Love our service? Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : As the importance of Facebook as small business marketi.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

Regular computers must be united into a sophisticated computing network; big tasks should be broken into smaller ones; and all the possible contingencies — like slow internet or sudden computer shutdowns — must be taken into consideration. To solve any substantial computing task you’ll need more than one computer. Commercialization.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 13, 2011

If you intend to thrill every customer, you will attract and retain. Related Posts: Follow-up Is the Momentum Building Power Tool What To Do When a Prospect Says Yes The Most Expensive Way to Grow a Business Who don’t you want as a customer? Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

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ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2020

The first shows were created in late 2003, and the term itself was coined in 2004 by combining “iPod” with “broadcasting.”. But podcasting does have a lower cost and barrier to entry than video (at least quality video production). Unlike professional-quality video, the start-up costs for podcasting are quite affordable.

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

Look into the Video Camera. In this article on stock photos , I described a study illustrating that power: “ Bateson, Nettle, & Roberts (2006) provided customers with an unsupervised ‘honesty box’ to pay for their lunch. Whatever you method you choose, you should be looking into the camera for the majority of the video.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 14, 2011

You could change the subject to email or face to face networking or press releases, but the implication is always that some long established marketing tactic has been supplanted by Twitter or Facebook. My answer is always the same – nothing is dead – but the ways we use them have changed.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 25, 2011

Flowplayer – open source flash video player that allows you to customize the player for your embedded video and create a branded player – a step up from simple YouTube embeds for serious video experience. MailVu – quite possibly the easiest way to record and send personalized video in email.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 27, 2011

There are countless ways to research, measure, analyze and theorize about your ideal target client, but experience tells me most firms don’t have to look very far to find a thorough profile of their ideal customer. In other words our ideal customers are often people we simply like and understand. Does this have some truth for you?

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

Learn about how her creative mind discovered a niche and filled it, asking her peers in the Compass Fellowship — an organization devoted to nurturing and networking young entrepreneurs — for their input. Elizabeth Sabol-Jones at Inspirist , Jan. Oprah Winfrey at Academy of Achievement , Feb. Patrick Chukwura at Young Entrepreneurs , Sept.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 14, 2013

Were you surprised that the Boston Marathon bombers were caught on video? Or a pizza delivery guy urinating on a customer’s door after receiving too small a tip? CBS dedicates part of its website, called Caught on Tape , to videos like these. Video Recruitment. You shouldn’t have been.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 26, 2011

In an effort to help a confused individual that requested our help via email (understand this was not a customer, just a weary traveler) we asked a couple clarifying questions to try to understand how we could help. What we received back was an insult filled rant about how we should apologize for not knowing what she wanted.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 21, 2011

I wrote last week that the Most Powerful Form of Lead Generation is a Happy Customer and the hourglass model put the focus squarely on that idea. iTunes link – Cost is $2.99) or Related Posts: Creating Customer Bliss Has Social Media Changed Customer Service? Unapologetic Rules for Entrepreneurs Are You Making Evil Plans?

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 26, 2011

I’ve done some work with eBay and Etsy sellers and those businesses are great examples of how a company can either struggle or thrive based on how well they see purchases as customers rather than transactions. The series of photos below represent what I believe is a great example of how to deliver an experience with your product.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 28, 2011

GaggleAMP – tool that let’s you get your customers and partners involved in amplifying your social media campaigns. LoopFuse a marketing automation platform that makes it easy generate demand and engage customers through the buying cycle. Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 17, 2011

SMS may never really be that effective as a pure lead generation tool, like email or direct mail, but it is a very effective and convenient delivery mechanism for customers and prospects seeking specific actions and information. Related Posts: Are Small Private Social Networks the Next Layer? 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 5, 2011

This can be said of the individual elements of any business – the products, the services, the people, the customers, the culture, the story, the brand – but it is the collective attainment of commitment that is the ultimate marker of success. So, my first question to you as you contemplate the validity of this idea.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

Keith Ferrazzi Keith Ferrazzi is the author of Never Eat Alone and the founder of the Relationship Masters Academy, an online training program for networking that offers the structure and support to put Keith’s bestselling books into action in your life for unparalleled career success and satisfaction. Go here to learn more !

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 7, 2011

Both employees and customers benefit from a business where play and laughter are as treasured as profit and process. Some may contend that there is no place for humor in their business and to that I say, if your customers are human beings, there is a place. Your picture is on our wall as “Customer of the Year&#.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2011

The fact is most businesses offer or honor an implied guarantee – if a customer feels they didn’t get what was promised we often resolve this by offering a refund. I believe any businesses can explore ways to promote their best customers into some form of exclusive membership offering.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 14, 2011

Enloop – Automatically creates customized business plans are prepared, on-the-fly, complete with all text and financial forecasts. Image kase3k via Flickr Good stuff I found this week: Olark – Very full featured real time chat tool for your web site.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 9, 2011

Image Tom BKK via Flickr Most business owners lean toward the negative side of things and view this question as a warning that their suppliers, staff and customers are trying to take advantage of them. What was your first thought when you read this title? Start off each day reminding to bring your best to someone today.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 2, 2011

Present.ly – A private microblogging tool that has great applications for businesses wanting to share a stream of information with employees and customer groups. Swiffy – A Google Labs project that makes it very easy to upload your flash movies and convert them to a format that will play on the iPhone and iPad.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 8, 2011

This process includes adding immediate customer feedback to the development road map. iTunes link – Cost is $2.99) or Related Posts: Shifting to the Third Screen Has Social Media Changed Customer Service? Really great ideas emerge through lots of little failures. Note: There have been some updates since I published th.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 1, 2011

iTunes link – Cost is $2.99) or Related Posts: Creating Customer Bliss Seth Godin Pokes His Own Box Has Social Media Changed Customer Service? You can listen to the show by subscribing the feed in iTunes or a variety of other free services such as Google Listen (Use this RSS feed ) or you can buy the Duct Tape Marketing iPhone app.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 23, 2011

Schedulicity – this tool allows you to put your calendar online so customers can find a time that works to schedule an appointment. This free little app lets you create links directly to a specific part of a page. There’s a bookmarklet and Firefox extension as well.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2011

Denny tackles the question that many small businesses face and that’s “what to do when you’re faced with competition that has more money, name recognition and customers?&# Leverage someone else’s investment—just be there the moment the customer grabs their wallet. Create “thin ice” arguments. Fight unfairly.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 27, 2011

My guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast is Chuck Martin, CEO of The Mobile Future Institute and Director of the Center of Media Research at MediaPost Communications Inc and author of The Third Screen: Marketing to Your Customers in a World Gone Mobile. Figure that out and you’ll never be led astray.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

To help website owners take full advantage of the most important online marketing opportunities, here are 3 things small businesses can do to attract and engage new customers. Tips, articles, videos and experts interviews provide customers with the information they need to buy and refer to others. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2023

It's brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals. And it's the same thing for individuals because at that early stage of a business, when you don't yet have a product, even sometimes when you don't yet have, um, customers, you don't yet have traction in sales, how are you gonna judge it?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 15, 2011

Lean manufacturing is a production practice that considers the expenditure of resources for any goal other than the creation of value for the end customer to be wasteful, and thus a target for elimination. Creating Customer Bliss Are You Making Evil Plans? Note: There have been some updates since I published th.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 12, 2011

iTunes link – Cost is $2.99) or Related Posts: Has Social Media Changed Customer Service? Creating Customer Bliss Accelerate Your Startup The Trend Towards Lean Startups Are You Making Evil Plans? Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : 5 Steps to Successful Fac.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 26, 2011

link] Google Search Shortcuts – Google has a list of operators that you can use to do customer searches that will turn up lots of information on sites you are analyzing. link] SEOBook Toolbar – The SEOBook toolbar is a very robust tool that offers a full suite of stats right in your browser.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 28, 2011

The experience creates referrals A business that takes a marketing view over a sales view, clearly understands that the most powerful form of lead generation comes in the form of an existing happy customer. Buying a strong brand creates an entirely different set of math.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 5, 2011

Anything You Want Has Social Media Changed Customer Service? iTunes link – Cost is $2.99) or Related Posts: Accelerate Your Startup Ideas Are Free, Execution Is Priceless Are You Making Evil Plans? Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : As the importance of Facebook as small business marketi.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 25, 2011

You can grab a couple of your customers and ask them to perform certain tasks on your site while you watch. Userfly – install some javascript then capture videos of the actions users take on your site. This is an art and comes from understanding what to leave in and what to leave out.

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