Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 10, 2011

How about monitoring the relationship between internal teams like sales and marketing? How happy is your staff? It may be one of the most important reflections of the service your customers receive. Event follow-up – A quick way to monitor how your webinar, conference or presentation went. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 18, 2018

False experts include legions of self-appointed “gurus” and “visionaries” who saturate social media with bad advice. The result of these vulnerabilities is that we hire the wrong candidates, listen to the wrong people, and fail to differentiate our businesses. How false expertise leads us to hire the wrong people.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

MySpace was incubated by a small team of employees within Intermix in 2003 (Chris DeWolfe, Tom Anderson and four others). VantagePoint Venture Partners came to the rescue in late 2003 with an infusion of $15 million in capital, adding Andrew Sheehan (now at Sutter Hill Ventures ) and David Carlick (now at Rho Ventures ) to the Board.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I use my social media and massive amounts of public outreach to bring awareness to my program (my Instagram grew to 12,000 engaged followers). I was tired of reading about dog food company recalls every time I opened up the news or social media. Thanks to Michelle Gindi, Buddha Bowls and Burpees ! Image Credit: Nancy D.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2011

Having said that, Empire Avenue is something that is primarily for those that already have a decent amount of involvement in social media. The other thing I’ve noticed since playing with it is that it does a very good job of helping me focus on the important aspects of my social media engagement outside of Empire Avenue.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 13, 2011

Far too often marketers spend all of their attention on the chase and the sale and not enough on the retain and remarkable experience. It’s certainly a big topic, but I love that attract and retain are used in the same setting because they are certainly linked arm in arm in a business that wants to build any kind of marketing momentum.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 14, 2011

Gives you the ability to initiate help and sales chats while visitors are on your site. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from Flickr. 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 20, 2011

Mahan Khalsa Mahan Khalsa is the founder of the Sales Performance Group of FranklinCovey , the creator of the Helping Clients Succeed sales improvement program taught in over 40 countries and 10 different languages. He is currently a founding partner at Ninety Five 5 (Less Nonsense – More Sales).

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 14, 2011

Use technology to produce postcards that invite each recipient to a personal landing page that features information tailored to their interests and alerts a sales team to initiate a further contact. The technology is there to do this in small batches with hundreds of variations.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 28, 2011

If indeed you have any vision of selling your business in the future you’ve got to focus on marketing instead of simply focusing on sales. In my opinion, a greater focus on these elements not only creates greater sales, it leads to the creation of a more valuable asset – or something you might indeed be able to sell.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 20, 2011

Jim Connolly Jim Connolly specializes in helping small businesses to make massively more sales and boost their profits, through common sense marketing. I Hate Selling, So Now How Do I Convert Leads 1 Many business owners attract sales leads, but feel uncomfortable converting those leads into paying clients.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2011

I’m no science wiz, but I’ve always loved the idea of resistance in physics as a metaphor for the kind of resistance many business owners encounter when trying to spark a sale. Many times we can present a solution and price that seems like the obvious and logical choice, but can’t seem to make the sale.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 10, 2022

Amazon's hiring strategy is one perfect example of innovation. The company uses a social recruitment platform. Born in 2003, Tesla wanted to prove to the world that it was possible to drive a fully electric car while being more powerful, faster, and more enjoyable than conventional cars. It’s very admirable. 23- TikTok.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 25, 2011

Often times we want to make our stuff sound so important and wonderful that it comes off confusing and complex – confusion equals no sale! Balancing both of these needs is the tricky part. 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

MAY 18, 2011

Lee Odden Lee Odden is the CEO of TopRank Online Marketing , a digital marketing agency specializing in strategic internet marketing consulting, training and implementation services including: Content, Search, Email and Social Media Marketing. Useful content optimized with keywords also attracts more search engine traffic and links.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

Don’t count on social media to reach retirees or mainstream television to reach urban intellectuals. Look for numbers like sales, units, leads, presentations, page views, downloads, and conversion rates. The medium has to match both the market and the message. Put your message where your market will find it.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

When you want to get more “leads” into the top of your sales funnel, you have the option of not requiring people to register to get the valuable content that your company creates (an ebook or white paper perhaps). With a gate, each person downloading becomes a valuable sales lead. You have a choice.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 10, 2011

If you’ve ever wondered why your pure sales messages meet with resistance and deflection it’s because to most prospects you look like someone that is out to steal their money, time and attention – something akin to a predator.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 20, 2011

Mahan Khalsa Mahan Khalsa is the founder of the Sales Performance Group of FranklinCovey , the creator of the Helping Clients Succeed sales improvement program taught in over 40 countries and 10 different languages. He is currently a founding partner at Ninety Five 5 (Less Nonsense – More Sales).

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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.”. Podcasting can drive traffic to a website, which, in turn, can generate leads or sales. Syndicate the blog or episode summary page via social media in addition to syndicating a link to a podcatcher or host site.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 20, 2011

For more insights, download these four free sales tools. Jill Konrath Jill Konrath, author of SNAP Selling & Selling to Big Companies, helps sellers crack into new accounts and win big contracts. I Hate Selling, So Now How Do I Convert Leads 2 Stop selling then – at least the way you think you’re supposed to.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 20, 2011

Wendy Weiss Wendy Weiss, The Queen of Cold Calling™ , is an author, speaker, sales trainer, and sales coach. Read all five posts in today’s series and come back each day this week for five new posts in this great educational series and another chance to win. She is the author of the book, Cold Calling for Women.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 20, 2011

Michael Schultz Mike Schultz, author of Rainmaking Conversations , is President of RAIN Group, a sales training , assessment, and performance improvement company, and publisher of RainToday.com. Those that turn their sales fortunes around stop hating it. I wish learning to love sales would be as easy as telling you, “Try it!

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

You’ll find it’s much easier to promote this kind of high-quality free content, particularly with social media, than it is to try to jump right to the sale of your product or service. It will build trust and rapport, so that down the line you can fully explain all the benefits of what you do.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

Fortunately, whether in-person or via the various social media, it’s easy to begin the process. Usually, referrals begin already much closer to the sales point, but not always. In a sense, it’s about identifying the right people (or having them identify you!), meeting (connecting with) them, and building the relationship.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

But what would happen if, instead of ending with the sales conversation; the new customer, you began with the customer purchase? were the buzzwords of the original digital and more recent social media waves, then advocacy is going to be the next wave that crests and breaks on the shores of marketing engagement and innovation.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

How much of our sales are we willing to put into our Marketing? Here are some great questions to get your Marketing Strategy rolling: What is the purpose of our business? Why do people love buying from us? If we could get them to buy more, what would we want them to buy and how much more money should they spend?

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

What I love about this business is it keeps you constantly on your toes whether it’s creativity, technology, sales and marketing and social media promotions. My career has been in Sales but I feel like my main job as the CEO now is in the HR department, hiring, working to remove roadblocks, teaching and coaching the team.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

It directly affects your ability to sell, to fundraise, to hire the best employees, and to grow. The colors, visual styles, and fonts on your website should look like your business cards , which should look like your social media accounts, which should look like your business logo, which should look like your… you get the idea.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Well, my advice for Chak is to focus steadily on a worldwide list of greeting card distributors using Telewebsales and Sales 2.0 methodologies - in other words, dont invest in travel and in-person sales, but try to close as many deals as possible by phone and the Web. (On While you may not have the budget to spend $500,000 on Sales 2.0

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Well, my advice for Chak is to focus steadily on a worldwide list of greeting card distributors using Telewebsales and Sales 2.0 methodologies - in other words, dont invest in travel and in-person sales, but try to close as many deals as possible by phone and the Web. (On While you may not have the budget to spend $500,000 on Sales 2.0

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2023

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 customers, you don't yet have traction and sales, how are you going to judge it? Hasan (20:49): Yeah, we're all over social media. It's the founders themselves.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2023

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? We're all, all, all over social media. It's the founders themselves. 10:56): Right?

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

The biggest deal I’ve ever done was a sale of a $100,000 website. It was 2003 or right about then, and I was walking across the Green Street Mall in Brisbane, thinking that I was no longer interested in Magic the Gathering as a card game. The deal went through, I bought the website, and eventually hired a team of writers.

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Designmantic Blog

MARCH 6, 2018

She is also the author of Social Media Mastery: A Comprehensive Guide to Strategic Growth and is the founder of “The Authority Matrix”, which is a powerful tool used by Fortune500 executives that utilizes employee advocacy and influence. She was ranked 5th on Forbes’ Top 10 Social Media Power Influencer list.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Inevitably, the excuses begin: I need to hire people to build the product. In later posts I’m going to get into more detail on specific topics like hiring, raising money, what types of ideas have the potential to get big, finding your founders, and the like. In my neck of the woods programmers are hired guns at first year in college.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 1, 2011

This might end up sounding more like a personality trait, but companies that turn customers into volunteer sales forces fully understand and use the power of giving more than was promised and surprisingly beating expectations as a marketing strategy. The element of surprise Few things enamor like exceeding someone’s expectations.

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