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Using Limited-Time Offers and Flash Sales for Promotion

The Startup Magazine

Marked by their brevity and exclusivity, limited-time offers and flash sales are time-sensitive promotions that create a sense of urgency and excitement among customers. Here are strategies that will enable you to use them to effectively boost your sales and promote your enterprise’s brand and offerings.

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Maximizing Your Digital Marketing Channel Mix

YoungUpstarts

Most advertisers continue to increase their digital marketing spend in 2019 as billions of consumers are using online social media as a jumping off point into purchase decisions. With more money flowing into digital marketing, the digital channel mix continues to grow in complexity. So, let’s go back to basics, shall we?

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The Lindy Effect on startup potential

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

You might have scratched and clawed inside your social network to get the first 10, but that doesn’t scale to 100 (though it might scale to another 10), and just because you were successful convincing customers one at a time to convert through hour-long Skype calls doesn’t mean you can convert 100 customers self-serve via Facebook ads.

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How to Successfully Engage With Your Customers Online

Up and Running

Which can be disastrous if you’re delivering different messages or even a misaligned tone through every channel. Choosing to message through the channels they use most and proactively reaching out. Engage across multiple channels. This is why you need to develop a customer engagement strategy.

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How to Use Social Media To Drive Sales

ConversionXL

According to a report by Nielsen on social media Americans spend three times more time on social media than reading their e-mail. of online time is spent reading e-mail and 23% on social. The juicy bit of the study is that more than 70% of social networks users shop online. Black Friday data. Wrong metric.

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Small Businesses A Great Fit For The New Nimble Marketplace

YoungUpstarts

There’s increasingly an omni-channel approach to purchasing. Social Commerce. More than 2 billion people use social networks(8), such as Facebook and LinkedIn. Omni-Channel Retailing. Customers expect a consistent and high-quality experience across all shopping channels – in-store, in-app or online.

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What Entrepreneurs Need to Know About Google+

YoungUpstarts

Chances are good you have at least a personal channel – billions of users jump on each month. I’m guessing that means you … and if it doesn’t, you need to rethink your marketing and sales strategy. Her articles have been published by the Hot in Social Media, Yahoo! Who doesn’t have a Gmail account at this point?