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How To Market Your Independent Store During Covid-19

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An app can not only offer an easy platform for people to make mobile purchases, but it can also ensure that customers are constantly reminded of your business every time they open their phone (which could lead to an increase in return customers). . It could even be a way of generating extra sales through your website.

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Are You Putting Your Rock Star Customers To Work?

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. - Local MVP (most valuable professional) customers are critical in helping Microsoft penetrate foreign markets affordably and effectively, providing the firm its most effective marketing communications and saving it hundreds of millions of dollars in support costs. Wrong message, wrong audience.

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Seven Things Your Customers Can Do Better Than You

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The bottom line is that customers are more apt to trust and care about information when it comes from a peer rather than an organization. Many firms are getting nowhere with their web and social media marketing efforts. They need to get creative about bringing customers into these programs.

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10 Tips To Keep Customers Coming Back Through The Doors

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It’s the ability to “stalk” your potential customers all over the web. The customer saw your ad on a totally unrelated web search or a website. It can also annoy customers if they catch on that you’re following them all over the web. Incentivize Customer Loyalty. He doesn’t buy from you immediately.

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The Facebook Trap: How Social Media Gets Co-opted By Traditional Marketing

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Find and leverage your customer influencers. Many firms spend lots of resources pursuing outside influencers who’ve gained a following on the Web and through social media. A better approach is to find and cultivate customer influencers and give them something great to talk about online.

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Amsterdam’s Rockstart Accelerator Sees Good First Year, Announces 2nd Edition

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“The results of programs like 500 Startups, Techstars, and Y-Combinator are well known, but due to the culture here in Europe there’s still a lot of unknowns in terms of the track record for follow on funding and results of accelerator programs based in Europe,” says Don Ritzen, co-founder and CEO of Rockstart Accelerator.