Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Unlocking the Power of Data: Transforming Metrics into Actionable Insights written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Janstch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interviewed Peter Caputa, CEO of Databox, an innovative player in the realm of marketing analytics.

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ConversionXL

JULY 21, 2022

When researching a new product, buyers use 10 or more channels to interact with companies. Optimize each channel, and you’ll win new customers, enjoy higher order rates , and retain customers. In this post, we’ll explore lessons from brands that use omnichannel marketing to deliver a seamless customer experience.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Knowingly or unknowingly email has become a big part of our lives and that is why when it comes to marketing, email is the king. Email marketing is all about informing, influencing, and gaining the loyalty of a contact base that’s interested in your product or services. Email marketing works wonders when it is personalised.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

How can businesses and marketing teams reach customers in the age of COVID-19, respond to lightning-fast changes in the marketplace, and keep up with new consumer demands? Marketing pioneer Jim Ewel has the answer in three words: “With Agile marketing.”. What does this mean? How can it give businesses an edge?

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 7, 2022

Whether you’re managing a digital business or a brick-and-mortar storefront, marketing is a practical necessity. Marketing is the way to raise visibility and awareness of your brand, and the only reliable path toward multiplying your audience overall. Marketing Difficulty Is Growing. What makes marketing difficult or easy?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2022

Consistency is the cornerstone of good marketing. Stacked Marketer turned a free newsletter into a six-figure revenue generator by staying actionable, convenient, and entertaining. A marketing playbook helps you achieve brand consistency across channels and campaigns. A marketing playbook gets everyone on the same page.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2019

Too many business owners still think of “ customer support ” as an after-sale process to rectify customer problems with completed transactions. With the advent of instant communication and social media, customer service starts at the first hint of interest by you, and never ends for repeat customers.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Rob Sobers said about the marketing growth strategy, “It’s not about tactics—it’s about people and process.”. When it comes to process, growth marketers must learn to fail. A marketing growth strategy is about small and incremental wins that build up over time. Growth marketing is about process over tactics.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

How might our next phase of the journey seem brighter, even with more uncertain days for startups and capital markets? And then in the late 90’s money crept in, swept in to town by public markets, instant wealth and an absurd sky-rocketing of valuations based on no reasonable metrics. What happened? Until we weren’t.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Entrepreneurs have no trouble focusing on how to build a product, and the good ones know how to find and nurture those first critical customers. What I’m talking about here is a level of discipline and skill necessary to collect and analyze the relevant business data, known as metrics. Customer loyalty and retention.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

This audience is immensely attractive to Brands and Marketers around the world. FBe's recommendation was (paraphrasing a 35 min talk): Don't invent new metrics, use online versions of Reach and GRPs to measure success. Client posted a video of a soon to be released product on their Facebook brand page. It was huge.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

As a long-time mentor to entrepreneurs, here is my collection of smart risks that investors and I look for in new startups: Focus on a tough customer problem rather than a fun technology. Investors hate technology solutions looking for a problem, due to the high risk of no customers. It’s hard to recover from a tarnished image.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 16, 2022

There’s more to ecommerce customer acquisition than increasing checkout conversion rates. For long-term, sustainable success, you must attract the right customers. In this article, you’ll learn how to gauge the effectiveness of any customer acquisition strategy. What makes customer acquisition different from marketing?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

Having a set of metrics that you watch & that you feel are the key drivers of your success helps keep clarity. And the more public you can make your goals for these key metrics the better. I was recently talking with a startup company who wanted me to try their product. Customer Acquisition. That’s not acceptable.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn what growth hacking in marketing is and what it’s not. Growth hacking is a practice that aims to acquire as many customers as possible while spending as little money as possible. Growth hacking is a practice that aims to acquire as many customers as possible while spending as little money as possible.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

It does, and we brought world-class marketers to deliver keynotes full of value on growth and experimentation. Of course, we took care of the usual aspects of every offline marketing conference, and CXL Live 2022 brought together 300 returning attendees and first-timers, taking over a rooftop venue in downtown Austin.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Not for lack of competition, but as the result of a carefully designed ecommerce marketing strategy. This is what drives growth for online stores like ASOS, despite existing in a saturated market. Table of contents What exactly is an ecommerce marketing strategy? Leverage FOMO in social media marketing 3.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Key Takeaway: In the world of customer experience, mishaps are inevitable. However, by approaching customer recovery with style, empathy, and exceptional ownership, businesses can turn these situations into opportunities to create raving fans. 06:56] What role do you see speed playing in today’s market? [09:06]

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

From start to finish, a company must be able to provide high-quality products and/or services for their customers or clients. Remaining efficient, however, requires that business owners continually dissect each department or task and research effective ways to increase productivity. Customer Data. Accounting.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 31, 2023

Every entrepreneur knows that good demand generation marketing is the key to growth these days, but very few have the discipline or know-how to measure return in a world of a thousand tools and techniques. In fact, we now live in a buyer-led digital age, where the traditional media push-marketing efforts just don’t work.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 2, 2023

They poured their hearts and souls into creating an innovative product fueled by the desire to make a difference in the lives of their target audience. Startup X reached out to a product design services provider, and with their help, they were able to turn their fortunes around. The good news is that there’s hope!

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 21, 2021

You also need to invest in restaurant marketing of your business to ensure you keep diners coming in. Keeping an eye on the marketing trends having an impact will help you find new ideas to test and measure in your hospitality venture. Mobile Marketing. In turn, your restaurant marketing gets better results.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 8, 2024

This process involve researching the market, analyzing industry trends, and evaluating the competitive landscape to pinpoint areas where your business can thrive. You may need funding for new equipment, hiring additional staff, expanding facilities, or investing in marketing and advertising campaigns.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

As an investor in startups, I most often see entrepreneurs who are technologists, or at least have a real passion for a specific product. They rarely highlight their marketing and relationship skills , even though, in my experience, these are more often the key to success in business than product skills.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 26, 2020

With many brands unsure of where to turn amid the crisis, we are reminded of how important it is to have flexibility within our marketing strategies. It’s in times like these when you need to adjust your marketing strategies. How to adapt your marketing strategy. Consumers are feeling uneasy. Foster transparency.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 31, 2017

by Robbie Kellman Baxter, author of “ The Membership Economy: Find Your Super Users, Master the Forever Transaction, and Build Recurring Revenue “ In today’s competitive market, customer engagement (or lack thereof) could determine whether your company sinks or swims. Don’t confuse this with Customer Service.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Building a minimum viable product, with customer validation. Minimum viable products (MVPs) are recommended for validating the market, with iterative enhancement to quickly meet market feedback. Early customer feedback will position your solution, and help you make pivots before critical time and money are lost.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Most of the entrepreneurs I meet as an investor and advisor have no shortage of right-brain thinking, showing vision and creativity, but often don’t realize that their potential is being limited by a balancing focus on results, metrics, and customer specifics. Every balanced leader does marketing early.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Thankfully, there are a number of great tools for tracking your web metrics (both free and paid) that can help you get a better understanding of what your users are doing on your site and even how your competitors are faring in their own online efforts. Ahrefs’ Site Explorer reveals insightful SEO metrics and data about any website or URL.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 15, 2023

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, small businesses face the ongoing challenge of streamlining operations, maximizing productivity, and staying competitive. Personalization features enable the delivery of relevant and targeted content, enhancing customer engagement and driving conversions.

Software Review 158

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Building loyalty and awareness are top priorities for any social media marketer. By turning those fans into customers, you can create long-term advocates that spend more money and recommend you to others. More people than ever are using social sites, which is good news for social media marketers. And for good reason.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Too many founders have learned that passion and free beta products do not imply a sustainable business. Proof of any business model starts with a finished product or solution, sold to a new customer for full price, with high satisfaction for the value received. Marketing is everything these days.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

They both have a history of focusing on the lifetime value of a customer rather than chasing short-term profits. If you want to be a leader in customer loyalty and grow your business for the long term, Customer Value Optimization is key. How does “Customer Value Optimization” change your approach?

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 21, 2021

Kevin Wu, co-founder and CEO of job search optimization program Pathrise , says “Digital marketer roles are some of the most in-demand positions in the tech industry.” According to a recent McKinsey survey, 83% of CEOs said they depend on digital marketing to be the major driver of growth. How do marketers promote a company’s content?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2019

In the first post , we drilled down into the often-overlooked notion of “market-engineering” and why it’s so critical. Go-to-Product. Go-to-Market. In the go-to-product phase, you can get help from a plethora of incubators, accelerators and angel investors. In other words, they need go-to-market traction.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Not only can Google Ads help businesses reach customers who are searching for what they want online, but it can target customers in a precise location, increasing the likelihood of conversion. With these tricks, you’ll be able to establish a strong local marketing campaign and reach out to your community. Pick a local campaign.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Building that connection with customers requires a clear brand strategy to define why you exist and a solid marketing strategy to communicate that purpose with your customers. Understanding brand strategy vs. marketing strategy. Your marketing strategy is what amplifies that brand.

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