Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2013

Gather leads online from your social media initiatives, mine your contacts, attend trade shows, and use lead-generation services. Figure out what is valuable to your audience. Create referral marketing opportunities within your business community that maximize the potential for customer referrals.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 22, 2021

How to Use Social Media Strategically in 2021 written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. With half of the world’s population now on social media, it’s rare you’ll find a brand or business not using it to grow an audience, generate leads, and increase sales online. . Is it to build a community?

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. Cobalt for General Partners helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy. 1) Manage the firm . 2) Market

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

While big ticket products might carry longer and more complex sales cycles, high-end buyers are just as lazy as the rest of us, so they use the same methods: Google, social media, and yes, their inboxes. Day 1: Post hiring ad for lead generation VA. Ideal rates for lead generation research: $4-7/hour.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Combined with the text below you should have a pretty good feel for how to use LinkedIn to generate sales conversations. LinkedIn is the oldest social network. Everyone seems to be on it, but no one seems to know quite how to use it to generate sales conversations. Why is LinkedIn Important? Of course not! Make mentions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Gather leads online from your social media initiatives, mine your contacts, attend trade shows, and use lead-generation services. Figure out what is valuable to your audience. Create referral marketing opportunities within your business community that maximize the potential for customer referrals.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 27, 2012

You can have the best offer, the most compelling copy, sent from a trusted source, using a subject line that has been optimized for your audience … and yet, if you don’t have a list of email addresses to send to, none of it matters. So it’s important that you have opportunities – and a captive audience – in order to use the SMS tactic.

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Gust

MARCH 9, 2014

Gather leads online from your social media initiatives, mine your contacts, attend trade shows, and use lead-generation services. Figure out what is valuable to your audience. Create referral marketing opportunities within your business community that maximize the potential for customer referrals.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

If this sounds like your business, stop putting your head in the sand and find those sale leads through social media by following these four simple steps: Know your audience. People join social networking websites to socialise. Advertisements belong in magazines and not on social media.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 28, 2017

5 Powerful Use Cases for Social Advocacy & How You Can Get Started written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Over 50 million businesses now have a Facebook page and are actively reaching out to their target audience. Lead generation & sales. To initiate that process, you need advocates.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 11, 2013

Stay Close to Your Community. I blogged mostly, and neglected the value of asking my customers and audience to consider getting my (now beloved) newsletter. I love the social networks as a digital channel, and I continue to believe they have value in selling. Marketing Strategy Social Media Chris Brogan'

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ConversionXL

JUNE 17, 2014

The reality is, NONE of this matters, when your social media channels aren’t connected to the right audience. In fact, a study by Harvard Business School found that 79% of companies don’t feel as though they’re effective users of social media for marketing purposes. But most of all, none of this is social.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 17, 2014

The reality is, NONE of this matters, when your social media channels aren’t connected to the right audience. In fact, a study by Harvard Business School found that 79% of companies don’t feel as though they’re effective users of social media for marketing purposes. But most of all, none of this is social.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 17, 2014

The reality is, NONE of this matters, when your social media channels aren’t connected to the right audience. In fact, a study by Harvard Business School found that 79% of companies don’t feel as though they’re effective users of social media for marketing purposes. But most of all, none of this is social.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 6, 2018

I can tell you that brand awareness and community engagement and content distribution are the biggest reasons that people use social media today. Generating leads. Building community. Social selling. If you think about some of the marketing objectives, like: Increasing awareness. Driving traffic.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

AUGUST 12, 2010

Ramp Up Lead Generation. I don’t like the term “lead generation&# because it dehumanizes the relationship between you and your subscriber. People who join your list can be considered leads , and when you talk business talk with business folk, this is the language people understand.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 17, 2014

The reality is, NONE of this matters, when your social media channels aren’t connected to the right audience. In fact, a study by Harvard Business School found that 79% of companies don’t feel as though they’re effective users of social media for marketing purposes. But most of all, none of this is social.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

I can tell you that brand awareness and community engagement and content distribution are the biggest reasons that people use social media today. Generating leads. Building community. Social selling. If you think about some of the marketing objectives, like: Increasing awareness. Driving traffic.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 17, 2014

The reality is, NONE of this matters, when your social media channels aren’t connected to the right audience. In fact, a study by Harvard Business School found that 79% of companies don’t feel as though they’re effective users of social media for marketing purposes. But most of all, none of this is social.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 17, 2011

People now use it for basic one to one communication far more frequently than the telephone and this behavior calls for expanded thinking around the topic in general. Coupon distribution Creating membership type levels where people can get special treatment or special announcements is a great way to build community.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Another great way to get new users from outside your traditional audience is to write a guest post on a relevant blog and include a link back to your site. To increase your percentage of your returning users, I would suggest consistently posting compelling new content to your site and promoting on your social networks.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2016

It might be fun to spend two hours daily on Facebook or Twitter hunting for customers, but the more important question you should be asking is whether your prospective customers are looking for you on those social networks. You can read more in Can Social Media Help My Company?

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. The scene is the siren song of the innovation community. How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter. The scene will kill you.

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