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How to Create a Marketing Playbook for Consistent Campaigns

ConversionXL

A marketing playbook helps you achieve brand consistency across channels and campaigns. A marketing playbook is a reference guide that outlines how a business will manage its marketing on a particular channel or campaign. What’s inside will differ depending on the channel or marketing campaign. Content channels.

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The Role of Sales Materials in a Digital World

Duct Tape Marketing

With these digital marketing channels doing so much of the heavy lifting in representing your brand, do you really still need sales materials? Postal Service did some research into the effectiveness of print over digital marketing channels (of course, they have a vested interest in proving that print still holds value!),

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How to Turn Leads Into Loyal Customers: A 5-Step Guide for Startups

The Startup Magazine

Larger, more established enterprises can take on the cost of testing a large number of marketing channels. It’s also worth mentioning that the reasons a particular channel, whether it’s social media, paid ads, or search engines, outperforms another might not always be clear. But you don’t have that luxury.

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How To Size Your Marketing Budget For Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

This combination will almost certainly get your plan tossed by potential investors, who understand all too well the need and cost for marketing in today’s environment. Viral marketing costs real money these days, which usually means adding at least an extra zero to budget estimates. Get exposure for your expertise.

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5 Startup Marketing Actions to Impress Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

This combination will almost certainly get your plan tossed by potential investors, who understand all too well the need and cost for marketing in today’s environment. Viral marketing costs real money these days, which usually means adding at least an extra zero to budget estimates. Get exposure for your expertise.

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SuperMac War Story 6: Building The Killer Team – Mission, Intent.

Steve Blank

Five Easy Pieces – The Marketing Mission After a few months of talking to customers , talking to our channel and working with sales we defined the marketing Mission (our job) was to: Help Sales deliver $25 million in sales with a 45% gross margin. It will cost you your job.” Two paragraphs, Five bullets. It didn’t take more.

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The Impact of Community

Duct Tape Marketing

It costs twice as much to generate the same results from the same marketing tactics. Consumers are tired of this clickbait, this spam, these popups, these ads sharing personal data to access crappy white papers seeing the same thing over and over. Marketing is taking a bloodbath in 2023. TikTok, Facebook, all the CPMs are up.