Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 5, 2019

When you’re thinking about how to promote your business, it can be tempting to focus solely on your products and services. After all, when you boil any business down to its most essential element it is about getting consumers to purchase the product or service that’s being offered. So how do you stand out from your global competition?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 5, 2012

We don’t have an online product and we aren’t writers. Most offers are for an ebook or white paper. depone via Flickr CC I have to tell you that I believe service businesses like a contractor have far more reason and opportunity to create content than most product business.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 29, 2017

White papers. By creating content in this phase that demonstrates how much better your product or service is than the competition, you can differentiate your business. Types of content: eNewsletters for lead nurturing and to demonstrate expertise, knowledge, and resources over time. Blog content around specific topics.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2017

” If you’re a writer, you might say, “I write white papers,” or I’m this kind of writer. First of all, so many other people are doing the exact same thing, so there’s no meaningful differentiation. You asked for me to kind of break down what specialization is. Software companies do this a lot.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

It uses marketing to raise brand awareness and get people excited about your products or services. Founders, sales directors, and sales reps love our content so much that they’re counting down the days to purchase our product. Test specific offers with your ideal customers based on locations or products that drive the most traffic.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

According to Wikipedia , empathic design is “a user-centered design approach that pays attention to the user’s feelings toward a product.”. In practice, however, empathic design seeks to identify latent customer needs in order to create products or messaging that customers didn’t even know they wanted. The Seven Limbic® types.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Having a depth of knowledge in a selected field and the ability to shout about it allows entrepreneurs to differentiate themselves and their products. Simply stating the usefulness of your product is not enough. A successful entrepreneur is one that disrupts, creates and innovates. This quality is inherent in all great leaders.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Give away your product or promotional item on Twitter. Ask a question about a product on your website or blog. Spend weeks listening to them; you’ll be amazed what they will tell you about their concerns, their ideal products, their current frustrations with their vendors. Twitter Giveaways. The first person to answer wins.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 25, 2017

So, what I’d like to do today is discuss the differences in these two approaches to SEO and define some of those key differentiators that lead to small business success in search. Keywords need to be specific enough to what each page, product, service, or article is about, but they also need to be weighed carefully against the competition.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 1, 2022

08:35): Like not just to, you know, fill a pipeline full of, of, of leads to throw over, to, to nurture and eventually end up in sales, but to really tell a story in a way that is going to differentiate us and our products and our services. They want to hear about the features of our product.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

A simple Google search will immediately show you thousands of articles, infographics and white papers featuring often conflicting advice as to what should and should not be included in a brand strategy. Brand messaging architecture – including your value proposition, positioning and tagline. Messaging Architecture.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

Not too long ago it seemed like every product I knew was offering some sort of free plan. The strategy was brilliant: get loads of people using your product and eventually turn them into paying customers. We want people to experience the product, the interface, the usefulness of what we’ve built. But is it the right data?

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www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Things like business white-papers or product reviews are perfect examples of informational traffic. However look for Twitter to use Twittercards and link management (affiliate programs, “products in your stream”) to differentiate. Products your friends bought, etc. David Pakman.

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The Next Web

MARCH 2, 2014

SEO is one of the more common methods of driving relevant visitors to your website that convert into paying customers, since they are most likely interested in purchasing your products or services. Analyze what infographics, blog posts, product pages, webinars, eBooks, white papers, etc. High quality traffic.

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Guy Nirpaz

AUGUST 17, 2011

This can be anything from downloading a white paper to signing-up to a trial. Mainly the marketing team, though other users in the organization (product team, IT) will need to use it as well. At Totango, we use the following customer life-cycle terms: Visitor – Anonymous user on the website. Primary users.

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Guy Nirpaz

AUGUST 17, 2011

This can be anything from downloading a white paper to signing-up to a trial. Mainly the marketing team, though other users in the organization (product team, IT) will need to use it as well. At Totango, we use the following customer life-cycle terms: Visitor – Anonymous user on the website. Primary users.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 5, 2017

And it may have nothing to do with blog posts depending on your business and for me right now, my head is not around blog posts, my head is around how do we teach industrial manufacturing companies how they can optimize their productivity because a 1% improvement can be hundreds of millions of dollars. John: So true.

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wordsting.com

APRIL 4, 2013

Rigorously simple copywriting for software products. We applied Lean Startup doctrines faithfully over two years as we built a software product that simplified how nonprofits plan and measure their social and environmental impact. First, the minimum viable product preached by Lean Startup has limited practical use.

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