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Demand Generation vs. Lead Generation: Integrating To Drive Growth

ConversionXL

Bootstrapped startup Omnisend carved out a $19 million niche in an already saturated vertical. With a tactical understanding of two different marketing strategies: demand generation and lead generation. Take Omnisend , an email marketing, SMS, and automation platform for ecommerce sellers. SEO should lead with intent.

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Paywalls, SEO, and the Need for a Damn Good Brand

ConversionXL

News is an especially challenging vertical since no site owns a newsworthy event. The strategy also allows publishers to deploy a “soft wall” to capture an email address from search and encourage users to download the app. If another website can pick up the slack, that’s going to happen.

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7 Easy and Effective Customer Segments to Target in Facebook Ads

ConversionXL

According to the Nanigans Facebook Advertising Benchmarks Report , there’s been a 92% year over year CPM increase for the ECommerce vertical. Customer segmentation is an old trick in the marketing book. According to Direct Marketing Association , 77% of ROI is attributed to segmented, targeted, and triggered campaigns.

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SuperMac War Story 9: Sales, Not Awards « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Effective Ways To Differentiate And Scale Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

Take The Marketing Assessment: Like this show? John Jantsch (00:00): This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by Marketing Against the Grain, hosted by Kip Bodner and Keion Flanigan is brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals. Duct Tape Transcript.

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Transcript of Using Story to Win on Social Media

Duct Tape Marketing

And for a while I was working on the vertical of religion. So I think that the big, big thing that people really get wrong about social media, and this is the real impetus behind why I created this book is that people mistake… They think that social media is a tool for what we call direct marketing and not really for brand marketing.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #14: Selling to the “Cool Kids”

Austin Startup

My parents were entrepreneurs from the time I was born, specifically in retail and direct marketing. That lifetime profile would allow you to track the behavior of customers across many sessions and ultimately the data could be used to later personalize email campaigns and on-site campaigns, among other things.