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Always Right: Five Risks You Must Take With Your Customers

YoungUpstarts

Nobody wants an email inbox clogged with general promotional emails, for example, or a Facebook newsfeed dominated by gratuitous updates to your company’s page… much less a breach in personal privacy! You’d be much better served to use what you know about your customers to create highly targeted and personalized direct marketing campaigns.

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Eight Ways To Get Past The Fear Of “No”  And Start Risking Rejection

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Tom Panaggio, author of “ The Risk Advantage: Embracing the Entrepreneur’s Unexpected Edge “, has enjoyed a 30-year entrepreneurial career as cofounder of two successful direct marketing companies. In 1983 he cofounded Direct Mail Express (DME) in Daytona Beach, Florida, with his siblings Mike and Kathy.

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Risk Avoiders Are Opportunity Missers: 10 Excuses Business Owners Make

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However, you’re certain it can’t be done without buying and mastering a certain software program that lets you personalize your marketing efforts. Instinctively, you know she’d be perfect for your team and she hinted that she might be in the market for a job change. Maybe next year would be better.

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Texting: The Killer Application in your Offline Marketing Arsenal

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As a marketer, you want to get the most out of all the channels available to you. They’re important for networking, brand building, and lead generation. You set up meetings with potential partners, customers, and dormant leads who finally seem ready to take the plunge. Get more responses to direct mail.

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Transcript of How to Integrate Chat Into Your Marketing

Duct Tape Marketing

It used to be that you could be doing only one channel, only one digital channel, that has direct marketing, which is email. Mike Yan: So, and for those types of things, you don’t really need a generative model that will actually… You can actually static program those texts. You can ask the same questions.

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13 Of The Biggest Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make (That May Not Seem Like Mistakes At All)

YoungUpstarts

Tom Panaggio, author of “ The Risk Advantage: Embracing the Entrepreneur’s Unexpected Edge “, has enjoyed a 30-year entrepreneurial career as cofounder of two successful direct marketing companies. In 1983 he cofounded Direct Mail Express (DME) in Daytona Beach, Florida, with his siblings Mike and Kathy.

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Nine Risks You Must Take (And Keep On Taking) To Build A Sustainable Business

YoungUpstarts

Tom Panaggio, author of “ The Risk Advantage: Embracing the Entrepreneur’s Unexpected Edge “, has enjoyed a 30-year entrepreneurial career as cofounder of two successful direct marketing companies. In 1983 he cofounded Direct Mail Express (DME) in Daytona Beach, Florida, with his siblings Mike and Kathy.

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