Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

When it comes to public relations, Ania Rodriguez of Key Lime Interactive recommends sending out press releases as a way to raise awareness for your business, and get these inbound links. Some services offer press releases for free, and others have nominal fees of less than $500 that can promote lead generation.”.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 12, 2013

Get that part right and you’ll never need to worry about lead generation in the same way again. 5) Build a lead generation machine – Lead momentum comes from multiple streams of lead generation. Lead generation is a game of trust, context and repetition. More on this.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 3, 2011

Lead generation in this content driven social model is still a metered blend of advertising, public relations and referrals, but social is the mechanism driving the discovery and the conversation surrounding this powerful form of lead acquisition. Note: There have been some updates since I published th.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Few business owners have trouble thinking in terms of business systems for things like building their product, paying the bills, providing a service, hiring an employee – all the operations kind of things. Yes, you still need to get in front of prospects, but the greatest source of lead generation these days is a happy customer.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 21, 2011

I wrote last week that the Most Powerful Form of Lead Generation is a Happy Customer and the hourglass model put the focus squarely on that idea. Now, what tools and tactics you bring to this game will certainly differ, but the end game is still the same.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 14, 2011

Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : As the importance of Facebook as small business marketi. 5 Steps to Successful Fac. Currently Facebook boasts somewhere in excess of 400 mi.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

For instance, if a consultant proposes to help you with public relations, pay them a commission equivalent to the greater of a flat fee per story placed or a percentage of revenue generated from the PR coverage. Such positions include: PR, Sales, Product Development, Lead Generation, Strategic Planning, Fund Raising, etc.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 18, 2011

So, by this point you might be saying, “But I don’t know how to get started with. ” – blogging, accounting, analysis, speaking, selling, hiring, SEO, or any other of a myriad of necessary activities I’m no got at. That’s part two for tomorrow’s post – come back won’t you!

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 28, 2011

Start looking for ways to create and document a marketing system that you can teach others to run and remove yourself from the lead generation and conversion game. If a potential buyer can see how they too could operate your marketing system, even after you the owner is long gone, you’ll build value.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 27, 2011

Mobile intensifies the importance of inbound marketing (being found) and couples it with the need for ease of discovery (just the facts mam) I still get pushback from some small business marketers that can’t seem to get past the idea of spam text messages for lead generation as the sum game of mobile.

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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. View it in that light and perhaps some creative uses leap to mind.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The key contributors to an out-of-control burn rate is 1) hiring a sales force too early, 2) turning on the demand creation activities too early, 3) developing something other than the minimum feature set for first customer ship. And most startup code and features end up on the floor as customers never really wanted them.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 10, 2011

This is a powerful mindset change that is highly effective in any targeted lead generating situation you can imagine. Related Posts: Are There Holes In Your Network? The key is to let a prospect see and experience how they could get what they want first and foremost by engaging in a conversation with you and your products.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

You’re not just bringing in leads, you’re nurturing them and building your reputation … and that’s the kind of lead generation that will keep paying off for months and years to come. Deliver a great recipe for your topic, and just like that killer marinara sauce on the back of the tomato can, it will get passed along.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

” I say this to myself for my business, a freelance pr and media company called Blitz Public Relations, and I shared with my colleague here at Menorah Park where I work part-time as well as a pr media specialist. My favorite business quote is, “Build your own dreams or someone else will hire you to build theirs.”

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 23, 2011

The folks at Eloqua and JESS3 created a very useful infographic that helps visually illustrate this total body of work strategy and also sheds a light on the various marketing purposes of every type of content, and how to look at content creation from an operational viewpoint. Note: There have been some updates since I published th.

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