Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 27, 2013

Within hours, your response to your disgruntled customer can go viral—even obtaining national attention (something you definitely don’t want). According to a post that went viral on Facebook, a little girl’s father was in Afghanistan and ordered a bouquet that came with a necklace for his daughter to be delivered on Valentine’s Day.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 24, 2021

Crafting a product description is part of public relations where the producer paints a picture of the product. These businesses might want to work with you, and your chat logs might even go viral. When you want to i mprove your public relations and your overall brand image, SEO is a good place to start.

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Rembrandt Communications

APRIL 2, 2019

After all, we’ve all felt that little tinge of sadness, jealously or insecurity when reading posts by others, especially when negative posts go viral and the media covers them a d nauseam. The post What Your Posts Really Say About You appeared first on Get small business public relations to boost sales fast!

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

While my title is Product Marketing Manager, I’m also the de facto Business Development, Public Relations and Product Manager. Through developing partnerships, launching new and iterative products, and sourcing creative sales channels, my goal is to ensure the Strand shopper is a satisfied one. It’s great. It is a huge hit.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Referral Marketing – This includes intentional word of mouth activities, viral tactics, and intentional referral generation (should be a must for any business). Public Relations – This includes activities aimed at receiving coverage in traditional media outlets.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 13, 2013

Many of these “unawesome” practices stem from companies focusing their energies on sales and marketing while failing on customer service.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2016

Michelle Garrett of Garrett Public Relations says: Small business owners need to do more networking to make more contacts, not only for possible referrals, but as resources and even as friends you can turn to when you have a question or problem related to your business. After all, a conversation should not be a sales pitch.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 26, 2010

A marketer can take a general approach (drive traffic, close sales, increase margins) or can be very specific (build awareness through mass media to educate small businesses about our category and service). Strategy is a little harder to nail down.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Facebook Login Reduces Ecommerce Sales (Case Study) – crowdspring.co/15aPEmB. Five characteristics of a viral product – crowdspring.co/1aa5ZGk. Facebook Login Reduces Ecommerce Sales (Case Study) – crowdspring.co/15aPEmB. Five characteristics of a viral product – crowdspring.co/1aa5ZGk.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Sales plateau, the customer base stops growing, morale is low, and revenue is either flat or falling. Some tech startups have used this strategy very effectively, creating a viral effect for signups that far exceeded any paid marketing that they could have pursued. At some point, even the most successful businesses hit a wall.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Sales plateau, the customer base stops growing, morale is low, and revenue is either flat or falling. Some tech startups have used this strategy very effectively, creating a viral effect for signups that far exceeded any paid marketing that they could have pursued. At some point, even the most successful businesses hit a wall.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 6, 2023

This full-service marketing agency specializes in digital and integrated marketing services and public relations for book authors, including business leaders, coaches, trainers, speakers, and thought leaders. They want to know that if they take a chance on your book and publish you, that you're gonna be able to drive interest in sales.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 29, 2012

A global pool of creativity has always existed, but technology has enabled the creators to find new access to clients, new channels for sales, new tools for self-marketing, and new opportunities to find audiences without the interference of the traditional gate-keepers. Related posts: Personal branding in a world of meat.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2016

Referral Marketing– This includes intentional word of mouth activities, viral tactics as well as intentional referral generation. Public Relations– This includes activities aimed at receiving coverage in traditional media outlets. Public Relations Category on Duct Tape Marketing. The Sales Development Playbook.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 25, 2015

Referral Marketing – This includes intentional word of mouth activities, viral tactics as well as intentional referral generation. Public Relations – This includes activities aimed at receiving coverage in traditional media outlets. Or you might consider a publicity stunt or two that could trigger some viral coverage.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is from Frank Strong , director of Public Relations, Vocus – Enjoy! An aspiration of a quick hit that goes viral and leads to instant sales is setting you up for disappointment. There is no shortage of social media advice.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Startup Sales – Why Hiring Seasoned Sales Reps May Not Work – [link]. 12 Creative Design Ideas That Went Viral (And The Lessons You Can Learn) – [link]. 12 Creative Design Ideas That Went Viral (And The Lessons You Can Learn) – [link]. Silicon Valley’s Disruption Deficit Disorder – [link].

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 13, 2016

There’s nothing inherently wrong with using social media as a place to share announcements about new products, upcoming sales, and specials, or boost flagging sales. Sharing just any viral post or video might earn shares and a little bump in traffic, but that doesn’t help you with your messaging.

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

Sales & Marketing. --> Bloggers. --> Resources. Curalate allows us to see how the content we pin to our boards is performing, as well as the content people are organically pinning from our sites, and more importantly how viral those actions are, since it’s reported that 80 percent of Pinterest activity comes from repins.” CMS Insights.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 16, 2012

Twitter’s Ad Sales Are Booming, Says Gawker – [link]. Marketing the Viral Effect and Not-for-Profit Gold – [link]. Why You Need Marketing Analytics, Not Web Analytics – [link]. How Three Germans Are Cloning the Web – [link]. Why Marketers Never Learn From Others’ Social-Media Mistakes – [link].

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 1, 2016

A channel for lead generation purposes is simply a broad way to gain access to your prospective audience – so referral generation is a channel, sales is a channel, SEO is a channel, and speaking is a channel – and there are countless ways to master every channel. This is not a sales presentation; it’s an education and value add tool.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 8, 2020

Example #1 – Curate Relevant and Helpful Information for the Public. A friend of mine recently saw that www.flattenthecurve.com domain was for sale without any previous information on the website. Social media content has a tendency to go viral, so incorporate quizzes in your pitches.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

To generate sales and revenue? Or does it have to be an actual sale for you to consider it a conversion? Related posts: Lean Marketing: Public Relations strategies for small businesses and startups. 5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!). Graphic: Sam Michel.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!) – [link]. 5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!) – [link]. How to Build Credibility with Your Sales Copy – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Business teams can share an address book and track contacts and conversations, track prospects and sales pipelines, and organize projects and tasks to get work done. Public Relations Specialist - expert. View More » Jobs Director of Marketing and Retention a. Digital Account Manager at MELT (Atla. What will you find here?

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

And, the better and more useful the content you create, the more likely it will be to go viral. Social media and content monitoring tools like BrandWatch and Radian6 are great tools for tracking your brand’s online presence and are favorites of public relations firms. Today, this is how you get found online.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Finally, we work hard to create marketing value in the social media space and work to engender word-of-mouth and the viral effect. In April of 2004 Burger King and their agency, Crispin Porter + Bogusky had an insight that led to what was, at the time, the most successful viral effort ever launched by a business: the Subservient Chicken.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

You use marketing and sales language, when attempting to make technical points. The way I see it, you have two options: (1) keep digging, this goes viral, and your company is a joke; (2) apologize and/or shut up, and your company keeps bumbling along as it has been. Technical people can smell a fake from a mile away. Randolph Cabral.

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