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Why Traditional Marketing Agencies are Failing … and what to do about it

Traditional marketing agencies that offer full service marketing, advertising and public relations services are disintegrating. Firms that have stood the test of time are filing Chapter 7, or re-organizing under Chapter 11. Why? Like so many others, these overly-staffed traditionalists failed to focus on the changing landscape of the digital age. Smaller, leaner and tech-savvy digitally-astute agencies are gaining market share on a daily basis.

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5 Reasons Why You Should Do a Product Launch That Has Nothing To Do With Selling That Product

When most entrepreneurs decide to launch a product, they’re mostly thinking about how many products they’re going to sell or how much money they’ll make during the launch.  Now while that’s a great reason to have a product launch, it’s actually not the only reason.  In fact, I may go as far to say it’s not even the most important reason.  Let’s take a moment and go through the top 5 reasons to have a launch that has nothing to do with selling that particular product. 1. You create visibility for yourself.  Even a small product launch will create visibility…

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Social Commerce Publishing

This year proves to be different from the past few for social commerce publishing. Historically, (as far back as the mid-80s) e-commerce was generated by the use of e-mail, while today we have multichannel platforms such as mobile web, video, embedded messaging, QR codes and more. Social commerce publishing has improved capture rates, improved sales and generated much more top line (and bottom line) revenues for e-commerce retailers on a global scale. It isn’t about the size of the e-mail list any longer.

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Why Embracing Content Marketing Makes Sense

Content marketing is more than a concept, it is a strategy that incorporates many different aspects of marketing. Content marketing is most effective when it is part of a well thought out marketing plan that results in the generation of leads and sales. A content copywriter is critical to the success of any content marketing strategy, as the phrase proclaims, “Content is King!”

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3 Tips to Internet Marketing Even if It’s Not Your Cup of Tea

On the surface, starting an internet-based business may seem like a dream come true. A business owner can start a business out of her home, selling her products and services everywhere and anywhere in the world without big marketing budgets or lots of advertising. However, once she puts up her first web site, that dream often comes crashing down – it’s not nearly as easy as it first looks.

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4 Basic Rules of Business Branding

If you want to understand how to effectively brand your name, you first need to comprehend the basics of business branding. Business branding isn’t a complicated process, but the success of your business branding relies on the relevance, quality and consistency of its design.

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Six Questions to Ask Your Customers If You want to Close More Sales

In an impersonal world, where many vendors vie for their attention and sales dollars, they like to feel important. They want to know why buying from you is relevant. How will it save them money? How will it benefit them or their customers? By laying out the benefits and getting them to buy in at every point, by asking their opinion, customers buy and you build a relationship, which lays the groundwork for upcoming sales.

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Business Cards That Go Moooo

A few weeks ago, on the sign in page of about.me there was an offer for business cards from a company called Moo (us.moo.com). About.me had partnered with them to offer us about.me users 50 business cards for $5. The business cards were based off your page. I thought this was a good idea, but not for me because at the time I saw the ad and I felt the cards would sit around my room collecting dust (you will understand better later on in this blog). For about two weeks of signing in and seeing the offer I finally caved in and ordered my business cards and boy am I glad.

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Inbound Marketing – From Tunnel to Funnel

When communicating to potential customers, it is often a curiosity as to which method is must beneficial; advertising, public relations, blogs, articles. As consumers are tired of the bombardment of push pull advertising in their everyday lives, it is information that carries the day these days. By that I mean that consumers are turning a deaf ear to the wail of advertising mediums, and are searching out what interests them or what they might be considering as a need. With content being offered through articles, white papers, blogs, and news coverage, consumers are searching out products and services that appeal to their sense of real value. No longer is the consumer swayed by catchy jingles, catch phrases and slogans; they want credible information to assist in the buying decisions.

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Ask Ms. Social Networking Manners

I’m a professional athlete who sometimes gets bored off the field. There’s only so much television you can watch, so that’s why I like to hop on Twitter. I especially like to do this when I’m really angry about something. But I’ve discovered I get a big backlash when I do this. I’ve blamed the Mad Twitter Hacker, but the problem is no one believes there is a Mad Twitter Hacker and they still get mad at me. I don’t get it — nobody is really reading Twitter anyway, right?

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Getting In Your Own Way When Marketing To Baby Boomers

Are you treating your business like a hobby? Let me ask you, how much time each day should you dedicate to marketing to baby boomers or your target market? Until you have consistent income, you should be spending up to four or more hours each day. So if it’s an 8-hour day, that’s half your day. If you only work four hours, I would suggest half your time is spent on marketing until you have consistent income. By implementing marketing consistently and setting it up on autopilot, you will be able to have people coming to you consistently without spending…

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The New Customer Gold Mine

New Customers; solid gold! Mining them is always a challenge, and can be expensive. Everyone knows new customers cost more than selling to an existing customer. There are technologic methods worth incorporating into your customer attraction strategies and the most effective and most affordable is through Mobile Marketing. The convergence of the mobile device with the ubiquitous texting tool for marketing has revolutionized the customer acquisition process. Texting is much more than quick messages back and forth to each other; the process has become a valuable method of inviting and gaining new customers that want to interact with you and your brand.

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Are YOU “Thinking Outside-the-Box? If Not YOU Should Be!

Are YOU Thinking Outside-the-Box? If not, you should be! In today’s economy it can make the difference between success and failure! Historically we used “average” as a guide to determine marketing targets. Today, “average” no longer exists in our marketplace. Given that “average” is no longer viable, then, there’s also no such thing as “one-size fits all.” This is a tough concept for most Baby Boomers and Gen X’rs to swallow, because that was the way things were for most of our lifetimes.

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Marketing Consistently Brings Consistent Income

Whether you are just starting a new business, or growing an existing business, marketing consistently can bring consistent income so you don’t have the ups and downs that are so common to entrepreneurs. The seeds you plant today will be the fruit you enjoy tomorrow. Let’s go back in time a bit, to show you what activities generated the busy week we just had… The new client was a result from getting out there in a big way. Meeting with people, telling them what you do through a clear message is what makes people say, “I need to work with…

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