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 Why Storytelling Can Help Your Business’ Bottom Line
When you’re thinking about how to promote your business, it can be tempting to focus solely on your products and services. After all, when you boil any business down to its most essential element it is about getting consumers to purchase the product or service that’s being offered. But how you reach the end goal […]
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How to Create Effective Follow Up Campaigns
Follow up campaigns can be a tricky thing for small business owners to manage. Not only do they take time and energy to create, but there’s always that nagging question: What is the line between being persistent and being annoying? While it might seem like you’re crossing that line, the reality is that most people […]
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Why Behavior Scoring is the Missing Ingredient in Your Marketing Approach
With inbound marketing becoming ever more popular in recent years, a marketer might be tempted to think broad when it comes to their approach. After all, when anyone can happen upon your brand, it means that anyone’s a potential customer, right? That’s not quite true. In fact, the number of leads that actually become customers […]
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Where Marketing Automation Fits Into the Customer Journey
When companies incorporate marketing automation into their approach, they often focus on the middle of the marketing hourglass. They use the automation tool to stay in touch with existing customers or to reach out to prospects who are very near to making their first purchase. However, marketing automation can be used throughout the entirety of […]
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4 Tips for Driving the Customer Journey with CRM
As I’ve written about in the past, in today’s digital world, the customer journey is no longer a straight line. While you can’t exert complete control over the way in which customers and prospects interact with your business, it is possible to get strategic about guiding people differently depending on where they are in their […]
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Why It’s Time to Embrace a Real CRM Tool for Your Business
Using a spreadsheet or index cards to manage your clients may make sense when you’re first starting out: there aren’t that many to keep track of, and the clients you do have don’t have a long history with your business. However, as time goes on, your client list grows, your track record with existing clients […]
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How to Use LinkedIn to Generate Sales Conversations
  The video above is a replay of a recent live webinar I hosted with guest Viveka von Rosen. Combined with the text below you should have a pretty good feel for how to use LinkedIn to generate sales conversations. LinkedIn is the oldest social network. Everyone seems to be on it, but no one […]
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The Impact of Understanding Customer Acquisition Costs and Customer Lifetime Value
It’s guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing, and today’s post is from Dan Kraus – Enjoy! Have you heard someone talk about customer acquisition cost (CAC) or customer lifetime value (CLV or LTV)? If you’re in the tech business, and especially if you work with SaaS products, you’ve definitely heard of, and can […]
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Top 7 Mistakes That Kill Your Ads Conversion in 2017
Business spends huge money on sending their message to customers, but the results leave much to be desired: For every $92 spent acquiring customers, only $1 is spent converting them; besides, only 8% of users pay attention to marketing ads and click on them. Yet, one assured method exists to generate lots of buzz about […]
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How Writing for the Stages of Awareness Will Convert More Readers into Paying Customers
Tell a two-year-old the value of getting good grades in school. Go ahead. Try it. If you don’t have a two-year-old handy, let me tell you that you’re wasting your time trying. But you know that. So why do we write copy that immediately gives an answer to a problem your reader may not even […]
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