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Essential Online Marketing Tips All Business Owners Must Know

Strategy Driven

You’ve had an excellent idea for a small business and you want to get it off the ground before anyone else can take it off the market. In fact, most internet marketing companies, such as Excelsior Internet Marketing , would recommend that perfecting your SEO should be your first step. Use email marketing. Build a website.

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Credibility Crisis: 4 Sure-Fire Strategies for Cultivating Consumer Trust

Strategy Driven

These disparities are also among the biggest misperceptions that both online and offline marketers hold. This overwhelming demand for consumer attention and dollars has created a market filled with cynics, whose defenses are on full alert.”. Companies that do this effectively will most certainly amass market share.”.

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Marketers, Go Back to Basics

Harvard Business Review

Marketing is changing so fast, it's easy to get our heads turned by new, high-tech developments. But, as a marketing consultant who is putting my own theories to the test as I work to drive sales of my first book , it's become clear to me that many companies have needlessly forsaken some marketing strategies that still have life in them.

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Can We Finally Eradicate Bad Products?

Harvard Business Review

Indeed, beginning in 1902, it started testing products for quality, safety, and reliability. Today, consumers, not marketers, rule the roost. As consumers, we readily dictate how and when marketers reach us. The price-quality inference, a time-honored marketing concept, will surely continue to operate.

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The Social Cost of Bad Online Marketing

Harvard Business Review

Dan Lyons’s book Disrupted is an often-delightful tour through startup culture, based on the author’s experience working at online marketing firm HubSpot. Today’s standard marketing playbook looks a lot like what Lyons describes in his book.

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