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Improve Marketing Emails to Boost Sales

Strategy Driven

Be a News Source – instead of always relying on a discount offer to spur customers into the buying stage, use industry news to your advantage. Don’t just send a generic sales offer, present it in a way that makes your customer feels like you are only giving a discount to make his/her life better. Put the customer first in everything.

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Why Your Business Needs To Start Monetizing Its Data

Strategy Driven

Likewise, you could offer discounted rates to people leaving particular competitors. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Innovation Tactical Execution business management data management data monetization strategydriven' Work with other firms to cross-promote products and services. Consider leaving a comment!

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3 Team-Killing Church Cultures by Ryan T. Hartwig and Warren Bird

Ron Edmondson

Because I participated in the book project by writing an expert commentary, InterVarsity Press is offering my readers a 30% discount on the book. To access the discount, order online at ivpress.com or call 800-843-9487 and use coupon code 506-447. Hartwig and Warren Bird, InterVarsity Press, 2015. But don’t wait to do it.

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Startups Are Turning Customers into Lobbyists

Harvard Business Review

In early 2015 the government announced its intention to auction 450 beer licenses to grocery stores, citing Ontarian’s demands as the motivating factor. Uber learned this lesson the hard way in its bid to enter Calgary in October 2015 when its petition reached 14,000 signatures – only 1.2%

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Marketers Need to Stop Focusing on Loyalty and Start Thinking About Relevance

Harvard Business Review

If your customer retention strategy relies on “buying” loyalty with rewards, rebates, or discounts, it is coming at a high cost. a high-minded customer for an organic supermarket or a value-conscious customer for a discount chain). Topic Images Inc./Getty Getty Images. Under Armour, Inc. offers a good example.

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Technology Should Be About More than Efficiency

Harvard Business Review

It thrives on predictability and reliability and views imagination with some ambivalence – yes, it drives innovation, but it also undermines predictability and reliability. Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. We magnify perception of risk and discount perception of reward. We shorten our time horizons.

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Your Whole Company Needs to Be Distinctive, Not Just Your Product

Harvard Business Review

This usually means alliance with another business: creating airline cards with frequent flier miles, cards with extended warranties subsidized by insurance companies, or retail cards offering exclusive access or discounts. But in 2015, CostCo shifted its affiliation to Citigroup’s Visa.

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