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How to Effectively Market Your Small Business

Strategy Driven

With so many marketing strategies to choose from, it’s important for businesses to identify the best avenue for their business. From direct marketing to mobile, to social, your marketing platform should reflect your marketing goals as well as your target audiences, personality, budget, location and more.

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Is outsourcing a copywriter really worth the money?

Women on Business

Further, an outsider is more likely to think outside of the box when it comes to new and innovative ways to market your business. For example, a health food company may hire out to produce advertising copy and direct marketing pieces. SIMPLE ECONOMICS – THE BUSINESS ALWAYS WINS.

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5 Ways Predictive Analytics Make or Break a CRM System

Strategy Driven

Many direct marketers have it figured it out, sending you offers in the mail that you are likely to actually want as opposed to the ones you consider junk. Maximizing Marketing Budget ROI. But, with predictive analytics, you can maximize your return on investment no matter the budget.

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The Big Picture of Business – How and When to Collaborate, for Best Business Advantage.

Strategy Driven

To succeed, it needs to be more than an advertising and direct marketing campaign. utilizing the power of the budget to control creative thoughts and strategic thinking of subcontractors. Making sales calls (mandated or voluntarily) does not constitute relationship building. First Attempts. Mistakes, Successes & Lessons.

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How Valuable Are Your Customers?

Harvard Business Review

Now the question is how much do you spend marketing to your customers and how effective are your efforts? Your total marketing budget is $10,000 for the year and you have a total of 500 customers, so your direct marketing costs per customer per year are $20.

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Help Your Team Spend Time on the Right Things

Harvard Business Review

Unfortunately, many managers don’t think about time as a finite resource in the same way that they consider the limitations of headcount and budget. They had organized tradeshows, delivered direct marketing, generated leads, and provided useful customer insights – the basics of a successful marketing organization.

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Publishing Is Not Dying

Harvard Business Review

The newspaper industry has been hit especially hard because historically it has derived much of its revenues not from display advertising, but from classifieds and other direct marketing services, where the impact of digital technology has been the greatest. So it shouldn’t be surprising that many newspapers have struggled.