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Key Considerations for Small Businesses: What You Need to Know

Strategy Driven

Customer Insight: Targeted Marketing Approaches Knowing your target audience is paramount to business success. Conduct thorough market research to discern customer needs, preferences, and pain points. Tailor your marketing strategies accordingly, utilizing social media, email campaigns, and other digital channels.

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Vanity Phone Numbers’ Effect on Customer Recall and Business Branding

Strategy Driven

In marketing, repetition and ease of recall are critical, and vanity phone numbers tap directly into these psychological drivers. They transform ordinary contact information into memorable catchphrases that stick with consumers long after the advertisement has ended.

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Too Many Executives Are Missing the Most Important Part of CRM

Harvard Business Review

Whether you’re a corporation, a nonprofit or a government agency, chances are that your approach to customer relationships at a system-wide level begins and ends with CRM (customer relationship management) software — yet its implementation rarely does much to foster real relationships. Measuring Marketing Insights.

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Social Media Demystified

N2Growth Blog

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. Successful businesses adapt to market innovations and thrive, while those that fail to make iterative leaps fall by the wayside.

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Identify the Marketing Metrics That Actually Matter

Harvard Business Review

This poses a big problem for marketers, who can end up down a rabbit hole of fruitless information. Now, more than ever, marketers need to be measuring the right things. Metrics, or key performance indicators (KPIs), should be set upfront, so that the marketing team knows what goals they are striving to reach.

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Find the Best Local Markets to Drive Growth

Harvard Business Review

My colleague Tim Joyce and I have found a similar viral phenomenon with superconsumers — our term for people who buy big volumes of a product or service, but who often can be convinced to buy even more. Finally, we found that these super geos made it easier for companies to develop growth strategies. What makes them unique?

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Who Owns Your Customer Relationships: Your Salespeople or Your Company?

Harvard Business Review

Your R&D group develops a unique new product. Marketing designs the promotional campaign. The company holds us accountable for revenues and expects us to develop and maintain the connections to drive sales. Manufacturing produces it. Finance puts the systems in place to track the money coming in.

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