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How to Effectively Market Your Small Business

Strategy Driven

Without the proper marketing, most startups and small businesses will be doomed to fail. However, with such an abundance of marketing techniques available, it is important that small business owners deploy the correct methods in order to maximize their return on investment. Complete Your Market Research. Profile Target Markets.

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5 Things to Know About Running an Offline Marketing Campaign

Strategy Driven

More and more businesses are integrating their online marketing efforts with offline marketing campaigns. The two marketing approaches are not meant to be used separately, but rather as an integrated, holistic way of reaching a target audience. You just have to be more careful when choosing the right marketing tools to use.

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5 Ways Building a Mobile App Can Boost Your Business Success

Strategy Driven

Direct marketing channel. You can personalize marketing messages and send customized reminders to customers who haven’t shopped with you or used your service in a while. Asking for engagement this way will make your customers feel appreciated, valued, and build loyalty. Stand out from competitors.

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How Valuable Are Your Customers?

Harvard Business Review

Even if you don’t have to calculate CLV yourself (there are lots of tools that will do the math for you ), it’s important to understand the concept so you can decide whether to use it when making marketing and sales decisions. Now the question is how much do you spend marketing to your customers and how effective are your efforts?

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How Consumer Brands Can Connect with Customers in a Changing Retail Landscape

Harvard Business Review

A D2C initiative can involve one platform or many, depending on things like image, objectives, target audience, and what’s feasible in a given market. Meanwhile, Subaru extends well-matched offerings at the right time in the consumer life cycle, from prepurchase targeting to end-of-lease management and loyalty incentives to repurchase.

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Who's Your Brand's Editor-in-Chief?

Harvard Business Review

They ask, "If we were a cable TV channel or a mass market magazine, what would our content, tone, and the experience we offered be? Most marketing aims to make consumers aware of a solution or an aspiration they had not considered. But increasingly marketers are seeking to help consumers who are already in a market solve a problem.

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The Brand Benefits of Places Like the Guinness Storehouse

Harvard Business Review

Marketers have long known that stories capture consumers’ attention and they commonly weave storytelling into their marketing messages. In fact, while the total tourism market in Amsterdam grew 19 percent from 2009 to 2014, the Heineken Experience grew 143 percent. The New Tools of Marketing. Consumers opt in.

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