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3 Strategies for Email Marketing Sequences That Increase Conversion Rates
If your inbound marketing were described as a funnel, I’d describe your email marketing as a container to capture the leads that fall through. Many people will visit your site and even engage with you, but perhaps it’s not time to actually convert. It’s only anecdotal, but I’ll describe my own patterns when researching a platform or shopping online: Pre-purchase…
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Top 3 Marketing Mistakes New Businesses Make
Why did you start your business? I’ll bet the farm that “because I wanted to be a marketer” wasn’t your answer. However, if you’re like the hundreds of small business owners I’ve worked with you probably realized about 30 seconds after you opened your doors that if you didn’t become a marketer, you weren’t going to be a small business…
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Using WordTracker to Build Your Question and Answers Content
We pay for a lot of tools to analyze our clients and we test even more. Every time I embark on a comprehensive keyword analysis strategy, one tool is always a necessity. I often don’t touch it for months… and often let the subscription drop… but then… WordTracker is a necessity because I can’t find another tool that has the…
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Tidio: Multichannel Live Chat and Chatbots For Your Online Store Or Website
As a small business, one challenge that I have is attempting to respond to all inbound requests across my site, my social media accounts, and my email accounts. In order to effectively manage these requests, your company must centralize these communications so that you can measure each channel’s impact as well as optimize your messaging and prequalification process. When chatbots…
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How to Use Widgets to Validate Email in Your Lead Generation Funnel
Email validation is a crucial step in optimizing lead generation (leadgen) funnels. By implementing real-time email validation, businesses can enhance their data quality, prevent email bounces, improve their email deliverability, and improve the effectiveness of their email marketing campaigns. Validating email addresses helps identify inactive emails, spam traps, and duplicate entries, ensuring a cleaner and more reliable contact list. This…
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100 Years Later: The Kingdom of the Subscriber
This is an advertisement from May 1916 edition of Popular Mechanics from AT&T speaking to potential telephone subscribers. I often wonder how difficult it was to overcome the fear and trepidation such technology must have caused at the time. I also wonder how it compares to social media adoption and the Internet today. History almost always repeats itself. Telephones, like…
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Algebra and Geometry… when will I ever use it? Google Maps!
A good friend of mine, Glenn, is one of the founders of Family Watchdog. Family Watchdog is one of those fantastic stories… a company founded on a mashup that is performing a public service AND actually providing a living for its founders. It must be amazing to go to work every day knowing that you’ve made a difference. Each time…
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The 4 Steps To Implement Or Cleanup CRM Data To Maximize Your Sales Performance
Companies that wish to improve their sales performance typically invest in implementing a customer relationship management (CRM) platform. We’ve discussed why companies implement a CRM, and companies often take the step… but the transformations frequently fail for a few reasons: Data: At times, companies opt for a data dump of their accounts and contacts into a CRM platform, but the…
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Web.com: How To Get Your Small Business or Online Store Up And Running Online Without Breaking the Bank
Marketing consultants and agencies tend to work with businesses that have enough revenue where they see the opportunity to invest in platforms and services. Having started multiple companies in the last couple of decades, I know how difficult it is to establish that sole proprietor business and get revenues to a point where I could hire those first employees. Over…
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Seth Godin is Wrong About Numbers
As I was reading a blog post on a site, I came across a quote from Seth Godin. There was no link to the post, so I had to verify it on my own. Sure enough, Seth had said it: The questions we ask change the thing we make. Organizations that do nothing but measure the numbers rarely create breakthroughs.…
