Using Events Marketing to Get More Customers

by Rohan Gandhi|February 22, 2012

How to use an event to promote your small business

Professional salespeople understand their customers. They know what makes them buy and they know where their customers will stop. But there is one technique that might help you break through to new customers you never expected to have: events marketing.

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Better Than Cloning: Automation That Grows Small Business Profit

by Nicole Fende|February 21, 2012

integrated marketing

As a small business owner who is active online I bet you’ve heard about One-to-One Marketing, the Era of the Customer or the Advent of Social Media Marketing. Everywhere you turn another expert is telling you to start a dialogue with your customers. There’s only one problem.

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QR Code Campaign Ideas

by Rohan Gandhi|February 20, 2012

3 Ways QR Codes Can Heat Up Your Summer Sales

Once you’ve decided to include any given marketing channel in your marketing strategy, you have to think about how you’ll employ it. When it comes to marketing with QR codes, there’s seemingly no limit to how creative your campaigns can be. So here are a couple of QR code campaign ideas, gleaned from bigger companies, [...]

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Grow Customer Loyalty with Content

by pbSmart Advice|February 17, 2012

Let's talk loyalty - loyalty marketing

Many businesses focus their marketing budgets on going after new customers. But existing customers spend 33 percent more than new ones and are 107 percent more likely to refer you to others, according to About.com. With this in mind, focusing on customer loyalty is a always an investment worth making.

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Finding Content for Your Blog and Email Newsletter: 5 Places

by Rohan Gandhi|February 16, 2012

How to Invest in Search and Social Media to Attract the Right Visitors

One of the biggest challenges in developing a content marketing strategy is finding content for your blog, email newsletter and other communications. And if you’re busy running your business, you may not have the time to figure out which topics will engage your audience.

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3 Tips for Mobile Email Marketing

by pbSmart Advice|February 15, 2012

mobile friendly email

Mobile email marketing is essential, because our digital consumption habits are changing. With the growing popularity of smartphones and tablets, more and more consumers are using mobile devices to access email. But few feel that reading email on a mobile device is as easy as reading it on a computer.

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How to Get Started with Content Marketing: 5 Steps

by pbSmart Advice|February 14, 2012

How to Create Engaging Content for your Customers

Content marketing is one of today’s biggest marketing trends. A 2011 Focus Research report revealed that content marketing is one of the best ways for B2B and B2C businesses to generate leads and sales. But many businesses fail to reap the benefits of content marketing because they don’t know how to get started.

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