How to Best Promote Your Sales Promotions

What is a Sales Promotion?  When done correctly, sales promotions can transform a business.    Most of us these days know sales promotions are usually designed to increase sales or, encourage the use of a service. They are also often one type of marketing strategy confused with general advertising.  In fact, the two are different.  Because, …

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How to Create Winning Headlines

If you want to get people reading your articles and emails, the first thing you need to do is come up with a good attention-grabbing headline.  It should pop right out at them, make them think, and get them to click through to read the rest. There is a bit of an art to this …

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Are You Advertising or Engaging?

The traditional view of advertising is a bit of a one-way street.  You create a marketing strategy that is designed to deliver a particular message to your target audience.  This can be used to tell customers how your product is better than others, how it’s more affordable, or how it’s different than anything they’ve seen …

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Why You Need To Get Into The Mind Of Your Audience

If you’re looking to drive sales through increased traffic to your website and grow your business, the key determinants of this are your site visitors, your audience. The only way to truly see your marketing efforts pay off is to identify the clients most likely to engage your business, and produce a conversion for your …

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How To Marry Your Offline Marketing Strategies With Your Online Marketing Efforts

Because so many people make use of the internet for basically anything you can think of, the offline side of marketing efforts is often overlooked. While the use of the internet for putting your business out there guarantees global reach, and visibility, there are many other tactics you may want to try that can give …

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Enhance Your Product Pages to Kick Your Conversion Rates into High Gear

Businesses that don’t have a brick-and-mortar establishment rely on their website to move their product. Content of the website is essential to convincing the customer to buy. It could be the difference between an idle shopping cart and a completed transaction. What about the website itself? Your content could be getting your message across but …

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Business Funnels–Marketing and Sales–What’s the Difference?

Marketing Funnel – A system that assists in tracking the steps potential clients move through to before ultimately making a decision on the purchase of goods, or use of services.  Marketing funnels let you see at each step what you need to do to influence potential clients toward the end goal, turning them into actual clients. …

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Tips for Triggering an Emotional Reaction in Your Sales Copy

The use of emotion in marketing goes back hundreds of years. Though, in the past hundred years, triggering an emotional reaction has become a science. Businesses have spent millions of dollars trying to learn which phrases, colors, layouts, images, and words are most likely to connect with people. You don’t need to spend millions to …

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Creating a Social Media Business Profile That Connects with Customers

You’re likely already using social media as a part of your marketing strategy. If you get a lot of traffic to your website and don’t get a lot of attention on social media, then your business profile may be turning potential customers away. Social media business profiles that connect with customers are more likely to …

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4 Tips to Dramatically Improve the Quality of Your Content

One of the biggest obstacles that every entrepreneur faces is generating fresh content. You can only go so far with paid ads and a strong social media presence. You also need to drive traffic to your website. The best way to gain traffic, build backlinks, and increase your search rankings is to regularly publish new …

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