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The Customer Experience Imperative: Strategies for Relevant Marketing

Welcome to 2016! The world has become a show-me-you-know-me marketplace. Meaning, if companies want to keep customers happy and loyal they must first prove just how valuable customers are by making every interaction personal and relevant to their needs. The same is true for prospective customers and your database is full of those! So, how …

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Building Relationships Will Build Your Business

All too often, business owners make the mistake of focusing solely on transactional marketing. This form of marketing takes a “one and done” approach and emphasizes the short-term goal of a single sale. Some business owners fall into the routine of running an ad or dropping a mailer with the sole intent of attracting “new” …

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A Decade of Marketing: a journey through change and transformation

When I began my career in marketing over a decade ago, my world was very different. Reflecting upon this time with what I now know, I admit that there was a lot of guesswork, trial and error was often a “strategy,” and the concept of tracking was a “nice to have.” It wasn’t just because …

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Automate Your Marketing

What if there was something you could do to make marketing for your business easier? Marketing planning and implementation doesn’t have to be a cumbersome process. There are ways to make it easy, through planning, organization, reporting and partnerships with marketing professionals. Just as there are different professionals who work on homes – contractors, electricians, …

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Honesty In Online Communication

We learned in kindergarten that honesty is the best policy but how many of us actually apply this advice on a daily basis? In a culture that’s increasingly driven by countless forms of communication resulting in 24-hour access with fewer and fewer chances to be ‘off the grid,’ has it become easier to stretch the …

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SEO – three little letters with big impact

Incorporating a digital component into your marketing plan is no longer a luxury, it’s a necessity. In order to stay relevant with your current target audience and your next generation of customers, it’s imperative to have a strong website presence. And once you have that website presence, it’s just as important for customers to be …

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More of: Do This, Not That (Part 2)

Want to know more of what not to do with your online presence? Here’s the remainder of our list of 10 do’s and 10 don’ts to keep your online activities on the right track in 2013. Don’t: Hide your contact information away in an obscure spot or buried page. Do: Present your contact information (address, …

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