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Database = More Qualified Leads: The Who, Why & How

Many of the practices that I speak to assume marketing is centered around bringing in new people. While that is a key component, that is not all that marketing is. The definition of marketing provided by the American Marketing Association states: “Marketing is the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and …

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SERP, Meta Data, SEM, CTR…what does it all mean?

You went to school to be a top-notch hearing healthcare provider, not a top-notch marketing executive, right? Reaching your customers, however, requires you to engage digital marketing and the language that goes along with it. Don’t stress yourself if you don’t know your site impressions from your unique visitors, or your bounce rate from your …

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Six Key Elements to an Effective Direct Mail Campaign

There are those individuals who believe that direct mail doesn’t work anymore, but our Associates’ numbers tell another story! Based on our practices’ data, the average cost-per-call is $247 and the cost-per-appointment is $442. Over the past year, direct mail generated an average of 40 percent ROI for our Associates. In fact, when it is …

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Master the data, better serve your customers!

Marketing has changed. Since 2000, essentially all businesses prepared for these changes with toll-free numbers and considered themselves ready for inbound marketing. Inbound marketing is waiting for consumers to call — or text, or visit, or click through to — your business. Use of the word waiting doesn’t do the concept justice, however. Inbound marketing …

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Seven Things to Consider When You Run Your Next Ad

While it is true that advertisements don’t drive as much traffic as they once did, they are still effective! In CQ’s most recent ROI report (compiled from Associates’ marketing data), ads brought in a slightly negative ROI (-4 percent) and brought in few opportunities, BUT 72 percent of those completed appointments were converted to sales! …

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The Importance of Tracking Your Marketing Efforts

Occasionally, we encounter a practice that comments “our marketing isn’t working.” So, the first question we ask is “are you tracking your marketing activities?” All too often practices forget that there is still more work to be done even after a marketing initiative or event has come and gone. Executing a successful marketing plan requires …

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What You Didn’t Know About Marketing

Every quarter, we conduct ROI reports for Associates who share their marketing results with us. We then compile those results and look at the data from a broader perspective to determine marketing trends in our industry. Here are three interesting insights from our most recent ROI analysis that we all can benefit from. At 87% …

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Three Trends & Tips to Successful Marketing

The CQ Marketing department is here to assist Associates with their marketing efforts and provide recommendations on how to maximize their investment. In addition to the ROI reports that we develop for individual Associates, we compile of a range of hearing industry data to identify marketing trends. Here are three interesting trends that we recognized …

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