Advertising

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Stop Serving Customers to Save Money

If you’re a small to medium-sized business, and you’re trying to grow your business but you’re drowning in a mountain of client emails, and your inbox is overflowing with too many sales and support questions, then you need help.But…
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The confusing world of advertising

There comes a time when after years of college studies, specializations, master degrees, courses, workshops, and God-knows how many thoughts of preparing the right answer for the following question you find yourself petrified at that family…
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5 documentaries to love (or hate) marketing & advertising

Before the arrival of the famous TV series “Mad Men”, there were movies in which the main character worked in an advertising agency. Every time I would watch those types of movies like “What Men Want” or “Sweet November” with characters…
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Why Facebook Might Beat Google At The Online Advertising Game

During the few years I was running CrankyAds, an advertising management tool for bloggers, I spent quite a bit of time researching the online advertising space.One of my primary goals for this research was to find a way to deal with two…
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How To Get Clients To Pay For Overdue Services

Can you relate? You’re working with a great client. You love the work you’re doing, and your client loves the results you’re providing. But then payment due date rolls around and…crickets. All of the sudden your client is MIA—and…
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3 Key Reasons Why You Are Losing Money on Adwords

I recently taught a crash course on Google Adwords. To get up to speed, I read 4–5 books on the topic and decided to read a few other sources than just the ones provided by Google. In the process I learned a few things which might not exactly…
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“Tooting Your Own Horn” or Informing Your Prospects

I was writing a bio for a client recently – a darn good bio – that showcased her expertise, her talent, and a bit of her quirky side. It was engaging and told “her story” in an authentic way and hopefully, would make prospects sit up…
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How a slogan made me buy something I don’t even like (and what it means for your business)

I enjoy a pint of beer, particularly real ale. My favourite at the moment is Ghost Ship from Adnams. Bengal Lancer from Fullers is another lip-smackingly good beer.What exactly has this got to do with marketing?It is this:I, a real ale…
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11 Things You Must Know to Succeed With Inside Sales

I take dozens of consultation calls for cold email critiques and inside sales consulting every week.Although the challenges and needs of my prospective clients vary depending on the size of the organization and the stage their company is…
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How To Build a Great Site On a Small Budget

One of the biggest challenges a lot of small business owners face is how to build a great website while only having a tiny budget. The good news is that you can get a good website built for a small amount; however, in order to do that, you need…
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The Good, the Bad and the Lazy of Advertising

Advertising has been declared dead so many times that if I had a penny everyone organised its funeral I wouldn’t still have to work in it. But, here I am, still trying to make better work than I did before, because that is how I was raised. I…
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10 Ways to Create an Effective Call to Action

What exactly is a Call to Action? You may have heard it called by its acronym, CTA. No matter what you call it, your CTA is exactly what it implies, a specific and actionable direction given to your reader. Therefore, their purpose is to become…