Category Archive for: Strategies for Success

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What’s your “We” Score? One of my fellow Duct Tape Marketing peers introduced me to a very cool tool I’m going to share with you today. It’s called your We-We Calculator and it fascinates me for two reasons. It is a terrific and creative example of a lead generation tool. It shows you how customer-focused…

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Marketing Routine

Think about the last time you made a big change in the way you run your business or perhaps even in your personal life. It’s hard to adjust your day to day habits. Sometimes we are even at a loss where to start. The same tends to happen with our marketing. Perhaps you have worked…

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Customer Service

As business owners and entrepreneurs we can be our own worst enemies. Firstly, we are overly passionate about what we do, and secondly we are highly critical about what we deliver in terms of our product or service. The first is dangerous because we can be so passionate that we just can’t understand WHY people…

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Value Added Proposition

When a prospective buyer is looking at your product or service, he or she is really comparing you to the competition. So the question is, are they comparing an apple to an apple or an apple to an orange? It is vitally important in marketing that you find a way to be THE orange! In…

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Advertising IQ

Answer True or False and then check your answer below. Your ad needs to be large to generate a good response. Use a lot of “white” space because people will not read crammed copy. Ads with black text on a light background get a better response than white text on a black or coloured background.…

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Online Credibility

I had the opportunity to listen and speak with David Meerman Scott through a private telephone session he hosted for Duct Tape Marketing Coaches on the New Rules of Marketing and PR. Below, I have summarized some key points which may give you a fresh perspective on how to enhance your credibility online. The old…

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Expert Failure

I’ve had an interesting couple of weeks thanks to two very interesting events I wasable to attend. Firstly, I had the absolute pleasure to hear Malcolm Gladwell speak last week. He was talking about a concept he calls “Expert Failure.” He was suggesting that once you feel you havemastered your area of expertise, you stop…

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Business Card Marketing

Do you have a box of business cards on your desk that you hardly seem to put a dent in before the information changes and a new box is ordered? Or worse yet…are you still working on that same box of business cards that you printed 3 years ago!   Business cards can be a…

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Referral Personalities

Have you ever had a really good look at who’s actually referring you and been surprised to find it’s a handful of the same people over and over again, or Have you wondered why more of your customers or strategic partners aren’t referring you at all?   Even though you might have a great product…

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Small Business Marketing Plan

It’s funny. When we start a business most of us have dreams of becoming #1 in our industry and taking the world by storm.   Then as the months and years go by our focus becomes first on survival and then on sustainable growth.   As we grow, we might add some different service or…

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