Tag Archives: Marketing

Surviving the Economic Storm: Advice from Team Double-Click

Good advice on surviving tough economic times from the virtual assistant folks at Team Double-Click® … I do want to draw special attention to one thing …  We didn’t stop marketing or selling.  Let me say that again.  We DIDN’T STOP … Continue reading

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Social Media Networking: The Formula for Success

I recently made a presentation on social media marketing where I presented the following as the formula for social media marketing success… P4 + V = Vx Where the components of the social networking equation equal: P = passion, the … Continue reading

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Customer Retention, Part 2

Worth repeating (from the American Marketing Association newsletter)… A two-percent increase in customer retention has the same effect on profits as cutting costs by 10 percent.1 — 1 Business Gain from How You Retain, CMO Council with CSC, IBM and … Continue reading

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The Best Time to Send Email

I’ve now seen 2 email marketing authorities in the last 2 days cite 2 case studies saying that the best time to send your email marketing missives is on Tuesday. Marketing Sherpa & Mail Dog Papers (published by Mail Dog … Continue reading

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Sizing Up the Blogosphere or “How Big is It?

I originally reported the following data on the growth of the blogosphere as part of a post I was writing about a year and 1/2 ago. As sometimes happens, it got stuck in draft world and I never completed it. … Continue reading

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A Million Small Business Bloggers Can’t Be Wrong

Not according to Liz Fuller at BusinessandBlogging.com in a recent post citing a New York Times article on the topic (Blogging’s a Low-Cost High Return Marketing Tool). I like the spin Liz put on it…

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Political (Marketing) Oversight?

The upcoming election has engaged me as no other that I can remember. Maybe it’s because of my disgust with the status quo or the fact that we seem to have more, and better, choices than we’ve had in some … Continue reading

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