As marketing and sales folks, we are always on the look out for the latest and greatest ways to attract more leads. Lead generation is important, but the money to be made from generating leads is in the follow up. Most small business owners and sales people would be...
How quickly do you and your organization make decisions? Do you make them quickly, or does each decision seem to be a long and painful process filled with uncertainty and doubt? In working with small business owners over the years I’ve noticed that those who have a...
One of our major goals (if not the major goal) is to generate sales conversations. Depending on your business, that conversation may take place in person, on the phone, web meeting, or email. No matter what the medium, if you sales calls are not effective, your...
If you been through any sort of “marketing 101” education, you have undoubtedly heard about the three M’s – market, message, and media. You may also have heard this expressed as “getting the right message, to the right people, at the right time”. All three M’s are...
“Strategy before tactics” is something we talk about every day in the Duct Tape Marketing Consultants’ network. It’s what sets us apart from other small business marketing consultants. Strategy is one of those words that conjures up images of intellectual giants,...
We tend to focus on ways to generate new leads (networking, advertising, etc.), but without proper follow-up, those activities are a waste of time and money. Some studies show that while it takes an average of 5 sales calls or contacts to close a deal, most...
In the last post, I shared some general ideas for scoring quick marketing wins in 2014. In the next series of posts I'd like to offer some specific things you can do to make your marketing more effective to win more customers and increase your sales in the coming...
Are you an artist? My guess is most people who read this blog don't consider themselves artists. I think you are an artist, here's why. Last weekend I was listening to an online workshop conducted by photographer Joel Grimes. The topic of the workshop was Creative...
Landing pages are an important, powerful, and often underutilized component of a small business marketing system. They are so important that, as Oli Gardner of UnBounce says, you should “Never start a marketing campaign without a dedicated landing page”. The term...