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Agile Marketing

Agile Marketing is a relatively new concept in the world of marketing. It takes its name from agile processes used in software development around the late 90s. The real simple explanation of this approach is that marketing teams identify high value projects, usually centered around providing value to the customer, to focus their collective efforts on, work transparently and cooperatively until the task is completed, and then measure the impact/success or failure. Ever-Evolving Marketing Environment This approach is gaining traction because the marketing climate in so many organizations has become so fast-paced and unpredictable it needs some lean and agile principles to follow in order to remain productive and successful. Principles that take into account this volatility and uncertainty, and manage ...

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Promo Codes

As more and more marketing moves toward a digital strategy, companies need to continue to delight and entice customers during their online experience. A pervasive and persuasive tactic happening during online shopping are pop-ups that feature promotion codes. Those great quick offers like – Use 4ofJuly at checkout for $20 off your order over the Fourth of July Weekend. Consumers are even going and looking for promo codes on sites such as RetailMeNot or coupons.com, if they’re not provided one. They offer value to marketers to help consumers feel like they’re getting the best deal around. They also offer companies a way to track the ROI of their campaigns. And there is definitely a psychology behind using promotions/coupons. According to behavior ...

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Marketing Analytics

For many businesses your company’s website is typically the first way prospective customers reach you. Therefore, it’s imperative that your website is effectively generating leads and providing useful information that is attracting and engaging customers. In order to get a handle on how well your website is achieving these goals, it requires tapping into what is sometimes considered a scary resource, your digital marketing analytics. Digital marketing analytics should not be feared, but revered, as they have the power to provide you with valuable information about who and how people are interacting with your company on the Internet. It helps marketers understand which facets of their marketing efforts are working or not working and how to potentially spend their marketing ...

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Digital Marketing 5 Tactics

Most businesses understand the value of digital marketing to attract and retain customers. Most businesses have at the very least a company website, a Facebook page, and a Google My Business page. What they might not realize is that this constitutes the start of a digital marketing campaign or plan. What? Wait. You didn’t ever consider digital activities in those terms. Well it is a strategic marketing initiative, and you really need to keep it on track. Let’s first define digital marketing to include all your online marketing efforts like Google searches, SEO, email campaigns, social media, display ads, and company website. You may be doing a few or all of these activities, adding new digital aspects as time has gone ...

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7 Habits of Effective Marketers

Stephen Covey published the hugely popular self-help book, "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" in 1989. 14 million copies later, a number of copy-cat topics have surfaced across all disciplines, and you know marketing is on this bandwagon! Nevertheless, we think there is still an opportunity for another perspective. Perhaps a modern marketing filter? Thanks in advance for indulging. Of course, to begin such an assignment, a Google search quickly identifies several attempts at the subject. The search also results in some more focused topics like 7 habits of effective digital marketing, content marketing, and inbound marketing. During this exercise, I found, not surprisingly, an email marketing software vendor identifying data and CRM software as highly effective marketing habits. So perhaps ...

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