Posts Tagged 'small business marketing'

Free Webinar: Total Online Presence

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Join Duct Tape Marketing Founder, best selling author and recognized small business guru John Jantsch on Thursday September 20th at 10:00 AM PST for a free seminar on Creating a Total Online Presence.

Your online presence is your key to success no matter what your business sells – no matter if all of your transactions are done face to face – no matter if you don’t yet see a way to ...

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eBook: The Marketing Hourglass

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The Marketing Hourglass is one of the core concepts of Duct Tape Marketing and was first introduced in our main eBook, The 7 Steps to Small Business Marketing Success. While most of us are familiar with the marketing funnel (where you gather in a whole bunch of leads and then spit them out the bottom), the Marketing Hourglass builds on this concept in two key ways:

  1. The top part of the funnel is expanded to ...
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eBook: Build a Remarkable Business by Focusing on the Total Customer Experience

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Small businesses are constantly challenged with finding both new and repeat business. Using the concept of the marketing hourglass, business owners can follow a logical road map to get customers to progress knowing them to buying from them, and then taking it a step further to generating ongoing referrals.

In our new eBook by best-selling small business author John Jantsch, you’ll discover how to apply the marketing hourglass concept to create a total customer experience – and ultimately build a remarkable ...

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What do your visitors HATE about your website?

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The Duct Tape Marketing System (our small business marketing system of choice here at Corner Your Market) places a strong emphasis on inbound marketing – or drawing people in to your website and other online real estate. But the question is – once your visitors arrive at your website – how is their experience – do they love you – or hate you?

We just read Hubspot’s blog post: “15 Things People Absolutely Hate About Your Website” and we have ...

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Pinterest: Is it the next big thing for your business?

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A lot of businesses are chatting about a newish social network called Pinterest. Pinterest is an online “pinboard” that lets you organize and share items that appeal to you. For example, you could set up a Pinterest page with photos of wedding dresses. Then, you can share these photos with your community – who can then like and comment on them.

So is Pinterest the next big thing for your business? According to small business marketing expert John Jantsch, ...

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Goodbye Marketing Funnel, Hello Marketing Hourglass

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Another traditional marketing concept bites the dust…

The Marketing Funnel is a traditional marketing concept that is ingrained into our psyches. But just as the Internet and social media have thrown many old-time marketers for a loop, now so too will the new concept of the Marketing Hourglass.

RIP Marketing Funnel: So what was the Marketing Funnel and why are we giving this time-honoured concept its last rites? Well, it’s pretty much as you would imagine. You gather a whole bunch of ...

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