Once you’ve acquired a pool of customers, you can’t assume they’ll stick with you and return to purchase again and again. The relationship between your company and your customers must be nurtured and cultivated over time, which will translate into more sales and better customer retention. Customer relationship management helps keep your existing customers happy and […]
A Deeper Look at Relationship Marketing — 3 Tips for Making the Connection Count
Finding out information about your customers is much easier today because of the proliferation of social media platforms—a LinkedIn profile or series of tweets on Twitter, for example, can be very informative. In the best type of relationship marketing, the information you gather on your customers should come from more direct sources.
7 Ways to Use Your Firm’s Business Card as an Effective Marketing Tool
Your business cards easily communicate your company’s basic information, but because they’re so common, they can easily be lost, ignored or forgotten. Here are seven ways to make your business card more interesting and more effective as a marketing tool.
What Is One-To-One Cross Media Marketing?
Social media, email and websites have firmly taken their place in the marketing mix alongside traditional print, radio and television advertising.
Track Marketing Results to Know What’s Working and What to Stop Investing In
Marketing can be the single most important, and also the largest, expense for many businesses. It’s vital that you know if your marketing is working.
Creating a Client Follow-Up System That’s Genuine and Works
As much as we might want sales to happen immediately, customers often don’t respond to sales and marketing efforts on the spot. For multiple reasons, they might not be ready or able to commit to a purchase.
Email Marketing Basics: Best Practices for Kick-Starting Your Campaign
An email marketing campaign is an efficient and economical way to get your message out to many people at the least cost possible.
Your Marketing Plan and Strategy Should Go Hand in Hand
At any stage of a business, careful planning is necessary to establish and meet marketing, business development and growth goals.
Tips for Effective Lead Management and Follow-up
For every business, a steady source of leads is vital to the ongoing success of the enterprise. Good leads should not be considered a one-and-done source of sales. Effective lead management and follow-up will ensure both a steady source of new leads and repeat sales with high levels of satisfaction from your existing customers.
What is Lead Incubation?
Somewhere within your customer database you probably have a substantial number of expired leads. You may have expended some effort trying to convert these leads into customers, but eventually you decided that they were no longer viable targets to pursue.