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What is YOUR quarterly planning process?

Topics: business planning

I frequently cross the Potomac River north of Washington DC. Recently, as I sat directly above the Potomac waiting for traffic to start moving, it occurred to me that just as the river feeds the Chesapeake Bay with water, a river of money to keep your business fed.

Topics: Business Growth, business planning, cashflow

There is a well know and universal benchmark of success - money.

Some entrepreneur believe that investing money is the cure for low earnings and pump high spending plans into marketing agencies or freelancers. Not a great deal of business owners understand how to assess marketing projects and that breaks my heart.

Topics: Marketing education, business planning

CAC (customer acquisition cost) and LTV (long-term value) will be helpful for you in building a marketing strategy. It is important to remember that these measurements mainly should be used in accessing your strategy’s marketing performance. It’s not at complicated as it seems. Trust me! This blog is a follow-up on the CAC and LTV topic that I've discussed last week. Let’s jump in.

Topics: customer value optimization, business planning

Welcome to Part 2 of the types of web pages available In this blog, I will be focusing on Offer Pages and Home Pages. Let’s dig in!

 

Offer Pages

The offer page is where you present the offer, and allow the prospect to take up the call to action, whatever that may be. This could mean that they are going to make a purchase, schedule a discovery call or RSVP to an event. This is the page where you're going to give them all the reasons that they need to take action right now.

Topics: Marketing education, customer journey, business planning, Web site, pixel estate,

It was 8 p.m. on a Friday night and I out with some friends. We were sitting around a table and chatting. At some point, it became a bragging contest where we were essentially trying to outdo each other. My friends and I went back and forth for a little while. Finally, I said, if there was a sweet deal on the table tonight, then I could have more than a million dollars in cash in this house by midnight. Suffice to say that I won our playful argument. Cash to a business is like oxygen to a human. You lose cash and you die. It has nothing to do with your potential, valuation, the value of an intellectual property or physical inventory.

Topics: finance, Business Growth, Dan Kennedy, Marketing education, business planning

Odds are, your business lost a lot of customers last year. There are holes in your bucket. And odds are, you can't say for sure how many you lost, who you lost, why you lost them or where they went and are now. If you do nothing different, I can send you this same fax next year too. A great way to make more money is to stop losing customers, beginning with the next one you are about to lose.

Topics: Business Growth, Marketing education, business planning

Let’s hop right in.  In the previous 2 posts we talked about the likely outcome of this depression and how you will have to change your business to stay in business and take advantage of the incredible opportunity that is available because of it. 

Topics: Magnetic Marketing, business planning, target marketing, ideal customer, nurture, direct mail, follow up, CRM

In my last post we talked about the likely outcome of the economic shutdown and what we can likely expect in the coming years.

Topics: Magnetic Marketing, customer journey, business planning, target marketing, nurture, follow up, Web site, CRM

Welcome to the business, post-Covid. The world will not be the same for a long time.  Things have radically changed and are not going back to normal.

Topics: Customer Retention, Magnetic Marketing, entrepreneurship, business planning, target marketing, ideal customer, nurture, follow up, CRM