You know it happens every year. You know you want to be raring to go on time this year. You know last year was a nightmare due to the lack of preparedness. Prepare today for the advancing holiday season to make for better sleeping once Thanksgiving week comes around.
Topics: data science, concepts and strategy, content creation
What does every marketing guru, maven, expert, or wannabe expert always say? The money's in the list. That is true, but with some caveats. The strength of your email list is determined by several factors, including its cleanliness.
Topics: direct marketing, data science, concepts and strategy, content creation, Magnetic Marketing, Money
The actual value of automation is that it is more capable than humans could ever be to accomplish what today needs. With automation pushing the envelope of productivity in marketing per se, it more than capably provides the ability to scale.
Imagine, a single process that is so well-defined that once implemented can repeatedly produce until Infinitum, or until the desired outcome is reached. That’s the power of automating as many processes as possible.
Topics: data science, Business inelligence, success, Technology
I have been reading lately about the upcoming Web 3.0, "the semantic web" and I’m excited to see what’s in store for us. Remember the days of dial up connections?
Then we went from just text to graphics, video, streaming communications, media sharing, and so much more. The internet is continuing to grow up right before our eyes.
Evolution is a beautiful thing, no matter how small It may be. It could be as little as watching your house plant grow or witnessing the transformation of a city you once called home.
Topics: Systems and Processes, data science, concepts and strategy, customer experience, Technology
Last time we spoke of data mining to identify the perfect, high-yielding target audience you should be focusing most of your attention as far as the customer journey on the path to purchase goes.
This article carries on that thought process through to the next step; the present. But hold on, let’s talk a little bit more about what has been discovered and what can be done with it.
Topics: data science, traffic, Magnetic Marketing, Business Plan, Financial Education, Technology
Marketing is NOT all About the Future
Yesterday, today and tomorrow. If you listen to most marketers they will typically speak about the future, but it’s not all about only what’s ahead. Marketing is about the past, present, and future. That’s why it’s important to remember that your history matters. It’s more than just building the next campaign, especially if you convert suspects into prospects, into leads, into customers, clients or patients.
Topics: data science, traffic, inbound marketing, content creation, Magnetic Marketing, Business Plan, Technology
Dan is famous for teaching us that, "The money is in the list… You want to be in an ‘Income At Will’ position…
You need to build an iron fence around your herd…. You must magnetically attract the right people to you…”
So how do you do all of that?
Topics: data science, digital marketer, Magnetic Marketing, Marketing to affluent, Strategic Coach
Have you ever wondered which of your marketing strategies are working? You might have Facebook ads, Google, websites, and landing pages running your marketing strategies. How do you know which one is actually successfully generating you leads, and which one is just wasting your time and money? For all you know you might be getting all of your leads from Facebook ads and the rest are just taking your money or the other way around.
In his book NO B.S. Direct Response Marketing, Dan Kennedy, a most successful and influential marketer, explained all the rules in marketing. Rule number four from this book says, “There will be tracking, measurement and accountability” (page 37).
Topics: data science, inbound marketing, Magnetic Marketing, No BS, Databox Dashboard
The Ultimate Web Traffic Platform is made up of FOUR key elements.
Topics: Business Growth, Systems and Processes, Implementation, data science
In the “No BS Direct Marketing” book, (Page 14, Rule Number 4) Dan Kennedy says:
“You need real, hard facts and data to make good, intelligent marketing decisions. Making such decisions based on what you or your employees think is happening, feel, guess, have a sense of, etc. is stupid.
Tracking means accurately collecting all the information you need to determine what advertising is working and what isn’t. Which offer is pulling and which isn’t, what marketing has traction and what doesn’t. Tracking leads to knowing what your return on investment is for each dollar”.
Topics: Dan Kennedy, data science, Business inelligence
In this blog, we share what we learned from our reading and our experience. We publish two articles a week. Our blog editor David J. Dunworth reads, researches and interview industry experts to write these articles. We also get articles contributed by others that David publishes periodically to this blog. If you have a blog idea or blog article, kindly send it to ddunworth@elaunchers.com for review.
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If you click on this button and schedule a call with me, I will work with you on your business in a 60 to 90 minute session and help you map out your journey from your current state to your goal state. This session is a composite of principles I learned from Dan Kennedy's Magnetic Marketing, Hubspot's Inbound Marketing Methodology, Infusionsoft's Lifecycle Marketing Planner and Digital Marketer's Customer Value Optimization with Value Journey Canvas (CVO/VJC).
