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Let’s say you have a startup or a small business with a brilliant product or service.  Effectively marketing the product/service is the only way one can go about ensuring a loyal base of customers. At this point, it is imperative to have a budget for marketing, in other words, an amount of money that is earmarked for marketing. This budget can be utilized towards paid advertising, generating web/social media content, social media promotions and more. Among the working costs of a company, the marketing budget accounts for about 11% on average, according to WebStrategies, Inc 

We believe that marketing is made up of five core elements. Arts, Language, Time, Data and Money. 

While you need an artistic brain and an understanding of buying psychology to be creative on arts and language front, deals are made of time, data and money. Every marketer, regardless of their background and their current role in marketing must understand the basic marketing math.

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).

I was invited to be a guest of Dr. Greg Wych at a dental event where Dan Kennedy was speaking. Dan spoke for about 4 hours, break and another 2 hours. These are my notes from the event. I also re-examined the handout packet and resynthesized my notes to make sure I did not miss anything. There are two parts to this map. On the right you will find assets on the subject of: FOUND MONEY!: How to plug holes in the money bucket with internal marketing. On the left you will find assets on the subject of PATIENT MULTIFICATION: How to grow the practice and meet new patient needs from within, with internal marketing.

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I bought Magnetic Marketing in 2009 and it changed my life. Here's why Magnetic Marketing is so close to my heart.

You may know my company eLaunchers.com as one of the top digital marketing agencies in the U.S. But it didn’t start that way.

Years ago when I launched out on my own, I had the energy and enthusiasm to succeed. But not the knowledge In the early days, I’d work like a rented mule late into the night doing what I thought would help a client grow their business.

But back then, the kind of results I wanted for myself and MUST deliver for my clients, just weren’t there. The early years were a low point in my life and my career.

Then I met Dan Kennedy...

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It was June 2012 in Cleveland and after the event we all went to the racetrack with Dan Kennedy. While everyone was having fun, I found a quiet moment with Dan and asked him:

"Dan, in your book on Time Management; you are talking about some EXTREME control measure on access to your time. This is easy for YOU, because you are Dan Kennedy. For a small, emerging business trying to drum up business, I need to make myself available when a prospect wants to talk to me. Exactly how do you suppose I apply the principles of time management in your book? I am exactly opposite of what you are recommending. I respond to email within minutes, I am almost always available to take a call from prospects and client 8AM to 10PM 7 days a week and my clients sincerely appreciate such availability.