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At small businesses, it’s busy at the top

Bop Design: Hiring some employees, but long days for the owners Jeremy Durant and his wife, Kara Jensen, established Bop Design after he was laid off from a creative agency in 2008. “We noticed there was such a need among small businesses that are professional services companies for effective marketing,” Durant said. Bop Design soon.

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Why Website Design is Important

You may ask yourself why seek help updating your current company website? Yes, your current company website looks outdated compared to the competition but does a credible, compelling website design really matter? Reluctantly, you seek out a design firm to give your firm’s website a facelift, but you are not completely convinced that a new.

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Email Marketing- Lead Generation and Nurturing

Email marketing has two objectives: lead generation or lead nurturing. We recommend two different email marketing approaches for each. We will discuss each tactic below- Email Marketing as Lead Generation Email can be an effective prospecting tactic that can generate new ideal customer leads. When emailing as a lead generation tactic, please remember the following-.

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Decisions Rooted In Confidence

As the economy turns downward again, what lessons have we learned as small business owners from the 2008 “Great Recession”? Fortunately most of us have not forgotten our successes and mistakes over the brief years since 2008. There are three lessons that I think are best practices for any business as they navigate through this.

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Identify & Promote Your Differences

Today’s market is all about creating customized products and services designed to fit a select group of individual needs and tastes. There are very few generic products and services that can survive as “one size fits all” types of solution – most people want a solution that meets their unique needs. This can be a.

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Monologue to Dialogue

Up until 5 years ago advertising has essentially been a monologue, a one-sided conversation with the advertiser only speaking to the target audience. There was very little conversation. The goal of advertising was to create a resonating brand message and repeat it as much as possible so that the company’s message was “branded” in the.

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Moving Opportunities through the Funnel

In sales and marketing, the focus should always be on the opportunity funnel. Unfortunately in many small businesses, there can be a disconnect between the sales and marketing department. Sales and marketing’s objectives are not always aligned and because of this, there can be two competing/contradicting funnels instead of one formidable funnel. The “sales funnel”.

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Website: Testing, Testing and more Testing

In my most recent blog post, “Take the Guesswork Out of Web Design,” you learned how to determine the “hot spots”, or highly clickable, areas of your website.  Now we will delve deeper into the inner workings of your website visitor by creating test webpages. Google has released another easy-to-use tool, the Google Optimizer (www.google.com/websiteoptimizer). .

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Marketing Tips as a Sustainability Firm

As a company that wants to position its brand as sustainable, green or environmentally friendly, a company must lead by example. Practicing what you preach is critical in marketing a sustainable company. If your firm is truly sustainable, all aspects of your business must be environmentally friendly – from business materials to communications tools to.