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4 Ways To Get Customers Without Facebook or Instagram Ads

  Facebook is a pain in the ass. I’d happily close my account if it didn’t work so damn well as an advertising platform for our clients. Bottom line, we’re getting customers from Facebook and Instagram so it’s hard to leave. It’s actually gotten a little too easy to sit back and rely on big …

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Is Content Marketing Worth It?

This post is from The Recipe, my weekly email where thousands of entrepreneurs get brand and marketing tips to help them grow their business. It’s easy to get discouraged by content marketing. If you’re not getting subscribers to your email, followers on social, or likes on your posts it can feel like you’re talking to …

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How To Light Your Company’s Growth Strategy On Fire

VF Corp bought Supreme for $2.1 billion last week. Nerdy Nuts has gone from $4k to $500k per month in sales. The new PlayStation 5 keeps shutting down the Walmart site and is going for over $1k on eBay. What do all of these success stories have in common? They’ve connected product, brand, marketing, and …

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How Much Time A Marketing Agency Should Invest In Marketing

Do you wake up and start fighting fires and addressing client emails? I feel you. I did the same thing for 13 years.  I was always available. When a client emailed, I was back in their inbox within seconds. I’d drop whatever I was doing to address their needs. I had intentions of working on …

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Branding vs Marketing: The Role Of Each In Growing Your Business

You came here to learn the difference between branding and marketing. I won’t dance around the subject. Let’s use sports to make the explanation easy. Marketing gets you to buy a ticket to your first game with a clever, “First 5 beers free” promotion. Ok, it’s probably a first beer free, but I’m allowed to …

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Demand Generation: The Best Way To Grow Any Business

Let’s start with what demand generation is not—it’s not growth hacks or shortcuts. Real demand generation takes a coordinated effort across your organization. When properly planned and executed, it’ll pave the way for market domination. Now let’s look at a proper definition before we dig into how you can use the four pillars of demand …

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You’re Wasting Your Time On Content Marketing Without This 1 Thing

A successful content marketing strategy starts with defining who you want to reach, what you’ll provide these people, and how they’ll benefit from consuming your content. Sounds easy enough, but it’s deceivingly difficult to set a subject and stick to it every week. That’s where this new thing called a content manifesto comes into play. …

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Email marketing best practices for a wildly successful email newsletter.

I know, that’s an odd proclamation to say that I love email, but stick with me for a minute. When I’m sending my weekly email newsletter, I’m not worried about keywords, SEO, word count, curation, or algorithms. It’s all about following the below email marketing best practices and providing value in however many words that …

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