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Need a Shot in the Arm to Drive More Leads? Crush it with LinkedIn Ads

SBI Growth

Marketing leaders can finish the year strong by shifting ad dollars to LinkedIn Advertising. This time, they added a 30 second video ad format to their advertising platform. The self-serve advertising platform is perfect for marketing budgets that fall below meeting the minimum 25K spend per quarter requirement by LinkedIn.

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How to Increase Profit Margin: 5 Strategies for Any Business

Hubspot Sales

Every company has its eyes on its bottom line and, in turn, is mindful of its profit margin — the most definitive metric of how successful your sales efforts are, relative to your expenses. Ways to Increase Profit Margin. If you want to improve your profit margin, you can't go in blind. Focus on customer retention.

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Do You Sell Using a “Push” or “Pull” Strategy?

The Sales Hunter

If we shift to a “pull” strategy, I feel we will have a much higher close ratio and, better yet, do it with a higher margin. “Push” marketing is focused around loading up the channel, advertising heavily and trying to convince the customer to buy.

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When does Christmas start? When does Christmas end?

Jeffrey Gitomer

My concept of what will win is go back a decade, look at what won then, add the internet and email messaging, create a stock of inventory of WHAT PEOPLE WANT – not just what you buy cheap, and are looking to sell at a great margin – and let one customer tell another customer how great your merchandise is.

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3 Reasons to Market Your Small Business Like A Drug Dealer

Sales and Marketing Management

Although drug dealers generally don’t spend a lot of money on marketing and advertising, they are still able to run a very profitable business. They are extremely proficient at guerilla marketing, an advertising strategy that focuses on low-cost unconventional marketing tactics that yield maximum results. Drug dealers make friends.

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Marketing Goes Way Beyond Paid Advertising

Increase Sales

Back in the Mad Men days, marketing was just paid advertising. Pay big bucks for some high price advertising firm to get you recognized and you will achieve success. You no longer have to pay big bucks for paid advertising to attract attention. What is your gross profit margin? Networking including trade shows.

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It’s Time to Pay Marketers Based On Their Financial Impact

Sales and Marketing Management

The top priority for every marketing leader should be making every effort measurable and impactful (using the same metrics expected from sales: revenue margin and cashflow). You should look forward to the opportunity to show up in the boardroom with the analytics tying your investments to improvements in revenue, margin and cash flow.