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Email Marketing – You’re Doing It Wrong; 18 Awesome Tips

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Email marketing is consistently ranked as the best channel in terms of return on investment. 68% of companies rate the channel as ‘good’ or ‘excellent’. (1) For every $1 spent, email marketing generates $38 in ROI. (2) Email is 40 times more effective at acquiring new customers than Facebook or Twitter. (3) In case you need further convincing, try this read: Master Email Marketing Because It’s Not Going Anywhere For the last 20 years of changing marketing trends, email has remained as popular as ever. You need to master email marketing: It’s one marketing technique you won’t say goodbye to in just a few… 

Social Media – Trends, Attracting Followers and Instagram Changes

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You’ve started your social media accounts. You’re posting. You’re tweeting. You’re pinning. But you’re not attracting new followers. This week among the 6 social media reads, ways to attract followers. Plus trends, changes to Instagram and learning from other’s mistakes: 13 Ways Your Business Can Attract More Social Media Followers Social media and marketing pros share their advice for how small businesses can get more followers and likes on Facebook, Twitter and their LinkedIn company pages. Social Media Trends to Watch In order to stay on top of your marketing game, you need to know what’s going on in this… 

Email Marketing – Learn From Mistakes and Grow Lists Thru Social

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Email marketing is consistently ranked as the best channel in terms of return on investment. 68% of companies rate the channel as ‘good’ or ‘excellent’. (1) For every $1 spent, email marketing generates $38 in ROI. (2) Email is 40 times more effective at acquiring new customers than Facebook or Twitter. (3) How do you maximize this marketing strategy? Here’s 8 articles / 36 tips to help with your email marketing: 5 Costly Email Marketing Mistakes to Avoid At All Costs mistakes can cost the company or person sending them some serious credibility points. To prevent this from happening to you,… 

Social Media – Pay Attention to Customers and 17 Other Tips

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You have your social media accounts set-up. Facebook and Twitter are branded. LinkedIn is complete. You have your goals. A calendar of rich content is planned. You’re posting. But that’s it. There’s no engagement. We’ve long commented on the need for you or your staff to engage with your customers. You can read those thoughts in Five Things You Should Be Doing, Social – Verb People Engaging Pt. 1, and Social – Verb People Engaging Pt. 2 Just when we thought we were the lone voice in the wilderness, Chad Brooks pens Are You Paying Enough Attention to Customers on Social… 

Email Marketing – Learn from These 18 Mistakes

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Your email marketing campaigns are underway! You have a well-designed email with a call-to-action or two. Creative, well thought-out subject lines. You’re not making mistakes are you? We start this week’s collection of email reads with 18 mistakes. As they say, “learn from your mistakes.” Here, others make the mistakes and you learn! Business: Top Five Email Marketing Mistakes That Will Cost You Five major email marketing mistakes you need to avoid as these could cost you in terms of reputation, email marketing service providers, potential clients and good email delivery.   6 Bulk Email Marketing Mistakes That Everybody Makes… 

Oklahoma Conference on Tourism Summary

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The Oklahoma Conference on Tourism was held yesterday in Oklahoma City. Great sessions on branding, social media, customer service, motorcoach marketing, festival and events marketing, agritourism, destination development, and attracting Gen Y (millennials) to your destination. Naturally, quite a few ‘little nuggets’ of take-aways… Secret to #socialmedia #marketing per @SheilaS of @TourismCurrents: “Work your butt off!” 3 times to market on #socialmedia: before, during and after. Too many forget last two and (social media) account goes cold. @SheilaS Your #CVB is not reaching #millennials. No app. Website (is) not mobile friendly. (You need to) treat #socialmedia like traditional media. “Don’t discount a… 

Social Media – Checklist, Acronyms, Budget and Helpful Apps

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You’re told you can market your business for no money on social media. (In this collection, we have a link to a video that says that.) So you want to get started. Start here: Your Essential Social Media Checklist Replace “actor” with your industry and go through the “essential social media checklist… (that) will help you create social media accounts that more clearly reflect who you are, help grow your fan base, and build lasting industry relationships.” Now learn these: Social Media Acronyms That All Marketers Should Know (The) comprehensive list of the latest social media acronyms will help you survive your… 

Email Marketing – 11 Tips and How Email is Like Elections

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Your email marketing campaigns are underway! You have a well-designed email with a call-to-action or two. Creative, well thought-out subject lines. Are your campaigns working? Wait! You’re not utilizing email in your marketing? Huffington Post recommends email as one of 3 Places to Put Your Marketing Dollars Instead of Social Media Social media ROI isn’t close to the effectiveness of email marketing. Period. To help with your campaigns… 6 Email Marketing Challenges And How To Overcome Them Let’s take a closer look at the biggest issues plaguing marketers and the solutions for each. 5 Ways a Patient E-newsletter Will Make Your… 

Social Media – 25 Trends and Sites to Watch; 38 Other Tips

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As they say, “why recreate the wheel?” and when it comes to social media practices, it’s okay to watch popular or successful accounts, see what they’re doing and try to emulate. If you truly struggle with your campaigns, take a look at these first two articles to learn how you might “do” social media better: 20 Popular Social Media Sites Right Now (The article) profiled 20 most popular social media websites so you can now make informed marketing decisions. 5 Trends from Social Media Marketing World 2016 Here are five of the biggest trends discussed at Social Media Marketing World.…