How Can Inbound Marketing Help a Local Small Business Grow?

Posted by Mary Planding on Thu, Aug 30, 2012

Whenever I go to Chamber of Commerce, BNI, LeTip and other business leaders' meetings, the one question I am always asked is "What can inbound marketing do better for me? I'm a local business and all my customers are within 50 miles. I advertise in local publications and on local websites. I run radio ads and mail postcards with specials every month. What can inbound marketing do that these things can't?"

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Tags: Social Media, content marketing, search marketing, helping businesses grow, lead generation, return on marketing investment, marketing funnel

What Is A Marketing Funnel? What's A Sales Funnel?

Posted by Mary Planding on Thu, Jul 19, 2012

A marketing (or sales) funnel is a concept used to show how a marketing and sales team will guide an individual, who has expressed a problem / need, to choose a specific solution. 

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Tags: Lead conversion, marketing automation software, lead nurturing, sales funnel strategy, return on marketing investment, marketing funnel, sales funnel

Marketing ROI - Have We Finally Found The Holy Grail?

Posted by Mary Planding on Tue, Apr 03, 2012

Calculating marketing return on investment has been a quest reminiscent of Sir Perceval and the Holy Grail. Until now.

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Tags: marketing automation software, return on marketing investment, marketing ROI, ROMI, markting ROI, marketing automation