A common phrase used by marketers is ‘call to action’ or the acronym CTA. Basically this means that after someone has read your content they come to a place in it which has a call to action asking them to do something, be that contact your business or buy the product or service you’re offering. …
6 Key Elements of a Successful Content Strategy for Small Business Owners
As a small business, one of the many challenges that you’ll face is how to stand out from the crowd – especially when that crowd includes big names in your industry with huge marketing budgets. One thing you can’t skimp on in order to meet your goals is a solid content strategy for your online …
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Email Marketing customer journey
We are often asked about the customer journey, a business asks “what happens if we give you our data, what do you then do” So lets use this post to explain the customer journey from a recent email campaign we ran for a new client. Firstly this client came to us as a result of …
5 Golden Steps to create a Sales Email Newsletter
Writing any kind of email newsletter can seem a hard task, writing one that converts can seem even harder making sure that its gets conversions, so these are our five golden steps to create a winning sales email newsletter. There are 5 Golden Steps to creating a Sales Email Newsletter: Subject Line – this is …
CRM to Create Crowdsourced Process Improvements
A well planned customer relationship management or CRM system can be a great differentiator for your growing business. If you have the ability early on to capture important information about the type of customers you have, their buying habits and interests and the ability to analyze and synthesize this information to your benefit, you have …
A/B Testing for modern email marketing
When a business has its email marketing strategy sorted the best way to see how each part of the strategy performs is to utilize A/B split testing and as you would expect mailPDQ allows you to do just that. This split testing allows you to test a multitude of differing variables, you’ll want to test things …
What is Beyond CRM for My Company?
The customer relationship management system or CRM is a powerful tool for managing all aspects of the customer experience. As a business concern starting out, one of the most important investments that you can make is in a CRM system capable of managing customer profiles, determining how best the business delivers on its promises and …
What makes a great email?
This is a question we are often asked, as though some form of ‘great’ will by default lead to a conversion/action by the recipient. So what is the secret what make a great email? Well we’d have to say in our experience it is a collection of different actions that when rolled into one email …
Should I Consider a Cloud Based CRM?
A customer relationship management system (CRM) can be the heart of your business. CRMs drive your interactions with customers, manage contacts and provide you with a way to increase sales and expand your customer base. You should consider as an emerging business how the inclusion of a CRM benefits your organization. What are some of …
Why your business needs a Google local business listing
As a small business owner, you should know how important your Google search rankings are. You probably have done at least some kind of SEO to increase your ranking and improve the traffic to your business’s website, but that might not be enough. Since Google searches don’t always cover geographic location, simply showing up in …
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How to get your emails opened and read
So you build a great email, send it to the right audience yet they haven’t opened it, why you may ask, well we think this can be split into three reasons why… It hasn’t been seen yet, maybe the recipient is just busy It has been ignored Its been seen and deleted without even being …
Why Content Marketing is Crucial in 2017
Any amount of research on the current online marketing climate will tell you that content marketing is key when building a website. When it comes to growing a successful business, generating well articulated, accurate, and target content is crucial to drawing in your target customers. Without well written content, you may find your business stagnating …