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How to Nail Every Type of Outreach

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Outreach is a huge aspect of business. All editors or owners of a company have gotten some form of outreach email. Even though several areas of outreach have been automated, there is still a need for manual outreach.

Here’s how you can improve each area of outreach.

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Reaching out to the person who makes the decisions is important. An insane amount of time can be wasted pitching a person without decision-making power. There are so many partnerships where a person might want final approval on the large decisions that are made.

Identifying the pain points of a potential customer can be done by email. Closing a sale is far easier when pitching only what a client or customer needs rather than pitching services or products that they do not. Upselling is one thing, but pushing additional spending can backfire.

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Human Design Is Your Key To Better Marketing

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Have you ever felt frustrated or bitter marketing your expertise? Felt like no one is listening? Learned strategies, followed them to a T, yet generated scattered results?

Those of us running smaller businesses, especially coaches and experts, have all been there. The sad reality is that most people get stuck in this survival mode for way too long. I admit that I have been there myself, and at times it felt like I had nothing to give. Despite all the facts supporting my successes working with clients in my own business, I struggled to get the feeling that I finally found my way, the way that feels good and attracts clients into my world with ease. 

All that started changing after I discovered the Human Design System, a roadmap to self-empowerment innovated decades ago by author and thinker Ra Uru Hu. At

How Travel Brands Must Deal With Reimagined Audience Archetypes

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It’s no longer a secret that we’re now living in the era of digital transformation. The travel industry has experienced significant changes as well, pushing advertisers and brands to consider new messaging, channels and approaches before campaign launches. 

After a long period of being locked up, travelers are ready to spend their savings. The recent increase in demand has caused travel companies to boost their marketing spend and carefully choose the right tone in their messaging. So what’s at the very heart of the travel-brand roadmap now?

Behavior changes should turn into marketing hypotheses 

The virus is still not eliminated completely, and anxiety levels are not dropping. The health implications of travel and safety precautions necessitate specific customer-experience strategies, including work with brand awareness, evaluation and post-purchase scenarios.  

Today, small-group trips are being prioritized as consumers become more selective of their environment

5 Mistakes to Avoid When Buying an Ad Agency

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As more companies rebound from the pandemic, advertising is sure to pick up. According to Zenith, ad spend will grow by 5.2 percent in 2022 to $652 billion. So if you work at an agency you love and have thought about buying it, now might be the right time. Just avoid running into the same errors that other buyers have experienced when executing an internal business sale. Here are the five biggest mistakes you could make:

1. Expecting the current owner to take the lead

The prospect of an internal sale is often introduced by an agency owner. That person might approach an employee or group of employees that seem like they’d be interested in buying the business. If you’re a prospective buyer and confirm your interest, the process of negotiating a deal will begin — unless you leave things up to

The Top SEO Trends for 2022

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A new year is a perfect opportunity to take a close look at your website and make sure your SEO is doing all the work it can be. Best SEO practices change frequently, depending on the almighty Google algorithm, the ways in which users approach their searches, and technology itself. If you’re going to take the time to do an SEO checkup, you need the most current information. Here’s my forecast for the top SEO trends for 2022.

Google’s EAT principle

Here’s the good news: Some things stay the same when it comes to SEO, and Google’s EAT principle is one of them. EAT stands for Expertise, Authority, and Trustworthiness. These factors help the search engine decide how to rank pages on the results page for a given search. EAT isn’t the almighty algorithm, but it’s the framework on which the algorithm

Digital Marketing is Crowded, So How Can Your Agency Dominate?

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Digital marketing has been a lucrative industry for the past couple of decades. Just about every business you can think of needs to have an online presence. Every online presence needs to be supported with a collection of marketing, advertising and PR strategies. Perhaps you were ahead of the curve or you have an incredibly talented team. If so, you’ve no doubt made a lot of money helping business owners with their search engine optimization (SEO), pay per click advertising (PPC), social media and other marketing efforts.

Of course, the high earning potential of the digital marketing industry has led to an interesting side effect; the online world is inundated with an overabundance of digital marketing agencies, gurus, experts and other authorities.

With so much direct competition, how can your digital marketing agency stand out?

Related: 4 Sure-Fire Digital Marketing Strategies

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