Marketing & Sales

EFFECTIVE LANDING PAGE DESIGN

Posted on by Dean Sutton in Business, Marketing & Sales | 2 Comments

It’s time to turn down the suck, the noise, the jargon, the corporate speak and industry terminology. Many make the mistake of spearheading design with a corporate brain, saying all you can and think you need to, so your customer really “gets it”. Instead, it’s advantageous to design with your ideal customers’ brain. What frame of reference do they use? Often times, your visitors speak in terms of end result or feeling, and the proprietor gets caught up in features and benefits and technical listings. Ensure what they are looking for is how you are delivering it. They want simplicity that depicts a solution to their want/desire/need/problem. Read more

MEASURE TO IMPROVE

Posted on by Dean Sutton in Business, Entrepreneurship, Marketing & Sales, Mindset and Theory, Random | Leave a comment


The old adage “measure twice and cut once” rings true as basic but pivotal advice for all.

So does: “you can’t improve what you don’t measure”.
Not just for a contractor with a saw or a tailor with sheers;
Their neglect could cause a door to barely shut, or your suit pants to be too short, exposing your white ankle socks that you should not be wearing.
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PLAN THEN SHARE, DON’T SCARE

Posted on by Dean Sutton in Digital Technology and Social Media, Marketing & Sales | 2 Comments

Internet marketing, notably Social Media, is a vast arena of open sourced, bi-directional communication that encourages transparency. Simple push selling and promotion will not earn you your scouts badge, and you can’t jump in the water with one foot out and one foot in. It comes up quite often, so here is a few brief things to mull over if you’re thinking of hopping aboard the online bandwagon. (you haven’t already?)
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10 ONLINE ADVERTISING QUESTIONS

Posted on by Dean Sutton in Business, Marketing & Sales | 2 Comments

I have edited this post, as it was very old and the stats clearly change with the frequency of a Sports Illustrated swimsuit models’ stringy-thing. Here is a quick post by Forbes magazine, that sheds some light on the advertising industry, and how its even poised to take over TV ad revenue…

In the event of a planning a first-time online advertising initiative, there are commonly 10 similar questions that are posed to an agency by a new advertiser:

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