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Guidance for courageous entrepreneurs who want to take their business to new heights.

The Secret Ingredient to Great Management

The Secret Ingredient to Great Management

EOS®, the Entrepreneurial Operating System, is a complete set of simple concepts and practical tools that has helped thousands of entrepreneurs get what they want from their businesses. Today we share an article taken from The EOS Blog: The Secret Ingredient to Great Management. Kevin Krusiewicz is a Fractional Chief Marketing Officer who works with US companies that run on EOS®. He has been helping for-profits and nonprofits build their brand, spread their message, and generate leads since 1999.

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7 Email Cadence Best Practices for Better Email Marketing Campaigns

7 Email Cadence Best Practices for Better Email Marketing Campaigns

Email’s practical use extends beyond the personal — it can also be one of the most effective ways for businesses to convert leads into buyers. An email campaign is an effective strategy for turning a prospect’s interest into hard sales.One of the most crucial components of the email campaign process is email cadence: the pulse, pace, and playbook of a successful email campaign. Let’s take a deeper dive into what an email cadence is on this HubSpot Article.

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What kind of marketing hire is best to help you reach your company goals?

What kind of marketing hire is best to help you reach your company goals?

Marketing is crucial to growing a small-to-medium-size business, but when it comes to hiring an employee, agency, consultant, or freelancer there’s no one-size-fits-all solution. This article will help you define your decision-making criteria and understand the pros and cons of each engagement model, so you don’t waste precious time and money in reaching your goals.

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How to Make a Webinar that Works in 2020

How to Make a Webinar that Works in 2020

It’s 2020, and the way our prospects and customers find and consume content has certainly changed. While I would love to say that there’s one new, highly optimal content format that all marketers should use for lead generation instead of older formats, I can’t — it’s a little more complicated than that. Instead, I’ll make a bold claim: webinars aren’t dead, and neither is the PDF ebook.

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Ecommerce Conversion Rates Across Industries (And How to Raise Yours)

Ecommerce Conversion Rates Across Industries (And How to Raise Yours)

Ecommerce is the ultimate optimization puzzle — from individual product pages to filtering mechanisms to your checkout sequence, every choice you make has the potential to have a massive impact on the sale of a given product. But when you’re making changes all over your site, how can you know that, overall, those changes are adding up to customer and revenue growth?

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How to Create a Successful Blog Strategy: A Step-by-Step Guide

How to Create a Successful Blog Strategy: A Step-by-Step Guide

Did you know that 55% of marketers say blogging is their top inbound marketing priority? Did you also know that these marketers are 13x more likely to see positive ROI than marketers who don’t invest in blogging? So, how can you create and maintain a successful blog that provides your target audience with worthwhile and high-quality content, all while building your business’s reputation as an industry thought-leader and expert?

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