A marketing lesson from the streets of Hanoi, Vietnam

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This week I am working out of Hanoi, Vietnam and it is just as insane as everyone told me it would be.

The street food is amazing, but is served on barely washed plates at tiny, playground-sized dirty tables, literally on the filthy back streets of this amazing city.

The people are very warm and friendly, but if you want to see real salesmanship in action, just wander the

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5 Stages of Market Sophistication for Effective Advertising

By taking the time to research on your market sophistication and knowing where your company stands, it will allow you to construct a marketing angle to efficiently and effectively capture the market you want. Source: 5 Stages of Market Sophistication for Effective Advertising

The 4 personality types…

why some tattooed ex-musician thinks your niching isn't working anymore

There was a great post by Mitch Miller the other day about niching & paid traffic, and how he thinks you’re doing it wrong. (Mitch has a pretty interesting past. Well worth a read.)

And he’s right, you know. (Me too until I read his post, by the way…)

Mitch is essentially saying:

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How to leave a great voicemail

I’m not sure if you can still do this with answerphones… …but about 5 years ago, you would get the option to re-record the voicemail you just left, at the end of the call. For example, if you called an Orange mobile number and left a voicemail, after a few seconds of silence, the recorded …

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Goals Feature In ActiveCampaign

If you’re an Active Campaign user, you’ll probably already know that the relatively new feature ‘Goals’ are revolutionising how we marketing funnels. Here’s a small excerpt from Active Campaign guru Barry Moore on how goals work. [responsive_video type=’youtube’ hide_related=’1′ hide_logo=’1′ hide_controls=’0′ hide_title=’1′ hide_fullscreen=’0′ autoplay=’1′]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OafkGSv_fFA[/responsive_video]

Expand all your AdWords ads in 30 seconds flat…

Want a head start in making the shift to expanded text ads in AdWords? Columnist Frederick Vallaeys has an AdWords script that pulls information from your SEO titles and meta descriptions. See the full article here: Expand all your AdWords ads in 30 seconds flat — Search Engine Land: News & Info About SEO, PPC, SEM, …

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