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Building a Growth Engine, Part 5: Referral

In the first four parts of this series, we've talked a lot about how to bring in new direct customers. These are people who heard about your business either through your marketing campaigns, or through some other kind of exposure, perhaps on your social media accounts or elsewhere on the internet. This method of acquiring customers can be quite labor-intensive, not to mention expensive, and when you factor in attrition, sometimes businesses find that they're lucky if they get any growth at all past a modest user base.

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Building a Growth Engine, Part 4: Retention

Now that we've covered the three As of the Pirate Funnel - awarenessacquisition, and activation - it's time to move forward to the R steps.  This half of the funnel is where visitors turn to paying customers, and where that customer base grows to the point where your business can thrive.  The first of these steps, perhaps somewhat surprisingly, is retention.

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Building a Growth Engine, Part 1: Awareness

As a business owner or startup founder, you know firsthand how important it is to grow a loyal and active customer base. The pressure to go from zero to self-sustaining is enormous, especially if you're a small enterprise starting with a modest marketing budget. Fast growth is the buoy that will keep your business afloat, and amassing that critical customer base is what growth hacking (or growth marketing) is all about.

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Why Digital” Is Not the Key to Your Digital Marketing Strategy”

It's no secret that where modern marketing is concerned, digital is where it's at. Over the past twenty years or so, companies have slowly shed their traditional marketing tactics in favour of email, web advertising, and more recently, social media. That said, enough time has passed since the dawn of digital marking that it is no…

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This Is Why You Need to Optimize for Voice Search Now

It's estimated that by next year, nearly a third of web browsing will be done without a screen, and half of all searches will be conducted by voice. While there's no way to predict if those exact numbers will play out in that precise time frame, the trend is certainly apparent: voice search is becoming more and more a part of our everyday lives. 

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Four Steps to Finding Your Social Media Utopia

It's every marketer's dream: having a captive audience who are completely on board and ready to hear what you have to say. It may seem impossible, but with the latest trends in the evolution of social media, marketers now have a chance to create true communities like never before. But how can you move from traditional marketing strategies into this more socially-driven landscape?  In order to make the most of this important shift, you need to incorporate these four elements.

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Four Reasons Why Integrating Your Marketing Strategy Is Essential

As you start reviewing your marketing results for 2018 and preparing for 2019, one of the questions you want to ask is how you can make the process more efficient in the year ahead.  An integrated marketing strategy is one where you consolidate your efforts on every front and create an overall arc, rather than just looking at each aspect of marketing on its own.  Here are the four main benefits of this approach:

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How to Allocate Your Marketing Budget for 2019

Last week, we talked about some practical tips on how to start preparing your 2019 marketing strategy. Having goals and taking steps toward them is important, but of course any serious plan is going to require some funds to back it up.  So how do you know how much you need to set aside to reach each of your digital marketing goals for next year?  Here are some tips on how to portion out your marketing budget.

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