The task of adopting pricing strategies can be overwhelming for the manager or business owner who does not understand the nuances of selling to a particular market. For many, pricing is a summons to a land of confusion – where there are few, if any, absolutes to confirm that you have chosen the right game plan.

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Google Adwords can be a fantastic system if you have a game plan and know the rules. Otherwise, you can burn yourself really really bad. Before you get started, you should have your goals in mind. These goals will help guide your keyword selection as well as your ad text.  [click to continue…]

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Search Engine Marketing is one of the leading ways of landing traffic on a website. The overall goal is to get your website at the top of the rankings. There are a lot of different steps to take that will help reach this overall goal and get loads of traffic to your website. Here’s a quick look at some of the things you will need to know about search engine marketing.  [click to continue…]

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Market segmentation is a concept used in marketing and economics to identify subsets of a market. A subset or market segment is a group of customers or businesses that have many things in common and several elements that set them apart from the rest of the market.  [click to continue…]

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For many of our clients, Volcanic plays the role of marketing director and sometimes the entire marketing department. This role usually entails activities that fall into four core responsibilities: Leadership, Sales Support, Promotions & Client/Market Relations. To explore what each of these encompass, checkout the mind map below.  [click to continue…]

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What is email marketing? Email marketing is the a hub of permission marketing in the 21st century. The most common approach to email marketing is one-to-many, where you have a list of people and you’re sending them the similar or slightly customized emails. The type of level customization you’ll be able to do will be based on how much intel you have about the people on your list and how sophisticated your email marketing software is.

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Network marketing in today’s world can mean a few different things: Multi-Level Marketing, Networking or Network-Effect Marketing. The one thing they all have in common is they all put people at their center of their focus and leverage the personal relationships that they have with others. Let’s start with MLM.

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Mobile marketing is a new vehicle that is just in it’s infancy. Marketers are just now exploring the best ways to market to people using the millions of cell phones in use. Part of what is heating up the interest in mobile marketing is the explosion of smart phones such as iPhone, Android, Blackberry and Windows Mobile phones.

Smart phones represent the fastest growing segment of the mobile telecommunication industry and the fact that almost all of them are equipped with GPS signals and connected to the internet at moderately high speeds makes them prime targets for marketers to start exploring how to use them to win more clients.

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