• Earn Money with iContact’s Relaunched Referral Partner Program

    Earn Money with iContact’s Relaunched Referral Partner Program

    Referral marketing is a powerful monetization strategy that can help businesses grow and succeed. It involves encouraging prospects and customers to purchase products and services you are promoting in exchange for a reward. The reward can be monetary commissions, swag, discounts and more. Referral marketing has many benefits: Additional revenue stream By promoting products and…

  • HMBT #124: Strategy vs Tactics with Josh Dodson

    Josh Dodson is my guest today. He is the Director of Research and integrated Marketing at VisionPoint Marketing. We discussed marketing strategy vs. tactics. Strategy is a guiding principle for the tactics you use in marketing. Tactics are the specific thing you are doing with marketing. It could be Facebook ads or maybe Google Adwords.…

  • HMBT #123: The Power of Referrals

    The power of referrals. Most people rely on word-of-mouth referrals. That means that they are being reactive and waiting for those referrals to roll in. Even though word of mouth referrals can be enough, you can always have more and more money. Referrals are the most powerful form of obtaining customers, because it is free.…

  • HMBT #121: The Book Shepherd, Diana Needham

      Diana M. Needham, The Book Shepherd, joins me today. I met Diana at a LinkedIn Live networking event and really enjoyed speaking with her and learning how she helps people get books published. Diana works with her clients to not only write a book, but market it, and obtain the result that they really…

  • Hank’s Marketing and Business Tip #93: John Hayes Discusses the Holy Trinity of Marketing

    John Hayes Joins me from Portugal but lives in Lincolnshire England. He is a marketing strategist and author of the Becoming the Expert series of books. He discusses the holy trinity of marketing: blogging, email marketing, and social media. Your marketing starts with branding your company on your blog, then use email marketing and social…

  • Hanks Marketing and Business Tip #21: Value

    Transcription: This is Hank Hoffmeier with your Marketing and Business Tip for you today. One thing you want to make sure you are doing is providing value for your customers and clients. And this may be providing information or maybe product for free. It does have to be expensive or does not have to be lengthy.…

  • How to Use Social Media as a Landscaper

    How to Use Social Media as a Landscaper

    As Spring approaches, It reminds me of when I was excited to go and hand out flyers door to door to obtain clients. I also put some of those flyers on mailboxes, hoping that I would not received a warning or a fine, since it is not legal to do so.  Then there was the…

  • Podcast: Discussing Business and Marketing

    I recently appeared on Triangle Cast, where Jason Guigno and Corey Jeffreys explore the ways that people bend, break, or hack the rules to live a life of their choosing. This may include entrepreneurs, business leaders, and people from all walks of life.  During  Episode 8, there was a section where we discussed starting a business and being worried because…

  • Use Facebook to Re-Engage With Your Email Subscribers

    Use Facebook to Re-Engage With Your Email Subscribers

    As consumers, we all get busy. We all tend to put off making decisions, especially when it comes to shopping. Sometimes a little reminder helps.  These days, people have their attention pulled in many different directions. Marketing on one channel, such as email, is limiting your conversion potential.  You should be using other platforms to…

  • Google May Have Launched Ad Price Extensions

    Google May Have Launched Ad Price Extensions

      Search Engine Land is reporting that Google may have started to let price extensions for mobile text ads out of beta. Google started testing these ads back in July.  Now advertisers can use extensions to offer prices for procucts or services in ads. Advertisers can use the extensions to call out product or service offerings and starting…