Tools to Improve Productivity for Marketers, Plus a Ghost Town and Mine, and a Delicious Holiday Dessert
Tips to help entrepreneurs manage marketing
🎞Featured Post
Entrepreneurs and small businesses can enjoy the same big benefits of large enterprises with new, simple, profitable habits by employing a CRM system. Learn more…
✂Curations
💡 77 tagline examples that are absolute advertising gold. Click button below to read them all.
💡 Catharine O’Leary, ‘The Quiz Queen,’ (@catharineoleary) has, understandably, one of the best landing page designs for a quiz.
Quizzes are perhaps one of the most overlooked types of lead magnets for capturing the email addresses of prospects. Another important benefit of quizzes is by their very nature they begin to segment prospects by interests.
💡 Death by PowerPoint!
We’ve all heard about this, but many of us still rely on the basic PowerPoint deck for presentations.
Enter Brigitte Callahan, a passionate designer and one smart cookie, who coaches us PowerPoint zombies to embrace color and images to wake up the limpic (read: emotional) brain of our audiences.
Learn more…
🔧Marketing Tool
Missinglettr is incredible! What makes this social media scheduling platform different is that it puts your content in front of others to share while you curate content you want to share. Program posts to publish and republish for the next 12 months. Use my referral link to get a $50 credit (*aff.link) towards your subscription!
🆓Freebie
Zoho CRM allows you to connect with your customers through multiple channels, centralizing information to empower your sales team to have contextual, meaningful conversations with your prospects.
It’s a great way to set reminders for follow-up with your prospects and clients. Record and view all interactions in one place.
Grab the free version (*aff. link).
Zoho’s platform offers email, project management and integration with 45 applications to run your business.
Should you buy anything beyond the free bundle, I may be compensated at no extra cost to you.
🛣 Roads Less Traveled: Castle Dome
Ghost Town, Mine Tour, and Museum
Visit Castle Dome Mine, Museum, and Ghost Town for preserved Old West town and tours. Today, entrepreneurs can work from anywhere, so why not take in a ghost town and mine along the way?
New This Month
📚Learn how to grow your business 1) without ad expenditures, and later 2) while keeping costs in line with sales.
“When I talk to small business owners about marketing, they express concern about wasting precious time and failing to get positive results. If you set goals, map out your plan, execute well and measure results, you’ll achieve success.”
Rockin’ ROI: How to Bootstrap Ecommerce with Performance-Based Marketing
Chapters of “Rockin’ ROI: How to Bootstrap Ecommerce with Performance-Based Marketing” are now live.
⏩Next Time
💡 “A little bit of ounce of prevention is worth really a pound of infringement.”
Marc Hankin, patent attorney
One of my favorite interviews is so informative for all creators: writers, podcasters, and artists. Learn how to protect your intellectual property.
🍮Recipe: Bread pudding
Don’t leave without my new favorite recipe for Bread Pudding made with Panettone and a Whiskey Sauce. Yummy!
Here’s a delicious, heart-warming easy recipe for the holidays or any special occasion. Make-ahead dessert takes a little stress of creating memorable holiday meals for crowds.
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