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    Anyone Use Lead Forensics?

    wow... this thread took off in a bit of detail, I hope it helped people make some good decisions regarding Lead Forensics. Im not a fan of lead forensics, they used to call me all the time.... I managed to find something similar: https://www.traffictruffle.com/ I've been using it on the free...
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    Web design marketing

    One of the most competitive areas out there and one of the most "expensive" on PPC if you get it wrong... Welcome to the club! PPC is by far the best way to start bringing in leads and as fisicx says you need to constantly test different headlines, landing pages, content etc to get going in the...
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    Would anyone be able to help me out with a sales marketing letter ?

    Scott Chapman is very good. chapmancopywriting.co.uk My first Direct Mail campaign was done in conjunction with Scott and we got about a 5% response rate from a 3 step letter sequence. Please consider using a sequence rather than just a 1-off letter as they DO work better. Drayton Bird and...
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    Do flyers / leaflets still work?

    How will you be measuring the success? Have you sent them to a specific URL or number to call so that you can track it? Leaflets do have there place, but remember, Market, Message, Media... I believe that the approach by Ashley Price will have a better success rate than yours as its more hard...
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    cold calling questions

    You could buy the data from somewhere like corpdata.co.uk you can get very accurate data, say around 1000 names, titles and phone numbers, for less than £200 + vat. If you dont want to sped the money, then doing some quick research on Linkedin, Facebook or even companycheck.co.uk might shed...
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    Employing someone for social media..... Is it worth it?

    Great advice from Ethical PR.... It all comes down to why are you using social media? To build authority? To sell? You could schedule it using some software such as www.hootsuite.com and schedule your content each sunday night for the week ahead. Fun fact: The lifetime of a tweet is less than...
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    Need advice on how to get my business 'out there'

    Hi, Without over complicating marketing, I keep it focused to the 3 classic Dan Kennedy elements: Market Media Message To find car dealerships specificially I would recommend find a great list of name sand numbers etc and write them a well targetted letter. I swear by direct mail. You say you...
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    Can anyone recommend a good SEO service?

    Scott D Smith www.scottdsmith.co.uk great guy and posts on here, have worked wiht him for years and consistantly gets top rankings on Google no matter the algo update!
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    How to find New Businesses?

    Hi Claire, I would suggest trying www.corpdata.co.uk They have lists of businesses of all sizes and trading history, might be a good place to start. Creditsafe are also good, but the support that corpdata offer is incredible.
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    Should we, can we, terminate this over-budget, over-schedule project?

    Sounds like a terrible case of Scope Creep! You have a bit of a bonus here.... if I read that correctly then you have a client happy to pay for changes...! Which in my experience is not very common! I would suggest completing the initial job agreed.... It sounds like you will have to negoitate...
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    PCI Compliance

    Is it Security Metrics doing the PCI compliance? One thing that can make a difference is whether you use "remote" or "hosted" payment pages. If when someone is entering their card details, you redirect them to sagepay, to an HTTPS/SSL protected domain then you may find you have very little PCI...
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    Struggling bridal busines

    Hi, If you paid to be on the first page of Google - And this is PPC and not organic SEO - Then you might want to take a look at the keywords that you are paying for and analysing the data behind it to see if you are wasting money on the wrong keywords or getting high bounce rates etc.... If...
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    List Brokers - Is this possible?

    I was listening to Dan Kennedy and he mentioned some pretty specific lists that he says are available. Does anyone know a list broker who can, or if this is even possible, get data on: - A list of people who have attended certain trade shows - A list of people who subscribe to certain industry...
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    Anyone else watching the Dan Kennedy/Chris Cardell broadcast live in 25 minutes?

    U Usually the way - I might give it a watch and see. What do you think to their products - Ever purchased/used any?
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    Young Business Owners/Entrepreneurs - Networking

    Im currently looking for the same in the Birmingham/Wolverhampton area.... If anyone can recommend any groups please do let me know! * Sorry to hijack the thread a little *