One of my most important rules in life is “different is always better.” If you’re trying to do what everyone else is doing–with your product, with your message, with your hair style–then you’re boring. And boring isn’t going to drive a lot of success in your life.
Unfortunately, it’s not advice that’s always easy to follow. So here are three ideas to get you going.
I can now scan my breakfast fruit.
You can scan my business card as well. At the risk of sounding quite shallow, the main reason I added a QR code to my card is because it is a cool conversation piece. I get a lot of comments when I hand them out; however, there are a lot of great reasons to add QR codes to your campaigns and collateral as well.
Here are 10 of my favorite and most compelling ways to use QR codes.
I do something that I think is a little unique with my clients and friends and I wanted to share that idea with all of you. It’s simple, but old fashioned enough to stand out.
A while ago I was playing a mens doubles tennis match against a duo that was collectively 150 pounds heavier than my partner and me. The points on our side of the net were won with a lot of running, tight angles, drop shots and finesse. The points on their side of the net were won with blistering forehands aimed right at our faces. I think I still have a mark on my forehead that says “ProPenn 4.”
At the end of the very close match–each set went to a tie break–one of their players said, “That was like a battle of the piano players versus the piano movers.”
That’s kind of like lead nurturing.
A client asked me this morning, “if you could only do one marketing tactic, what would that tactic be?” I told him telephone calls. At which I think I heard him choke on his morning latte.
I’m sure he was hoping I’d say social media. Perhaps a nice video campaign. Or at least email. Something elegant and fun. Those are all great. Those things all significantly increase the effectiveness of your integrated marketing strategy. But if I only had one thing I could do, I would make a ton of calls.
I’d win ugly.
I talk to a lot of people about marketing strategy every day, and I’m fascinated by the different perceptions people have regarding their websites. We marketing people seem to fall into two main camps when it comes to our websites: paranoid and delusional. Among the paranoid, I’ve talked to executives who think their website is terrible compared with their main competitor, yet they stack up quite well to an outside observer. The temptation for the paranoid is the change their website almost weekly in pursuit of the latest widgets, plugins and content. Among the delusional, I’ve talked to marketing VPs with horrible websites who believe design doesn’t matter. “Look at the number of leads we’re getting,” they’ll tell me. But how many more leads would they get if 52% of their visitors weren’t immediately blinded or hospitalized upon viewing their homepage?
Measurement is one of our five main Enterprise Velocity disciplines. My clients know that I’m big on connecting measurement to specific areas of your revenue model. I do this for two reasons. First, they give the operation managers of your organization a benchmark against which they can set and measure their individual and team goals. Second, they provide your entire team with unusual insights that you might not gain elsewhere.
Today I wanted to share my thoughts on the important metrics for your web funnel–those parts of your website that drive revenue. Here are 24 web funnel metrics you should be measuring right now.
The landscape of public relations and social media changes everyday. We like to think of social media simply as PR 2.0. Unfortunately, social media also means your missteps are amplified and communicated faster than in the days of PR 1.0. Now more than ever, you need an expert to help you navigate your way to success.
Here are some ways we can help you:
