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  • Small Business Marketing Tips – Know Your Competition

    Small Business Marketing Tips – Know Your Competition

    Developing small business marketing efforts that reach your target customer base and achieve the results you’re looking for can be a difficult process. When you’re running a small business in a crowded marketplace, as so many owners, cutting through the fray and reaching out to make sales or pick up new clients becomes even harder….

  • Using Call to Actions to Attract Better Leads

    Using Call to Actions to Attract Better Leads

    New business prospecting involves finding new leads and nurturing them until they’re ready to buy. A contractor marketing system gives you the unique opportunity of attracting better and more qualified leads. Use the tips below to improve your contractor lead generation through specific calls to action. What is a call to action? A call to action (CTA)…

  • Creating Effective Loan Officer Marketing Flyers

    Creating Effective Loan Officer Marketing Flyers

    Marketing mortgage products and services is a challenge. One way to increase business, generate leads, and develop referrals is with loan officer marketing flyers. Effective Loan Officer Marketing Flyers What is an effective loan officer marketing flyer? Simple: the one that educates without boring your audience or coming across as too hard-sell. When you educate potential…

  • Contractor Business: 4 Local Marketing Tips

    Contractor Business: 4 Local Marketing Tips

    When you run a local business, your marketing strategy is going to be a little different from an online business or brand. There are only a couple of specific geographical regions that you need to focus your marketing efforts on, and certain digital platforms that you should be using over others. In order to reach your people, here…

  • Real Estate Marketing: Adding a Personal Touch to Emails

    Real Estate Marketing: Adding a Personal Touch to Emails

    With all the focus on digital marketing strategies, it can be easy to forget that the personal touch still greatly matters. Studies consistently show that email is the number one go-to channel for marketers, but email campaigns have changed over the past several years. What worked just five years ago is no longer effective in…

  • Improving Communication With Mortgage Prospects

    Improving Communication With Mortgage Prospects

    As a lender, generating a greater number of leads is a key component of your overall mortgage marketing game plan. Lead generation efforts only succeed, though, if you take the time to stay in touch, responding to and nurturing those leads. One of the best mortgage marketing strategies you can adopt is a clear-cut plan…

  • Creating Customer Profiles for Your Small Business

    Creating Customer Profiles for Your Small Business

    Reaching your target audience with marketing materials can be difficult for any small business. The fact is that even knowing who you should be trying to reach and which customers are really ideal for your business can be problematic. When it comes to generating leads and retaining customers, creating customer profiles can be a huge…

  • 5 Things Effective Enterprise Marketers Get Right

    5 Things Effective Enterprise Marketers Get Right

    Enterprise marketing is more important today than it ever has been before. It’s an ever-evolving aspect of business that company owners must monitor and evaluate for optimal performance. There are some consistencies to successful marketing strategies. Learn from and do these five things that effective marketers get right. 1. Have a solid content marketing plan. Your…

  • Join Halo Programs at Service World Expo 2017

    Join Halo Programs at Service World Expo 2017

    Halo Programs is pleased to announce we’ll be exhibiting at Service World Expo in Las Vegas, from September 7-8. Friends and clients of ours can save $10 on registration, with code: Save$10Continuity. There’s a difference between gaining new customers and keeping them. You pay a lot in marketing and sales efforts to get a single customer, so it’s…

  • How Contractors Can Improve Customer Satisfaction and Increase Referrals

    How Contractors Can Improve Customer Satisfaction and Increase Referrals

    A referral to your business from an existing customer is one of the strongest leads your business can get. This is because people are four times more likely to buy from a company that a friend referred them to. That means your contractor marketing should be constantly working to improve customer satisfaction and, in turn, increase referrals. Here…

  • Real Estate Marketing: Resources For Generating Business

    Real Estate Marketing: Resources For Generating Business

    Real estate marketing is a complex endeavor. Are you doing all you can to set yourself apart in today’s crowded field? While the Internet has opened up a world of opportunities in real estate marketing, it still requires a lot of work and time – something Realtors constantly struggle with. You probably spend more time…

  • Mortgage Marketing: 3 Challenges to Overcome

    Mortgage Marketing: 3 Challenges to Overcome

    When compared to other industries, mortgage lenders face unique marketing challenges. Regulations and a shifting financial landscape mean that to compete, mortgage lenders will need to concentrate on educating themselves on a changing marketplace and learn to meet these challenges head-on. Challenge #1: Keeping Up with Regulations Everyone knows that lenders have no shortage of…