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  • 7 Ways to Use Your Firm’s Business Card as an Effective Marketing Tool

    7 Ways to Use Your Firm’s Business Card as an Effective Marketing Tool

    Your business cards easily communicate your company’s basic information, but because they’re so common, they can easily be lost, ignored or forgotten. Here are seven ways to make your business card more interesting and more effective as a marketing tool.

  • 4 Techniques of Email Marketing That Can Increase Open Rates

    4 Techniques of Email Marketing That Can Increase Open Rates

    Email provides a quick and convenient way for companies to reach both potential and existing customers. To improve the open rates and click-throughs for your marketing emails, try the following techniques.

  • Prospecting Techniques: Targeting Your Marketing Message to Locate New Clients

    Prospecting Techniques: Targeting Your Marketing Message to Locate New Clients

    Prospecting for new clients requires careful attention to the needs and interests of the large pool of individuals who could become paying customers.

  • Knowing These 7 Numbers Can Help Your Firm Retain Clients

    Knowing These 7 Numbers Can Help Your Firm Retain Clients

    Businesses rise and fall on the strength of numbers. Here are seven important numbers that will help your business grow and improve client retention.

  • What Metrics To Include in Your Marketing Analytics

    What Metrics To Include in Your Marketing Analytics

    The effectiveness and profitability of your company is closely tied to the success of your marketing programs. To make these programs as effective as possible, it is necessary to establish a framework of metrics that can be easily identified, quantified and analyzed.

  • Halo Programs Celebrates 40 Years with an Open House on October 24, 2013

    Halo Programs Celebrates 40 Years with an Open House on October 24, 2013

    Halo Programs will celebrate its 40th anniversary with an open house at the company’s new Walled Lake headquarters.

  • 5 Fundamentals of Creating a Strong Marketing Message

    5 Fundamentals of Creating a Strong Marketing Message

    Marketing is critically important to any successful business, and a clear, concise and appealing marketing message is fundamental to promoting your products and services.

  • How to Protect Your Firm’s Online Reputation From Social Media Mayhem

    How to Protect Your Firm’s Online Reputation From Social Media Mayhem

    Current social media outlets provide powerful tools for promoting your company and building a strong online presence. Unfortunately, social media can be equally powerful in the hands of those who want to damage your online reputation.

  • Content Marketing: A Means to an End When It Comes to Lead Generation

    Content Marketing: A Means to an End When It Comes to Lead Generation

    The vital process of lead generation requires using the most effective techniques available, allowing you to get the most return for your efforts. Content marketing is a lead-generation method that can, over time, turn leads into your most dedicated customers.

  • Client Testimonials Can Be a Marketing Gold Mine — How to Use Them Effectively

    Client Testimonials Can Be a Marketing Gold Mine — How to Use Them Effectively

    When customers use your products or services, they will develop an opinion about all aspects of the transaction — the price, customer service, speed of delivery and quality.

  • What Is One-To-One Cross Media Marketing?

    What Is One-To-One Cross Media Marketing?

    Social media, email and websites have firmly taken their place in the marketing mix alongside traditional print, radio and television advertising.

  • Up the Ante With Cross-Selling Strategies That Work

    Up the Ante With Cross-Selling Strategies That Work

    When you cross-sell, you offer an additional product or service that complements or is related to the purchase already being made. The customer’s already in a buying mood and may perceive your cross-selling strategies as a beneficial element of your customer service.