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  • Customer Tracking — Does Your Database Tell You When Your Customer Is Back In The Market?

    In business, no industry is exempt from the benefits of customer tracking. That’s because your existing customer base is your best asset. But no matter what marketing campaign you implement, if you don’t optimize customer tracking, you’ll likely compromise its full potential.

  • Customer Satisfaction Surveys — Get Better Response By Sending Thank You Cards

    Customers generally appreciate the little things you do for them, such as offering birthday discounts and seasonal promotions — and sending out thank you cards.

  • Use Database Marketing To Reach Out To Past Customers

    Have you ever sat down and given your business’ database marketing approach a good once-over? If the results left you a bit concerned, it might be time to re-evaluate your database marketing plan.

  • Marketing Surveys: Build A Strategy That Works Over The Years To Retain Customers

    Marketing surveys now allow businesses to fine tune their approach to developing a targeted marketing strategy. Gone are the days where best “guesstimates” of customer needs and desires determined best practices.

  • Effective Cross Selling System Will Lead To Greater Customer Loyalty

    Without an effective cross selling campaign, you could be losing valuable sales potential to your competitors. If customers who purchase one product or service from you are not aware of your other products and services, you could be greatly limiting not only the ROI on your marketing efforts, but customer loyalty, too.

  • Looking For A Specific Audience? Targeted Marketing Programs Are The Way To Go

    A targeted marketing program could be the key factor that helps you turn your business into an industry leader while attracting the right customers. Targeted marketing programs are just what they sound like, offering ways to “segment” consumers according to various data and create customized marketing materials to appeal to specific groups.

  • The Role Of Database Management In Customer Retention And Lead Generation

    It would be highly unproductive to develop a marketing campaign to improve customer retention and generate leads without a way to manage your database. That would be kind of like trying to use Google without the web — it just wouldn’t work. Maximizing your marketing efforts goes hand in hand with database management.

  • Customer Satisfaction Surveys — A True Measure Of Brand Performance

    Brand performance – two words that can make even the strongest businesses quake. Why? With the shift toward more web-based businesses and combined web-and-mortar businesses, brand performance has taken on new value.

  • Turnkey Marketing Programs Work To Retain Existing Customers While Drawing In Their Referrals

    Turnkey marketing programs allow you to market to existing customers while simultaneously working on selling to acquire new customers. For existing customers, integrating an e-mail marketing campaign can help you make the best use of your database.

  • Consistent Customer Communication Equals Lead Generation And Referrals

    If there were an easy way to refine your lead generation practices to effectively improve conversions, wouldn’t you want to know about it? Halo Programs’ lead generation campaigns provide businesses across more than 20 industries with an effective plan to improve communication with customers and gain valuable referrals.

  • Smart Ways To Market Your Company’s Brand

    One word can define perhaps the most important step to ensuring an effective branding strategy: teamwork. Even with a high-quality branding strategy, you’ll be spinning your wheels if everyone in your company isn’t on the same page — and you’ll be wasting time and money. Is your sales team consistent with your company’s brand image?

  • 5 Benefits That Referral Programs Provide — And How To Get Them

    Implementing a referral program can optimize your business’ sales cycles, producing qualified prospects that will maximize your sales funnel. Leading to a better ROI than cold calling or generating brand-new leads from scratch, referral programs can drive your marketing efforts further. 5 referral programs benefits include: