This week I get to chat with Marcus Sheriden "The Sales Lion" . Marcus is a super smart guy who started in the marketing world with his fiberglass pool company River Pools and Spa out of Virginia.
He tells us how his pool company hit a really rough patch to the point where he almost lost his entire business and had to lay off his whole team, and in a last ditch effort decided to take to answering questions he got asled all the time from customers. With this method now called content marketing. Marcus built his website into the most visited pool website in the country and saved his business.
He now has a website and podcast over at www.thesaleslion.com where he talks and teaches all about content and inbound marketing. Go listen and visit his website he's a great guy and you'll learn a ton.
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Big Thank You to Marcus for coming on the show with us he's a super smart guy and great to be able to talk with him and share his knowledge with everyone.
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In this weeks Quick tip Friday episode I give you a tip about how to use twitter for your business. I am sure that everyone has tried twitter once or twice and found that it is a lot of work.
If you use it as a distribution tool it can seem like you never get any traction with your audience and that's because your using it as a talking tool and you really need to look at it as a listening tool.
What I mean by this is use twitter.com/search to find who is talking about your business or service and start a conversation with them. Use it as a way to find out what people are saying about you or the product you provide an talk with them.
Twitter list are a great way to segment people you follow (or not follow) into categories so you can easily organize them.
It is very effective to separate your followers to easily go back and share or curate content for later sharing. You can create a private or public list, Private ones only you can see and public ones everyone can see and people you add will get notified you added them to that list.
More on this in a later post but this is a great article to read in the meantime
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Today I got the chance to sit down and talk with 4 time world pizza champion Michael Shepherd. If you are familiar with any pizza trade magazines or show then you have definitely heard Michael's name before.
We talk about how he went from talking over a failing pizzeria to becoming a 4-time world pizza champion and where he thinks this industry is headed. He also tells us how his first trip to Italy to compete he place 49th out of 50 yikes. and what made him go back to try again and what happened when he did (hint it's in the title).
Get ready to hear tons of great information and take notes to try out some of his ideas yourself.
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In today's quick tip episode I want to give you 4 tips that if used will dramatically improve your emails. When I say improve your e-mails I mean improve your open rates, click throughs and get people to look forward to getting your emails not get e-mail burnout because you send the same e-mail over and over again pushing your product every time.
Every ones says "the money is in the list" and this is true, but if you are horrible at creating emails that are not relevant to your customers I don't care how many people you get on your list it wont make you any more money.
You want your customers to get your e-mail and look forward to reading it. Ask yourself this, would you look forward to reading your own emails that you have been sending out? Is it something that you would open and read every single time and look forward to them? If you answered yes and honestly yes! not kinda or I think so it must be a hell yes! If you did e-mail me immediately I want to work with you.
But...
If you didn't say hell yes! This will help you get to that point
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Today I talked with Jenna Gross who is the CMO over at Moving Targets. She runs the social media marketing for the business but she started from the beginning working directly with pizzeria owners and she shares how you can use social media as well as direct mail to grow your business.
We also talk a little about some things that aren't working so well right now and why it's important to focus on one thing at a time and not try to do everything all at once.
Jenna has been with the company for a long time and started with them managing social media accounts for their customers before moving on to manage all the social media for Moving Targets as a company.
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In today's quick tip episode I want you to focus on the 80/20 principle. The 80/20 principle is a way to look at your efforts whatever you are doing and asking, where are your results coming from? I would be willing to bet that 80% of your results coming from 20% of your effort.
Are they? You can apply this to any aspect of your business and most likely it will apply.
Today, take a look at the different areas of your business and apply it and see for yourself.
The next step is to start the process of focusing all your efforts on the 20% and eliminating the 80% that is wasting your time and resources.
Thanks for listening to this episode. I would love to hear if you have applied this to your business and what was the result of those tests. Email me Bruce@smartpizzamarketing.com and tell me your story.
Look forward to hearing from you.
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In this episode I talk with Sameer Shah the Vice President of Marketing for Smart Flour Foods. Sameer and I chat about how he helps build awareness and sales for Smart Flour Foods through social media, traditional advertising as well as special events. He explains the techniques he has helped implement since joining full time in early 2014.
Thanks again to Sameer Shah for coming on and talking with us today, He shared some great information that I hope you can use in your business. If you have a comment or question you can e-mail me at Bruce@smartpizzamarketing.com.
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