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The Magic of Newsletter Marketing: The Secret to More Profits and Customers for Life
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Instead of sending readers from an article on a social platform to the homepage of your website, what you want to do is exceed their expectations by giving them a longer, more extensive resource they almost can’t believe you’re giving away for free.
Nicolas Cole • The Art and Business of Online Writing: How to Beat the Game of Capturing and Keeping Attention
it’s cheaper to keep an old customer than it is to get a new one – and articulated the entire field of customer relationship management. They showed that there are only four kinds of people (prospects, customers, loyal customers, and former customers)
Seth Godin • Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
“It has nothing to do with the way that I dress or how I sound. It has everything to do with the power of the message.”
Jackie Huba • Monster Loyalty: How Lady Gaga Turns Followers into Fanatics
Key insight: Building an audience is an act of service, not self-promotion. Find a way to educate or entertain (or both).
nathanbarry.com • The Audience Shortcut: How the Right People Paying Attention Changes Everything
André Chaperon
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Brian Clark is an expert at continuity programs,
Chris Guillebeau • The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future
But Lady Gaga didn’t become the success she is solely based on talent, which she certainly has in spades. She did so by engendering immense loyalty in fans, not just through her music, but with the message she inspires and the community she has built around it. To anyone in the business community, this sounds like a classic case of loyalty marketin
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