Audience of One Book Review
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An Audience of One – Book Review

I’ve long been fascinated by the subject of 1:1 marketing – often talked about in Marketing Magazine in the 1990s. One-to-one marketing is the concept of remembering your audience is just one person, and so companies personalise advertising and marketing to the individual. In the 2021 book An Audience of One, recognised marketing experts Jamie Turner and Chuck Moxley reveal the secrets to implementing a strategy that allows a company to use important data to market to them. Naturally, this also means respecting consumers’ privacy concerns. “In its simplest form, 1:1 marketing means engaging with prospects and customers using a one-to-one, personalised approach based on who they are, how they think, what they purchase, what their interests are, where they go, and how they prefer to be communicated with.” – Jamie Turner and Chuck Moxley Its structure is detailed explanations, real-life…
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building a website easily
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Building a Website the Easy Way

What if I said you could build your own website pages simply by telling an application the colours and style you like? Sounds like science fiction?  Well, not anymore. GetResponse, my favourite email marketing toolkit, has just launched a website builder.  If email templates ready to go, chat bot, and step-by-step lead magnet funnels wasn’t good enough, they’ve gone and put their user simplicity ideas into a…. Website builder for all of us. Sure, I started off with the popular Content Management website, WordPress. Doesn’t everybody?  Well, four themes and 10 years later, I wish I hadn’t. I mean, I have 30 plugins to keep track of, just to keep it all running. I pay for Jetpack, Smush Pro, the theme and on occasion, my web developer’s hourly fees. Compared to setting up a WordPress website in a Website Hosting…
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measure website visitors
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How to Make a WordPress Website Measure Visitors

WordPress has now become the most popular self-hosted CMS, beating out Drupal, Expression Engine and Blogger.  (A CMS is a Content Management System). Here, we’ll discuss how to log in once to WordPress and measure website visitors, quickly and easily. Along with bloggers, millions of small business people have gotten a WordPress website customised and then scratched their head. They ask: “how do I use a website to measure visitors and understand all the metrics?” Install an Analytics Dashboard to Measure Website Visitors As a business owner or consultant, you’re flat out already – with little time to check your Google Analytics tool.  Welcome to a handy Plugin: Google Analytics Dashboard. (Select “Add new” and search “analytics dashboard”, select the one with four stars). Once installed, you’ve got a great time saver – scroll down to the bottom of your…
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Promote Yourself – Five Easy Ideas

Many small businesses are wasting fruitless energy on pursuing mass marketing tactics — aiming to blanket their local area. In addition to newsletters, there are plenty of other ways to  promote yourself and your services to a narrower, more interested audience. 1. Publicity in the local newspaper, if you are new in town, have just joined another partner business, are hosting a seminar, or are in the midst of inventing something. 2. Putting on a low cost event that resonates with your target market or a free seminar night at your office. (Or at Redcliffe Hive / event hire space). 3. Ask a supplier or a noted author/blogger to feature your story on their website, if your goals and markets align nicely. 4. For those who write articles, there is a wide range of digital magazines cropping up which you…
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