Jack Zenert

Marketing Specialist. Expert Marketing Speaker. Trainer / Instructor in marketing, business management and succession planning.

Be clear in your Message

Whatever you are doing, you are marketing. I stress this again and again in marketing classes and discussions with clients. IT all MATTERS! Every action, every email, every conversation, and all the little things all build towards your overall brand. Thus it is all marketing. A good first step is to look at your message and be sure that you are clear in what you are saying. What exactly are you saying to your prospects and customers. A good example is a client of mine – the owner of Pearson’s Berry Farm – Duane is amazing at selling his products. What makes him amazing […]

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What’s new in Marketing

Taking a rain break from harvest today. Nice to have a break, but to be honest, would rather be getting harvest done as it is getting late in the year. Checking out what is happening in relation to marketing, a few noteworthy things came up. BDC – Business Development Canada – not sure if enough business owners and entrepreneurs know about BDC.  They need to do more / better marketing.  But they do come up with some innovative ideas and some great content.  Remember content can be in many forms and BDC created a website tool that then shares the results in social media.

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Keywords Build Traffic

How Keywords Build Traffic When it comes to getting search engine traffic to flow to your site, keywords are extremely important. When search engines crawl through the Internet, they will index the keywords used on your pages. Keywords are the terms or phrases that your potential customers use when they search for your product or service. When someone performs a search online using the keywords featured on your web page, your page will come up in the search results. It is important to use keyword phrases that attract a stream of targeted customers, not just traffic from scattered places. A goal would be to

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WordPress

WordPress is quickly becoming a standard web creation platform. It was originally a blogging platform. WordPress then added more functionality – the ability to have static pages and full featured menus. This allowed WordPress to be used to create full websites rather than simply a blog. WordPress is a very stable and efficient website platform. On going updates keep it quite secure, even though there have been many attacks on WordPress sites and the code. As always, good security measures by the WordPress developer will ensure your website security. WordPress has since added more back end database functionality (custom post types). This has now

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Email Marketing and Email Campaigns – Do they Work?

I am sure you have read about this marketing tactic. You probably have had it suggested to you by some marketing consultant (yes that may have even been me 🙂 ). Set up a form on your website and collect all those visitors email addresses – then simply email them your product information, a great offer – and let the cash roll in. Hey – I admit I have suggested to a great many clients and prospects to use email marketing – but I have never been so glib to suggest that it will be easy – or that the cash will roll in.

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