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Money Motivations

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There are many motivators in life. In sales, some pros speak of the five motivators of pride, profit, love, need and fear. A certain consultant you may know routinely uses fear tactics as a motivator, why? Because it can work. So too the other motivators, in the case of today's column, money or 'profit.' The …

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Earn $43 for each $1 invested? Manufactured Housing, You and Email Marketing

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Be it business to business (B2B) or business to consumer (B2C), email marketing is a very important part of staying in touch and generating business. Building an email list takes time, and effort. That translates into costs. But are the costs worth it? Frankly, as the it is a TOTAL no-brainer! The Direct Marketing Association …

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Bombs in the Burry

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"Hurry, hurry, hurry, bombs in the burry!" is a colloquial expression that conveys a sense of haste or urgency. A burry is a patch of burrs, or a bitter cold climate like northern Minnesota's in winter. It was MHC and RE industry legend, Sam Zell, who told some 200 MH Industry pros that we needed …

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Marketing Lessons for Manufactured Housing? Forbes Reports Online Ad Revenue vs. Broadcast TV

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On 4.10.2014, Robert Hof writing in Forbes colorfully reported that, “Perhaps the iconic pose of our era is someone squinting at a smartphone screen–replacing another iconic pose, the couch potato pointing a remote at the TV screen.” Hof says that's due in part to the use of hand-held devices, such as tablets and smartphones, which …

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Comparing Web Traffic resources Alexa, Compete, Quantcast and ComScore Vs. Webalizer

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From time to time, we get questions about web traffic analysis services, such as Alexa, Compete, Quantcast and Comscore. Are these accurate? And how do these services compare to a statistical resource, such as Webalizer? Dennis Yu's analysis linked here, starts his critique with these words, “Alexa is the most well-known of the traffic measurement …

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