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		<title>12 Marketing Ideas to Grow Sales</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking for some marketing ideas to grow sales? You know the definition of insanity, right? &#8220;Doing the same old thing and expecting different results.&#8221;  So why do so many companies keep doing the same old thing, and expect anything different? It&#8217;s insanity.  If you&#8217;d like to break out of the same old routine, and produce [...]]]></description>
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<h1>Looking for some marketing ideas to grow sales?</h1>
<div id="attachment_1264" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 240px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1264    " title="So what's new?" src="http://www.lesproctordirect.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/insanity-230x172.jpg" alt="Marketing ideas to grow sales" width="230" height="172" /><p class="wp-caption-text">So what&#39;s new?</p></div>
<p>You know the definition of insanity, right? &#8220;Doing the same old thing and expecting different results.&#8221; </p>
<p>So why do so many companies keep doing the same old thing, and expect anything different? It&#8217;s insanity. </p>
<p>If you&#8217;d like to break out of the same old routine, and produce some real results you need to try something new. </p>
<p>Here are 12 great <b>marketing ideas to grow sales</b> you can try in the coming months to achieve better results. </p>
<h2>12 Marketing Ideas to Grow Sales<span id="more-1183"></span></h2>
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<li><strong>Update your strategic positioning</strong> <em>so you really stand out from the competition</em></li>
<li><strong>Create a new offer</strong>, like a payment plan, to <em>make your services more affordable</em></li>
<li><strong>Simplify your website</strong> to <em>make it easier for customer and prospects to do business with you</em></li>
<li><strong>Do an SEO Makeover</strong> to achieve a #1 ranking <em>so prospective customers and buyers can find you on the web</em></li>
<li><strong>Get other websites to link back to you</strong> using Off-page optimization <em>to boost your search engine rankings and your website traffic</em></li>
<li><strong>Start a Business Blog</strong> to <em>establish thought leadership and niche dominance</em></li>
<li><strong>Implement a Social Media Marketing Program</strong> to<em> share your ideas with your followers</em></li>
<li><strong>Create a Pay-per Click Program</strong> to <em>augment the leads you&#8217;re getting from other sources</em></li>
<li><strong>Test Landing Pages</strong> (Landing page optimization) <em>to maximize the results from your Pay-per-click budget (you can do a lot with $200/month)</em></li>
<li><strong>Create an Affiliate Marketing program</strong> to <em>get others to identify opportunities and generate leads for you</em></li>
<li><strong>Implement a Marketing Automation System</strong> with powerful marketing automation sequences to<em> educate the prospects who aren&#8217;t ready to buy yet and convert them into ready buyers who want to do business with you</em></li>
<li><strong>Accept Credit Cards online with Automated Recurring Billing</strong> to<em> reduce time spent on invoicing and collecting payments from customers</em></li>
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<p>How many of these <i>marketing ideas to grow sales</i> that you have you already implemented? Are there any other <u>marketing ideas to grow sales</u> you&#8217;d add to this list? What are you doing to ramp up your marketing activities? </p>
<p>The most successful companies are continually trying new ideas to achieve better and better results. That&#8217;s the only way that you can hope to improve.</p>
<h3>Oh, if you&#8217;d like someone to help you <a href="http://www.lesproctordirect.com/contact/">implement these Marketing Ideas to Grow Sales, please contact me</a>.</h3>
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