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The Ultimate Marketing System is a complete small business marketing system consisting of 16 workbooks and 12 audio CDs – the product of over 20 years of working with some of America’s most successful small businesses and independent professionals. (See entire list of titles included below)

Finally you can get off the marketing event of the week syndrome and learn how to approach your marketing like a system. Learn the master principles and marketing strategies from someone who has helped thousands of small owners grow their businesses with a proven step-by-step system. Now you can have one of America’s most respected small business marketing experts guide you along the marketing path for a fraction of the cost of what others have paid to get this same expert advice and coaching?

The Duct Tape Marketing Ultimate Marketing System is a collection of 16 workbooks and 12 audio CDs that make up the most complete small business marketing self study program ever created.

Each workbook contains a thorough explanation of one critical small business marketing topic, real-life small business examples and worksheets, forms and tools needed to help you implement the lesson.

Marketing Workbook Titles Include:

1. Target Market – Determining who is your ideal target client
   2. Differentiate and Dominate – Developing and communicating your core marketing message
   3. Give Them An Image – Communicating the complete marketing package
   4.The Product Service Package – Developing the marketing hourglass approach
   5. Marketing Materials – Developing marketing materials that educate
   6. Marketing Story – Make meaning by telling your story
   7. Web Site Guide – Small business content based web site and search guide
   8. Small Business Advertising – Every sale starts with a lead
   9. Direct Mail – A targeted small business lead generation powerhouse
   10. Public Relations – Earned media attention and expert status
   11. Referral Marketing – Building a systematic referral marketing machine
   12. A Selling System – Turn prospect to clients and clients to partners
   13. Search Engine Marketing – Generating leads and clients from the Internet
   14. Blogging for Business – How to use a blog as a small business marketing tool
   15. Marketing Automation – Automate and extend your marketing with technology tools

What is Internet Marketing?

Defining Internet Marketing

Also called online marketing, internet marketing is the process of promoting a business or brand and its products or services over the internet using tools that help drive traffic, leads, and sales.

Internet marketing a pretty broad term that encompasses a range of marketing tactics and strategies – including content, email, search, paid media, and more.

These days, though, internet marketing is often used interchangeably with “content marketing.”

Why?

Because content marketing is the internet marketing of the present and future.

Content Marketing Institute defines content marketing as:

“A strategic marketing approach focused on creating and distributing valuable, relevant, and consistent content to attract and retain a clearly defined audience — and, ultimately, to drive profitable customer action.”

Think of it like this: content marketing (or inbound marketing) is in direct opposition to traditional advertising (outbound marketing), and in direct integration with the patterns and habits of today’s generation.

We don’t like to be sold to, we have our ad-blockers on, and we barely watch cable anymore.

Content marketing serves up content that addresses our pain points, and is there when we want it.

Here’s a great illustration of that from Voltier Digital:

Content Marketing vs. Traditional Advertising

Here’s the evolutional pathway behind the modernized form of marketing that is most successful today.

Selling no longer works (a.k.a., traditional advertising).

Why?

Traditional advertising focuses on pushing messages at the consumer to get them to buy.

It’s interruptive, obstructive, and intrusive.

It shouts, “Hey, look at me!” while waving its arms.

You may try to avoid eye contact, but traditional ads are persistent.

You know what traditional ads look like because you’re bombarded with them every single day.

Think TV commercials, billboards, magazine ads, radio ads, and web banner ads.

Ads have been around for a long time, as evidenced by this traditional ad for “honest-to-goodness” coffee from the 1950s.

Ads may still work in some strategic places.

But Internet users can just click away from ads if they don’t want to see them.

Which is exactly what happens.

According to a PageFair report, 615 million devices in use today employ ad blockers. Additionally, ad blocker use increased by 30 percent in 2016 alone.

You know it, I know it, everybody knows it.

Ads are annoying.

And, they aren’t the way consumers prefer to learn about new products anymore.

Instead of businesses shoving themselves in consumers’ faces, they need to take a different, gentler approach.

Content marketing is exactly that.

Brands and marketers who use it publish content that teaches, inspires, guides, or solves a problem for their target audience.

With some handy tricks, the targets can find that content on the web without it being pushed at them.

If the prospects gain something useful from the content, they’ll keep coming back for more.

Finally, consumers can interact with the brand organically and share their content on social media.

Trust is forged.

Authority is established.

Connections happen.

These loyal followers can then be converted into leads and sales – naturally.

All of the above happens with a focus on giving value to the user.

Help users – offer them value and they’ll reward you in return.

That is what internet marketing/content marketing is all about at its core.

Why Internet Marketing?

Now that you know what internet marketing is, you still may be wondering why there’s so much hype around it.

Well, the hype is totally founded.

Internet marketing has shown proven success over and over again.

Here are some stats gathered from around the web to help give you an idea of why internet/content marketing stands tall:

• By 2019, content marketing is set to be an industry worth $313 billion.
• 91 percent of businesses already are convinced of its power and have already adopted it as an essential marketing tactic.
• Content marketing costs 62 percent less than traditional, outbound marketing, but pulls in 3x as many leads.
• If you’re a small business with a blog, you’ll rake in 126 percent more lead growth than your competitors without a blog
• If you have a blog and publish content, you’re likely to get 434 percent more indexed pages on Google, on average

And there’s more.

From my own content marketing endeavors, I have seen my small business take off.

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