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Inbound Marketing Explained and Compared

Veretekk invented Automated Marketing (in 1996), later to become known as Inbound Marketing (MarketHive). Veretekk’s traffic portal offers, auto responders, Broadcasting technology (The Hammer), Conference rooms and sales funnel process became the foundation that today is known as Inbound Marketing. WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW But let us digress some. Before the Internet; advertising and marketing were for the most part driven by Outbound Marketing: Outbound marketing is buying attention, cold- calling,  Direct paper mail, radio, TV, sales flyers, spam, telemarketing and…

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Markethive Groups

Markethive Groups The Champion of the Cottage Industry cot·tage in·dus·try noun noun: cottage industry; plural noun: cottage industries a business or manufacturing activity carried on in a person's home. Like Facebook, Groups is a more focused culture gathering to have topic discussions based on the Groups theme. Unlike Facebook, Groups is the center of all the tools of the system. Let’s start with the blogging platform. The Group blogging platform is a unique platform published to from the group members…

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Win Mindshare to Influence Your Market

Win Mindshare to Influence Your Market   Years ago Peter Drucker, the father of business consulting, made a very profound observation: “Because the purpose of business is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two—and only two—basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs. Marketing is the distinguishing, unique function of the business.” Yet the marketing function is broad, challenging, and often misunderstood, especially at the small to mid-market level. The Fortune 500 and savvy…

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I’ll say it: the days of outbound marketing are over.

I’ll say it: the days of outbound marketing are over. The "Wolf of Wall Street" mentality of harassing customers over the phone, sending spamy emails, and going door-to-door to close deals has become much less effective in recent years. Customers have access to so much information every day, they’ve become increasingly resentful of marketing intrusions. The rise of blocking tools such as caller id, spam folders and ad blockers is not coincidence. Inbound marketing is the new normal. That’s the…

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Overcoming your Fear

Overcoming your fears with starting a new online business can be a challenging time. You will have many thoughts passing through your mind,such as:- Is it true or is it a scam. Does the product produce expected results How can I sell the product Who can I sell to Will I make money What will my Friends and Family think How can I find the money to start. Who will support me What if I fail   You need to…

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make money online

  When you first start a business you need to identify a product that you can sell on the open market at a profit, which usually rules out MLM products as most are overpriced, with even distributors struggling to move products at even the distributor price. What if I told you there was a popular product drunk by millions of people on a daily basis, made from 100% natural product, which not only satisfies people thirst but has the added…

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Its A No Brainer

Most MLM emers seem to end up to end up with excess products that they can't sell at a profit because the products are overpriced in the first place. You only have to look on E bay and you will see what I mean. Some companies even ban members from selling except from approved sites online. I have found a company who is different and not only do they have a good weight loss product but it sells at a…

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MarketHive Makes WordPress Better

  When we set out to build MarketHive, we recognized WordPress to be the world leader in Blogging platforms. We will never dispute that nor attempt to overcome or replace WordPress. Our goal is to make WordPress better with our blogging platform and CMS enhancements. Case in point is our WordPress (MarketHive) plugin(s). We have several but this plugin is designed to import and manage your content you produce on MarketHive into your one or multiple WordPress blog(s). Without MarketHive,…

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The Importance of Reach

  Popular social networks, such as Facebook, LinkedIn and twitter are a good way to increase your reach and communicate with others. An increasing numbers of businesses are also using using these social networks to get their messages across to customers. Inbound marketing such as this is on the rise whilst the response to Outbound Marketing, such as cold calling, bulk emailing and leafleting is on a decline.   Inbound marketing is permission-based marketing, for example people join interest groups…

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Instagram Expands To Over 500 Mil-Can it save Facebook?

Why is this happening? Reason: Most people on the go are highly visual and don't tend to read much anymore. "A Picture Says A Thousand Words" as the old saying goes, so maybe there is something to keeping it short and sweet and visual.  "Facebook has spread its tentacles into the messaging boom after building the world's most popular social network, buying Instagram for $1 billion in cash and stock in 2012. Facebook also owns two other of the world's most popular apps: WhatsApp, which…

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