10 Things I Learned from Joanne: Lesson 7
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10 Things I Learned from Joanne: Lesson 7

What I learned from Joanne is that estimating involves thinking and asking questions. By Joanne’s standards, this means doing a lot more thinking and asking many questions than I do naturally. I have to consciously set time aside to think and develop questions. I’m getting better. Practice helps. 

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10 Things I Learned from Joanne: Lesson 5
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10 Things I Learned from Joanne: Lesson 5

This time, when I asked her about the problem we were solving, she didn't hesitate. She raised her voice and said, "Ignorance!" Her answer was clear and to the point. As you can guess, this is one of the traits I love about Joanne. She says what she's really thinking and what she's passionate about.

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10 Things I Learned from Joanne: Lesson 1 
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10 Things I Learned from Joanne: Lesson 1 

If a company or a marketing department is going to invest money, employ effort, and take time to develop a strategy and implement various marketing activities, then the results should be measurable at every stage of the customer’s journey. In addition, each level must have measures to facilitate calculations like conversion rates and the costs for each person to move from one level to the next. We call these calculations “metrics”. In our model, there are 7 measures and 10 metrics.

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Are Impressions Reliable as a KPI?
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Are Impressions Reliable as a KPI?

This is an interesting question. I’m sure that most marketers would say that there are more important Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) than tracking and measuring impressions. But let’s think about this for a minute because I think that some characteristics of impressions are important. Important enough for us to consider impressions as a KPI.

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Driving Up Revenues Between 2017 and 2018
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Driving Up Revenues Between 2017 and 2018

In this post, I delve into how we boosted a renovations company's revenue twofold from 2017 to 2018 by upping our marketing investment by 15%. With our ROMI skyrocketing by 99%, hitting $17 in booked revenue for every marketing dollar spent, it's evident our strategies paid off. Plus, I detail key recommendations we made to ensure continued growth.

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