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This week, Tom spoke with Brian Hart and Liliana Chaves from Compass Management & Consulting, Mike White and David Sillick from BluHorn, and Ambre Goff from Level Up Learning Center.
What is marketing?
David Sillick
It’s driving qualified leads to a sales team or business owner to follow up on and then convert into an actual business.
Brian Hart
When I think of marketing, I think of ways to drive value to my clients. My clients are non-profit medical associations mostly in Florida and some nationally. What we try to do is we try to drive education so educate our members on best practices in medicine and what products and services we can bring them to improve their best practices which in turn helps my company grow.
Lilliana Chaves
We have to concentrate on that return investment and how everything we invest will come out as exponential gains for our client.
Amber Goff
I don’t know about marketing, I’m not an expert but I would say that we want to fill up our camps and in order to fill up our camps we have to reach parents and we have to prove that we’ve got value. We have to prove that their kids are going to have a good time!
What do you think about mobile marketing?
David Sillick
I would start to characterize mobile marketing in the mainstream. Telling your company’s story, gaining value, reaching your audience, that’s what mobile marketing is going to be doing.
Mike White
Look at how people are engaging on mobile, people are on their phone constantly. You can do everything on your phone now, get directions, get tickets, etc.. Everything is being driven to mobile which you can then easily track the success of it. You’ve got to make sure your business is mobile friendly.