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How Insurance companies are using video effectively

Attracting and retaining policyholders is a top priority for insurance companies and brokers. While there are many sales and marketing activities open for your insurance company to deploy, strangely, video is often missed off the list! With an average person spending 100+ minutes per day watching online video (Zenith Media), then why would you not look at adopting video in your repertoire? Reluctance to go on camera, the perceived time it takes out of the day for filming, editing, cost and coming up with engaging ideas for content are all common challenges why people don’t get started with video marketing in the first place. This article will discuss why you might want to use video as part of your sales and marketing day to day, from initial engagement through to ongoing care. We’ll explain how accessible using video really is and why videos not only be part of the marketing mix, but your sales, service and training processes too.

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Why Revenue Operations (RevOps) Will Propel Your Business Forward

In today’s hyper-competitive business landscape, companies are constantly seeking ways to optimize their operations and maximize revenue generation. Enter Revenue Operations (RevOps), a strategic approach that integrates sales, marketing, and customer success functions to drive growth and enhance efficiency. In this blog post, we’ll delve into why RevOps is not just a trend, but a crucial strategy for businesses looking to thrive in the digital age. Here we explore the reasons why adopting a RevOps approach to your data, processes, sales/marketing technology stack and people could make a real difference to your business growth trajectory! 

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Should you use an Outbound or Inbound Marketing Strategy?

Outbound and inbound marketing are two different approaches to reaching and engaging with your target audience.
Outbound marketing meaning – Outbound marketing is a traditional marketing approach that involves actively reaching out to potential customers through tactics such as cold calling, email marketing, direct mail, and advertising to promote products or services.
Inbound marketing meaning – A modern marketing strategy focused on creating valuable content and experiences that attract and engage potential customers, rather than directly promoting products or services.
So what is better, outbound or inbound marketing, and which one should you use? 

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Spelling mistakes accidentally on purpose

Many content professionals would recoil in horror at the very idea of a spelling or grammatical mistake being used deliberately. However, brands are using this tactic more often than you may think. Our brains have been conditioned to pick up on mistakes, errors and things that look out of place. Therefore, using this tactic within your sales and marketing communications might sound less daft than you think!
In our blog, we explain how brands are using errors to engage their target market, to come across as more human in an age of artificial intelligence (AI) and even come out from making a mistake with more credibility! We showcase some examples where this has happened. 

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Calls to action are underrated – 11 ideas for the perfect CTA

Whilst working in sales and marketing for over 20 years, the simpe ‘call to action’ or CTA is a part of most campaigns or pitch repertoire, so it is surprising that so many organisations don’t make the most of the humble CTA, while others forget to include a call to action at all! 
This blog was inspired after receiving an product with a warm welcoming message but sadly no call to action, missing the opportunity to help us to re-engage further. Especially as praise had been hard earned, but unfortunately the customer journey met a dead end at that point. A simple CTA would have allowed this business generate future revenue. Read our blog to find out what you could be missing. We have included real life examples and 11 useful ideas for the perfect CTA.

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Cost saving ideas for your business, consider outsourcing marketing?

Outsourced marketing can be a cost-effective option for businesses, especially small, medium and large sized enterprises (SMEs), as it eliminates the need to hire and maintain an in-house marketing team, which can be expensive. Additionally, outsourcing allows businesses to access specialized marketing expertise and technology that they may not be able to afford in-house.

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What Is Omnichannel Marketing?

Omnichannel has been a hot topic for a while, but achieving a true Omnichannel approach is not as simple as it seems. In this article, we discover:

What Omnichannel really means
The pitfalls to avoid
The benefits of being truly Omnichannel
A few neat tricks you can use when developing your own Omnichannel experience. 

Let’s share some ‘Secret Source’ – An Omnichannel experience is not only where physical and digital worlds collide, but rather where they learn to co-exist and thrive. The overall mission is to benefit the consumer whilst providing useful, integrated data so the vendor can provide continuous improvements and remain competitive and relevant. 

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HubSpot users are using between 20-30% of capabilities within HubSpot!

Secret Source Marketing are a UK HubSpot partner agency, working with enterprise global brands, SME’s, Start-Ups, B2B and B2C, across different sectors.  We’ve been a successful HubSpot partner for over 6 years. Many of us at Secret Source have been users of CRM systems for 20+ years. During that time we have seen many CRM solutions come and go, or get acquired. We’ve seen the birth of marketing automation systems and, more recently, the emergence of sales automation and service automation systems. We started off many years ago, onboarding clients wanting to use HubSpot. Time after time we would watch and help our customers grow and this was partly because they had predictable sales and marketing pipeline, clear goals,focus on their inbound strategy and deal process. Having a coherent strategy also led to healthy sales and marketing alignment. HubSpot sales and marketing automation systems worked together and life was good! Secret Source grew and started inheriting existing HubSpot users, here we found a different story!

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