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INSIGHT and convince into giving you their money, how about defining leads as only those potential customers who have already had some kind of meaningful interaction with your business? Final thoughts Marketing is all about creating the right tools for the right leads. And yet, if you think about it, the marketing strategies of most online brokers haven’t really changed much since the early 2000s. I think this is partly because of the outdated ways we still think about leads. A lot has changed, technologically speaking, in the last 15 years. Today a fairly resourceful marketing manager can do the work of entire marketing departments from decades gone by. Today, not only are you more efficient, but your audience is also way more savvy, better connected and has pretty much seen it all. What has really changed though, is that there are now more of us than ever competing for a resource that’s diminishing by the day. That resource is attention and the only way anyone ever grabbed mine has involved using their imagination. That’s the way we usher in a new era of online marketing, not through repetition of the same, but by updating our definitions. In this way you can gear up your business to focus on creating positive interactions, rather than just collecting lists of names and numbers. RAN COHEN is the founder and CEO of Traders Education, the leading education provider to the financial industry. Additionally he has founded FX-leads, one of the most successful lead-generation agencies. Ran has over 14 years experience in the financial retail industry, creating leading performance-based education and marketing tools for brokers, affiliates and IBs from all over the world. “A lot has changed, technologically speaking, in the last 15 years. Today a fairly resourceful marketing manager can do the work of entire marketing departments from decades gone by” NAME: RAN COHEN DATE: 22 OCTOBER WHEN: 11:00 AMSTERDAM AFFILIATE CONFERENCE 11TH - 14TH JULY 2017, AMSTERDAM RAI For more information please visit www.AmsterdamAffiliateConference.com