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Raluca Cristescu

Raluca Cristescu

Raluca Cristescu has over ten years of experience as a corporate trainer, focused mainly on soft skills for customer service and direct sales. She also enjoys writing about marketing and sharing best practices with knowledge entrepreneurs.

6 Online marketing mistakes to avoid

Online marketing is a fairly new field and a very dynamic one. Channels appear and fade, user preference is constantly transforming and there is a fierce competition to attract and keep attention. The...

5 Patterns for creating headlines for your course landing pages

The evolution of the world wide web and everything having to do with it has enriched our daily vocabulary with numerous new terms. However, it is sometimes hard to keep up and know exactly what each w...

6 Best practices on how to get a large YouTube audience

This post has been updated on April 30, 2020. Often referred to as „the world’s second-largest search engine”, YouTube started back in 2005. The first video ever posted was from San Diego Zoo and it w...

Getting started with marketing your online course in online communities

In the old days (which were not too long ago but with the speed everything is changing is sure seems that way) you could find `your crowd’ in certain physical venues – pubs, art galleries, theater hal...

8 Great tips on how to make the title of your online course stand out

What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet. Shakespeare’s lines in reference to love that knows no boundaries and does not abide by old rules of clans and feuds...

4 Awesome ways to incorporate stories in your online course

Stories are as old as humanity itself. They were used to make sense of the world, to establish order and rules and lately to entertain. The educational potential of storytelling has also been used in ...

“Would you like fries with that?” Or 4 tips on cross-selling your online courses

Would you like fries with that? That is probably one of the most spoken questions in fast food restaurants all over the modern world. For over seven decades McDonald’s has been serving up hamburgers t...

Mastering upselling to increase your profits

Selling is in our genes. Even those of us who think they are not cut out for commerce will prove to be the best sales people when we care deeply about something and need to convince others to get on b...

Exploring your options in terms of pre-selling your online course

We have all, at one point in our lives come up with something that seemed brilliant to us but eventually turned out not to be that great (or even a terrible idea in some cases). It’s an unfortunate si...

Considering video as a marketing tool for your online course

Marketing a product or service online requires constantly being connected to the latest tendencies and coming up with something that is new and refreshing almost every month. While some trends have th...

5 Steps to take on the marketing journey of your online course

Selling your online course is no easy endeavor. Regardless of how good it is and what a tremendous impact it promises to have on participants, it’s really how you manage to market it that will have th...

Promoting your online course through online ads: What are your options?

When it comes to online advertising, there never was a better time for it. If only a few years back most of internet publicity consisted on pay per click or display ads, current conditions allow for a...

Leveraging online communities to promote your course

For years I have been stalking my friends when they were on vacation with texts or emails saying “Hi! Hope you’re having fun! I know you want to send me a postcard, my address is …”. Of course, I also...

6 Awesome tips to get more customer reviews for your online course [INFOGRAPHIC]

Peer recommendation is one of the top reasons people decide to make a purchase. In a world where pretty much everything has moved (or at least has some kind of presence) online, products and services ...

Finding and pitching to the right influencers when promoting your online course

Influencer marketing is still a rather recent thing yet it has taken off in an impressive way. Due to the speed with which everything seems to be evolving these days, influencers are now recognized as...

An introduction to influencer marketing

Ever since Robert Cialdini published his findings about influence and its principles, the theory has been the ever-blinking beacon in a sea of constant change and uncertainty. To this day sales and ma...

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