Let’s face it, marketing can be hard! In each marketing blog post, we hope you’ll find the information you need for your business marketing success.
Informational Marketing: Position Your Brand as a Knowledge Hub
One of the most powerful ways you can (and should) use your brand is to position it as an informational marketing resource for your customers. Think about it: every one of us accumulates a significant amount of information/trivia in our given field simply because we work in that field. Remember when you were relatively new…
Your Brand is the Extra Mile
You know those moments, where you intentionally choose to go the extra mile? Do something unexpected to ensure that your customer has an experience second to none? It’s in those moments that your brand begins to take flight and to transform from the expected into the memorable. Rather than waiting until the “mood strikes” why…
How Good is Your Elevator Speech?
We’ve all heard it, we need to be able to describe our company and what we do in the space of time that it takes to travel from one floor to another in an elevator. And even in knowing it, it’s still difficult to conceptualize and spit out unless you’ve taken time to think about…
Online Guerrilla Tactics
I have to admit, as much as I work in social media and employ guerrilla tactics to spread messages in a community, I hadn’t adequately considered ways to utilize guerrilla tactics online to drive traffic to your website and business until recently. So having given it some thought (at long last) here are my top…
Blue Sky Marketing (NOT!)
Remember when our marketing lives were easy? Unlimited budgets, no concerns about the economy, fabulous television ads… those days have been gone now for awhile, and I think that as marketers, we’ve gotten better, smarter, and more responsive. We’ve had to think carefully about every dollar we spend, we’ve had to project and hit ROI…
Branding With Actions – Not Words
I’m pleased to be the guest blogger this week over on the Marketing by Deepak blog. Click on over here to learn about why Branding With Actions – Not Words is critical to your business success. Too often, when we consider branding, we focus entirely on the name of the business, the smartness of the tag line,…
Marketing Plan: Intersection of Planning and Improvisation
I thought I’d take a moment before the frenzy of annual strategic planning begins to discuss some strategies you might want to consider as you start to build your annual strategic marketing plan. Naturally, your strategic marketing plan should contain your best guess as to how you’re going to advance your brand and product positions…
Buzz Marketing Ideas for Branding
Branding is about being memorable and creating buzz marketing. There are lots of ways to do it; you just have to get creative. Here are some buzz marketing ideas to get you started Why not work out a deal with a local coffee stand to hand out a discount card to your customers for their product?…
Unexpected Branding Opportunities
In any business, there are the expected branding opportunities, television commercials, radio, signs in the store, and even employee shirts. But some unexpected branding opportunities give you a chance to make your brand stand out. The first thing to consider is what your brand manifesto requires. Is it fun, innovative, brash, friendly, kind, or in your…
Your Brand Manifesto: Your Secret Sauce
OK, so you’ve found your new brand position and tagline. You’ve taken the time to discuss it with your key stakeholders and get their buy-in. Now what? Well, my friends, now comes the FUN part! The first thing you’re going to need to write is your brand manifesto. In a short paragraph, what does your company…