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.
Marketing that Overcomes Short Attention Spans
The average attention span in 2018 was a whopping 47 seconds; presumably, today, it is less than that. With such an incredibly short time to grab a person’s focus and capture their interest, what strategies effectively attract and convert today’s consumers? Effective marketing that overcomes short attention spans is challenging but necessary for business success.…
Understanding the Customer Journey
In the dynamic landscape of modern commerce, understanding the intricacies of customer behavior is paramount to the success of any business. The customer journey is a concept that has become the compass for companies seeking to create meaningful interactions with their audience. Understanding the customer journey and exploring how you can apply this to your…
Want a Business Website That Makes Money?
In today’s digital age, a website is no longer optional for businesses—it’s necessary. However, simply having a website isn’t enough. To succeed online, your website needs to do more than exist; it should make money for your company. But how do you achieve this? The answer lies in optimizing your website for maximum profitability. Here…
Is it Time to Change the Channel on Your Marketing Strategy?
Marketing channels are the different tools or platforms that businesses use to reach their target audience. They are crucial for promoting what a company offers and introducing products and services to new potential buyers while highlighting the benefits of the company’s brand. Our team works closely with our clients to determine the best marketing channels…
Is Threads the Next Component of Your Marketing Fabric?
In the ever-evolving social media landscape, Meta, formerly known as Facebook, introduced a new micro-blogging platform called “Threads.” With its emphasis on authentic conversations and genuine engagement, Threads aims to offer a refreshing alternative to existing social media platforms. Within only days of its release, there are already many questions about the new platform, including…
Rebranding Your Business: Staying Relevant and Thriving
Recently, 7-Eleven announced a transformation to its iconic Slurpee beverage–something just about anyone who has grown up in America (or any other country 7-Eleven is in) has likely had at least a few times in their lives. Why would a company with an already successful product spend time and money to rebrand it? Because in…
Why Understanding Your Audience for Successful Marketing
As a business owner or leader, you know that advertising is a crucial component of your overall marketing strategy. But in order to create an effective advertising campaign, your work must begin by understanding your audience. Knowing who your customers are, what they need, and how they make buying decisions can help you tailor your…
The Art of Engaging Content: Brand Storytelling
In the ever-evolving digital landscape, business experts realize that engaging content is the key to capturing an audience’s attention and building a loyal following. They know that to create a connection with their audience, they must weave a compelling narrative through brand storytelling. Now more than ever, good storytelling is essential as it gets harder…
Benefits of Video Testimonials
There are several benefits of video testimonials that most businesses should consider. Exposure The first benefit is that it is going to allow the company to gain exposure. This means that it can increase the amount of interest that a person is going to have in your business. Therefore, they are going to share the…
Why Small Businesses Need More Videos
When it comes to marketing, especially small business owners, every dollar counts, and any investments need to pay off, regardless of monetary value. But where do you start in a world of glossy ads and billboards? Simply put, it’s with a video. Long gone are the days of a pretty picture with a logo reeling…
Your Local Marketing is Missing the Mark
Here is how you fix it… Local marketing is a great business strategy. You need to take care of local marketing or your business won’t be anywhere near as successful as you want it to be, and it should be. Unfortunately local marketing strategies don’t always work as well as they should. There are some…
Articulate the Brand Personality for the Brand Book
Now that we’ve created our list of keywords and established the relationship between them, it’s time for our next step in how to make a Brand Book and create our brand personality. Articulating your Brand Personality is an integral component of building a Brand Book. Brand Personality starts to breathe life into the brand, making…
Your Competition Makes You Better
Think about it — you know what your competitors really offer. You know, often better than the customers do (at the outset) what kind of service and product a new customer will receive from a business. “If we’ve identified our competitors wisely, we should know how our product meets their needs better than the competition,” Critical…
Television vs Social Media
In part one of my comparisons of traditional media marketing comparisons, we looked at Radio vs. Twitter. In Part two we’re going to compare Television and Youtube. From a business owner and marketer Television is best known to make stars and images. As a business, Television is best used in your marketing plan to create…
Radio vs Social Media
The title is a little misleading as it’s not really pitting one up against the other as much as trying to point out more of the similarities. A lot of small business owners invest in radio every month. These same business owners scratch their head and wonder what or how does social media fit into…
Talking to No One
I’ll always be a softy for radio. I spent too many years in the industry for it not to be in my blood. I sometimes wish it would go away, it reminds me of that old football injury that makes it hard to move in the morning but you wouldn’t trade the pain for the…
Meet Your Customers Where They Spend Their Free Time
Image the power of knowing exactly what your customers like to do in their free time. If you knew that they generally owned horses – you would have the ability think creatively about where your messages could intercept them. The regional section in the Horse Fancier’s magazine? Sponsoring a show? Partnering with the local grange…
How are You Better than Your Competition?
I don’t care what industry you’re in when you look at the landscape of those businesses that do what you do; you compare your business to the work that they do. And you have opinions about their work – either you respect it, or you don’t. But the thing is, you know how your business…