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.
Preparing Your Brand for the Stage
Have you ever stopped to think about how often your is on stage in the public eye? It’s ALWAYS on stage. It never takes a break, it never retreats to the dressing room, and it certainly never blends into the audience. It’s always displayed alone on the stage under the glaring unforgiving spotlight. Your brand needs…
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…
Using Online Advertising to Spread Your Message
Advertising online is an easy, and relatively inexpensive way to spread your message to your targeted audience. With most online advertising you only pay for those ads that are actually clicked on, and you have the ability to target who will see those ads. You certainly can look to smaller sites (television and newspapers for…
5 Reasons Great Brands Aren’t Selfish
As you consider creating a strong and powerful brand, a significant philosophy to consider is creating an un-selfish brand. This was important before the advent of social media, but now that many brands find themselves online in social media (Facebook and Twitter) the stakes are much higher. Here are some principles to consider: People like…
Navigating Social Media Nightmares
The single largest concern I hear voiced when I talk with a business about engaging in social media to grow their message is the “what if…” What if someone uses my social media account to address a concern they have with my business? What if someone says something bad about my brand online? What if…?…
Choosing Products for Your Target Audience
Last week, I asked you, “How Effective is Your Marketing Plan?” The second question on the Effectiveness Quiz was: Did your plan address which products fill a need for your target demographic and why? (Choosing to target someone is all well and good, but if you can’t identify what product would fill a need in their…
You Need a Target Audience
A couple of days ago, I asked you, “How Effective is Your Marketing Plan?” The first question on the Effectiveness Quiz was: Did your plan clearly articulate your target audience, including demographic information?(The correct answer would be something on the order of 20-34 yrs old, middle income, attending “X” school and living in “Y” neighborhood.…
How Effective is Your Marketing Plan?
It’s officially fall, and that means many marketers are in the middle of another year of planning. Unless of course, you’re ahead of the game – in which case, congratulations!!! But since that’s probably not the case, as you begin to work through the process of another year’s planning, it is useful to consider how…
Branding a Local vs National Company
I had the opportunity the other day to chat with a friend who is a brand marketer for a national brand. During the course of our conversation, I was struck (again) by the same-ness and at the same time, the different-ness that comes with branding a national vs. local brand. At its core, branding is…
Where is Your Audience?
So as a small business owner where is your audience today? There was a time years ago when you could buy a ad in the Saturday local paper and get a decent ROI. If you weren’t a fan of print, and were looking to build some Top of Mind Awareness (TOMA) you could reach out…
Selling Your Brand Internally
One of the most important places to spend time and energy “selling” your brand is internally. There is no audience that is more important to have completely understand and believe your brand position. The reason should be obvious, of your staff doesn’t believe in your brand position, they cannot support it. Therefore, it is critical…
Social Media-Build Your Own Audience
Traditional Media has been doing it for years, building an audience through programming and marketing and then turning around and selling your business the opportunity to talk to their audience. Social Media is the opportunity for YOU, the local business owner to create your own audience to communicate to and through. Building an audience in…
What’s Your Brand Story?
From start to finish, a well-executed brand is really just about telling a good story. Well-written stories are fairly predictable in their format, they have a beginning, middle, and end. The pieces of the story that are being told are consistent with, and advance, the storyline. They don’t pursue irrelevant tangents, and each paragraph and chapter…
Media Fragmentation, It Always Seems To Happen
How much has social media fragmentation affected your audience and at what cost? Traditional media tries to entertain an audience and keep it, so they can then sell advertising within that form of entertainment. While the programming and editorial content has become corporate blah for the most part audiences, have rushed over to other venues…
Twitter Marketing Strategy: Tweeting with Frequency
As any good radio account executive or business owner knows, the frequency is necessary with radio. I’d argue frequency is critical for Twitter marketing strategy as well. With radio being the active medium that it is, users are usually active at what they are doing while listening. They are getting ready in the morning, driving,…
Top of Mind Branding
Branding is a long process. It’s not easy, it costs money, and it doesn’t create immediate traffic. Trust me, many times along this journey to a great brand, you’ll have to remind yourself why you’re embarking on this endeavor at all. So when those moments hit, just re-read this to remember why a great brand is critical to your success.
Using Social Media Branding Strategy to Build Your Brand
Know your audience! Engage your audience. Social Media is no exception. With little room for error in today’s economy for the small business owner, it’s important to embrace the social media revolution and use it just as with traditional media, the correct way. Just as there are keys to success in “Traditional Media”, there are…
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…
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