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.
Connecting Your Brand With Social Media Advertising
Connecting a brand with a well-received online presence is not a task that is easily achievable overnight. Knowing how to properly and effectively connect with your brand when considering social media advertising is essential to maximize your online reach and your ability to attract new followers and prospective customers. Social Media Advertising Strategies. Research Your…
Online Branding: Tips from the Pros that Help Companies Like Coca-Cola Succeed
Big brands Coca-Cola and Nike have always used traditional media like print, TV, and radio to drive their branding campaigns. But the same rules that help them win in offline channels don’t apply to the digital world. Some brands fall flat when it comes to making the transition online, but brands like Coca-Cola know that…
Making the Most Out of Your Online Advertising Budget
How much money do you plan to spend on digital marketing? According to a study conducted by Gartner, 65 percent of professional marketers plan to increase their online advertising expenditure. This trend is being fueled by a shift from offline media to digital media as well as the growth of paid social advertising. As a…
Creating a Solid Online Marketing Campaign with The Help of a Professional Marketing Firm
A well-organized online marketing campaign can win you significant numbers of customers. By some estimations, a good online marketing campaign can yield more clients than SEO and social media marketing when the conducted separately. The following are some steps you can take towards creating the campaign. Define your online marketing target We often engage in…
A Picture is Worth 1,000 Visitors. The Effectiveness of Using Images in your Digital Marketing Campaigns
Including the right digital marketing images for your company can pay huge dividends. Over 65 percent of all people are visual learners. Over 90 percent of all material that your brain processes is visual and presentations that include visuals are over 43 percent more persuasive. Therefore, if you are planning a campaign, you need to…
Marketing Guide to Capturing Online Sales this Cyber Monday
It’s no secret that the day after Thanksgiving is expected to be one of the biggest shopping days of the year. While many business owners know this, they haven’t recognized the fact that they can utilize online marketing strategies to optimize their sales. By participating in Cyber Monday, you’ll likely find that your company can…
Choosing Your Logo Color
Your logo is probably the first thing that comes to mind when people think about your brand, so it makes sense to give it a memorable design. This should include color, but that doesn’t always come to mind when business owners are deciding on a great logo. Logo color can tell people a lot about…
How do I build brand awareness?
You might be offering the best service or product available under the sun. But unless your customers are aware of this, you might not make even a single sale. This drives home the need to build brand awareness. Creating brand awareness for your company or products will give it the visibility it needs to meet…
What are the initial steps of brand building?
Apple, Coca-Cola, Nokia, Starbucks are examples of some brands that when mentioned can bring an image (probably the logo) into anyone’s mind. These are brands or companies that have spent time and energy brand building a strong and ‘loyal’ reputation for themselves over the years. A strong brand can make your gain a loyal “following” without putting…
What do Social Media Advertising Agencies do?
Online marketing has changed significantly over the past few years. Social media now plays a complex role in how businesses maintain their reputations, build their brands and market their products. Because social networks are constantly evolving, many businesses rely on social media advertising agencies to develop their strategies. Social media advertising agencies work to help…
Business To Business Branding Strategy
Many of today’s top companies underestimate the importance of business to business branding. When businesses succeed at this enterprise, they can often boost their profits by up to 20 percent. There are many different strategies that can be employed in doing business to business marketing. These tips can help your growing business to succeed in…
Branding: A Candid Conversation
Can I be honest with you? When I talk with a business owner, a business owner of any size, an entrepreneur, a small size business owner, a medium size business owner, and even the large business owners that I talk to; they all have a reason for getting up in the morning and coming and…
Reasons Why Live Streaming Should be Part of Your Businesses’ Social Strategy
Social media marketing is coming up short, based on new studies on consumer decision-making patterns. People are less influenced by social media advertising than TV or print ads and new techniques for displaying information on social media is making it harder for businesses to reach fans. Viewership numbers are becoming less important than driving the…
What are the best books and articles about brandtelling, brand and storytelling, branded contents?
In today’s very competitive business world, it’s harder and harder to get people’s attention and trust. One of the best ways to do so is by using a technique known as brandtelling, which has grown in popularity. Using the personal touch of storytelling to attract customers, it’s a marketing strategy that is resulting in better…
Small Budget, No Problem: Creative Marketing Ideas for Small Business
Unlike large corporations, small businesses simply don’t have the budget to drop a few million dollars into advertising and promoting their brand. This doesn’t mean, however, that they can’t engage in marketing. Small businesses can make up for their smaller budget with creativity and efficiently grow and maintain their consumer bases. Let’s look at 12…
Choose Your Brand, if Not Now, When Will You? [VIDEO]
So many of our clients get stuck when it comes time to evaluate the design services and choose their brand position and their logo. Understandably, the moment where you choose your brand is a big decision! What seems to happen is that people try to compare their new brand and logo to an existing one —…
Branding, Marketing, and Positioning: Understanding the Differences
Branding was the top objective of 42 percent of digital ad spending in 2015, according to eMarketer. This reflected an increase from 40.9 percent the previous year, showing the increasing emphasis marketing agencies are putting on branding. So what is branding? What role does it play in marketing, and how does it relate to positioning?…
How a Brand Style Guide Helps Build Your Company’s Image
For the third year in a row, Apple topped Interbrand’s annual list of best global brands, increasing its brand value by 43 percent to reach $170.276 billion. Apple owes much of its success to a marketing philosophy initially laid out by founding investor Mike Markkula, who emphasized a focus on core goals, maintaining a professional…
Do Brands Matter?
In today’s world of advertising opportunities coupled with the rise of social media, it’s easy to ask the question, “Do Brands Matter?” It will be no surprise to you if you’ve been following the blog that the answer (in my opinion) is a resounding, “YES, Brands Matter!” Let me explain why. The Reasons Brands Matter…
Everything You Need to Know About Brand Manuals
We all by now know how powerful a brand is. In simple terms, a brand is something that tells and shows who you are. A brand sets your business aside from the rest and sells you apart from the masses. Poor branding can be catastrophic to your company, the same way better branding can lead…