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Blue Sky Marketing (NOT!)
Remember when marketing seemed easier? We had unlimited budgets, no economic worries, and impressive television ads that wowed audiences. But those days of blue sky marketing are long gone. As marketers, we’ve had to adapt, becoming more innovative and responsive in today’s challenging landscape. Every dollar counts, and now we’re held accountable for project ROI…
Who are Your Target Market’s Influencers?
Quick – who is your target market? Can you clearly and specifically tell someone not in your industry who your target market is? Good! Now who are your target market’s influencers? Influencers are the ones who help shape opinion and who make recommendations on products and ideas for your target market. They are the people…
Navigating Social Media Nightmares
Social media nightmares are the most significant concern I hear when I talk with businesses about using 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 terrible about my brand online? What…
Your Brand Online
Some time ago, those of us in the business world began hearing that we needed to create a website for our business to build our brand online. Frankly, this confounded several business owners. They asked, “Why would I need a webpage for my business when everyone calls or comes in now?” And they were right…
Examining Your Marketing Environment
As you begin to put together your new strategic marketing plan, you should take into account the internal and external factors in your marketing environment that will be affecting you in the upcoming year. In my previous post, How Effective is Your Marketing Plan? I asked you the following you the following question: “Did your…
So What’s Your Social Media Strategy?
So, what’s your social media strategy? I’m sure that when it comes to most marketing endeavors, you attach some strategy to it. Have you done that for social media? No, I’m not talking about an ROI; I’m talking strategy. What is the base for your social media, Facebook? Twitter? Is location-based social media like Foursquare…
What’s Your Brand Story?
From start to finish, a well-executed brand is just about telling a good story. Well-written stories are pretty 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; each paragraph and chapter builds…
Using Product Promotions to Extend Your Brand
Once you’ve established your brand position and even created a branding commercial or two — it is inevitable that the next call you receive from your boss (or the CFO) is a plea/mandate to run a promotion to sell your product (yesterday)! At that moment, the balance sheet requires moving a product for the company’s…
Branding with Actions – Not Words
Too often, when we consider Branding, we focus entirely on the name of the business, the smartness of the tagline, or the commercials we produce. However, branding should be about creating a consistent customer experience, and the best way to accomplish this is through actions. We all know that we believe in a person’s actions…
Online Advertising in the Age of Adwords
With the advent of our new economy, we’re seeing a significant shift from traditional media spending to online advertising. This transformation has been driven by the evolving landscape of how consumers interact with brands and the need for businesses—small businesses—to maximize the impact of their limited marketing budgets. If you’re a small business owner, understanding…
Traditional Media Created Social Media
Before conglomeration, there was a time when radio, television, and print were local community outlets. The big three were locally owned and focused on the local community. Most decisions for communities regarding their major media are made thousands of miles away. What music to play, what programming to air, and cuts made in print to…
What’s Next For Social Media?
While the big brands and big boxes have taken early advantage of social media, if social media continues to grow, it will be because of the smaller local businesses. Big brands are paving the way, which makes sense since social media is more popular in larger markets. The next phase will take place in the…
Grassroots Marketing: Where Social Media Makes Perfect Sense
We belong to a local Chamber of Commerce that represents many small communities where we live. It means small communities with populations as high as 8,000, but most closer to 1,000. Like many small communities, the summers are filled with unique and creative weekend events. The events have no accurate media budgets; they are all…
Brand Marketing: Service. Community. Value. Substance.
As usual, brand marketing is almost always on my mind, and as I was watching this exceptional TEDxPennQuarter video by David Armano, David flashed a slide-up that said: Service. Community. Value. Substance. While talking about social communities, David also published the recipe for creating a fantastic brand and a successful business. If you can find a way to…
Practice Patience
For local business owners worldwide and in Southern Oregon, the three keywords for opening or running a business are location, location, and location. In today’s economic and marketing environment, the new three keys to success are patience, patience, and patience. From a financial standpoint, disposable income doesn’t exist like it did a few years ago.…
Brand Development Doesn’t Have to be Expensive
I’m continually amazed at how often we, in the marketing profession and those in business, assume that brand development has to be expensive! This misnomer is honestly come by, though, because it’s easy to spend a lot of money on updating your brand image in good times. But having cash ready to pay isn’t a…
Fun Marketing Campaigns Can Make Your Brand Memorable
What’s your claim to fame? How is your brand memorable in your community? Are you the go-to business for sponsoring non-profits either monetarily or with volunteers? Do you have a big annual blowout sale? Do you get wacky at Halloween or St. Patrick’s Day with fun marketing campaigns? Are you a crazy sports fan? The…
Reputation Management: Your Brand on the Web
The Web. Twitter. Facebook. Biznik. Foursquare. Merchant Circle. Blogs and Comments. If you’re not at least aware of how these websites are already affecting your Brand – it’s time to figure out online reputation management, NOW. Whether or not you intentionally maintain a presence on social media, your business, your Brand, your customers, and your…
5 Reasons a Local Business Owner Should be Involved in Social Media
There are many reasons that every local business should be involved in local social media. I’ve found that if it takes more than five reasons, they are afraid of what they don’t understand or of change. To go beyond five, you are just reaffirming to someone who believes in what you are talking about, and…
Twitter Marketing Strategy: Tweeting with Frequency
As any good radio account executive or business owner knows, frequency is necessary for radio. I’d argue that frequency is critical for Twitter’s marketing strategy as well. With radio being the active medium, users are usually active in what they are doing while listening. They are getting ready in the morning, driving, playing on their…
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