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.
Is Your Website Capturing Your Reader’s Interest?
Gaining your reader’s attention in our fast-paced society can be a challenge. If you own an online business, you want to make sure your website is capturing your reader’s interest. You have to get your products and services in front of your customers, but just how do you do that while competing with all the…
How to Create a Compelling Email Campaign
It’s never a good idea to spam the subscribers or customers that you have on your email marketing list. However, you do want to stay in contact with them so that your business stays on their radar. How can you accomplish this and actually create value for your recipients? The answer is by focusing on…
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…
Brand Books Examples – Vote for Your Favorite!
Brand book examples aren’t the easiest to find, but if you’re trying to write your brand book — find them. You must. I’ve been a long-time collector of brand book examples since well before I started writing my book, Finding Brand: The Brand Book Tutorial, which shows elements from real brand books and helps the…
What is a Brand Narrative?
I often get asked, “What is a Brand Narrative”? And the answer is simply your brand story. It’s both the history of and the future focus for your business. All tied up in one tight strategy. What is a brand narrative doing for my business? Simply put, your brand narrative provides context to your team, continuity…
Brand Once, Brand Twice: 3 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Brand Thrice
Branding your company the first time always seems hard enough. Yet after a few years, your brand inevitably goes through a “growing up period”. In this phase, we see brands literally grow from “young” and “immature” to more “grown-up”. This is a natural evolution of your brand — and it happens to most all brand…