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.
A Guide to Help Small Businesses Create a Great Annual Marketing Plan
A great marketing plan is important for many small businesses to be successful. There are multiple parts to creating an effective marketing plan, which is why small businesses have to figure out what they would like to accomplish. With that being said, here is a guide to help small businesses develop a great annual marketing…
Your business isn’t too small to hire an advertising agency
A successful small business has two essential elements to it. One, the core service or the product. Two, marketing and advertising. A mediocre product or service with great advertising will always outsell a great product with mediocre advertising. Time and time, advertising has proven it’s worth. Who doesn’t like Apple’s commercials? They’re beautifully woven around…
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…
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…
Marketing Tips To Get Your Small Business Off The Ground
You just started your small business and have the foundation built. Now what? It’s time to promote your business and acquire customers. Marketing is essential to the success of any business, but for a small business, it could mean the difference between succeeding or failing. To maximize your marketing efforts, try these marketing tips. Marketing…
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…
Marketing for the Future
For many businesses, success or failure depends upon keeping up with and understanding financial concepts and principles. Understanding the basics helps the organizations to make significant and necessary financial decisions. These decisions may be the key to ensuring that the organization keeps and maintains a competitive advantage over competitors. Marketing plans are very important for…
Why Marketing Does Not Go as Planned
Sometimes the best-laid plans do not go as well as we would like them to go. This goes for any plan we put together, whether it be personal or professional. Sometimes we need to take a step back to determine where we went wrong in our process of development. Maybe we left out a key ingredient…
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Promotional Calendar Template [VIDEO]
Promotional Calendar Template Transcription Hi, I’m Tisha Oehmen from Paradux Media Group, and I thought it might be something fun today to mix things up, if I did a Google hangout rather than just typing into the blog post. I wanted to talk specifically about a promotional marketing calendar and why it’s something that you…
How To Solve Your Biggest Marketing Problem
Let’s face it, we all have marketing problems. But what if you could solve your biggest problem with little effort and little cost? Would you be interested? Of course you would. That’s just good business sense. Now, what if I told you the single biggest marketing problem you have is something MOST businesses suffer from,…
What Is Inbound Marketing and Why Should You Care?
What is Inbound Marketing? Inbound Marketing is a phrase that has been on the periphery of every business since the boom of the online marketplace. With 80% of Australians now with internet access, by implementing cost effective online marketing strategies, you can bring people to you in their droves. This chart shows the Breakdown of…
Small Business Marketing Expenses & Planning
Every small business markets its products or services from the sole proprietor or freelancer, to the emerging corporation with fewer than 500 employees. The percentage of funds you allocate to marketing can vary, with some enterprises getting by on a shoestring budget while others may find that the their budgets are heavily tilted to getting…
Top 15 Finding Brand Blog Posts in 2012
I have a confession to make, somehow I blinked and January was G-O-N-E! Has that ever happened to you? I had intended to do another recap of the most popular blog posts on the Finding Brand Blog in early January. But, it appears that ship has sailed. So, a month late, here’s the annual recap…
Strategic Marketing Vision
Marketing is one of those tricky fields. It bridges the gap between strategy and execution. It’s equally at home either in the Boardroom as an outgrowth of strategy, as it is in the Human Resources Suite, as a compliment to internal culture, and of course, in the Business Development group as a business acquisition plan. Strategic Marketing…
5 Things You Must Do as a Brand Manager
Being a Brand Manager in today’s world isn’t easy. But it’s one of the most important jobs that exists in the Marketing Department — if not the Company. The reason is, the Brand Manager is the first and last line of defense for the brand. To successfully fulfill your duties as Brand Manager, these are…
SEO and Your Marketing Budget
SEO Where Does It Fit In My Marketing Plan? You’re a small business owner; you have a marketing budget but still most of your advertising endeavors are bills rather than part of a budget. You dabble in some print advertising, and maybe you do a little radio, so how does SEO fit in? Good question…Being…
3 Questions to Ask for Marketing Success
Internal politics are often the bane of any Marketing Manager’s existence. There is always a strong undercurrent at most marketing conferences where Marketing Managers try to figure out how to get a “seat at the table”. If you are in that category — you need to read Nirmalya Kumar’s book, Marketing as Strategy. It attacks the marketing framework from…
Annual Strategic Marketing Plan Template
Ever look around madly for the ideal Annual Strategic Marketing Plan Template? I know I have — more times than I care to admit. Some are too involved for most companies (literally, there are 625 page books written on the topic). Others worry more about tactics than strategies. Some forget the most important part —…
The Best Marketing Strategies for a Product or Service Launch
Launching a new product or service is a highly exciting time and when you first do it you will no doubt be highly excited and hopefully very passionate and fully behind the project. However while your enthusiasm and passion might be at breaking point, the difficult task you have ahead of you is to get…