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.
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Articulate the Brand Personality for the Brand Book
Now that we’ve created our list of keywords and established the relationship between them, it’s time for our next step in how to make a Brand Book and develop our brand personality. Articulating your Brand Personality is an integral component of building a Brand Book. Brand Personality starts to breathe life into the brand, making…
Identify Your Brand Essence
Once you’ve identified your brand and brand book keywords, it’s essential to test them and demonstrate their relationship to your brand position to create your brand essence. From our last post, you’ll recall that we settled on the following keywords: imagination, friend, joy, clean, charity, children, Dream, chubby, Bathtime, and squeeze. To explore the relationship…
What Does Google My Business Mean to the Local Business Owner?
As a local business owner, you’ve likely invested time and effort into building an online presence. You may have created a Facebook business page, posted regularly, and engaged with your community to earn those precious ‘Likes.’ Maybe you’ve even ventured into other social media platforms like Instagram or LinkedIn. You know firsthand how time-consuming it…
Putting and Advertising Both Can Drive You Nuts
Many life comparisons can be drawn to golf; advertising is one. I am happy with most of my golf game; my ball striking has never been better, and lessons from our pro certainly helped with that. Last year, I began to lose confidence in my putter. It started with the club championship last fall and…
5 Must-Know Reasons Businesses on Facebook Thrive
I’ve spent the week discussing with business owners why their brands should be on Facebook. More businesses are joining every day, but if you’re still on the fence, here are five compelling reasons businesses on Facebook can’t afford to miss out. 1. Facebook is the New Phone System Many business owners fear Facebook will distract…
Can We Teach an Old Media New Tricks?
It seems that traditional media has learned a little over the past 15 years with the announcement that The Washington Post Company has officially launched its full-service Facebook marketing and advertising agency, SocialCode. The agency will offer page management, app development, social commerce, fan monetization, message testing, and advertising through Facebook’s ads, but it is…
Facebook Profile Management: Balancing Personal and Professional Lives
The worlds of our personal and professional lives are set on a collision course more strongly now than ever before, with the update to the Facebook profile management last night. Upfront and center when you go to someone’s page is a short bio announcing to the world where you work, where you studied, where you…
Building an Authentic Brand: The Power of Being Unselfish
As you work on creating a solid and impactful brand, one significant philosophy to consider is building an authentic brand that is unselfish. While this concept has always been important, it has become even more critical in today’s digital age, where brands increasingly interact with their audience through social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter.…
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…
Are You a Pioneer or a Settler?
All sorts of numbers are being thrown out there regarding how many companies have implemented social media plans and strategies. Most numbers are probably a little inflated. It’s going to come down to region and category. Some categories are more suited to social media right now; similar to when the dot com boom was happening,…
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.…
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 small business owners, embracing the social media revolution and using it correctly with traditional media is essential. Just as there are keys to success in “Traditional Media,” there are those duplicate keys to success in…
