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.
2023 Holiday Retail Sales Forecast and Tips
Halloween may have just been minutes ago, but for retail companies, it’s already time to bring in those critical holiday sales. Despite being in an inflationary economy, forecasts for holiday sales in 2023 are looking bright and merry. According to Deloitte’s 2023 holiday survey, customers plan to make the most of their gift-giving opportunities. Survey…
Why You Need Better Coordination Between Marketing and Sales
We work with companies of every size across the country, but there are some unique needs many of our small and medium-sized clients share. Managers or owners need to wear many hats in these businesses, including marketing. Marketing expertise and refined strategies are often relied upon to generate profitability, yet marketing alone will not get…
The Fascinating Dynamics of Strategic Product Placement
In the fiercely competitive world of retail, capturing consumers’ attention and enticing them to make purchases is a constant challenge. One powerful tool store owners have at their disposal is strategic product placement. By carefully positioning products and leveraging price promotions, you can create a domino effect that influences consumer behavior and drives sales. The…
Calculating the ROI for Community Development
Calculating the return on investment (ROI) for some business functions is challenging. The concept is quite simple: determine how much monetary benefit the company realized (return) for each dollar spent on the effort (the investment.) Yet, the ROI for many marketing, human resources, and community development activities is difficult to determine because it may seem…
Marketing During a Recession
Early in October 2022, Jamie Dimon, Chief Executive of Morgan Chase, warned the United States is headed to a recession. Because of the intense rates of inflation, the war in Ukraine, and the sharp increase in interest rates, Dimon feels a recession is inevitable by the middle of 2023. Our last significant economic downturn of…
Does Product Placement Work?
You don’t have to dig deep into many of the most popular movies of our day to see brand-name products, signage, and logos flash onto the screen. A fun exercise is to watch any movie’s high-action scenes–car chases or your favorite web-slinger racing through city streets–and count how many well-known brand names you can spot…
Achieving Holiday Sales in Unprecedented Times
If you’re unaware of the holiday product scarcity concerns raging throughout American consumerism right now, you must be living in a cave. It seems you can’t turn on the television or scroll through social media without hearing talk about empty store shelves, delivery delays, and backordered inventory. As of the beginning of November, Amazon Prime…
The Name of the Game for 2021 Business Success is E-Commerce
Are you optimizing e-commerce sales in your business? In the first quarter of 2020, the percentage of total households in the U.S. that purchased at least one product online in the last 12 months leaped from 15% to nearly 35%. That 20% spread gained in only three months represents the total amount of growth during…
Your Sales Funnel is then #1 Reason You Don’t Have More Clients!
Let’s talk for a minute about leads and the sales funnel. We all get leads, but it’s what we do with them that matters (AKA do you have a sales funnel?). How well are we following up on them? How well are we creating a relationship with them? The reality is that the first time…