Sales and Marketing

Neuromarketing: Measuring Emotional Response to Create More Effective Ad Imagery

For years, advertising creatives have relied on their instincts to make decisions when producing campaign content, whether it’s making a font size bigger, moving an image from left to right, or choosing vendors to realize…

Do You Know the Perception of Your Brand?

If reputation is the word that could replace brand in a conversation between yourself and your customer, why is it that most small businesses don’t get branding right? From my experience, it hinges on information…

Why Search Rankings Aren’t Everything

In the past, search marketing and search engine optimization have focused heavily on boosting search rankings so that your website is as visible as possible to people using sites like Google. However, over the last…

Make Your Content Searchable, Shareable, and Snackable

So you’ve adopted the methodology of inbound marketing and started producing content to share with your target audience. Although you seem to be on the right path, you may still experience shortcomings in the form…

Entrepreneurs Need More Relationships and Fewer Friends

Successful entrepreneurs understand the difference between a good business relationship with more people and having more friends. In fact, the focus on social networking platforms, starting with Facebook, has destroyed the meaning of the word…

Get More Customers Online with Google My Business

If you want to reach more customers online, you need to be on Google. Most businesses realize this, but aren’t taking full advantage of the tools available to them. Google My Business is a free service…

What is Proximity Based Marketing?

As mobile continues to hit the mainstream, our approaches to information discovery are rapidly evolving along with our buying habits. A recent study conducted by IDC Research and YP found that only 36% of online desktop and…

Doing More By Doing Less

It’s awfully crowded in the digital marketing/social selling world. Getting “heard” is increasingly difficult. Getting into see/talk to customers is one of the top challenges I hear from executives, marketing and sales people alike. To…

Are You Taking Advantage of “Presales”?

The “presale” is a concept that is fairly new in the world of sales and it’s used in a variety of ways. Here are just a few: Kickstarter campaigns “presell” items that are in development….

Social Media Posting Times: A Guide for Small Business Bloggers

When it comes to a successful social media marketing strategy, exposure and reach are fundamental. If bloggers and small businesses aren’t posting their updates on the best days and times to reach potential customers, they…

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