Sales and Marketing

8 Good Reasons Why You Should be Blogging

“Start a Blog.” It’s probably on your list of “shoulds” for your business. What’s holding you back? Now could be the time to start. Here are some good reasons why.

Is Your Business Too Professional? Part 1

The benefits of professionalism are well known: increased perception of respectability, authority, trust, and dependability. But is there a downside to professionalism? Is it possible to be too professional?

Pros and Cons of Infographics for Small Biz

Infographics provide eye-catching information for consumers since most people are visual learners. When handled appropriately they can drive immense traffic and even result in sales conversions.

Developing a Global Strategy

Once you’ve decided which foreign country you’d like to enter, it’s time to develop a strategy for how to successfully penetrate the market and create an immediate impact on sales for your business. Here are a few steps that I suggest taking to ensure you’re ready to take your business international.

10 Top Google Plus Tools for Digital Marketers

When Google realized that Facebook wasn’t an aberration, anomaly, or an afterthought it made its move. It created a social network that glued all its online assets together, collected social data and added social signals to its search algorithms.

Why Would I Pick You?

Marketing 101 is that you need to understand how you’re different from your competitors. It is perfectly logical: if you cannot differentiate yourself in terms of what you sell, how you sell it, or why you sell it, the only differentiator left is price.

The Factors Behind the SEO Secret Sauce

When it comes to SEO, it’s important to optimize your presence on and off your site. There are a number of things that can influence your ranking. Check out this great infographic from Ben Norman, as he breaks down the best practices behind the Secret Sauce of SEO.

How to Make Branding Pay Off For You

Your brand is your company’s reputation. It incorporates every touch point from within your company and outside of your company. It is how the principals, shareholders, customers, suppliers, and employees interact with the company.

Are You More Focused on Acquisition or Retention Marketing?

Even though it’s a fact that it costs less to retain customers than to go after new ones, a new Econsultancy study shows a difference in where organizations are focusing versus where they should be focused.

Shooting from the Lip

Customers don’t want a knee jerk reaction. They don’t want the rehearsed response. They want to invest their time with people who are prepared, who are ready to engage in high impact conversations about their businesses.

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