Marketing Plans
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.
Where Will Your Business Succeed Abroad?
Once you’ve mustered up the courage to approach a foreign market, it’s time to decide which countries you want to target. Here are a few ways to determine whether your business will be successful entering another country.
Why Expand Your Business Internationally?
In the first part of a series on taking your small business international, I’d like to discuss why it might make sense to expand your business to a foreign country. Here are three reasons that inspire most businesses to develop a global strategy.
3 Steps to Create a Local Communication Strategy
Becoming the friendly neighborhood national company requires business owners to create a niche communication strategy—one that joins the conversations already taking place in the community and provides clear solutions for the community members’ everyday challenges, needs and aspirations.
5 Secrets to Increasing Your Email Open Rates & Recipient Engagement
How do you ensure that your emails get read? Here are some email marketing best practices to get noticed and produce results. Incorporate these into your promotional efforts, and your returns will soar.
Your Brand: What Does It Stand For?
Where does your brand stand right now? It’s a question not many businesses and individuals can answer with any degree of accuracy. Without any plan to analyze their brand in place, it’s not likely they will have an answer anytime soon.
The Marketing Plan
Marketing your products and services is the lifeblood of a new business. While you can ultimately have all kinds of long term business strategies, without having a steady stream of new revenue your new business venture can close up in a short period of time.
Big or Small: Brands That Stand Out Drive Sales
In the public domain, discussions on branding are almost exclusively focused on multi-national brands, brands we see in our daily lives. Brands such as Apple, General Motors, Google and McDonald’s. In discussing these powerful brands it becomes hard for small and medium size enterprises to recognize the value of branding. To these entrepreneurs, branding is the domain of world companies. Not so.
Does Your Boss Understand Marketing? 3 Recommendations for Different Boss Types
If your job involves marketing in any way, shape, or form, does your immediate supervisor or boss “get” it? Does she have a basic understanding of marketing so that you are empowered to do your job and make your business or nonprofit look good and succeed?