Posts Tagged ‘Marketing’
Buying an Ad vs. PR Efforts to Support Your Franchise
Unless your franchise agreement has a specific clause preventing you from marketing above and beyond your required regulations, you would do well to consider the question of ad purchases versus a public relations effort to boost your bottom line sales.
Read More Does Marketing Keep You Up at Night? You’re Not Alone!
It’s official. If you’re worried about marketing your business or nonprofit, you’re among friends. A new Adobe study highlights the anxiety many of us experience when it comes to marketing.
Read More 3 of My Marketing Pet Peeves I Hope You Don’t Do
Every once in a while, I notice things that companies, organizations, and individuals do online that can erode their brands. These boo-boos are easily corrected, so I thought I’d share three of them with you in the hopes that you’ll avoid them.
Read More Is Your Business Too Professional? Part 2
Last week we talked about ways to make your marketing more interesting by being less “professional.” Here are three actions you can take to be a little less professional, and a little more interesting and appealing to your customers.
Read More 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?
Read More 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.
Read More 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.
Read More 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.
Read More Video Marketing: Does It Have a Place in Your Company?
If you have a small business, your marketing campaign needs video. Of all the ways you can sell your business, video is the most relatable, the easiest for viewers to absorb and retain, and the most likely to be passed from one customer to the next.
Read More VIDEO: Why You Must Pick a Tight Niche
Trying to make your business appeal to as many people as possible can be a disaster. Here’s why.
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