With a booming economy and the rise of companies moving online, there’s never been a better time to seize the moment and take the leap into business ownership. However, building a business from the ground up is no walk in the park. As an entrepreneur you are focused and efficient with your planning. You work […]
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You’re Not Going Crazy
Have you ever been watching TV while simultaneously playing a game or surfing the web on your phone and suddenly it feels like everywhere you look there’s an ad for the same product? For example, you just heard (because you were looking down at your phone) a TV spot for the latest Toyota vehicle and […]
How to Build a New Customer Base
Customers make an essential part of the growth of any business as they play a large role in determining how fast it can expand. If you are aiming to grow your business, the idea is to keep on growing your customer base by attracting new clientele. Finding and keeping the existing customers is just a […]
How to Attract, Connect and Convert More Prospects into Customers
In 2017, digital ad spend has surpassed television ad spend. Brands are switching their ad spend focus from TV, radio and print to digital. If we want to get our message in front of the right audience, entrepreneurs and businesses have to course correct their marketing strategy to include digital. Facebook now has over 2 […]
6 Ways to Pitch Your Innovation to Today’s Customers
Every entrepreneur with a new technology tells me that his innovation will be industry-disrupting, meaning that it will render the existing technology obsolete, and create a new market. Yet truly disruptive innovations, like the smartphone from Apple and the rise of the Internet, are very rare, and are generally unpredicted. So why would any investor […]
If You Want to Transform Your Marketing, Try These 5 New Technologies
The digital age has rapidly disrupted virtually every industry, and marketing is no exception; more so today than ever before, emerging technologies are fundamentally reshaping how products are marketed, and how consumers can find goods and deals that work for them. Some innovations are more impactful than others, however, and marketers who don’t want to […]
How Effective Are Paid Ads, Really?
If you have your own business, one of the things that probably keeps you up at night is how to increase the amount of traffic your website receives. A paid ads campaign can be one of the solutions. And, indeed, it’s quite a good solution; Facebook ads, Instagram ads, LinkedIn ads, Twitter ads, Google Display […]
Grow By Creating Markets, Versus Killing Competitors
For your business to continue to grow, there are really only two ways to get customers. One way is to take customers away from an existing player, and the other is to create a new market with a new product or service that didn’t exist before. Examples of recent “new market” big wins include Apple […]
Scoring User Behavior for Audience Insights
Having the ability to segment your audience and understand your customers is crucial in the digital marketing world. Most of us are familiar with segmenting by gender, location, or interests through Google Analytics’ built-in reports, but these don’t always give us the insights we want and need. In this post, we’ll introduce you to the concept […]
If You Don’t Know Who Your Customer Is, Improving Selling Skills Won’t Help
Over the past few days, I’ve been participating in a discussion about a struggling organization. It’s a start up, the CEO wanted help in developing sales skills. But as the discussion progressed, it was clear the CEO didn’t understand who their customers were. They were responding to queries from whoever happened to find their web […]
