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Effective Digital Marketing Strategy
The Difference Between Strategy and a Tactic and Why it Matters
Strategy is the why.
Tactics are the how.
The strategy is the logic behind the actions that you take. It’s the bridge between your goals, priorities, revenue, and resources and how you will accomplish your goals, prioritize your priorities, increase your revenue, and better leverage your resources.
Your Goal is What?!?
As a part of our Discovery process, one of the first questions we ask potential and new clients is “what are your goals?” We’re looking to identify both short-term and long-term goal…
Truth Bomb: There is More to Marketing Than Just Ads if You Want Success
Marketing is embedded in everything that you do. When market tactics don’t work it’s usually the result of operational issues.
I once worked with a client who was spending $10,000 per month on online ads and had been for almost a year with zero returns. There are a few key issues that determine the success of online ads. When we investigated what was going on with this client, here is what we found.
Organic SEO Matters When Running Ads
First, the website was not optimized for SEO. Search Engine Opt…
5 Conversational Marketing Strategies To Help Your Business Grow
You have probably heard about conversational strategies before but do you really know what they are? After all, there are many ways to communicate with your customers, but not everyone knows how to do it effectively. Conversational marketing is a type of inbound marketing that enables you to connect with your audience in an organic way and can impact every part of your business. When done correctly, it can create authentic experiences, build relationships, improve lead generation quality, and pr…
How Much Should I Spend on Marketing?
This is one of the most common questions we get from clients. It’s a simple question with no straightforward answer. In other words, “it depends.”
I get it, it’s not the answer you want to hear. You would love to hear an exact number or formula that guarantees an exact ROI on every dollar spent. But that would be at best, misleading and at worse a straight-up lie.
There are too many variables to consider and it’s the wrong focus because marketing is bigger than just generating new leads for sa…
Melanie Asher, MBA Interviewed on The Revenue Maze Podcast with Valerie Cobb
🔥 🔥 “Be crystal clear on your messaging and it is not from your perspective, it is from your client's perspective and your perspective clients.” 🔥 🔥
Yes, our Founder and Fractional CMO, Melanie Asher, MBA was featured on The Revenue Maze podcast. Listen to hear that great quote and other points about how to make your business CREDIBLE and RELEVANT. Melanie joins the host Valerie Cobb to share some tips on how to get out of the revenue maze;
💲 Be crystal clear on the messaging you send. The m…
Content Marketing Strategy - Benefits of Being a Likeable Brand
Did you know? 70% of marketers are actively investing in content marketing, making it critical that you develop a good content strategy to compete in your industry.
An effective content marketing strategy will answer specific questions like:
- Who will be reading your content? How many audiences do you need to create content for? Just as your business might have more than one type of customer, your content strategy can cater to more than one type of user.
- What problem will you be solving for …
Three Rules For A Successful Marketing Campaign
The majority of new businesses fail in the market. According to some studies, up to 90% of businesses fail within the first year. Of course, this makes sense since, in order for there to be victors in business, the bulk must lose.
This is also one of the most important reasons why the majority of new firms fail. There could be a variety of elements at work here. Some go above their budget and allow costs to spiral out of control. Others hire the wrong personnel, while many others fail miserably…
How a Conversational Strategy Helps to Scale Your Business
What does it mean to be interesting? According to Dictionary.com, interesting means “arousing curiosity or interest; holding or catching the attention”. Is your brand interesting? Does your marketing arouse curiosity or hold the attention of your intended audience?
To be interesting doesn’t mean you need to become a comedian or that suddenly you only share content featuring cute puppies. Being interesting means that you are interested in your audience’s needs and wants. It means that you can re…
What Makes an Amazingly Successful Landing Page
More businesses are holding events than ever before. Technology and a global pandemic have made it a requirement that we learn how to navigate different ways of connecting with each other that build and strengthen relationships regardless of where in the world we are.
Not all events have to be market or client-focused events like conferences or workshops. Events can also include team meetings, department trainings, or gatherings to bring employees together from different locations. Regardless o…
Storytelling is Absolutely Essential to Engage or Influence Your Market
Brand storytelling has changed. It used to be that your brand was the hero of your story, and your features and benefits are how it “won”. Not anymore. Now, brand stories need to make your target audience the hero of the story.
The storytelling method even has science to back it up. In a study at Princeton University, scientists found that, when you listen to a well-told story, the parts of your brain that respond are those that would if you were inside the story. Even more impressive: this eff…