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Effective Digital Marketing Strategy
Achieve Social Media Success: The Reasons to Consider Outsourcing
Social media isn't a standalone entity in your marketing strategy; it's a vital component, an amplifier that complements your overarching goals. It's not just about establishing a presence; it's about crafting a comprehensive marketing strategy that directly connects marketing goals to your company goals, it's about fostering connections, and truly understanding and engaging with your audience.
Consider this: You don't need to be omnipresent across every platform. Choosing 1-3 platforms that re…
Are You Unintentionally Putting Yourself At Risk to Personalize Your Marketing
A common complaint that I hear is “with everything being digital, nothing is personal.” In many ways that is true. Technology has given us the ability to make everything look perfect—even in its imperfection, it still looks perfect. It’s easy to copy, share, and distribute in many different formats all with a few clicks of the mouse. I am noticing that the trend is returning to incorporate personal signatures into marketing materials. Nothing is more personalized than your own signature—it’s you…
How Do You Know When to Update Your Brand?
Everything changes. Birds molt and lizards change colors, styles go in and out of fashion, cartoon characters change with the times—look at Mickey Mouse, he is different now than what he was in 1928. Even established companies’ that are decades old change their identity to match with the times: Aunt Jemima, Prudential, UPS. It is all in the Power of Image! Here are three circumstances that indicate it’s time for you to update your identity:
1. You’re part of a merger.
Without going into the ma…
How to Navigate FTC Regulations: The Secrets to Effective Testimonials and Endorsements
For some, testimonials are what sell their business. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is finally catching up to the constantly evolving digital world. For the better part of a decade, the agency lagged a full Internet generation behind advertisers who saw online communications evolving faster than laws governing their fair use. Now the FTC is codifying and enforcing what were once only unwritten rules. As a result, companies caught crossing the bounds of appropriate online behavior now face ha…
Do You Want a Chief Marketing or Metric Officer?
How important do you think it is for a CMO to be creative?
Traditionally, a CMO is defined as Chief Marketing Officer. I saw an interview with a company that was seriously considering changing its definition to Chief Metric Officer. They felt measuring the metrics of campaigns was far more important than the creativity in today’s market.
When you look at recent economic events, let’s say over the last three years, and factor in that an average CMO remains in one job for only 18 months, to me…
Do You Need A Website?
So where do websites fit it? I think it is a justified question that will spark many different opinions.
Gone are the days where what the company says goes. For some it was replaced with customers speaking their mind—both good and ba…
Fun or Boring Titles--You Pick!
In last month’s issue, he noticed how one title attracted more attention than any other and he wanted to know why—so he asked! What a novel concept! Here are all of the article titles that were in the newsletter:
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Why Even Good Marketing Fails – And How To…
The Results to Some Simple Market Research
I have spent a good portion of the last year and a half doing research to find out if this new focus was viable, who my market would be and what would appeal to them. Overall, I think I have fo…
How Do You Sound on Your Podcasts?
I cannot tell you how many podcasts I have listened to that I get so annoyed I just shut it off. I have even stopped listening to webinars that I have paid for because the people …