Laura Donovan December 2, 2014 We get calls every day from business owners looking for websites or marketing and advertising help. Often they ask how they can get higher on Searches – increase their SEO or ask where to advertise and make sales. We are constantly telling them the importance of having a strong Social … Continue reading No More Excuses – It’s Time to Take Social Media Seriously
Angela Hausman, PhD November 22, 2014 Conversion is the end zone in marketing. Not just getting folks to buy your product, but speeding them on their buying journey by signing up for your mailing list, downloading your white paper, or going to a webinar. Don’t believe me? According to Hubspot research, 13% of … Continue reading It’s All About the Click: Traditional Media Versus Digital Media Versus Social Media
By Debbie Leven, Published November 6, 2014 Are you keen to get more media visibility but struggling because you just don’t have the media contacts? I hear that a lot and it can be frustrating, particularly if you’ve tried before and not got results or you simply feel overwhelmed about the thought of getting started. … Continue reading Finding the Right Media Contacts – It’s Not as Difficult as You Think
By Miriam Hara, Published November 2, 2014 Brand shapers and makers would like to believe that they own brand perception. However, that simply is not true. Any brand’s perception by definition does not belong to the marketing teams in the offices or the manufactures. Brands are created by consumers. Many brands have been propelled to … Continue reading Brand Perception: It’s Not What You Think
By Chris Horton, Published October 30, 2014 The exponential the increase in “big data” aggregation has paved the way for advanced online advertising technologies such as ad retargeting, which allows brands to micro-segment their audience in order to serve up contextually relevant ads in just the right place and at just the right time. Only … Continue reading Ad Retargeting: It’s About Context, Relevance & Value
By Asad Haroon, Published October 29, 2014 A new survey by the Content Marketing Institute found that 86% of businesses are using content marketing. CMI found that marketers spend an average of 28% of their marketing budget on content, with the most effective marketers devoting an average of 37% to a content marketing strategy. And nearly half … Continue reading B2B Content Marketing – Five Reasons It’s So Tough to Track
By Nick Toman, Published October 23, 2014 In many ways the single biggest challenge in B2B sales today isn’t so much a selling problem as it is a buying problem. Today’s sales rep must deal with an increasing number of customer stakeholders involved in purchase decisions. While it’s the new reality – building consensus amongst … Continue reading It’s Not You, It’s Them: Teaching Customers How to Buy
By Amanda Clark, Published October 23, 2014 Wouldn’t it be nice if you could have an automated customer service center on your website—a place where your customers could go to chat, in real time, with a technical support representative, a sales staff team member, or simply some caring employee able to guide them through use … Continue reading Supporting Customers Through Your Business Website (It’s Easier Than You Think)
By Paul Biedermann, Published October 16, 2014 It’s a visual world and images touch us in a direct, visceral way unlike text can alone. They make us happy, they make us laugh, they make us inspired — they can also make us deeply sad — all in just a fleeting glance. Recent neurological studies prove … Continue reading It’s A Brand New, Brand YOU, Visual World
What A Difference A Year Makes. The Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs just posted their 2015 B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets and Trends for North America Survey results. In its fifth year, the survey takes a close look at the content marketing discipline in B2B organizations and how organizations rank themselves. In reading through the … Continue reading Content Marketing . . . It’s Not Getting Any Better
