Your brand shows customers and potential customers what your business is about. The colors, fonts, voice, logo, and other aspects of your brand make your business memorable, and help to show customers what they can expect from you. When all of your brand elements work together cohesively, you can create a powerful brand image. In this blog post, we’ll walk…
Modern-day marketing allows businesses to put their products or services in front of the most likely customers, instead of wasting advertising dollars on consumers who will never convert. This efficient strategy requires capturing customers’ attention and keeping it through compelling content. But creating a content marketing strategy that works requires slipping into your customers’ shoes. When you know your customers’…
The right marketing plan will keep your business moving in the right direction and help you generate more leads and sales.However, many marketing plans require a dozen or even two dozen different sections. If you want to get started quickly, or create an outline that you can build on later, try this quick-start strategic marketing plan template. This template and…
Depending on your industry, the average email open rate should be around 24% and your email click rate should be around 4%. Are you falling short of these average numbers? Email marketing has rapidly evolved, and in order to have an effective email marketing strategy, marketers must look at their email strategy periodically and make changes. To resonate with your…
Accurately collecting, analyzing and using marketing data is an obstacle to many marketers and decision makers. The right data collection and digital marketing data analysis techniques can provide invaluable insights about your business; it can show you where your dollars are best spent, what your customers are responding to, and how and when your marketing efforts turn into sales. The…
Digital marketing is rooted in technology, so the methods and strategies are always changing. If you’re starting to consider digital marketing as a job, or for your business, these marketing eBooks are a great primer on a variety of topics that might be new to you. Even if you know everything about digital marketing, these marketing eBooks could be a…
Search engine optimization (SEO) helps your website come up in search results when customers make a relevant search. Local search engine optimization helps your website or business location appear in search results when users enter a search at a particular location. This might mean a customer looking for a restaurant in their area, a retail store, dentist office, realtor, and…
Every month, hackers, spammers, and phishers get more sophisticated and come up with even more believable scams. There is no doubt you already receive tons of unsolicited email spam that is either easily detectable or removed by spam filters. However, recent phishing scams are becoming more sophisticated, and more difficult to detect. False Photography Phishing Scams There are a lot…
Search engine optimization (SEO) can help search engines and your audience find your website. There are many factors determining SEO, some which you can control, and others which are more unpredictable. Some of these factors are influenced by individual technical aspects and content on your website, while others are influenced by aspects outside your website. Comparing on-page SEO vs off-page…
Leveraging crowdsourced content allows you to work with your audience, including your followers and customers, to create a campaign or accomplish a goal. There are many ways to use crowdsourced content, and using a few best practices can help you gather exceptional content without creating all of it yourself. Here are a few of the ways to leverage crowdsourced content,…
