A comprehensive marketing strategy should serve as the roadmap for a business' marketing efforts, laying out a strategized, thought out approach to each of your marketing initiatives. Are you leveraging your marketing strategy to ensure that your company is more successful? Below, we have several key points that your marketing strategy should accomplish for your business.
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Nurturing leads is one of the biggest responsibilities marketers have in their relationship with the clients. While the process can look different each day, it’s important to develop an approach that works through A/B testing and studying analytics. By developing a deeper understanding of what your audience is looking for, you can begin to truly nurture the relationship from the first point of contact to the conversion. Below, we have four tips for nurturing leads.
If you own a business in 2020, you know all about having to stay relevant to your customer base. Whether you want to continue to be innovative or not, the simple truth is that inaction will do far greater harm than pushing your business out of its comfort zone. The best way to transform your business and change with the times is by implementing a digital marketing strategy. Digital marketing is the tool to take your business to the next level and keep up with your audience's expectations.
What does the future of marketing look like? The marketing industry is constantly changing in the face of several different challenges, and marketers should be prepared to change with it. Staying ahead of trends is never an easy job, but it makes a huge difference in preparing for the future. As we begin to transition into a 2021 state-of-mind, take the time to establish what your marketing priorities should be and what steps you can take to meet each priority in the years to come.
When you are building a business from the ground up, there is a lot to consider. It’s easy enough to focus on how your company will turn a profit, but there’s one thing that shouldn’t be allowed to slip through the cracks: the creation of your logo. Your logo will do many things for your business by giving your audience something to recognize and setting up a visual identity. Below, we have some essential considerations for your logo creation process.
For those that are starting businesses right now, it’s crucial to establish a secure foundation amidst the whirlwind of tasks that need to be done. Writing a business plan is an essential first step for all business leaders who are hoping to prepare and start out on the right foot moving forward. Business leaders who take the time to write a business plan are 16% more likely to succeed than those who don’t. Below, we have four reasons why you should write a business plan.
Growing your business isn't easy, especially during a period of economic challenges. With all of the challenges that businesses face daily, it's important to utilize all of your available resources to generate interest. Leveraging your customer's experience is an excellent way to build brand awareness and generate engagement with new prospects and leads. Below, we have four ways to leverage your customers to grow brand awareness.
Winning over prospective customers is never an easy task. You have to demonstrate that you are capable of delivering on what your product promises. Writing case studies are a perfect way to showcase your company’s ability to follow through on what you provide. A case study examines the customer’s challenge or pain point and what it took to get a solution. They can vary in length, but the case study should measure success using metrics that your client has agreed upon. A well-written case study shows the positive impact your business has on your customer base. Below, we discuss how to write a case study that will attract new leads.
Whether you are selling a product or a service, it’s intended for a specific group of customers or a target market. But do you understand anything about that group of people? This where a target audience comes, which defines that group of people. A target audience is a group of consumers characterized by behaviors and specific demographics, and knowing your target audience can help to influence decision making for a marketing strategy. Finding your target audience takes a lot of work and research so that you can figure out who exactly you want to reach. Below, we have some tips on how to find your target audience.
What is the user experience on your website like? Today’s users are looking for a website that is informative, modern looking, intuitive, and easy to use. If your website doesn’t perform the way it should, it will negatively affect your brand awareness and engagement. Below, we have four tips to make your website more user-friendly for your audience.
Email campaigns might seem like an outdated marketing method, but they are a tried and true method of connecting with your audience. While perfecting the content and design elements is an essential part of creating an email campaign, it’s more important to understand how to succeed.
With as difficult as 2020 has been for people and businesses across the globe, it might be hard to take the time to set personal and professional goals for ourselves as we get closer to the end of the year. For some of us, the end of the year feels like a sigh of relief after an incredibly difficult period. Still, for others, it only stresses the already complicated challenges and obstacles we are facing. Either way, it's important to set personal and professional goals to plan for prosperity and success for next year, while instilling a sense of hope for the future. Take an objective look at where you want to be personally and professionally, with a plan of how to get there.
When you hear the word ecosystem, what's the first thing that comes to mind? Ecosystems work in a particular way, wherein the biotic and abiotic components of any particular ecosystem work together to survive. Product ecosystems are not so different! A company creates a product ecosystem when they have several products that coexist to benefit the customer. Apple is an excellent example of a company that's made a thriving product ecosystem, with its synchronized phones, tablets, laptops, televisions, and even headphones. But how is a thriving product ecosystem built? Below, we have a few pointers for any companies that are attempting to establish their product ecosystem.
Marketers tend to pour massive amounts of time and effort into specific content strategies, but they don’t always work out the way they are intended. Content is created to educate customers, move them through the customer journey, and relay the industry-specific information they need. But what happens if your content marketing strategy isn’t working? Below, we discuss three ways that your content strategy isn’t working and how you can address those problems.
When you’re building an SEO report for a client, it probably features a multitude of considerations to optimize their website like the page level traffic, bounce rate, or the amount of time that users spend on the site. All of this is helpful, but is it the most essential information for your report? Hypothetically, let’s say you can only include one piece of information in an SEO report. The one element that should be included in every SEO report is the conversion rate and goal completion.