In 2019, it is becoming harder and harder to stay relevant and competitive in any industry. There are so many companies and products available, and they are all doing great things. You need to be able to set yourself apart from the rest of the pack to survive. Search engine optimization is a great strategy to not only maximize the visits to your website, but it can also keep your efforts relevant and competitive in a saturated market.
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Interacting with your CEO can be stressful sometimes. Whether they are an easy person to talk to or not, it’s understandable to get a flustered around them now and then. Impressing them is a whole different thing entirely! Of course, you want to do well at your job, and a good relationship with your CEO is a vital part of that. But how do you go about impressing your CEO, someone who has likely seen every different approach to any given problem? Below, we have five steps to show your CEO that you have the initiative to perform and produce results.
Is there a lack of focus in your marketing department? Are you having trouble committing to a certain approach? Do you have a marketing strategy in place? It can be challenging to execute any plans without a marketing strategy. Marketing is like a game of chess, where you’re constantly thinking of the next step. A marketing strategy will map out what goals you want to accomplish and how you want to accomplish these goals.
Video marketing is an undeniably expanding field; in 2019, 87% of marketers use video as a marketing tool. Brands can capitalize on the popularity of video to great success--but it’s important to avoid a few common pitfalls. In this article, I will explain the most common video marketing failures and how to avoid them for your company.
Failure 1: Creation Without Strategy
The other day, an entrepreneur I know shared with me why he had been so successful in business of late. Apparently, the penny dropped and he realised that by having no cap on commissions, he was able to empower some of his sales people to make millions of dollars each year. By having some sales representatives that were super successful and motivated by money, he attracted other people who wanted to learn from them and achieve the same goals. In 3 short years, his business went from a two million dollar operation to a $100 million dollar business.
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Attracting legitimate customers will take time and effort. We’re talking about the type of customers who genuinely want to incorporate your brand into their lives, and quite possibly, stay for the long haul. Fortunately, a great time and place to begin is today in the exact spot where you’re sitting.
Today on the worldwide web where companies are all blasting promotions and announcements, it’s inconceivable to expect a Google search on “how-to” marketing to garner any attention,
Being bold is one thing, but being brave enough to tell it how it is is another.
We have unashamedly put out a marketing campaign to recruit top-notch marketers from a variety of industries and fields in Atlanta to fulfil a number of positions that we have available.
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Marketing Eye was under 10,000 on the Alexa rankings when we invested in just content marketing with no paid advertising or investment in any other areas of the business. For us, content was easy, affordable and gave us the results we were looking for.
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Sales Reps in the Business to Business space are always looking to find ways to work smarter, not harder. Looking for more creative ways to source leads, better ways to set those quality appointments to ultimately close them. Video Marketing has been a part of marketing strategies for years, but now it is making its way in the sales cycle. In the digital age, we live in reps are sending emails to prospects daily, whether completely cold or in response to an inquiry. Instead of that multi-paragraph, bulleted, formal and quite frankly dull email they are simply attaching a quick 2-3min video introducing themselves, their company and where they can add value. Implementing Video Marketing in prospecting emails adds value to your sales team by:
All of us deal with marketing at some point or another in our work lives. Whether we are ourselves markets, or you work with your companies marketing department. Whatever the case may be, there is a specific idea behind marketers and how they should be personality wise. Like how you expect your salespeople to be able to talk to anyone, we have certain expectations for marketers and what they should be like for them to be effective at their job.
One pair of Nike shoes went up 1,329% in what is proven to be Nike's biggest marketing campaign of the quarter, just by releasing the fact that the shoes would not see the light of day.
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Last year in the United States Ad spending reached $151 billion, almost a 5% jump from the year before. It is widely known amongst the marketing community that complacency is the same as regression, so not only is there an urge to spend more on marketing, but also to spend it differently.
Each day a new statistic comes out in relation to marketing. Some are derived from comprehensive surveys but most are just small swots that fail to tell the story how it really is. In truth, you can manipulate a statistic in any which way you please and this is something that most ethical marketers struggle with.
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Today more so than ever, it has gotten increasingly harder to make a dent in a market if you weren't the first one there or had the most money. With accessibility to the public amplified to unimaginable proportions, companies are having to do a lot more the get marginal results. This difficult predicament that these companies are faced with is forcing them to find different avenues and tactics to stand out amongst the crowd, to be a light in a sea of darkness.