The first step to marketing a business is setting it up. If your business is ready for service, you’ve already crossed the first hurdle, so congratulations! Getting a business of the ground is no easy feat, especially if you have limited knowledge on some of the practical areas of making a business successful. Quite often even the most brilliant ideas face roadblocks in execution. This is where having a well-thought-out marketing strategy saves the day.
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You might have heard about SMART goals and are familiar with the term. But do you actually know how to apply the method and make it worthwhile to yourself? SMART goals are tools that guide you to clarify your aim, analyze and identify rooms for improvements, and make it real. SMART stands for Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-bound.
The marketing industry has been abuzz with “digital marketing” in recent years. Everyone is talking about it but what exactly is digital marketing? Digital marketing is a tool that marketers use to reach the target audience via digital mediums in a more effective and cost saving manner.
Have you ever wondered why some websites just draw you in? Why something so simple and visually appealing can make an everlasting impression? Well, a big reason you remember those websites very well are because of it's captivating and succinct Website Copywriting.
Press releases are an important part of a company’s communication strategy. However, many businesses make mistakes when it comes to creating and issuing these messages. This can result in issues such as self-promotion that you must avoid being taken seriously.
Many reasons contribute to the rapid growth in the E-Commerce space, with Covid-19 being the main one. According to Forbes, in 2021, e-commerce sales account for $870 billion in the US, a 14.2% increase over 2020 and a 50.5% increase over 2019, representing 13.2% of all retail sales in 2021. The changes in consumer behavior in the past few years are driven by the stay-at-home policy as well as the fears of the spreading pandemic, bringing customers from brick-and-mortar stores to online stores. The convenience of being able to shop anywhere and anytime, and get it delivered to your doorstep without having to go to the store has influenced customers’ purchasing behaviors. However, the e-commerce industry is always changing and businesses continuously aim to improve their customer experience to enhance their shopping journey.
We are in a day and age where everything is digital, whether you have come to terms with it or not. We are amid an industrial revolution, where we are seeing industries like construction having to revamp its services and approach.
Are you starting a business and want it to grow? You have to build a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system to manage customer relationships. Building an effective CRM system is not an easy matter. In addition to finding customers, this system must also be able to keep customers loyal to a business.
Email marketing campaigns can be one of the most effective strategies available to marketers. However, if your marketing emails are left unopened in the inboxes of your recipients then they aren’t doing anything to help your business. By utilizing proper email marketing techniques and practices, you can increase the chance people will open your emails and therefore see your message and possibly click on and engage with the product you are marketing.
Your best asset…customer loyalty. Customers create purpose for brands and determine what they do and rather them depending on you, we the brand depend on them. Attracting customers is possibly the hardest part of running a business. However, being able to keep them around is even more difficult. For businesses to create customer loyalty and satisfaction, they must understand what this truly means.
One of the most significant parts of a marketing strategy nowadays is social media, and there is no escaping it. Gone are the days of solely relying on traditional marketing, especially if you are a small business just starting up. If you want your business to reach out to as many audiences as possible, social media is your best bet for helping.
With more and more businesses moving online it’s important to stay up to date with the tactics that are available so that you can compete in the digital age. Search Engine Optimization ( SEO refers to optimizing the content and data on your website to make it appear higher on the results from search engines like Google. Luckily SEO isn’t too complex and can be easily implemented once it is understood. Effective use of metadata, creating engaging content, using web analytics, optimizing performance, and having a mobile friendly site are some of the ways that you can start optimizing your online presence.
If you've been on Instagram, Tiktok, YouTube, Twitter or Facebook recently, you've probably come across influencers. Perhaps you've seen a fitness vlogger promoting workout gear or a beauty blogger promoting a new night cream. Influencers persuade a target audience to buy a product or service by leveraging their knowledge of a topic.
Twitter has always been a place for controversy. The short and sharp nature of the platforms format means that its users can be quick to react to the world around them. Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of Tesla and SpaceX recently acquired Twitter for the jaw dropping sum of $US44 Billion, and the site, along with news outlets and other social media platforms, has been a stir ever since. But what does the acquisition mean for the Twitter. We look at what Musk is promising and the possible affect these changes will have on businesses on the platform.
Influencer marketing has taken the world by storm and is currently one of the fastest growing industries with an expected market value of $16.4 billion in 2022. Currently the number of influencers across platforms like Instagram, TikTok and Youtube ranges anywhere between 3.2 and 37.8 million and spans all the way from mega to nano influencers. The sheer size and potential for growth of the industry all around the world makes it difficult for brands to keep track of payments, legitimacy of influencers and their insights, and even how to get information to them safely when it is so easy for people to hack social media, email and cloud sharing platforms.