A Brand’s Organic Growth An established brand had a strong position in a targeted area in the primary education world, having developed solutions first, then the company, and […]
consumer marketing
A financial services company needed to improve it's position as a trusted reliable source of current updated information for their consumer clients during a rapidly changing economic environment.
Case Study: Content Strategy – Financial Services / FinTech
Marketing is about finding a way to connect to your audience to encourage them along the journey to converting. To do that you have to understand what motivate their choices.
Marketing to Generations
Blog post written for a client: Your sales team used to thrive on driving the sales process. Your salesperson had the intel that prospects needed. Sales called, prospects […]
Why Your Sales Team Needs a Marketing Budget
Blog post written for a client: You Can’t Close a Lead You Can’t Reach Sales used to focus on “Dialing for Dollars”. This mantra meant sales was just […]
Caller ID Has Changed Sales
But Marketing does cost money, and time, and if you’re not a marketer, it will end up costing you more than just time and money. It will cost […]
Marketing Costs Less than NOT Marketing
Over the years I’ve worked with a huge number and variety of writers, many amazing, some stellar, the majority are “good enough”, and a few are frighteningly confident […]
Copywriting and Ego
I’ve heard many times that inside every marketer is a frustrated writer. To be fair, we all probably have 5 or 6 partially written novels, several screen plays, […]
How to Hire a Marketing Writer
Most smaller brands and entrepreneurs use social media as one of their main marketing strategies, and rightly so, it’s a very powerful channel. Social Media Marketing by nature […]
Social Media Marketing is Still Marketing
When I was little, my dad and I used to have this ritual at night. Once all the 10+ dolls were properly placed along the bed and under […]
Storytelling in Marketing is Not the Answer
The answer probably isn’t what you think. Over the course of 25 years I’ve heard this question surprisingly frequently. It’s one usually asked by new entrepreneurs and is […]
Are Your Products Bought or Sold?
I gave up and slammed down my phone (well, not slammed, I’m too keenly aware of the cost of technology, so I “angrily” hit the button to shut […]
#$@&%* Marketers!
When Smarts Became Overhead If you watched Mad Men you probably were intrigued and drawn by the culture in business, how they interacted, how they got things done. […]
I was Overhead
Transactional or Relational Many business owners say their business is more transactional, without actually comparing it to any other option. Relational is the other option. When they say […]
No, You are NOT a Transactional Business
Attribution Reporting Those two words have so much power and influence over the lives of marketers. The phrase is both terrifying and empowering, often at the same time. […]
What Made You Purchase – Attribution Reporting
As we welcome the onset of fall, so begins the process of finalizing strategic plans, budgets, and innovative initiatives for the coming year. You can see that in […]
Coming Soon – 2016: The Year of …
Are You Giving Your Customers what THEY Want or what YOU Want?
Redirecting the River
Did you know that you can adjust your bids continually to improve your CPA? Did you know that you can create awesome landing pages that you can test […]
Did you know….
So now that the holiday shopping season is essentially over (cue the post holiday and new year sales) it’s time to look back and see how everyone did.
Market to People, not to Consumers
So how’d you do? The holiday season is when everyone gets to experience what it’s like to be a marketer. You’ve got a list of tasks to complete, […]
Gift Giving is Marketing
Truth in Advertising Some of you may have heard about a little issue Nutella faced recently when a government agency politely told them that they have to […]
Truth in Advertising
Of course you follow your competition, watching how they grow, they’re marketing efforts, their product offerings. But do you track what others say about them? What is the […]
When Gossip and Chatter are Helpful
What is Quality? This concept is the premise of Robert Pirsig’s book, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. It is introduced in the book as one of […]
Are You Creating Quality?
Are you prepared to create about 1,000 pieces of original content, each individually serving as an ambassador of your product/service/brand? This is a great article about the requirements […]