Don’t we all want to look good in front of our boss? I mean if we can make their life easier, it makes OUR lives easier, right? Being responsible for your companies marketing and hiring an outside vendor to assist you can be a marvelous thing! But how can you be sure you are getting…
Maybe you’ve been given the advice that you need to be churning out more content. I mean, we give that advice to our clients (and to ourselves) aaaaaalll the time! But creating content for content’s sake is a waste of time and resources. How can you not only create content that will help your business…
Knowing your customers and fully understanding your unique buyer persona is an important part of every successful startup, SaaS, e-commerce, small business, or enterprise company. When you know who your customers are and what they need, you can position your products and services more effectively to align with your target audience. But your buyer persona…
Your content may be king, but if no one ever finds it, then it’s just one of those unclaimed baronies. SEO and inbound marketing are not mutually exclusive, in fact they rely on each other to perform. Inbound marketing is everything from the content you host on your website, like blog posts, to your social…
Email is far from dead, people, and if you don’t have a strategy in place to grow your list, you are missing out on one of your most valuable (and FREE) marketing assets. Emails are an audience that you own, unlike your social followers or website traffic. You can’t control social platforms or search engine…
No matter what industry you work in, marketing is essential. Big and small businesses have to rely on marketing campaigns to draw in new customers as well as retain existing ones. If you have a small marketing budget, you may feel like there’s not much you can do to market effectively. Fortunately, that’s not true….
Where are you spending your marketing dollars and how are they being tracked? Here are some ways you are most likely spending your marketing budget. (and some tips in case you need more of it!) Paid digital advertising campaigns – like Google Ads, Facebook, etc. Paid print or media campaigns – direct mail postcards, radio…
Marketing budgets, am I right? When you are planning out your marketing strategy, the first question you need to know the answer to is, “What’s my marketing budget?” And sometimes the answer just isn’t enough for what you’d like to accomplish. When your company sets an allocated amount of money to spend on marketing each…
If you’re a marketing manager with a small staff and an even smaller marketing budget, it can be a challenge to determine where to spend your budget, let alone who you should be marketing to. One of the biggest reasons that marketing managers’ campaigns end up failing is that they’re not targeting their highly curated…
We get it. Not every company has a marketing team. As a growing company ourselves, we understand the number of hats that employees wear at a small company. When you don’t have the personnel to dedicate to marketing, here are some ways you can still accomplish your goals with the team you have. Get clear…
What can you do when you discover that your website has become outdated and that it is lagging behind modern technology, thus limiting its performance and appearance? If your site traffic has dwindled to the point that you feel like you’re home alone, while everyone else is attending the Saturday night dance, your website is…