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Marketing has transformed since the early days of the internet, with new concepts like SEO, CRO, etc. The days of opening a newspaper or catching a new commercial on television are behind us. Today, we use the internet to bring our marketing teams along with digital trends. Companies used to have dedicated digital marketing teams working for them. But today, it’s not unusual for the average marketing department to dabble in everything, including internet outreach! That’s why you need a qualified and organized team of experts that can keep up. Otherwise, you’ll never beat your competitors when it comes to digital marketing. These 4 tips will help you manage your marketing team towards your outreach goals. 1) Decide on a Strategy In every ...

Adding talented people to your digital marketing team may seem easy enough in theory. You need to seek out qualified individuals, convince them why you’re the right company for them, and bring them on board. Once they’re on your team, you have to focus on keeping them happy and allowing them different opportunities within your company. Unfortunately, it isn’t this simple. You won’t always get a stack of glowing resumes on your desk, and even the best credentials doesn’t mean that candidate is ideal for your workplace. With this in mind, here are some general tips to implement when you’re hiring your dream digital marketing team: 1) Avoid Hiring Full-Stack Marketers A full-stack marketer is someone who’s familiar with a variety of marketing ...

Whether you’re launching your first marketing campaign ever, or you’ve run hundreds over the years, you’ll need to find ways to fund it. Marketing campaigns don’t generate income overnight, and neither does your business. Especially for start-ups or new businesses, you’ll need to come up with the money to fund your campaigns, and because of this, marketing often falls low on the priority list. Operational costs will always come before marketing, but your marketing campaign will help you reach your target audience and potential customers. There are many funding options available to business owners, and by combining these, you’ll easily be able to cover the costs of your next marketing campaign. Notable marketing campaigns Before you start planning out your marketing campaign, ...

If you are just starting your contracting business, obtaining new clients can be a struggle. You may have all the best services, but how do you get people to see you, or believe you? With a few simple marketing tips, you can instantly invigorate your business's public front, and attract new clients in the process. You don’t need a massive overhaul or a marketing degree to make some of these marketing maneuvers work for you. Try out some of these tips to up your marketing game today. 1. Establish and Enhance Your Brand How do potential clients know you? How do they know that they can trust your services? The answer to both of those questions has to do with your brand. Your brand ...

PowerPoint presentations are everywhere, be it conventions, boardroom meetings or executive conferences. PowerPoint has revolutionized the digital marketing niche and has helped tremendously in promoting the products and services to an audience of potential buyers. A PowerPoint presentation is all about taking your audience on an emotional roller-coaster ride. The presentation is the foundation of the company’s key online marketing activities. You need to carefully plan your digital marketing presentation since it will build awareness about your services, products and brand, as a whole. It is your digital reach which will drive visits to your website, the way you create and deploy digital marketing media plays a crucial role in the same. A digital marketing presentation should encompass and showcase ...

When new technology becomes available for digital marketing, companies are usually eager to try it out to capture customer interest. That’s certainly the case with augmented reality (AR), which uses digital technology to add virtual elements to the world around us. AR marketing isn’t appropriate for every business. Some companies are better off sticking with other types of content, simply because of the product or service they offer. But for other organizations, augmented reality is presenting new opportunities for making sales and catering to customers. Here are some of the biggest emerging trends in AR. Augmented Reality is Providing Immediate Access to Future Benefits It’s hard for customers to visualize something that doesn’t exist yet. One trend in augmented reality is using ...

There are many things that small business owners have to consider in order to boost their chances of success in today’s competitive world. No matter what industry you are in, you face a lot of competition. Therefore, it is important to make your business stand out from competitors. One of the ways in which you can do this is through effective marketing, and there are lots of different marketing methods you can choose from. In today’s digital world, it is important to ensure you use online marketing methods alongside your offline solutions. There are lots of benefits that come from using online marketing methods, and this makes them a popular choice among businesses of all sizes. You can use social ...

As any marketer can tell you, getting attention is easy – but converting that attention into sales isn't. That's because from the moment a new prospect first connects with a business, there are myriad ways they might wander off of the route to a sale. Even time can be the enemy in the process, as the prospect's attention slowly fades and drifts elsewhere. To overcome all of those obstacles to conversion, marketers deploy a carefully crafted series of engagements and interactions with their leads to keep them moving toward a sale. The whole process has come to be known as a marketing funnel, representing the ever-narrowing path that guides each prospect to become a paying customer. It's a tried-and-true approach ...

Digital marketing was an instant success and it is still growing. The companies that were once reluctant of this field are now also using it to develop their business. From small companies to large enterprises, there is no business that is not using digital marketing today. As it is an industry that requires one to have extensive knowledge and experience, all companies acquire the help of an agency to do their digital marketing. This has really increased the value of this profession, but also attracted way too many people in it. There are thousands of digital marketing companies that have saturated the market. However, not all of them have the expertise most clients look for. They may get the job ...