Neil Brown, Author at Modern Marketing Partners

5 Perks Of Hiring A Digital Marketing Agency standard

Digital marketing is transforming businesses globally. Given the challenges businesses had to face in recent years, plus all the changes brought about by technology, it’s not surprising how digital marketing reigns supreme when it comes to marketing campaign. As businesses aim to consistently apply the best online marketing strategies, working with digital marketing agencies have become borderline mandatory. They're the ones who have the best options for turning businesses’ marketing strategies around. While there are expenses that come along with hiring a digital marketing agency, there are also inherent perks of hiring one. Those perks should be enough to convince you why it’s a good idea to hire digital marketing agencies like duenorth.com.au. What are those convincing reasons? Let’s dive ...

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As a result of marketing's digitalization, companies now have unprecedented new possibilities to enhance their approach to attracting potential consumers. Through digital marketing, companies may now infiltrate almost every aspect of their customers' everyday life. You can use creative materials that convey a captivating narrative while also striking a chord with your target audience. Content is at the heart of modern business, and it's becoming more sophisticated. The campaign-building process is consolidated via effective organization and the use of creative materials. Unfortunately, even the most experienced brand managers and graphic designers want to tear their heads out by establishing a process to create, tag and filter, organize, and customize creative marketing promotions. Therefore, this article will give useful tips for better ...

25th of August, 2021
In: Marketing Strategies, Startup Marketing
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Tech Startup Marketing: 9 Disciplines for Success image

Startup success stories are more prevalent than ever with the top GAFAM technology brands (Google/Apple/Facebook/Apple/Microsoft) dominating the news, followed by hundreds of startup $1+ billion market cap Unicorns (a record 700 Unicorns in 2021), along with record IPO activity now fueled by special-purpose acquisition companies (SPACS). Yet the failure rate of startups continues to hover at 90% including a 20% failure rate in year 1. Also consistent with the 90% failure rate is the 10% success rate of startups that succeed after 10 years according to Investopedia. Fortune magazine published a study on startup failures that identified the Top 20 Reasons as stated by the founders. “No Market Need” ranked as the Top Reason for failure at 42%, followed by ...

17th of August, 2021
In: Business Development, Marketing Strategies
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How You Can Expand Your Business and Gain a Bigger Profit standard

Whether you own a small convenience store or an established conglomerate, expanding your business should always be on your to-do list. The more you expand, the greater the possibility of scaling your business and making more money. However, expansion is one process that’s much easier said than done. To scale your business properly, you need a strategy. Here’s how you can expand your business and increase your ROI. Secure the Appropriate Funding When it comes to expanding your business, the first step is to seek funds to do so. Even if your business is online, you still pay for advertising and marketing. If you own a small company or brand, you may be thinking that you don’t have enough of an ...

Drive Your Ecommerce Sales Through the Roof with These 7 Marketing Tips standard

Are you struggling with producing truckloads of sales -- so much that your financial statements make you cringe? If so, maybe you’re not attracting your shoppers or showcasing your offers and products enough to make them hanker. With the right promotional tactics, such as leveraging copywriting to supercharge your marketing efforts, you can convince your customers to get your product and then drive your sales through the roof. Here are seven tips to do that for your ecommerce store. 1. Create gift guides and cards. Gift guides help your shoppers find the perfect item for their loved ones and stimulate their buying appetite and interest in your products. If they can’t decide on the item, they can purchase your e-gift card instead and give that ...

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Have you heard of the new Google SEO algorithm, rolling out in June 2021? The Google Page Experience ranking factor aims to prioritize websites that provide a good user experience to visitors, as measured through five (5) key signals. The 5 Signals 1. Core Web Vitals These are a new set of three performance metrics that focus on how performance connects to experience. The three metrics are Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), and First Input Delay (FID). Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) measures how long it takes for the largest element to become visible in the viewpoint. Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) measures how visually stable the page is. First Input Delay (FID) measures how long it takes for the browser ...

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American Marketing Association hosted a TikTok coffee break, where Raechel Cihlar from Mavrck shared insights on the trending social media app. TikTok is a video sharing app that is quickly becoming one of the most popular apps in the world. TikTok Stats 800 million monthly active users worldwide 69% of users in the US are between the ages of 12-24; 39% of users are 25-34 Due to the pandemic, in April 2020, 11 million millennials joined TikTok Top Brand Categories Fashion & Retail Beauty & Health/Wellness Food & Beverage Sporting & Entertainment Industry Top Emerging Brand Categories Home Décor, Gardening, DIY Fitness Services (financial, automotive, etc.) #BeanTikTok (the humorous side of TikTok) New to TikTok New Advertising Opportunities TikTok for Business ...

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Obviously, Coronavirus is not what businesses planned for, but maybe this illness helped businesses in a certain area: brand innovation. Many companies had to think outside the box to adapt to the new challenge in the world. This new adaption has allowed brands to revolve in a way they never thought was possible. As reported by Forbes on October 26th, 2020 by Larry Light. Coronavirus Spurs Brand Innovation As miserable and devastating as coronavirus is, there is exceptional creativity happening around us. When we finally arrive at the other side of a national vaccine, we will see a changed brand-business world of remarkable new ideas. What is amazing is that some of this innovation is already underway. Innovation is the development of new ...

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We all know what business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) marketing is, but what is business-to-people (B2P) marketing. During the pandemic, a lot has changed in marketing. The target audiences’ life has made a change. So why are marketers now talking about a B2P world? As reported by MarketingProfs on September 23rd, 2020 by Colleen Martell. Forget B2B and B2C: It’s a B2P World Now Once upon a time, defining whom you were selling to guided everything, from how you priced and distributed your products to how you marketed them. The starting line for just about any company's go-to-market strategy was to figure out whether it's a business-to-business (B2B), business-to-consumer (B2C), or business-to-business-to-consumer (B2B2C) firm. You may have noticed the use of the past tense ...

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Having a step by step plan allows marketers to achieve their goals. Having a strategy in place will help marketers grow and succeed in the future. As reported by Forbes on September 16th, 2020 by Lynne Golodner. Successful Marketing Requires Strategy My son wanted to run a half-marathon for a while. As a high school cross-country runner, he longed to pass the 5K mark and run clear to 13.1 miles. But he knew it would take planning and preparation. So, he did some research to figure out the best way to build up to running such a long distance and devised a plan to follow over the course of several months. Since most major races are sidelined or canceled due to the pandemic, ...

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Content marketing is not just a strategy; it is a skill set. You must understand where to post the content, who should see the content, and all in all, how to market the content. A lot has changed in the past few years, which has led to the discussion of adding a new definition for content marketing. As reported by Content Marketing Institute on July 27th, 2020 by A. Lee Judge. Is It Time to Add a New Definition for Content Marketing? Is it time to expand the definition of content marketing? I admit this is a bold question for someone writing his first guest post for the organization that owns the definition. Content Marketing Institute defines content marketing, in part, as a strategic marketing approach, ...

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Do you still believe in reviews? How about B2B reviews? Well, you should start believing in business-to-business (B2B) reviews and adding them to your marketing mix. As reported by Forbes on September 22nd, 2020 by Elizabeth Shea. Why B2B Reviews Should Be An Essential Part of Your Marketing Mix No matter what industry you're in, gaining third-party validation and customer reviews is important. Just like a consumer is more likely to buy a well-received product on Amazon or Travelocity, your customers are more apt to purchase your services if you have peer groups and other customers actively touting the benefits of working with your company and its solutions. Statistics show that 92% of business-to-business (B2B) buyers are more likely to purchase after reading a trusted ...

3rd of August, 2020
In: Digital Marketing Transformation, Marketing and Finance
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Digital Transformation Supports Marketing and Finance Collaboration image

Digital transformation continues to gain momentum, permeating corporations and organizations of all types and sizes, and deploying across functional areas. Digital transformation is defined as the use or adoption of technology, software and systems to improve and automate processes. The promise of Digital Transformation is disruption, new business models, productivity, cost savings, speed, and ideally improved financial results. Back to our title, like other functional areas, digital transformation is embraced by marketing and finance; providing new opportunities for collaboration between previously "siloed" or even adversarial departments. Following are details on how marketing and finance can collaborate, along with the Top 10 Marketing key performance indicators (KPIs). Today, marketing technology (MarTech), marketing automation, and Customer Relationship Management (CRM), supports detailed and timely ...

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Have you started to use digital marketing in your business? It is 2020 and with everything going on in the world, digital marketing is becoming the hot topic in the marketing industry. Digital marketing has different ways to make your company stand out to your audience. As reported by Forbes on June 14th, 2020 by Mike Wood. A Quick Guide To Digital Marketing For Newbies With the madness going on in the world right now over COVID-19, every business is looking to jump into digital marketing. Many of you are way behind the curve, while some of you haven’t previously had any digital footprint. So, where do you begin? There is a lot of advice out there, good and bad, and many people ...

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No question, the Coronavirus pandemic and COVID-19 present an unprecedented “crisis marketing” challenge to marketers of all types and sizes, consumer and business-to-business marketers alike. Consumers and business customers are distracted to say the least. Many businesses are closed, people are working remotely for the first time, or even losing their jobs. And many are busy shopping to stock up for the inevitable lock down. Given this environment, is it even appropriate to do marketing? The answer is an unequivocal yes, but likely in different ways. Intuitively, clear and timely communication is required. Customers and prospects need to know that you are still doing business, or how you are doing business, e.g., revised hours, online sales, shipping schedules, etc. So what are ...

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California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) was effective on January 1st, 2020. It outlines new standards for data collection and the penalty if businesses do not follow these standards. How does this affect marketers? Well, the way marketers use personal information has changed. What is CCPA? As stated by the Marketing Profs, “the law is meant to protect consumers’ personal information as well as increase the transparency of how the personal data of California residents is being used.” What Marketers Need to Do At the highest level Understand how personal data is being used to serve your customers Ensure your team has a clear understand on the law Make sure CCPA responsibilities are delegated within your organization Within the marketing team If you’re providing discounts ...

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Whether to insource marketing to an employee, or outsource marketing to an external agency or consultant is a common but very important decision. No question, there are pros and cons of either option, and a combination of both marketing staff and outsourced marketing is the most common scenario. The right balance is surely unique to each organization. To assist in your consideration and decision making, following are definitions of Outsourcing and Insourcing, the pros and cons of both, some typical marketing organization structures, a Cost/Benefit Analysis, and finally recommended resources. But first, please consider some modern marketing realities. Modern Marketing Realities Marketing has changed rapidly, evolving to a digital marketing mix, and often employing marketing technology, or MarTech. The skill sets for managing a multitude of disparate marketing activities typically requires multiple individuals; skills ...

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January is that time of year for prognostications of the future, for outlooks and trends, and of course, New Year's resolutions. So why not a 2020 Vision - The Future of Marketing? Of course 20/20 vision is perfect, so is the future of marketing, perfection? If you are reading this article, you are interested in marketing. So why not indulge ourselves for a moment? Marketing is now mission critical to the success of every organization. Every brand. Every thing! In hyper-competitive markets, categories or industries, perfected marketing is the key differentiator. Of course your products and/or services have to be perfected. But quality or excellence no longer guarantee success. Consumers and business customers will no longer beat a path to ...

13th of December, 2019
In: Marketing and Sales, Sales Initiatives, Software Marketing
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Sales is unique from other departments. Salespeople are on the frontline of every organization’s battle with the competition, and their need for competitive enablement is much more tactical in nature. That’s why battlecards are becoming so popular. As reported by Crayon in Guide to Competitive Battlecards. What are Battlecards? A battlecard is a piece of enablement collateral aimed at helping salespeople overcome competitive threats at any point in the sales process. They are typically created by the team responsible for gathering and analyzing Competitive Intelligence, or by a sales enablement team in conjunction with CI or product marketing team. Here is an example of a battlecard from HubSpot. What Battlecards Are Not Most product marketing, competitive intelligence, and sales enablement teams are familiar with ...

3rd of December, 2019
In: Event Marketing, Infographic, Webcast Marketing, Webinar Marketing
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Have you noticed that everyone, every competitor, every business-to-business brand is doing webcasts or webinars? Webcasts must be the “killer marketing app”, but then you produce a webcast and 5 people register for it, and 2 show up. Ok, perhaps some exaggeration, but for many marketers webcast success can be elusive. Which begs the question, how can webcasts be more effective? Answer: planning, execution, branding, promotion, and much more. How about a printable pdf of 57-Point Webcast Effectiveness Checklist more? Before we get to that checklist, please consider that unless you are a celebrity, or your company is a Unicorn, your product/service might be boring? Yet webcasts are used by lots of boring companies and services. So how are they successful? ...

27th of November, 2019
In: Event Marketing, Trade Show Marketing, Trade Shows
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Event Marketing Checklist – Trade Shows and Live Events image

Before we get to that checklist, please consider some well-known event marketing truths. First, trade shows and live events are still very important in many industries including technology, healthcare, construction, and markets that require continuing education. Second, trade shows and live events are typically expensive to participate in, and difficult to measure marketing return on investment (MROI). Finally, trade shows and live events are often ineffective due to lack of promotion, and many other reasons. The event marketing experts at Modern Marketing Partners address these truths regarding trade shows and live events with a 88-Point Trade Show and Live Event Marketing Checklist, along with some additional, relevant resources. Need help with Webcasts? Check out our 57-Point Webcast Effectiveness Checklist. Event Marketing ...

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Digital Marketing Transformation Buzzwords 2020

Digital Marketing Transformation or DMT is a hot topic as marketing evolves from traditional strategy and tactics, to digital marketing that can be tested, measured, optimized and reported with new tools and technologies. To help understand DMT better, the experts (nerds) at Modern Marketing Partners researched and developed a comprehensive Digital Marketing Transformation Glossary of Terms. Next, we used the Google Algorithm to identify keyword search volume of these terms which leads to the Top 10 Digital Marketing Transformation Buzzwords for 2020, that every marketer and business professional should know and understand. Download the complete Digital Marketing Transformation Glossary of Terms here: https://www.modernmarketingpartners.com/resources/digital-marketing-transformation-glossary-of-terms/ Top 10 Digital Marketing Transformation Buzzwords for 2020 1. HTTPS With 450,000 average monthly searches on Google, HTTPS ranks first on our list of top ...

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Before the whole world got the memo that software consulting and implementation is the road to riches, early value-added resellers (VARs) and channel partners that were fortunate to represent legacy publishers like Great Plains, Sage, Microsoft and many others could close deals just by getting referrals from relationships, networking, telemarketing, and yes, sales staff. Only basic marketing was required (can you spell Tchotchke?). Fast forward to 2020, more than 100,000 software publishers exist with 1 million projected by 2027 (source: Forrester). With channel partners often competing with the publishers they represent. To say business software is a competitive market is an understatement. With that set-up, sit back and take in some perspective on such thought-provoking questions as: Why VARs are relevant? How ...

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