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27th of December, 2021
In: Digital Marketing, Marketing Strategies
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Digital Marketing Strategies: A Complete Guide standard

Most people often equate digital marketing with generating leads. However, it is not the whole thing. Like many others, you also want to tap on the enormous online potential but you find no way to start. You need a digital marketing strategy that houses brand building, audience gathering, and lead generating plans and tactics to uplift your online business. Read the article to get complete know-how of how to market your business digitally. What is a digital marketing strategy? As you know a journey starts with a single step and ends till you keep at the right place. Likewise, a digital market strategy is nothing but marketing your content through online methods with each step placed in the right position. It starts from an idea and ...

Top 7 Reasons Marketers Should Learn To Code standard

With technological advances soaring, businesses are becoming more competitive, and the marketing industry is not left out. Companies are getting more deliberate with hiring marketers. Aside from seeking digital marketing skills, they're on the lookout for marketers who can handle the technical aspect of the job. Coding in marketing is a programming technique that instructs computers about marketing duties. Almost everything about digital marketing is built with codes, so coding is the right place for you to start your improvement journey as a marketer. Aside from your sales skills, it'd help if you learn to code, and here are reasons you should: 1. Efficiency In Campaign Management As a marketer, you need more than a surface-level understanding of factors that affect campaign ...

6 Proven Marketing Strategies to Improve Your Campaigns standard

Marketers are often faced with a difficult challenge: how can you improve your campaigns when there is so much to do? This article will provide six proven marketing strategies to help you get the most out of your marketing efforts. 1. Use Facebook Ads to Promote Your Company Facebook ads can be an excellent way for marketers to reach their target audience and increase brand awareness. The CEO of Digital Marketing says that you can boost views and conversations on your company by using the Facebook ecommerce strategy; however, you must ensure your ad is eye-catching and informative about the product or service you are advertising because these ads will appear in your customers' newsfeeds. There are steps that you need to ...

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 ...

Top 5 Ways To Boost Your Podcast standard

This boom in the podcast industry has been considered a gift and a curse. According to Edison Research, the numbers look good, and the audience is around 90 million Americans this year. Approximately, there were about 57 million podcast listeners in 2018. That's 32 percent of all 12-year-olds. There is, however, a lot of competition because of the large set of numbers, which show there are around 750,000 different podcasts with more than 30 million episodes. These podcast statistics could be making you wonder if you can build an audience and carve out your niche. How can you boost your podcast with these massive figures at hand? You likely began podcasting with the intent of creating a community that shares your ...

19th of January, 2021
In: Marketing Strategies, Marketing Tactics
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Are Your Marketing Tactics Outdated? Four Signs You Need an Overhaul standard

Marketing moves so fast nowadays that even new businesses can be behind the curve. Although there will always be trends that come and go, there tends to be major evolutions in the field of digital marketing that impact every industry's performance. Knowing which concepts you need to adopt as principles will enable you to routinely improve your marketing campaigns' performance without wasting money or time on strategies that don't resonate with your audience. Below are five signs that your marketing could use a tune-up. You're Wasting Time and Money on Press Releases Client outreach has evolved over the last decade to the point where most formal press releases are obsolete. Modern PR is digital, and unless you're a large-scale company with ...

5 Easy Ways to Make Your Brand More Visible standard

Before a customer can engage with you and buy a product or service, they need to be aware of your brand. If no-one knows about your company, you’ll never be able to build a customer base, which is why improving your brand’s visibility is essential for success. To start acquiring new customers and increasing your profits, take a look at these five easy ways to make your brand more visible: 1. Upgrade Your SEO Strategy Telling people your URL isn’t an effective way to drive traffic to your website. More than two thirds of online experiences start with a search engine, so it’s vital to focus on your SEO strategy. When your site ranks highly for related keywords, you’ll see a ...

11th of November, 2020
In: Marketing Strategies, Public Relations
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The pandemic has made marketing and public relations (PR) difficult. Many companies have had to change the way they communicate to their audience. See how to market and do PR during uncertain times below. As reported by Forbes on October 27th, 2020 by Simon Corbett. Marketing And PR In Uncertain Times Our current pandemic reality does not share too many obvious similarities with the book Love in the Time of Cholera, but you could say that marketing and love are at least partly connected. After all, they both use communication to build a relationship. Granted, one is more intimate than the other, but for relationships to survive during a pandemic-inspired lockdown, they do need some attention. Do You Say It Best When You Say Nothing At ...

8 Marketing Faux Pas to Avoid in 2021 image

Is your marketing a Faux Pas? Modern Marketing Partners has launched a marketing faux pas campaign series aimed at redefining the challenges and mistakes made by many marketers. With 2020 coming to a close, marketing planning for 2021 is well underway. Be sure to avoid the following Faux Pas for a successful 2021: Borvertise Borvertise: The act of producing boring, unoriginal ads often resulting in no sales. While curing insomnia is admirable, if your advertisement can put people to sleep it is time for a change. Advertising is the heavyweight champion of traditional marketing, and a boring advertisement is the equivalent of a pillow fight. Advertising can build awareness and change perceptions, fast! And direct response advertising can generate leads. Advertisements should have: ...

Marketing Strategy: 4 Steps to Success image

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, ...

Top 10 Marketing Ideas for COVID-19 image

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 ...

Outsource vs. Insource Marketing image

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 ...

2020 Vision – The Future of Marketing image

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 ...

1st of December, 2019
In: Marketing Strategies, Marketing Tactics
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Tips for Successfully Marketing to Generation Z standard

Marketing to millennials and what makes millennials tick might be a trending topic these days - but the truth is, while we’ll need to market to millennials for years to come, it’s time to start focusing on Generation Z. At first glance, Gen Z and millennials might seem similar, but when you look closer, you’ll find a lot of subtle differences that are very important to marketers. For example, millennials grew up during an economic boom while Gen Z grew up during a recession, and while millennials are mobile pioneers mostly raised by baby boomers, Gen Z is mobile natives, mainly raised by Gen X. Who is Generation Z? Sometimes referred to as the iGeneration, Generation Z is anyone born between ...

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As a business-to-business (B2B) marketer, you’ve probably been hearing about ABM the past couple years. Maybe you’re finally tempted to give Account-Based Marketing (ABM) a try? You know it’s a very strategic form of marketing that concentrates sales and marketing resources on a clearly defined set of target accounts within market, or individuals within target companies, and utilizes highly personalized communications to reach each target. ABM is likely the exact opposite of approaches you’re currently taking; where you cast a wide net to drive multiple leads, hoping that a few truly workout and are a good fit for your products or services. Most of your marketing focus is being spent on top funnel activities to get noticed and generate some ...

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The American Marketing Association’s (AMA) publication, Marketing News, recently included the results of an informal poll that identified four tactics marketers plan to stop using in 2019. Guess what tactic wasn’t on the list? Email marketing. It remains a staple for marketers across all types of industries. Email marketing still provides companies with solid returns. So it’s worth looking at some metrics compiled by MailChimp that will give you a comparison for how your campaigns are doing against national averages. Plus, you can compare customer engagement for open, clickthrough, delivery, and unsubscribe rates within your sector. Audiences’ today are bombarded with emails – in both the B2B and B2C sector. Understanding what your email subscribers want from you is highly important. There are general findings that show audiences prefer relevant, ...

22nd of January, 2019
In: Email Marketing, Marketing Best Practices, Marketing Strategies
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Email Marketing Automation Is All About Grow and Flow image

Email marketing needs to be all about automation in 2019. Why? Because small business owners need it as part of their marketing mix and they need to handle it in a way that saves them time. Research drives this point home as a 2019 Infusionsoft Small Business Marketing Trends Report found more small business owners reported their biggest challenge they face when it comes to marketing is a lack of time and resources compared to last year. Additionally, the U.S. Small Business Administration notes an incredible two-thirds of small business owners and entrepreneurs are personally responsible for three or more areas of their business, including marketing. Technology Trends While it would seem that advancements in technology and tools would be time ...

5 Tips for Enhancing Association Recruitment image

Associations are always looking to increase their membership numbers. Over the past several years many associations have reported it has become harder and harder to attract and retain new members. Advancements in technology have made it easier for people to stay connected and younger generations have turned to social media fostering their skeptical attitude about the need and benefit of joining other venues. As a result, the beginning of 2019 is a good time for associations to consider their approach to marketing this year and for the future. Associations, like workplaces, are dealing with engaging Millennials, Baby Boomers, Gen Xers, etc. and need to understand their motivations and decision-making processes. In many respects, membership is a sales process; you’re looking to recruit professionals by initialing connecting with them and then ...

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Adults in the U.S. are expected to spend on average three and half hours on non-voice mobile media, and about 70 percent of their media time and 90 percent of their social media time on their smartphones. It’s settled then, right? You understand that mobile marketing offers increase customer engagement and selling opportunities, and it’s time to create an approach into the mobile environment. Mobile Marketing Benefits Experts agree that companies utilizing mobile strategies are seeing benefits such as improved cost efficiencies, closer connectivity with customers, and more accurate data points. That’s because for marketers, mobile advertising provides a more effective way to target and retarget their audiences, create higher-level personalization, and be freed of barriers like time and location. Another key ...

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Most companies today would probably say they are involved in content marketing. The problem is many might also qualify this as an On Again/Off Again relationship or a Go Big/Fade Away relationship. I’m sure we can all relate… Writing a blog post once a month or so, setting up social media accounts, or posting to Facebook all technically constitute as content marketing tactics. But it’s doubtful you’re seeing any change in website traffic, email open rates or click throughs. And that’s because you’re not really harnessing the power that great content affords you. Let’s take a look at some common content marketing mistakes and steps you need to take to get on a productive path: Lack of Value Business strategies often use an 80/20 ...

Meet Customers Where They Live With Mobile Marketing image

The mobile marketing space continues to expand and mature, encompassing everything from search engine optimization and marketing to text messaging to display ads. Many companies simply cannot afford to be left out in the cold when it comes to leveraging mobile outreach into their marketing strategy. Therefore, marketers need to learn how to successfully navigate the robust and ever-changing mobile landscape in 2019. The numbers indicate this powerful phenomenon will only continue to gain momentum in years to come. According to recent statistics, currently in the U.S. 92 percent of millennials use smartphones, 85 percent of GenXers and 67 percent of Baby Boomers. The affordability of phones and data have lead to smartphones rapid adoption rates, which are expected to ...

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Year-end is often a time for reflection on the past year, along with planning for the new year. So why not marketing? How were results measured? What are specific plans for the year ahead? How can you “shake up” your marketing with a focus on results? Your friends at Modern Marketing Partners have some perspective we’d like to share. Intuitively, before you can "shake up" your marketing, you should objectively evaluate and analyze your prior marketing. So how can this process be objective? For starters, there are many tools that can measure online aspects of marketing including Woo website and SEO rankings, along with SEMrush, Similar Web traffic analysis, Google Analytics, and complete social media analytics. Email service providers, paid search ...

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