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How To Improve Employee Engagement Through Marketing standard

Many companies are interested in fostering internal engagement but don’t know how to begin or what resources are available. Employee engagement is less about hiring skilled people and more about attracting high-value individuals, training them well, keeping them around, and showing appreciation for the value they bring to an organization. The reality is that marketing can positively impact team engagement should be of interest to any company interested in hiring and retaining top talent. How Engaged Are Your Employees? Trying to determine whether or not your employees are engaged can be as simple as asking them. If you share concerns about low levels of engagement, ask managers and other team leaders around the organization to respond confidentially to a survey question ...

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Protecting your information online as a marketer is extremely important because there are so many opportunities for hacking and theft, given the amount of time and the number of tools marketers use online. With that in mind, below are 10 privacy tips for marketers. 1. Be careful about where you are shopping online Shopping on an un-trusted website can be really dangerous If something goes wrong with the transaction - for example, if the item never arrives or is substandard, or you turn out to have been charged for something that never arrived - it can be really hard to get help. This is important for marketers buying digital tools and products from third-party providers. Even better, encrypt all of your online ...

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Cost-Effective Marketing Strategies for Companies With a Limited Budget standard

Marketing is an important part of growing any business and reaching more customers. Unfortunately, marketing isn’t always cheap and companies can spend a lot of money without getting the returns they desire. You don’t need to spend a lot of money to market your product or service successfully. In fact, there are several cost-effective strategies that can work for almost any business, no matter the size. Here are a few marketing strategies that companies with a limited budget should be implementing and using. Email Marketing One of the most tried and true marketing strategies for companies around the world is email marketing. This tried-and-true strategy allows customers who sign up to get information about your new products, services, and other deals and news ...

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Marketing Strategy

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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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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Alexa Voice Activated Search Opportunities

Brands looking for new ways too engage customers may find potential in creating branded voice experiences on Amazon’s Alexa, Google Home, Apple’s Siri, and Microsoft’s Cortana. You don’t want to miss an opportunity and not enter the voice-enabled world that seems to be evolving every minute. While most marketers will agree that voice-activated smart devices and voice branding are in their infancy, you just can’t deny the explosive growth of this industry over the past couple of years. They have entered the homes of consumers everywhere, with an estimated 64 million U.S. households expected to be equipped with one by end of this year. Voice commands on Alexa are becoming like search on Google. And by 2020 more than half of ...

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Shake Up Your Marketing MMP

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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Company Strategy Personalization Part 1

Personalization in marketing means taking customer segmentation to the next level. It requires tailoring your marketing tactics to deliver the most relevant product, service or experience to the right customer segment at the right time, based on your knowledge of that customer and his or her preferences. That’s a tall order today, because customer touchpoints span across multiple channels including web, social, mobile, and physical locations. So while that makes it tough on the front-end to deliver customized content across all those channels, on the backend it means customers are providing companies with a good deal of information about their preferences and intent. Yet getting at the data from the multiple systems it sits on may be the biggest challenge ...

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Many so-called traditional marketing tactics like advertising, trade shows and print literature are huge cost-drivers in the marketing budget. Good news is that many of these often cost-prohibitive tactics can be reduced and replaced with more cost-efficient marketing. This blog will share 5 tips for stretching your marketing investment, while increasing marketing effectiveness and results! In addition, several resources are provided to assist in your quest for marketing nirvana—doing more with less! 5 Tips for Reducing Marketing Expense While Increasing Effectiveness 1) Customer insight:  marketing is expensive, mistakes costly. Avoid mistakes with insight into customer segments, needs, decision makers, and more. House all your customer intelligence in a  robust database or marketing automation software that can be updated easily and used for downstream marketing. Continually ...

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A very important aspect of marketing planning, whether tactical, project or strategic, is the budgeting of marketing expenditures. Inevitably, marketers must get approval for marketing budgets from executive management. There are 3 types of marketing budgets. Business-to-business brands and corporate America develop budgets based on one of three approaches: 1) a percentage increase (or decrease) over last years budget, 2) task and objective budgeting, or 3) a percentage or (forecasted) sales based on industry or competitive benchmarking. Often budgets are developed using a combination, or hybrid of these approaches. This blog is part of a series on marketing planning and budgeting including Marketing Planning Best Practices, and a Marketing Planning Checklist. In good times, management is inclined to simply increase budgets gradually ...

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Part 3 in our marketing planning series details a marketing planning checklist, a useful tool to identify a broad range of marketing strategies and tactics used in typical marketing plans. Our Marketing Planning Series includes:  1) Marketing Planning Best Practices, 2)  Marketing Budgeting Best Practices, and 3) the following Marketing Planning Checklist. Of course, marketing plans come in a number of “shapes and sizes”, from the annual tactical plan, to project or functional plans, to the detailed strategic marketing plan. A given marketing program may range in complexity, budget and requirements. Different markets and products likely require vastly different marketing strategies and tactics. So a Marketing Planning Checklist should allow for a range of marketing scenarios. This checklist is based on ...

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