The evolution of online marketing has given us more insight into consumer behavior than ever before. Like digital breadcrumbs, consumers leave behind hints and clues of their likes and dislikes as they travel around the web that brands can use to shape targeted outreach and potentially reduce wasted ad spend. But, taking advantage of this…
The new year is ripe for breathing new life into age-old tactics. As a small business marketer, your templated emails and social media posts from last year probably need to be refreshed to keep pace with consumer expectations and generate funnel activity. But, you’re in luck. There’s one thing that marketing is never short on…
Your business website is one of the best tools to connect you with prospective buyers. Often, they will make decisions about your business based on what they see there. Because of that, business owners invest heavily in website design in hopes that they’ll make the best impression possible to lure buyers. Surprisingly, despite such an…
For those who have been in business for a while now, you have at least a high-level understanding of how marketing impacts your sales. You’ve noticed trends that stimulate an increase and missteps that trigger a decline. But one thing is certain; a failure to connect your marketing with your sales objectives won’t deliver good…
Tales of ghosts and goblins may give you a fright this Halloween, but very few things are scarier to a content marketer than to hear the words, “content marketing is easy.” Nothing could be further from the truth. And this month, we’ll be covering marketing myths, like this one, that jeopardizes your business’ ability to…
Millennials are major players in today’s economy. These sought after consumers will make up nearly half of the U.S. workforce by 2020. That’s just four years from now. Â With the smell of increased purchasing power lingering in the air, brands are hungry for the chance to capture their share of the predicted spending downpour. But…
Millennials use social media to shape their digital identities and avoid overly promotional brands  There was a time when our primary marketing conversations centered around attracting Baby Boomers. Today, when brands have conversations about how to generate new revenue for the business, it’s difficult not to include the 23 percent of consumers who make…
It’s something about those intricate patterns on the front of adult coloring books that consumers just can’t seem to resist. Be it paisley or geometric, flowers or fairies, consumers are trading their styluses for colored pencils, eager to add color to their mood. And who wouldn’t? Titles boast words like “mindfulness,” “relaxed,” and “tranquility.” And…
Newsflash: Your ‘About Us’ page on your website isn’t really about you. No, I’m being serious. I know what you’re thinking: “How can that be true? After all, the name of the page says that it is, you know, about us.” I get it. When we put together an About page that only details historical…
Buy them. Now, that doesn’t mean that you don’t use paid advertising on platforms that make sense for your brand. But it does mean that you shouldn’t rely solely on paid advertising to cultivate an audience for your brand when, with a little elbow grease, you can do some of the work and see a…
When one thinks of storytelling, it’s hard not to be swept away by nostalgic memories of poison apples and pixie dust. Â With the promise of true love’s kiss dripping from the mouth of a handsome prince, every girl has wanted to be cursed to sleep forever or better yet, trade mortality for a lifetime of…
We’re all desperate for them. Likes, retweets, or shares. Comments, reposts, or pins. Audience engagement. That tiny yet impactful gesture that signifies that something we did was right (or wrong) and that there’s life out there beyond the publish button. So how do some brands do it? How do they cultivate a committed fandom who…