Contrary to popular belief, a marketing budget isn’t a luxury; it’s an essential investment into reaching your business goals. A precise marketing budget, with clearly defined spending strategies, ensures that your efforts make the greatest impact with the resources you …
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Steve Jobs may have decided that market research was for the birds, but unless you have a similar amount of resources and cash flow to support a world-class team of designers and developers, you’re not going to get away with …
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It’s definitely not too early to start thinking about your online marketing strategy for 2015. In fact, now that you have your holiday season strategy in place, it is the perfect time to define some objectives for the New Year. …
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Cyber Monday falls on December 2nd this year and online shoppers are already working on their shopping list. How about you, small business owner? Are you ready for the busiest sales day of the year? You better be or you’ll …
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I get really disappointed when I hear a professional (especially someone with a marketing function) tell me that they don’t understand or care for search, social media, and mobile marketing. Let’s face it, whether you like it or not, search, …
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With direct mail becoming more of an outdated marketing tactic, due to cost and effectiveness, email marketing has become more prevalent in today’s society. How many emails, for instance, do you receive per week from your favorite retail store? Compare …
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Smart marketing these days revolves around personalized consumer engagement, especially as audiences become increasingly mobile. Creating the best engagement strategies, though, depends on being able to monitor the impact you’re already making. It can be daunting to find the right …
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These days, consumers don’t go online; they are online, all the time. With continuous connectivity, the distinction between consumers’ online actions and their real, geographic behaviors is rapidly blurring. Marketers need to be aware of how “living in the moment” …
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It’s a basic tenet of marketing: no campaign can be effective without some way to measure its success. Unfortunately, though, there is no one-size-fits-all formula to calculate those measures – so when it comes to brand advocacy campaigns, figuring out …
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