Is yours a digitally born business? What? You haven’t yet embraced your brand?
In the past, digitally native businesses found their first success without a brand: In fact, many Silicon Valley companies didn’t even use the “B” word. Conventional VC wisdom, in fact, supported a model where entrepreneur would take the lowest salary possible, live on the future promise of their equity stake, put all their money into your engineers and their UX designers, code a killer...
Seeing the trees for the forest with paid social
Everyone’s on social media these days, so your business should be, too. But without paid media, your campaigns could have the impact of a falling tree that nobody is around to hear. If an evergreen tree were to fall over deep in the Oregon forest, would it make a sound? Of course it would. The 2,000-pound tree would slam down with such force that the ground would shake as the noise...
4 ways to reach a new target audience without abandoning your old one
Four strategies to reach a new demographic without changing what current customers already love about your company. For 56 years, Häagen-Dazs had a consistent message: high-quality, old-fashioned ice cream for sale. But that’s changed: Thanks largely to millennials, the company recently refreshed its brand with a revised logo, more vibrant packaging, new flavors and a global advertising...
7 ways to keep great content from dying a slow, unremarkable death
A website that isn’t adapting is a website that’s dying. The internet changes so fast that the moment you stop improving your website is the same moment that you start losing momentum and falling behind the competition. If your site isn’t actively adapting to the changing nature of the web, it’s stagnating and growing outdated, stale, and – yes – even boring. And the content on your website is...
Should marketing emails use a ‘no-reply’ email address?
Don’t send the wrong message to your customers. Columnist Ryan Phelan explains why using ‘do-not-reply’ or ‘no-reply’ in your email sending address is a bad idea. I love talking with marketers, and I do it often. They ask me great questions about email and how to do it better. But every once in a while, I get a question that makes my head explode, and I got one of...
Social media ad fatigue: How to combat it without spending all day making new creatives
Ad fatigue is a problem we’re all too familiar with, so how can you avoid it? Contributor Laura Collins shares key techniques to refresh your creative efficiently and effectively. Every time we step outside our front door, switch on the television or look at our phones, we’re bombarded by advertising — so much so that many people are sick of it. Last year, downloads of ad blockers...
What is SEM?
If you are coming to this article as a novice, I know what you are thinking. “Not another damned 3 letter acronym! Don’t we have enough?” Well, apparently not, and unfortunately there isn’t all that much we can do to stop the ever growing database of aforementioned acronyms. We must therefore get accustomed to not only knowing what they stand for (Search Engine Marketing, in case you were...
Content as a service is the next evolution for marketing
In order for businesses to continue to provide customers and prospects with the right content, via the right channel at the right time, they will need to embrace CaaS. Content marketing has quickly become one of the most important marketing channels for any business. According to data reported by CMI, 88 percent of B2B marketers produce at least one piece of content a day. Of course, marketers...
The age of m-commerce: Why consumers love using mobile as a shopping tool
Mobile is taking the fashion retail industry by storm. The consumer’s need for on-demand purchases has seen brands and stores quickly adapt to their audience as a means of providing the best possible shopping experience. The integration of mobile phones into everyday life is remarkable. As a millennial, it’s not hard to remember when the pocket-sized devices were thrust into the mainstream and...