If you’re a millennial, Gen X, or Baby Boomer, you may very well remember a time before the internet had truly established itself as a dominant force in the world of media and communications. Long before there were email newsletters and email drip campaigns — when email was still a niche thing that not everybody […]
Mindset, Strategy & Planning
The Trifecta of Digital Marketing: Combine These 3 Crucial Elements for a Better ROI
The process of promoting your company is something that has many facets. There’s marketing. There’s advertising. And there’s PR. Today, there are three things that are essential for this: SEO, content marketing, and PR (public relations). In many companies, especially midsize to large organizations, these three pillars of marketing can become kind of silo’d off […]
3 Clever Ways to Feature Products in Content Without Being Salesy
The advent of online content marketing was something that revolutionized the world of PR, marketing, and advertising. With audiences becoming increasingly annoyed with intrusive and invasive advertisements, and with ad block and video services like Netflix hampering old-school display ads and TV commercials, brands have found a whole new approach. It’s all about inbound marketing […]
Keep Them Coming Back: How to Build Brand Loyalty in a Social Media Following
Every business needs one thing: customers. So naturally, this is a matter of concern for solopreneurs. Sometimes, “customers” are people who buy something that you’re selling them directly. If you’re running an ecommerce shop or offering info products, you want to entice people to buy from you. In other cases, it’s not quite so straightforward. […]
5 Weird Marketing Tactics That Work Like a Charm
In the world of marketing, we’ve all got our bread-and-butter staples. They’re strategies and tactics that are tried and true, reliable standbys that are always a solid bet. Sure, the particular staples we use can change a lot over time. Fifty years ago, ads in magazines and newspapers were a must-have. Today, a lot of […]