Have you tailored your marketing ideas to make them different from the sea of competitors’ campaigns? Make this a memorable Thanksgiving for your current and future customers.
Let’s celebrate this special time of the year and take a minute to reflect on all the things we are thankful for. At the same time, let’s also focus on how to bring the most out of your marketing ideas during this holiday.
With 9 in 10 organizations marketing with content, it’s evident that we need effective tools to create, publish, distribute, and analyze content published online.
Needless to say, there are lots of tools out there, but which are the ones worthy to give a try?
Here are some options that could be a great test drive for you.
Continue readingThe average marketer today uses 12 different content marketing tactics.
Let that statistic just sink in for a minute. Ten years ago, only a handful of us had even heard of content marketing. Today, your typical brand is investing in original articles, social media, blogs, eBooks and more. It goes without saying that the wider you’re able to cast your net, the better your results will be. You need to consistently come up with more content marketing ideas to publish even more engaging content.
Recent studies by the Content Marketing Institute have found that 78% of best-of-class marketers are creating more content than they were a year ago, and you can be sure this includes more visual content, audio files, and slideshows than ever before.
The winter holiday season means really, really big business.
December consumer shopping will exceed $469 billion dollars this year. In fact, the average American spends nearly $800 just on gifts for Christmas, Hanukkah or Kwanzaa. It’s safe to say that positioning your brand to capture some of this holiday spend is definitely wise. And one of the very best ways to accomplish that is through an amazing Christmas newsletter.
Continue readingPeople have been telling stories since we could draw on cave walls. Bedtime stories, grand odysseys, tall tales, epic adventures, tragedies, romances, comedies – these are how we understand one another, how we bond with each other.
Stories are how smart marketers win their customers’ hearts.
Selling isn’t just about the cool things your product can do, and buying isn’t a logical process. Stories bridge the gaps between features and benefits and the deep emotional reasons people buy. Stories build connections between you and your prospects – emotional connections that keep them coming back to you.
93% of communication is nonverbal, and nearly half of consumers consider a website’s visual elements the most important factor in determining the credibility of a company. Visual content marketing has never mattered more, particularly in an era where consumers are increasingly savvy, connected and crunched for time.
Way back in 1998, Communications Professor Mitchell Stephens predicted the rise of images and video, writing “moving images use our senses more effectively than do black lines of type, stacked on white papers.”
Are you familiar with the power of checklists? Checklists are an ultimate time-saving device, so you can make sure you don’t forget anything (even if you’re moving very quickly). They are so powerful that leading surgeon Dr. Atul Gawande actually wrote a book called “The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right.”
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Writing effective web copy is either an art or a science, depending on who you ask. While there is no single tried-and-true web copywriting formula that works for every site, there are several methods copywriters can select from to create website copy that sells.
Continue readingInterviewing experts in your industry is a fabulous way to add variety to your content marketing and get the powerful information and captivating stories your customers really want. This Complete Expert Interview Guide covers everything from finding the right experts and securing an interview to asking the right questions and promoting your new piece of awesome content. Armed with this ultimate interview guide, you can realize the full potential of the expert interview.
Talking to the right people is the most important part of successful content marketing interviews, since soundbites from the wrong people just aren’t as applicable to your audience or your purpose.
If you’re trying to harness the power of Facebook to market your business, great content and lots of engagement are only 2 pieces of the puzzle. To really make the most of your presence on this popular social network, you need your business page to be attractive.
Why is an attractive Facebook page important?