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GIFs sum up your feelings in a three-second clip. They help you say, “Happy Birthday,” or “This is crazy,” in one convenient click. You and your siblings have entire conversations using them, fully understanding the coexistence of, “I’d drop everything to do anything for you,” but “If you chew near my ear again, you’re going […]
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It’s hard to re-frame a customer complaint into a gift, particularly when the complaint might involve a lengthy or expensive resolution. But when you consider that a customer’s feedback could streamline your process for designing or refining your marketing strategy, you might decide your customers’ words are a valuable addition. Here are four ways that […]
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The new year is on the horizon (okay, it’s breathing down the collar of your shirt), and it’s a good time to be reviewing your marketing strategy and implementing a few updates for a big impact. Not sure where to start? Here are a few areas that will be key in 2020 to get your […]
You’ve heard that you need a marketing strategy, but you aren’t sure where to start. You might wonder how you’ll even know if it’s successful. If you see business growth, how will you know whether that happened because you started posting on Instagram, or if it’s from the direct mail campaign you do every year? […]
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Your marketing team probably isn’t hanging around the water cooler much these days, nor are they exchanging YouTube videos in the breakroom. For savvy marketers, that last quarter of the year is a busy time spent deep in analytics and budgets to create the marketing strategy for the following year. If you just got that […]
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You wear the same sparkly sweater to your office holiday party, year after year. You always order the chicken fettucine alfredo at the same restaurant, because why mess with what works? You participate in the Turkey Trot 5k on the Friday after Thanksgiving, shoving away suggestions that you should try a longer run. Even at […]
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You know you need a marketing strategy, but you may not be sure which elements are really necessary and which are just prolonging the process. What’s essential for an effective strategy? Marketing strategies certainly can have an open-ended feel to them. After all, you can always do more, but you also have other things to […]
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A marketing strategy written 10 years ago would probably give you a bit of a laugh if you read it today. Launched before social media was fully embraced as a marketing channel, and probably peppered with some outdated ideas, it wouldn’t serve your company well today. Clearly, you want to update your marketing strategy more […]
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You’re sitting down to play a game of Battleship with your precocious nine-year-old niece. You know it’s going to be brutal on her if you win (and besides, your ego can’t really take it if you lose while actually trying), so you shove all of your boats in one corner and then refuse to see […]
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Imagine you walk into work tomorrow morning and your boss announces that you’re required to bail out on all your marketing activities. Instead, you’ll put on a blindfold, throw a few darts and see where they land on a target filled with trendy ideas for promoting your brand. Would there really be any difference from […]
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