Advise for those who want to see their brand succeed and those who love marketing and analytics.
Knowing When to Kill Digital & Traditional Media Investments in a Marketing Campaign Listen up Brains, I mentioned once The Importance of Monitoring the Strategic Planning Process A.K.A. monitor, tweak, and repeat. Now, we are going to talk about knowing when to kill your investments from digital and traditional media in a marketing campaign. As …
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The trick behind personalized digital communication tactics is to know your audience because you want to get that person’s attention and connect with them as fast as possible.
The Importance of Monitoring the Strategic Planning Process. Remember, one of the best things about digital marketing is that you get to see data/results just about instantly or by the next day. The most significant benefit to the data being shared so quickly is that you can tweak your plan’s budget, channels, media placement, KPI’s, …
The human brain loves familiarity, patterns, and repetition because they become easier to remember as they appear again. See, familiarity triggers the brain’s cognitive long-term memory. So if we take that knowledge and apply it to design and strategy, we get branding or brand identity. With strong brand awareness, you can create a stronger consumer …
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How the Food Industry uses the AIDA Model to Influences Consumers through Visual Tricks There are so many ways that the food industry influences consumers to make purchases. If you haven’t learned by now, food photography uses non-consumable props and substitutes to make the food more appealing and easier to photograph. Making the food more …
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How the Cell Phone Industry Impacts the Consumer Decision Making Process for the Better Think of all the times you were up late and wanted something sweet, but you know there’s nothing in the kitchen; what do you do? I reach for my phone and see who is open and the closest because I want …
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Using the 5 W’s to Understand Your Customers Story: Where Should You Contact Your Customers We have done over the Who, What, and when of the 5 W’s already. If you missed those, don’t worry, I have links to those at the end. Today I’m going to focus on Where, where you should contact your …
We have done over the Who and What of the 5 W’s already. If you missed those, don’t worry, I have links to those at the end. Today I’m going to focus on When, when should you contact your consumers? To refresh your memory, the 5 W’s are: who, what, when, where, and why. The …
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Create the Right Content for Your Consumers by Listening to Your Consumers We are in a time where the consumer can talk back to us. The consumer can provide us feedback about their experience, and about our products. Listening to your consumer’s feedback will help you create the right content they will engage with. How …
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Using grade school literary tactics to better understand your customer’s story and their challenges to build trust. You may recall the 5 W’s from back in grade school when your teacher asked about the book you were supposed to read for homework. To refresh your memory, the 5 W’s are: who, what, when, where, and …
The Magic Link between You Ad Spend and Market Share There’s a magical link between your ad spend and market share. This magical link can dictate whether or not your business will increase its market share in the future. Keep in mind, the more market share you have, the more revenue you’ll generate. The Magic …
Organizing Your Business’s Data with Visual Charts & Graphs Organizing your business’s data with visual charts & graphs is the best way to present data. Having good visuals when you’re showing data helps tell the story of how well/bad your business is doing. Like I have said before, the more sensory element you use, the …
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8 Strategies to Use When You Want to Expand Your Brand Just to make sure we are all on the same page, a brand extension is when a company uses its leverage to launch a new product in a different category. There’s a Good Way and a Bad Way to Expand Your Brand A good …
Checking Your Brand’s Awareness with a Quick 6 Question Survey It doesn’t take much to check your brand’s awareness. I say you only need 6 easy questions to determine if your brand is making enough noise in the market. These 6 survey questions would be given to either a new/recently joined consumer or a consumer …
The Way Your Product’s Packaging Can Influence Your Consumer’s Purchase A product’s packaging can make or break a sale, especially if it’s the first time consumers are buying said product. Think about when you’re looking at a product you’re unfamiliar with. The first thing you notice is the product’s packaging, and then you scan the …
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Focusing on Your Highest Quality Services that Lead to Brand Success As a freelancer, you have to position your brand for success and make the switch from generalist to specialist. Every freelancer starts with having 10+ different services that they provide to their consumers. With time and experience, we learn that this is ineffective. The …
The Power Behind a Strong Brand’s Message Words can spark emotion, inspiration, motivation, creativity, even destruction. When choosing which words to associate with your brand, think about what you believe your brand stands for. Once you have a clear idea of your brand’s message -its purpose of existence, sum it up in a few words …
How Price Elasticity Affects Your Consumers One of the hardest decisions in running a business is setting your prices for your products/services. If you undersell, you’ll go bankrupt. If you oversell, there’s a chance no one will buy it. If you make just enough, then you’ll only break even. Once you find that sweet spot …
Your Brands Personality Creates Opportunities and an Audience One of the best things a brand can do is be unique, confident, and have their own personality. If I were to tell you to imagine Apple, Google, or Amazon as a person, I’m 90% confident we would all come up with similar personifications of these brands. …
How to Create a Strong Marketing Campaign. The marketing PB&J is the foundation of a strong marketing campaign and business. I see marketing research as the toasted bread to my peanut butter and jam sandwich (Jam> Jelly). Marketing research (the bread) provides the support needed to keep a campaign from getting messy and failing. The …
Using a Consistent Identity and Customized Content to Speed Up the Buying Process. Listen here, Brains. Your goal is to help your consumers find what they want faster, and the way we are going to do this is with a consistent identity and customized content. The smoother and faster the buying process becomes, the more …
When I create a campaign, I make sure I use a minimum of three sensory elements as possible. This was something I’ve learned over the years through close observation. Sensory elements can be anything that affects the audience’s senses (touch, smell, hear, sight, motion, taste, balance, etc.). Using multiple sensory elements can increase the engagement …
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Deciding what’s more important for your company Engagements or Sales? I get this question from my clients all the time, and it depends on your company’s goal. If your goal is to increase engagements or awareness, you should pay more attention to your engagements. If your goal is to increase sales or determine if a …
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Increase sales by eliminating transaction cost The amount of emails we deleted in a week from sales that sound good but aren’t worth the effort is ridiculous. It’s never that the sale(s) weren’t good enough to spark excitement but that the transaction cost is more than we want to give. In reality, we don’t want …
