Navigating the dynamic landscape of marketing as a startup founder often means encountering a barrage of trendy tactics that can obscure your focus and divert your attention from the core objective: fostering business growth and maximizing profits. It’s essential to approach marketing as a strategic investment. Whether you’re allocating funds to a social media campaign or...

Key Takeaways Strategies like direct mail and influencer marketing can be more effective than you think. However, don’t forget to diversify. Digital advertising, particularly paid marketing platforms, gained traction during the pandemic. More than half of U.S. marketing dollars were spent on digital platforms like Google and Facebook in 2021. These platforms can help you target specific consumers...

Key Takeaways Strategies like direct mail and influencer marketing can be more effective than you think. However, don’t forget to diversify. Digital advertising, particularly paid marketing platforms, gained traction during the pandemic. More than half of U.S. marketing dollars were spent on digital platforms like Google and Facebook in 2021. These platforms can help you...

You can tell a lot about an organization by how it responds to a crisis. Recent years have brought no small amount of economic instability, prompting business leaders to find ways to adapt. But not every response has proven wise. This post will examine these missteps and explore an important marketing principle for your business. The...

By now, you’ve undoubtedly heard the buzz surrounding ChatGPT. Powered by artificial intelligence (AI), this tool is capable of producing written content that’s similar to, if not virtually indistinguishable from human writing. Naturally, that’s elicited concerns about plagiarism in classroom and college settings. But others are optimistic about the tool’s application to a variety of advanced industries....

In today’s online world, unique branding and strong marketing campaigns aren’t enough to stay competitive and stand out as a company. Relevancy requires not only finding and keeping the attention of consumers, but getting the help of those customers to promote your brand. Whether you realize it or not, this may be something you are already doing...

Brands originally used influencer marketing mainly for brand awareness or to shift their customer’s shopping behavior and overall perceptions of the brand (sometimes called brand lift). Today, we’ve moved well beyond those more limited early days. With the potential for returns of 20x the initial investment, many brands see the advantages in working with influencers, from niche to...

Sometimes marketing is a relatively simple process. But what if the product or service you’re trying to promote and market is … well, to put it bluntly, boring? Lisa Schwarz, senior director of global product marketing at Oracle NetSuite, knows quite a bit about this challenge. Her job is to market software that handles some of...

It’s tempting to sink large amounts of money into your marketing budget when sales lag or the economy drags and revenues drop. However, you may be throwing your money away. Before you jump on that new marketing fad or sign the pricey contract with the trendy boutique agency, take a few days to formulate crystal-clear...

Search engine optimization (SEO) isn’t what it used to be. Modern SEO is a combination of the art of writing to please readers and the science of making a search engine respond to your content. To generate good SEO writing, you need to have a solid strategy and a sound tactical approach. This article will...