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Is Your Content Becoming Redundant?That’s funny . . . I don’t remember being absent minded!? Meeting the demands of a consistent digital marketing campaign can lead content creators into becoming repetitive. This is especially true for trainers, consultants, and professional coaches that have been producing long term content from a limited amount of topics. To combat absent-mindedness or redundancy
Is Marketing Automation Worth the Effort For Your Company?Almost every company, large or small, aspires to achieve a systematic process for marketing automation. Marketing automation promises pre-defined triggers and communications that will minimize time and effort while maximizing sales and leads. However, most companies run through an endless cycle of false starts and rebuilds that never really fulfills that promise. So if marketing
Is Marketing Targeting Sales Now or Sales in the Future?During the pandemic, there has been a fairly prevalent sentiment that now is not the time to sell. The rationale is that people and businesses are experiencing unprecedented hardships and do not want to be sold or marketed to. Like most advice with a broad scope, there are certainly situations where that is a sound
The Right Offer During The COVID -19 DownturnBusiness as usual is not business as usual. While some training, consulting, and coaching firms are slow to react, others are rapidly cycling through a multitude of options hoping that one will stick. Whether overreacting or underreacting, almost all of these firms are finding that their digital marketing calls-to-action need to be shifted to appeal
Over Communicate In a Crisis . . . With PurposeDuring these turbulent times digital marketing has become more about company communication on processes and intention, rather than promotional. As the COVID-19 pandemic disrupts business-as-usual in many markets, it makes sense to scale back on advertising which might appear self-centered. Clearly relaying what your audience needs to know takes focus. Effective communication requires discipline in
When What You Know, Isn’t AccurateWe’re living in the age of Know-it-allism. And why not? Any person with access to the internet can literally find information on any topic known to man. We are only limited by how quickly we can consume that information. At least that’s how some people look at it. But there’s a difference between “knowing” something
Sometimes Simple Digital Marketing Analytics . . . Are Too SimpleDo you get overwhelmed by your digital marketing analytics? Many trainers, consultants, and professional coaches do. There are a lot of channels to account for: email, social, SEO, SEM, referral links, etc. Trying to make sense of data from all the platforms that drive these channels can be daunting. Trying to consolidate all the metrics
Review your Digital Marketing for Outdated InformationA company’s digital marketing assets can grow to a sizeable number of properties that are easy to lose track of. That’s especially true for assets that are rarely used. It’s important to keep a list of your active digital marketing assets and review them periodically for content updates and administrative access. Digital marketing assets that
