Is Email Marketing Still Effective? Exploring the Advantages and Challenges

In the ever-evolving landscape of digital marketing, businesses constantly seek the most effective strategies to reach their audiences. With the rise of social media, influencer marketing, and other digital channels, one might wonder if email marketing still holds its ground. Despite the emergence of new platforms, email marketing remains a powerful tool for businesses. This article explores the current state of email marketing, its effectiveness and pitfalls to avoid. The Enduring Power of Email Marketing Email marketing has been a staple in digital marketing strategies for decades. Its longevity can be attributed to several key factors outlined below. 1. [...]

By |2024-12-02T14:37:20-06:00December 2nd, 2024|Categories: Blog|0 Comments

Refreshing Your Business Brand vs. Complete Rebranding: Understanding the Differences, PROs, CONs, and Pitfalls

In the dynamic world of business, maintaining a strong and relevant brand is crucial for success. However, as markets evolve and consumer preferences shift, businesses may face the decision of whether to refresh their brand or undertake a complete rebranding. While both strategies aim to enhance brand perception and market position, they differ significantly in scope, impact and execution. This blog post explores the differences between refreshing your business brand and a complete rebranding, along with the PROs, CONs, and potential pitfalls to avoid. Understanding the Differences A brand refresh involves making subtle updates to your existing brand to [...]

By |2024-11-18T13:43:41-06:00November 18th, 2024|Categories: Blog|0 Comments

How to Know When It’s Time to Refresh Your Website

The online world is fast paced. Maintaining your website is critical for keeping your business relevant and competitive. Adding new content to your website gives people more reasons to return to your site. Search engines also reward websites with fresh content by sending more web searchers to those updated websites. However, it might not always be clear when a website overhaul is necessary, rather than just adding new content or refreshing the existing. Here are some signs that it’s time to consider revamp your online presence. 1. Outdated Design Web design trends evolve quickly. A website that looked cutting-edge [...]

By |2024-10-30T20:44:02-05:00October 30th, 2024|Categories: Blog|0 Comments

Why Your Marketing Should Directly Reflect Your Brand Values

I recently read an article about the importance of brands being true to their values and staying aligned with their customer base. At first glance, that’s so obvious, yet businesses repeatedly go off the rails and their brand and profits take a hit. Let’s examine an example of a well-known business that ran a campaign misaligned with its brand values and ways that small businesses can learn from historical flops and instead promote themselves in keeping with their values. The Bud Light Debacle You may remember the Bud Light advertising debacle from April 2023. Bud Light aimed to course [...]

By |2024-09-29T15:50:29-05:00September 29th, 2024|Categories: Blog, Marketing|0 Comments

Reinvigorate Your Marketing to Close Out the Year Strong

With summer vacations wrapping up and students returning to school, professionals should take this opportunity to refocus marketing efforts to engage customers. Think of it as another time to re-establish New Year’s resolutions for business. After all, we’ve got about 4.5 months until the end of the year. For retailers, the next few months are more critical as we approach Black Friday sales and holiday shopping. Other businesses can strengthen marketing execution for a strong finish to the year and, depending on your lead time and sales cycles, generate solid leads for 2025. Let’s discuss some key activities to [...]

By |2024-08-18T13:10:56-05:00August 18th, 2024|Categories: Blog, Marketing|0 Comments

Power and Risks of Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Marketing

There’s a lot of conversations occurring about how artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to improve and accelerate marketing efforts. At the same time, professionals are also pondering the risks of AI—from security breaches to copyright infringement and intellectual property rights. Some are also concerned that AI will replace human efforts (which I’ll explain why that isn’t exactly so). In this article, we’ll cover several ways that AI can enhance your marketing efforts, share examples of how organizations are already taking advantage of AI and explore how to mitigate the risks.   Marketing professionals can leverage AI in various [...]

By |2024-07-30T18:47:00-05:00July 26th, 2024|Categories: Blog|0 Comments

Tips for Writing Engaging Email Newsletters

Email newsletters or eNewsletters are valuable tools for businesses small and large. They offer the opportunity for your experts to share their industry knowledge, which also supports search engine optimization (SEO). That, in turn, attracts people seeking your expertise to your website, driving more leads to your business. Since the cost to create and publish content online is relatively low, eNewsletters make sound business sense. In this article, we cover how to jumpstart your email newsletters to give your business greater visibility and generate sales. 1. Define your target audience. When we hear professionals say that their product or [...]

By |2024-05-08T12:19:21-05:00May 7th, 2024|Categories: Blog|0 Comments

Marketing Best Practices to Drive Foot Traffic to Your Business

COVID-19 has left its mark on likely every business nationwide. Still, restaurants and retail establishments have especially struggled to comply with the government-issued regulations, practice safety measures and keep their businesses profitable. Houston Community College (HCC) recently invited me to deliver a virtual presentation on "Marketing Best Practices to Drive Foot Traffic to Your Business" with a special focus on restaurants and retail businesses.  While this post isn't an exact replica of that presentation, it's a good recap and offers loads of marketing tips for businesses that are dependent on walk-in buyers. 1). First, double down on your marketing during [...]

By |2020-08-10T21:08:31-05:00August 10th, 2020|Categories: Blog, Marketing|0 Comments

5 Ways to Market Your Business While Showing Empathy

Four months into the COVID-19 pandemic and business owners nationwide are searching for ways to market  your business in creative ways that will produce more sales. It’s time to think differently… to no longer stand back hesitantly. It’s time to be bold with your marketing. So, let’s get started. 1). Break it down. Since so much is changing & changing quickly, you don’t want to use your 2020 marketing plan that was assembled before COVID-19 hit the United States. You also don’t want to plan now for the rest of the year because we expect – even hope -- the [...]

By |2020-06-29T12:47:44-05:00June 29th, 2020|Categories: Blog, Marketing|0 Comments

Marketing Smarter during COVID-19 Pandemic

With so many people distracted with new work and life scenarios due to COVID-19, we're finding marketers need to work smarter (& likely harder too) to engage with prospective buyers. I delivered a presentation recently to the Greater Heights Area Chamber of Commerce on "Marketing during the COVID-19 Pandemic", which in many ways translates to "Where can your marketing have the biggest impact with limited time and budget?" Here are the 7 steps that I shared with the Heights Chamber, plus a number of others. I hope you'll add your own feedback to #commentform, so I can see which marketing [...]

By |2020-05-19T21:08:10-05:00May 19th, 2020|Categories: Blog, Marketing|0 Comments
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