How to Get Started with Digital Marketing

Q: What do you know about digital marketing? Do you know how to get started with digital marketing? What is digital marketing? Webster’s dictionary defined digital marketing as… oh you have to be kidding me. Digital marketing can’t be defined by our friends at Webster’s because digital marketing evolves continually. The internet is still an infant. A very fast learning, deranged, somewhat scary infant – but one that marketers and business owners love and hate. Let’s start with this. Who is your target audience? How do you approach them or try to draw them to your brand and products? Today [...]

By |2018-09-27T14:09:56-05:00August 19th, 2016|Categories: PR|Tags: |Comments Off on How to Get Started with Digital Marketing

The Importance of Key Messages in Marketing Your Business

Are you ready to promote your business or new initiative but find your message isn’t quite resonating with your target buyer? Do your executives know your solutions well but explain the offerings in various ways? When your leaders talk about your organization, does it sound like they’re describing a different company? Often the way professionals talk about their business or special project is full of industry buzz words, acronyms and other vague expressions. The result is conversation that sounds much like the children’s game of telephone where the story that’s being heard is quite different from the initial message told. [...]

By |2018-09-26T13:14:12-05:00January 5th, 2017|Categories: PR|Tags: , |Comments Off on The Importance of Key Messages in Marketing Your Business

PR is much more than a Press Release

When you launch a new product/service, revamp your web site or do another great deed that's newsworthy, who do you tell? How do you tell it? Maybe you write a press release and email it to your contact database. Good. Which reporters are on that list and how good is your relationship with them? Do they know you as the expert in your field and do they proactively call on you for insight? PR does not stand for press release. Writing press releases is important for getting your story out, but it's not the only tool in your arsenal. [...]

By |2018-09-26T13:12:41-05:00November 21st, 2013|Categories: PR|Tags: , |Comments Off on PR is much more than a Press Release

5 Tips for Email Marketing for Restaurants

The restaurant business in Texas is big business. Just in the Houston area, there are more than 10,000 restaurants with the average Houstonian dining out more than residents of any other city—4.1 times per week, compared with the national average of 3.1. Still, the average meal in Houston costs restaurant goers on average $5 less than the national average.1 So how do you connect with patrons and prospects cost effectively and drive them into your restaurant? Did you know 61 percent of consumers enjoy receiving promotional emails weekly?2 Email marketing continues to be an effective way to connect with customers across [...]

By |2018-09-26T12:59:53-05:00November 30th, 2017|Categories: PR|Tags: |Comments Off on 5 Tips for Email Marketing for Restaurants

5 Tips for Driving Traffic to Retail Stores During the Holidays

For retailers preparing for the holiday season, time is of the essence. While merchandising experts fill store shelves, are you also finalizing your marketing plans to take full advantage of the holiday shopping season? As an experienced marketing agency for retailers, here are 5 tips for retail marketing during the holidays.   Which outreach activities are you doing to bring shoppers into your storefront early this season? If you have an email list of shoppers and/or a following in social media, contact those shoppers with an early bird coupon. Buy 1, Get 1 offers or a discount on products often get good [...]

By |2018-08-09T10:32:49-05:00November 9th, 2016|Categories: PR|Tags: , |Comments Off on 5 Tips for Driving Traffic to Retail Stores During the Holidays

Best Practice for Email Signatures

A client recently asked us for some tips on formatting their email signatures so that the complete information would be clearly delivered to their recipients. This opened up a big discussion about what should and shouldn't be included in an email signature. Here, we share 7 Steps for Email Signatures at Work. Brevity is key. Remember: people are often glancing at your email signature, not reading every word. Give them the information they need, how they need it. We recommend no more than eight lines. Four to five lines is really best. - Obviously, you should list your name, perhaps [...]

By |2018-08-09T10:27:31-05:00April 4th, 2016|Categories: PR|Tags: , |Comments Off on Best Practice for Email Signatures

The Big Interview

There was a great article in the American Marketing Association’s Marketing News Magazine this month talking to and interviewing marketers who have gone solo in their careers. It inspired me to write a blog post interviewing our very own Megan Salch (who did just that) on her journey to independence. This is a great way for our customers to not only get to know the owner and the company as a whole but what we at Tell Your Tale stand for. Venturing out and becoming an independent business owner can have its challenges but it can be rewarding as well. [...]

By |2018-08-09T08:12:33-05:00October 4th, 2016|Categories: PR|Tags: , |Comments Off on The Big Interview

Retail Store Marketing for the 2016 Holiday Shopping Season

Make the 2016 Holiday Shopping Season Your Best Ever  If you are a traditional, online or hybrid retail store, the bullet point above should have been on your top ten things to do in 2016. Now that 9 months of the year are almost past, it’s time to kick your preparations into high-gear. So, what are you going to do to make 2016 end with the champagne popping? The stats Let’s start with some fun facts. According to Alliance Data’s Holiday in July 2016 Seasonal Whitepaper, 87% of shoppers are still very likely to purchase at stores this year. 38% [...]

By |2018-08-08T16:36:49-05:00September 26th, 2016|Categories: PR|Tags: , |Comments Off on Retail Store Marketing for the 2016 Holiday Shopping Season
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