There’s something exhilarating about catching a moment as it happens. It’s why we pull out our phones during concerts, why we stream breaking news instead of waiting for tomorrow’s paper, and why businesses that lean into real-time customer data are steadily outpacing those that don’t.
As businesses strive to build trust and loyalty among their audiences, leveraging the power of brand advocates—customers, employees, and influencers who passionately support and promote a brand—has become a key driver of growth.
In the digital age, artificial intelligence (AI) has become a linchpin in transforming marketing strategies from standard to spectacular. Embracing AI in your marketing efforts can not only enhance efficiency but also personalize experiences at scale, ensuring that every campaign hits its mark.
For the past century, technology has grown at an extremely rapid pace. It was so rapid, that it came to the point that people would predict a future of flying cars and advanced robotics that could perform any human task possible. Although these may still be in our imaginations, it goes to show how the swift pace of development has shaped our expectations and even business practices.
Every event planner knows it is essential to keep the pipeline full of prospects. To achieve that, it isn’t enough to do a fabulous job and rely on word of mouth. It is important to actively market your services in order to grow your business. A comprehensive marketing plan is essential and forces you to state your goals, analyze the health of your industry, identify your target audience and understand how they search and interact with information.
Looking for something that offers your business a source of accountability and assists the growth process? Online reviews and ratings are major factors that influence online shoppers and shape the way they interact with businesses. Reviews posted on sites like Google allow customers to compare products and services based on other people’s experiences.
A website is the core of any organization’s online presence. It gives customers a taste (pun intended) of the business through a combination of attractive design and useful information. For restaurants, their website is a reflection of the quality of the food they serve and the service they provide. Your site is a powerful marketing tool and often a prospective customer’s first impression of your brand.
eCommerce sales are predicted to top $4 trillion by 2020. Your virtual storefront is the face of your business and its appearance and functionality will impact buyers’ behaviors and brand perceptions. Online stores require a different approach than physical stores and since 20% of the brain is devoted to vision, presentation is everything. The most notable benefit of eCommerce is that selling and buying can occur 24/7.
We work with people at all stages of business. Some come to us with brand new, exciting ideas for a product or service and are trying to create a new brand and a strategy to penetrate the market and stand out from the crowd. Others have been in business for decades and are doing a lot of things right, but have fallen into a pattern that could use a little jump start. Whether you are a well-established business, a startup or somewhere in between there is universal desire to grow and make your company successful.
The influence of social media platforms over the last decade has been monumental. Social media of some form is something that the average person interacts with on a daily basis. People spend a significant amount of their free time engaging with other people and brands on today’s most popular social media platforms. So, what does this mean for businesses and how should this play into their marketing strategy?
Starting a new business can seem like a daunting task. We get it. Having started our own businesses and helped our clients do the same we understand that there is a lot involved in doing so. For the serial entrepreneurs out there, they know what that looks like. While they may be diving into a new industry or different sort of product, they have some experience in what goes into starting and growing businesses.
Businesses want to answer questions and solve problems for their customers as quickly and efficiently as possible. For the first time, people are spending more time on messaging apps than on social media apps. In order to take advantage of this, and better serve clients, many see Chatbots as the future of customer service and management. The first chatbot was ELIZA, built in 1966, by Joseph Weizenbaum of MIT.
What is equally as important as getting traffic to your website? Keeping viewers engaged and converting them to customers. Website design needs to go beyond something that is visually appealing and be about providing a positive experience, facilitating interaction with visitors, and offering solutions to problems, all in a manner that showcases an ease of usability.
One of the biggest hurdles to truly understanding effective marketing is understanding that marketing is an ongoing process and not one singular effort. This is hard for many of our clients to understand because they have just spent money on something like a website and all they want is for floods of people to start finding it and purchasing from them or reaching out about their services. Just slapping up a visually appealing website, building out a Yelp page, or creating a few social profiles in not going to instantly propel your business into success and instant notoriety. It is tempting when the economy is down and money gets tight to scale way back and marketing is often one of the first things to take a hit.
