When you invest in promotional products, you want to make the most of them. Why just use them as giveaways at a trade shows and events? When promotional products do…
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3 marketing lessons learned from home improvement bloggers
Those who are offering home improvement services face a stiff competition. With this, it is critical to think of a way to stand out from all others and be on…
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Branding can help local businesses avoid the “growth trap”
Local businesses have a very pragmatic attitude about branding: they ignore it. Many of them are more worried about meeting payroll, making rent, paying taxes, and other cash crises than…
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Half of your audience hates you
The contentious political times we live in offer scant places to hide for the average company. For every Patagonia that wears its collective ideology on its sleeve, there are thousands…
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Deepening B2B customer relationships with “the funnel beyond the funnel”
I’ve long observed that B2B marketers focus too much on lead generation, and not enough on current customer expansion and retention, which is, after all, where the bulk of profits…
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Why every copywriter should understand SEO
For some, search engine optimization (SEO) is a second language, an essential tool in their marketing arsenal. But for others, it’s a dirty word: a point of confusion and something…
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International SEO: Another reason to avoid AMPs
In my last post, I gave three reasons to avoid accelerated mobile mages (AMPs). Accelerated mobile pages are flat HTML web pages that follow Google‘s guidelines and are hosted by…
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How to influence the purchase decisions of your target market
The ultimate goal of any business is profitability. The profit motive is what fuels companies. From market research to customer segmentation to product development, entrepreneurs engage in different activities to…
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What your social media marketing consultant will never tell you
Too many companies try to outsource their social media in hopes that a social media expert, like me, will care about their brand just as much as they do. I hate…
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8 things you can do to significantly improve your SEO
What do you think of when you hear the term SEO? Many people think of keywords and focus a large part of their time trying to perfect the keywords they…
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