No marketing can be reliably successful without a strategy framework behind it. To succeed in marketing and growing your business, you need to specify your target audience, set goals and timelines, determine the channels you should use to best reach your audience, and follow best inbound marketing best practices. (more…)
We hear so much about making an inbound marketing strategy. The term has been kicking around for at least 10 years, but it was widely practiced before it became a business byword. We get the impression that it is almost universally practiced by companies that use the internet for marketing. Indirect marketers are bloggers, contributors to newspapers, experts on television and radio, talk show habitues and suppliers of expertise wherever possible. (more…)
Rather than trying to deal with all the aspects of your business in-house, it can be a lot more convenient to outsource some of them to consultants. Many businesses outsource their accounting and HR needs. If you don’t need to have a full-time accountant or HR person, outsourcing can save you money. Plus, you’re also getting someone who has a lot of experience dealing with businesses such as yours. (more…)
As the Fourth of July fast approaches, have you thought about what kind of original inbound and social media marketing tie-ins you could do with the holiday? While it's usually customary for companies to have sales connected to the Fourth, you probably don't want to adhere to the usual ideas. With such rich creative canvases available now in content marketing, it opens a door to connecting the Fourth of July to your business products in ways you couldn't do in years past. (more…)
Memorial Day is May 30th and is part of Military Appreciation Month. Many also celebrate Memorial Day as the introduction to Summer. The nation honors the service of those who sacrificed their lives serving in The United States military. It also celebrates the coming of Summer. What is the coincidence of these two apparently opposite sentiments? The coincidence may be related to flowers. The holiday originated after the American Civil War as Decoration Day, a day when the nation decorated the graves of veterans with flowers, the flowers of May. You know, “April showers bring May flowers.” The holiday became Memorial Day with the merger of the Union and Confederate Decoration Day holidays merged after the turn of the century. (more…)
