Archive for the ‘Marketing and Branding’ Category
Friday, July 21st, 2023
It’s not uncommon for students in both high school and higher ed to question whether what they’re learning will actually have relevance in the real world of work. There are three concepts, though, from several speech classes I taught at the undergraduate level, that I’ve found to be extremely helpful in creating content designed to resonate with various needs and preferences of the target audience: ethos, logos, and pathos. Before I lose you, trust me, these are really simple concepts that you can use to create and evaluate your promotional content. (more…)
Tags: advertising tips, copywriting tips, ethos, logos, pathos, persuasive copy writing, writing copy, writing persuasive copy
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Friday, June 16th, 2023
In the digital era, social media has become an indispensable tool for marketers, consultants, and business leaders. To maximize the reach and visibility of your content, it’s essential to understand and use hashtags effectively. Here we take a look at the fundamentals of hashtags, how they function on popular social media channels, and provide best practices for using them to enhance your social media strategy. (more…)
Tags: hashtags, hashtags on Facebook, hashtags on LinkedIn, hashtags on Twitter, Social Media, trending topics, using hashtags
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Tuesday, June 13th, 2023
ChatGPT—a popular generative AI tool—is top-of-mind for everyone involved in marketing and content creation these days. And for good reason. Its potential is astonishing. With a short prompt and the tap of the keyboard it spews out content related to virtually anything you present it with in literally seconds.
It’s truly amazing.
Multiple Use Cases
We’ve only experimented with ChatGPT a little bit at this point, but based on this early experience we’ve found some of the most useful applications in our work to be: (more…)
Tags: ChatGPT, generative AI, pros and cons of ChatGPT, using ChatGPT
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Tuesday, May 30th, 2023
What do Richard Simmons, Ron Popeil, George Foreman, and Kim Kardashian have in common? Many readers may not have even heard of the first three names, but they do share something in common with Kim Kardashian: They are early examples of influencers.
While influencer marketing often seems to be a factor of the digital age, it’s a concept that has been around for decades—ever since people began selling products and looking for ways to spread the word. In the digital environment, influencer marketing can be both more challenging and riskier. Marketers have only to do a search for “influencer marketing lawsuits” to learn about thousands of lawsuits that have been filed against influencers—and the companies that have used them. (more…)
Tags: becoming an influencer, influencer marketing, marketing through influencers, marketing to influencers, micro-influencers
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Tuesday, May 23rd, 2023
There are a wide range of social media channels available to today’s marketers. There are so many that it can be challenging to decide which to use—and how to use them most efficiently and cost-effectively. Yes, there are costs involved in posting to social media, even if you do it yourself. Time is money, and, especially for do-it-yourselfers, time spent on social media means an inability to spend it on other potentially higher-value activities that uniquely require your expertise. Let’s take a look at some best practice recommendations from social media experts and business owners who have learned how to juggle posting across multiple channels. (more…)
Tags: best practices in social media marketing, communicating on social media, LinkedIn strategy, marketing with social media, results with social media, social media strategy
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Tuesday, May 9th, 2023
The digital environment is quite cluttered these days and becoming more so. Consumers benefit from access to a massive amount of information literally available at their fingertips—and often being pushed to them by marketers yelling “pick me, me, me.” But with so much activity in the digital environment, sometimes it takes a different approach to stand out: (more…)
Tags: content marketing strategy, integrated marketing communications, marketing communication, marketing strategy, standing out in a cluttered communication environment
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Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023
“You don’t pay unless we win!”
That’s the compelling marketing claim made by a large and very successful law firm. If you’re a consumer thinking about suing someone—an individual or a company—for a loss or injury you’ve received, such a no-risk offer would be compelling indeed.
But here’s the thing. (more…)
Tags: beating the competition, content marketing, copywriting, customer claims, product claims, service claims, unique selling proposition, writing marketing copy
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Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023
Every once in a while, I’ll come across a post suggesting that social media is dead. With all of the recent buzz about Twitter—given Elon Musk’s takeover of the company and predictions of doom—I wondered if marketers’ usage of social media is declining. The short answer is no.
A longer answer is that while social media still makes up a significant part of most marketers’ communication efforts, how they use it and which channels they use have shifted. That is likely to continue. The effectiveness of marketing channels ebbs and flows; newer channels and newer entrants to the space tend to reap the benefits of early adoption, while laggards may never experience the same results. This means that marketers of all kinds—and especially content marketers—need to stay up-to-date on these shifts and continually evaluate their social media strategies to ensure they’re making optimal use of these platforms. In this column, I look at some insights from experts in the field about how their social media use is shifting and how they stay on top of new trends. (more…)
Tags: linkedin, LinkedIn best practices, Marketing, marketing and branding, Social Media, social media strategy, twitter, Twitter marketing
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Wednesday, December 28th, 2022
Many of you have probably been at goal-setting seminars or workshops where the leader will pose a question like: “Would you like to make more money?,” and, of course, everybody nods or raises their hand. Then the leader will approach a workshop participant and (more…)
Tags: establishing marketing goals, marketing goals, marketing objectives, marketing strategy, realistic marketing goals, using data effectively
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Thursday, December 22nd, 2022
And, quite honestly, it may not even really matter to them.
A lot of businesses worry unnecessarily about market share. It’s understandable because we read a lot about market share in the media. It’s something that big companies worry about a lot and, to a large degree, they need to. Smaller companies, though, really don’t need to be worried about market share. In fact, (more…)
Tags: market share, marketing strategy, Strategy, why market share doesn't matter
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