Jazz Jones is anxious to get moving forward with the implementation of her content marketing strategy. She is, after all, eager to begin building her coaching business. But she has just a few more steps before she’s ready to go. The next one, Step 5, is critical and all about keeping the end in mind. (more…)
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6 Steps and 6 Weeks to an Effective Content Strategy: Week 5
Tuesday, May 14th, 20196 Steps and 6 Weeks to an Effective Content Strategy: Week 2
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019Jazz Jones is hoping to build business for her leadership development coaching for healthcare professionals. She’s clarified her goals and objectives and is ready for Step 2: identifying her target audience. (more…)
6 Steps and 6 Weeks to an Effective Content Strategy: Week 1
Tuesday, April 16th, 2019In last week’s blog post we met Jazz Jones, a physician and former healthcare administrator who is hoping to raise awareness and generate new coaching business through content marketing. Her first step: (more…)
Content Marketing Strategy Revisited: Taking a Journey With Jazz Jones
Tuesday, April 9th, 2019(This was a very popular series for us a few years ago so we thought we’d take a look back and revisit.)
There is no shortage of content marketing experts these days, and there’s no shortage of ideas on the best ways for companies to leverage their content to achieve desired results. The problem is that these ideas are often without context–not grounded in real-world examples that can help would-be content marketers get their arms around what content strategy is all about.
Here, through a fictional example of a company that’s interested in gaining clients and driving business through content marketing, we apply the advice of content marketing experts to demonstrate how it can be used in concrete ways. (more…)
Leveraging Big Benefits From Loss Leader Pricing
Thursday, September 27th, 2018by Justin Grensing, Esq., MBA
At first glance, it might seem like a ridiculous strategy to price a product below its cost. Wouldn’t you just be losing money? While this is true, many companies do just that, and they do lose money. On that specific offering. This is part of a strategy known as loss leader pricing. As defined by Inc., “loss leader pricing is an aggressive pricing strategy in which a store sells selected goods below cost in order to attract customers who will, according to the loss leader philosophy, make up for the losses on highlighted products with additional purchases of profitable goods.”
A great example of a loss leader is razors. (more…)
Should Manufacturers Think More Like Pharmaceutical Companies When it Comes to Marketing?
Thursday, February 22nd, 2018When you think about the types of companies you typically see ads for, manufacturing firms don’t typically come to mind. That’s because, historically, manufacturing companies haven’t invested a great deal in traditional marketing. They tend to be focused more on business-to-business (B2B) sales, than business-to-consumer (B2C). Their business focus has typically been on achieving operational efficiencies to drive down costs and increase profits. They set themselves apart from competitors by providing higher quality, faster turnaround or lower cost, and they haven’t typically spent much time thinking about the end user consumers of their products. (more…)
All It Takes is a Little Nudge
Tuesday, January 16th, 2018People may sometimes think about marketing as the process of convincing someone to buy something they may not be initially inclined to purchase. Maybe it’s luring a customer away from a competitor or convincing someone to buy something they don’t really need.
From a more marketing-friendly perspective, though, the process could be seen as (more…)