Many times small businesses lack the large teams and capital that big brands possess, which means strategic and creative marketing is essential. To successfully compete requires new approaches to meet ever-changing consumer behaviors, and staying up to date on the latest and most useful tactics and trends. Here are 10 small business marketing trends to...
While marketing allows brands to attract new buyers, good customer service can help them retain customers and nurture loyalty. Plenty of brands pay more attention to the glamorous side of business; marketing. Here, they spread the word about their brand, create a catchy visual sprinkled with an impressive tagline, and juggle several online channels to generate...
Omar Zenhom has named his companies fittingly. He truly is a web ninja that has invented the concept of a $100 MBA. With over 14 years of business-building experience, Omar was an educator and university manager for over 13 years before deciding to attend the Wharton School of Business. He was completely dismayed by...
Recently, Ramon interviewed two entrepreneurs, but as the interviews began, it became clear that they were not yet ready to be interviewed. They weren’t prepared to speak about their business. They were unsure how to answer questions. And they could not communicate their journey and the story of the business in a positive and...
As we grasp onto the final days of summer, it’s hard to think about things like jingle bells and snowflakes. However, if you are a small business owner who wants to end 2016 with a BANG, then it is essential that you start planning your holiday campaign now. The National Retail Federation reports that...
"Social media is not a channel...it's a way of life." I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Chief Content Strategist for Edelman Worldwide, Steve Rubel, on his thoughts about the evolution of digital marketing, social media, and content creation. The Internet pioneer had some interesting reflections on what big business is doing for their...
With limited budgets, owners of small businesses tend to subscribe to the marketing motto of “the best things in life are free,” searching for tactics that allow them to attract customers with little or no money. Free marketing is good, and the point of this article is not to argue against it. However, we...
With messages coming at consumers from every direction, social media, emails, television, radio, newspapers, and more, it’s getting harder and harder to be heard above the fray. While push messaging, your attempt at pushing your products at people has completely lost its relevance, you still can do the opposite and pull people into your brand...
Video marketing has become a very effective tool for companies to reach out to consumers. The reasons that consumers take so well to videos is that they are predominantly image-based. Through seeing the products in action, the consumer makes a decision that they either need or want the product, which increases sales. Due to...
Businesses that fail are the ones that fail to spark an emotional connection with consumers. You can have the best product or service on the market but still fizzle out if you can’t elicit an impassioned response. What causes this fizzle is many different things, but mainly when businesses can't develop a brand with...
