Zoom, the free video conferencing app (that most everyone has heard of by now), has become one of the most popular platforms for communication due to stay-at-home orders. As of May 2020, Zoom has 300 million daily meeting participants. Aside from using Zoom internally to chat with telecommuting employees, did you also know you …
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Tips for Converting from Brick-and-Mortar Marketing to Online Campaigns
If your business has traditionally relied on brick-and-mortar marketing strategies, you’re probably already aware of the challenges facing you in this “new normal” as the economy starts reopening. With social distancing in place, face-to-face marketing, product demonstrations, etc. may be ineffective at best, or nearly impossible. Companies who successfully convert to online marketing tend to …
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Marketing in Times of Uncertainty: Companies Who Turned Crisis into Success
When we live in uncertain times, it’s easy to allow the crisis of the moment to overshadow our vision for the future. For example, how can businesses form viable marketing strategies when the circumstances seem to be continually unstable and evolving? The key is perspective. Let us explain. In our society, with every significant change comes …
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The Giving Approach to Community Engagement
In an age where the public has become inundated with mass marketing and ever more distrustful of corporate greed, businesses and brands today face an ongoing challenge: How to earn the trust of their community. Achieving this trust won’t happen with mere lip service—people today are naturally skeptical, and they can spot phoniness and ulterior …
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Marketing to Gen Z and Gen X—The Major Differences
One of the biggest differentiators in how people respond to messaging is age—or, more to the point, the generational culture in which they grew up. We hear terms like “Gen X” and Gen Z” tossed around often in market-speak, but many people are confused as to what these terms mean or how they can affect …
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Making It Last: 3 Tips to Keep Your Audience Engaged
Now more than ever, a successful branding strategy involves finding new ways to reach and engage your target community—but that’s only half the challenge. Let’s suppose you’ve implemented an effective campaign; you’ve made real inroads into a community and you’ve built ties. Now, what do you do to keep the momentum going? Building connections and …
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How Millennials Consume Content – What You Should Know
The demographic known as the Millennial generation (people born between 1981-1996) has been a point of fascination for pundits and marketers alike. Millennials seem to have a unique perspective, worldview, and set of habits compared to the generations both before (Gen X, Boomers) and after (Gen Z). Considering Millennials now comprise 25 percent of the …
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Top 3 Consumer Shopping Trends You Need to Know
Consumer online shopping is stronger than ever. Here’s what’s happening. Any effective marketing campaign will take into account what consumers are doing, what they’re buying and why. Consumer trends are a constantly moving target, even more so when there’s a rapidly evolving global situation. Just within the past 6-8 weeks since the pandemic began sweeping …
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5 Steps to Gaining More Customers with Hispanic Marketing
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] It may be a surprise to some that are not specifically marketing to the Hispanic population that they represent a significant portion of market share across the U.S. The Census Bureau estimates that Hispanics currently comprise 18.3 percent of the population across America with a spending power of over 1.4 trillion. As an example, …
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5 Strategies to Understanding Your Target Customer
[vc_row margin_bottom=”0″][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1585245872816{margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_text]When developing a brand or marketing a product or service, identifying your target community is only the first part of the process. Now you need to learn the target customer and what makes them tick—their needs, desires, fears, motivations, and so on—so you can begin to understand how your …
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