Marketing has become a catch-all word in recent years, often being confused with sales and advertising. While marketing is all about perception, the focus of sales is on converting people once that perception is established. Advertising may SUPPORT Sales. In this episode of the Wicked Marketing Podcast: Why Marketing is Confused with Sales, marketing experts …
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The Internet of Things (IoT) is nothing new—and in fact, we utilize this technology more and more daily without even realizing it. From our smart TVs and vehicles to a surprising number of household appliances, more and more of our devices transmit and receive data via the Internet. And it’s only expanding. Some reports predict the market …
In today’s marketing climate, the more precisely you can direct your marketing toward people who need and want your product, the more effective your marketing becomes. Creating messages that resonate with your target market is only half the battle, however. The other half is about getting your message in front of those people at strategic …
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Blasting your marketing message to as many people as possible used to be a tactic that was widely used but not always the best for smaller budgets. (The whole idea behind mass marketing is to cast a wide net and hopefully catch a few fish.) These days, however, the opposite is true. The more you …
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Businesses today face a distinctive set of challenges when developing a comprehensive marketing strategy. Using general market advertising, companies have taken something of a one-size-fits-all approach, creating a branding campaign with a single message hoping to reach enough people and convert them to customers. Those days may soon be behind us. The one-dimensional general marketing …
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Today’s marketing executives face a distinctive set of challenges when developing a comprehensive digital marketing strategy for their business or their clients. For many years, companies could take something of a one-size-fits-all approach, creating a branding campaign with a single message hoping to reach enough people to make it cost-effective. Previously, a wide net was …
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