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Marketing Is About Relevance
A marketing message without relevance is useless. It’s a waste of your time and money. But more important than that, it’s a wasted opportunity, a wasted chance to communicate effectively with would-be or present buyers of your Stuff, your products or services.Read more…Business Blogging - A Crash Course for Busy Executives
If you're a business owner or corporate executive, but you don't yet publish a blog, I know what you're thinking: "What's the big deal about blogs, already? Aren't they just online diaries?"Well, yes and no.Read more…The Emotion Of Price: How Numbers Affect Response
The actual numbers used in your pricing can have a huge effect on response. Throughout history, numbers have been invested with symbolism. And while the meanings may differ from culture to culture, the fact is this subconscious meaning will have an effect on your sales.Read more…Market Your Services By Offering A Free Needs Analysis
freelance copywriter, writing web content, copywriting tips, ghost writerIf you sell your services, or if your knowledge and expertise adds value to customers who buy your products, offering a Needs Analysis may be one of the best ways to acquire new clients.This is particularly true if you begin a new client relationship with a “consultative” selling approach and prepare proposals after gathering information about your new clients’ problems, goals and needs.In my case, I just recently started offering a free website analysis as part of my freelance copywriter business.Read more…Marketing Ideas that Will Work to Your Advantage
Do you like working up marketing ideas for your business? Perhaps you are wondering which market ideas can drive you to excellent opportunities. Do you want to know how you can obtain more control over your market?Read more…Taghuchi Testing: Double Your E-Newsletter Conversions
If you’re really interested in using your e-newsletter to add value then you’re probably already measuring it in terms of conversions. You might be calling those conversions opening rate, click-through rate, seminar signups, sales, whitepaper downloads or a range of other metrics. Regardless of how you measure conversions you’re almost certainly trying to improve your results and testing is the only way to consistently do that.Read more…Digital Signage Offers Hoteliers A Way To Serve Guests Better
Frequent hotel guests are becoming more familiar with the growing presence of digital signs in lobbies, near hotel restaurants and bars and even outside meeting rooms.That’s not too surprising. A recent forecast from market researcher iSuppli Corp.Read more…Strong Nonprofit Taglines - Seven Dos and Don'ts
The best taglines quickly succeed in engaging audiences. Try to create a tagline that is a brief and focused call to action and avoid taglines that try to say too much, are too long or too vagueCase Study: Does Smokey the Bear's tagline work, or not?Let’s take a look at the widely-recognized Smokey the Bear tagline as a great example.Read more…The Importance Of Internet Honesty
I had a disturbing conversation last night. I was talking to a friend of mine, and I was explaining to him how the world of online sales works, from the perspective of an Internet Marketer. After talking to him for about 15 minutes he let me know that he would no longer consider making purchases off of the Internet.Read more…Getting Attention Survey Finds Most Nonprofits Not Using Marketing Plan, Need Strategy Help
Nonprofits, the value of a marketing plan to serve as the foundation of your daily work cannot be overstated. The right plan is flexible enough to embrace the changes your organization faces on a regular basis yet specific enough to guide ongoing implementation. Yet, I find that many nonprofit communicators are working without a marketing plan.Read more…Building Support for Nonprofit Communications Among Your Colleagues and Leadership
A panel of three communications pros at the recent Communications Network conference discussed how to build the support across your organization that is necessary for communications that really help to achieve your nonprofit's or foundation's goal (a.k.a.Read more…Getting the Budget and Approval You Need for Strategic Marketing
Here is a challenging, but all too common, situation that many nonprofit marketers experience when trying to develop a budget for their marketing plan:“My organization has been in existence since the 1960s, longer than any other environmental group in the state. But, like many other nonprofits, we have never been good at marketing ourselves, and therefore don't have the membership base that we should.As a result, we're beginning to lose our historical advantage.Read more…Make Your Booth Successful
Having a booth or table at a Trade Show, Expo or Business Fair can be very profitable or a complete waste of time and money. With preparation, you can certainly increase your odds for the first option.First, ask yourself: when you go to a Trade Show, Expo or Business Fair, what attracts you to the various booths?Read more…Getting the Most from Your Marketing Firm or Consultant
When you hire a marketing firm or consultant, you're making a significant investment (in time and dollars) to advance your goal via marketing. There's no margin for error. It has to be done right – strategically and realistically – in a way that works with the culture of your organization.Read more…Balancing Quality and Cost-Efficiency in Your Nonprofit Marketing Materials
"How can our nonprofit address appropriate production values and expenditures?" In other words, not what we can afford, but what we can do to make our newsletter look fantastic and be effective but not appear over-the-top? We don't want our donors to question how their money is spent.Read more…How to Guarantee Board and Colleague Support for Your Nonprofit's Marketing Plan
You and your staff and board colleagues spend a lot of time planning and fine-tuning your nonprofit’s marketing plan. But once the plan is approved, the pressure is on you -- the nonprofit marketer -- to carry it out successfully.How can you ensure that board and staff members will continue to support the plan?Read more…How to Design an Effective Marketing and Communications Budget for Your Nonprofit Organization
You definitely need to have a comprehensive, realistic budget. It's a critical component of your nonprofit's annual marketing and communications plan and, like the work plan, serves as a map to ensure you reach your goals. The budgeting process helps you to determine whether your plan is realistic.Read more…How to Communicate on Difficult Issues
I recently received a request for help a staff member of SAFE, Inc., a small domestic violence service agency in rural Pennsylvania. This staffer asked me how she could most effectively frame the agency’s communications being that the issue area in which it works is always perceived as bad news.Read more…To Hang or Fold
Perhaps you own a clothing retail store or maybe just need to rearrange your closet. Whatever the situation, understanding universal clothing placement guidelines will help the look of your display and increase the life span of your clothes. The secret to how clothes should be arranged lies in the sort of fabric each article contains.Read more…Event Marketing - 5 Surefire Tips To Rocket Launch An Event Marketing Program Into The Spotlight
Savvy marketers around the globe are in search of exciting, memorable and unconventional ways to connect with their customers. Are you one of them? Learn 5 tips to help create an event marketing program that shines!Read more…
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