Category: business

  • Outstanding free marketing tools you need to know about

    Outstanding free marketing tools you need to know about

    Free Marketing Tools… and More The amount of free marketing tools and information available for marketers, entrepreneurs and those bootstrapping a business is fantastic. However, it can be overwhelming to keep track of everything you might use now or down the road. After creating a comprehensive list of essential free tools for Entrepreneurial Marketing students, (available HERE) one…

  • Powerful lessons that will help you craft your brand

    Powerful lessons that will help you craft your brand

    Branding is powerful. It associates an array of associations with a commodity. Successful messaging and branding makes it about you, the customer. An excellent and not-so-excellent example of branding happened during this past year. Donald Trump understands its power. Hillary Clinton did not. The reason. Trump’s brand messaging was focused solely on “Make America Great…

  • Who else wants to create a fantastic social media proposal?

    Who else wants to create a fantastic social media proposal?

    Let’s write a social media proposal It’s always best to personalize your approach with a potential client, but here is a link to helpful tips on what you need to include in the social media proposal. Best of luck and go get ’em! [Also see Outstanding Free Marketing Tools You Need to Know About] “Well-written social…

  • For folks wondering about B2B social selling

    For folks wondering about B2B social selling

    B2B Social Selling More and more folks prefer to get information online than engage a salesperson. They search out more objective information from internet recommendations. Three out of four B2B buyers rely on social media to engage with peers about buying decisions. In a recent B2B buyers survey, 53% of the respondents reported that social media…

  • Marketing: How to step outside the ‘bubble’

    Marketing: How to step outside the ‘bubble’

    Countless times in marketing strategy meetings, I have heard sentences beginning with and/or containing “I” or “my.” “I wouldn’t respond to/click on that.” “My friends and I thought the idea was great.” “That’s how I would do it/buy/respond.” Not wanting to invalidate a personal POV, especially from a boss or executive, many stay silent. And then…