If you have a great business idea and product, having a successful strategy to bring in local customers is key. Local branding gives you an opportunity to form a bond with a local audience and drive sales to new heights. To successfully brand yourself, it’s important to not only understand the market you are in […]
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By Amy Shim Entrepreneurs have a keen eye for innovation, but that doesn’t always translate into a gift for market research. As a result, many startups suffer from fundamentally misguided assumptions about the potential profitability of their business ventures. In fact, 70 to 80% of companies that do not meet their projected return on investment
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Sign up to gain access to thousands of marketing resources! Don’t worry … It’s FREE! “During major life changes, our habits are up for grabs,” Charles Duhigg told me during this week’s episode of Marketing Smarts. (If you’d like to just go ahead and listen to the episode, skip to the bottom!) One such life
Sign up to gain access to thousands of marketing resources! Don’t worry … It’s FREE! Rachel Happe and Jim Storer, co-founders for The Community Roundtable, just released their latest State of Community Management report, so I invited Rachel to Marketing Smarts to discuss what they found. (If instead of reading about our conversation you’d like
Sign up to gain access to thousands of marketing resources! Don’t worry … It’s FREE! “When we talk about marketing to women, we often assume that all women are mothers,” Melanie Notkin told me during this week’s episode of Marketing Smarts. In fact, she said, 47% of women age 44 or younger are childless. We’ve
Sign up to gain access to thousands of marketing resources! Don’t worry … It’s FREE! At first blush, you might not think the two guests who joined me on stage at the Fine Line Music Cafe in Minneapolis to record an episode of Marketing Smarts as part of our Smart Marketers Tour had much in common.
Sign up to gain access to thousands of marketing resources! Don’t worry … It’s FREE! All rumors to the contrary, email marketing is not dead or dying; in fact, DJ Waldow told me in this week’s episode of Marketing Smarts, “It’s thriving and growing.” I invited DJ and his co-conspirator, Jason Falls, to the show to
Sign up to gain access to thousands of marketing resources! Don’t worry … It’s FREE! “We believe the winning companies of the future have a different view of marketing,” IBM’s Yuchun Lee told me during this week’s episode of Marketing Smarts, “In their view, every communication has to be relevant. That has to be the
Sign up to gain access to thousands of marketing resources! Don’t worry … It’s FREE! Scientists have long tracked eye movement to help us understand how we read and how we perceive and interpret images, as well as the complex relationship between seeing and cognition more generally. More recently, sophisticated eye tracking technology has helped
Sign up to gain access to thousands of marketing resources! Don’t worry … It’s FREE! Brian Sheehan is associate professor of advertising at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University. Previously, he was with global creative powerhouse Saatchi & Saatchi for 25 years, with CEO roles at Saatchi & Saatchi Australia and Japan,
