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Prioritizing Small Business Growth Strategies
As a small business owner, it’s HARD to keep the focus on growing your business when the daily demands consume all your time and energy. But here’s the reality we all know: if we don’t focus on small business growth strategies, we won’t stay busy, and in this economy, staying busy is essential for survival.…
Syncing up Your Messages: Consistent Brand Messaging
I’ve recently spoken with many small business owners about the importance of syncing all their outbound messages together. This is critical in building robust and consistent brand messaging across all platforms. While it sounds straightforward, it often doesn’t happen as regularly as it should. However, aligning all your marketing efforts can significantly enhance your brand’s…
Blue Sky Marketing (NOT!)
Remember when marketing seemed easier? We had unlimited budgets, no economic worries, and impressive television ads that wowed audiences. But those days of blue sky marketing are long gone. As marketers, we’ve had to adapt, becoming more innovative and responsive in today’s challenging landscape. Every dollar counts, and now we’re held accountable for project ROI…
Who are Your Target Market’s Influencers?
Quick – who is your target market? Can you clearly and specifically tell someone not in your industry who your target market is? Good! Now who are your target market’s influencers? Influencers are the ones who help shape opinion and who make recommendations on products and ideas for your target market. They are the people…
Branding Can Be Easy
We often get caught up in the complexities of branding—ensuring every message is carefully crafted, guarding our brand’s image, and trying to control every detail of how we present ourselves to the world. In those moments of intense focus and effort, it’s essential to take a deep breath, relax, and remember to “go with the…
Navigating Social Media Nightmares
Social media nightmares are the most significant concern I hear when I talk with businesses about using social media to grow their message is the “what if…” What if someone uses my social media account to address a concern they have with my business? What if someone says something terrible about my brand online? What…
Your Brand is Your Story: Building a Narrative That Connects
An easy way to think of your brand is to understand that it is the story of your business. Your brand is more than just a logo, color scheme, or tagline—it’s about the history of your business, the challenges you face, and the relationships you build with your customers and community. How you tell and…
Branding Foundations
Every brand needs to be built on a solid foundation. While the materials the blocks are made of change from company to company, their purpose, form, and necessity do not vary. The first foundational block of your brand is your vision for your company. Why does your company exist? Where are you going? What are the altruistic reasons…
Does Your Brand Inspire Passion?
We’re here in the middle of football season, and we can observe the fans of a favorite team every week. It doesn’t matter which team takes the field; you can count on one thing – thousands of people will wait, abandon their restraint, and shout at the top of their lungs as soon as their…
Your Brand Online
Some time ago, those of us in the business world began hearing that we needed to create a website for our business to build our brand online. Frankly, this confounded several business owners. They asked, “Why would I need a webpage for my business when everyone calls or comes in now?” And they were right…
Your Customers Should be Able to Count on You
I recently found a great little store that provides excellent, thorough, and knowledgeable customer service. I was so excited about the service I received from this store that I told a friend about it. I even offered to go with her to the store to help her. Unfortunately, when I went there with her, there…
10 Ways to Build Your Brand
We’ve talked much lately about that inevitable Marketing Plan that will be “due” soon. Here’s a quick recap of ways to build your brand as you dream of what you’ll accomplish next year. Know What it Stands For. Before you can begin to share your brand externally, you need to know what it stands for.…
Examining Your Marketing Environment
As you begin to put together your new strategic marketing plan, you should take into account the internal and external factors in your marketing environment that will be affecting you in the upcoming year. In my previous post, How Effective is Your Marketing Plan? I asked you the following you the following question: “Did your…
Following Through: How to Keep Your Marketing Plan Alive and Achieve Success
For the last several posts, I’ve been expanding on each of the questions I posed in my original post, “How Effective is Your Marketing Plan?” Today, let’s dive deeper into the crucial question of execution: Did you follow through on the strategies you laid out in your plan to reach your target demographic? (Did you…
Choosing Products for Your Target Audience
Last week, I asked you, “How Effective is Your Marketing Plan?” The second question on the Effectiveness Quiz was: Did your plan address which products fill a need for your target demographic and why? (Choosing to target someone is all well and good, but if you can’t identify what product would fill a need in their…
You Need a Target Audience
A few days ago, I asked you, “How Effective is Your Marketing Plan?” The first question on the Effectiveness Quiz was: Did your plan clearly articulate your target audience, including demographic information?(The correct answer would be something on the order of 20-34 yrs old, middle income, attending “X” school and living in “Y” neighborhood. If…
How Effective is Your Marketing Plan?
It’s officially fall, so many marketers are in the middle of another year of planning. Unless, of course, you’re ahead of the game – in which case, congratulations!!! But since that’s probably not the case, as you begin to work through the process of another year’s planning, it is helpful to consider how effective last…
Branding a Local vs National Company
I had the opportunity the other day to chat with a friend who is a national brand marketer. During our conversation, I was struck (again) by the sameness and, simultaneously, the differentness of branding a national vs. local brand. At its core, branding is about developing a message and sticking to it. That is the…
Selling Your Brand Internally
One of the most important places to spend time and energy “selling” your brand is internally. No audience is more important to have completely understand and believe your brand position. The reason should be apparent: if your staff doesn’t believe in your brand position, they cannot support it. Therefore, you must spend enough time visiting…
What’s Your Brand Story?
From start to finish, a well-executed brand is just about telling a good story. Well-written stories are pretty predictable in their format; they have a beginning, middle, and end. The pieces of the story that are being told are consistent with and advance the storyline. They don’t pursue irrelevant tangents; each paragraph and chapter builds…