Unless you are a contestant on the “Married at First Sight” TV show, an engagement comes before a marriage. Keep that in mind when doing email marketing.
Again, the key focus needs to be “What’s in it for me?” Every message should provide value.
Let’s say the potential client joined your mailing list by filling out a form on your website, or you met them at a conference, and they wanted more information. The sooner you follow up, the more likely they are to remember you.
Topics: Content marketing, ABM, PESO, Email marketing
Your company sits on a treasure trove of data. Every click, login, support ticket, and feature usage tells a story that can help you understand customers, optimize operations, and accelerate growth. When analyzed collectively, this data reveals profound insights about industry trends, challenges, and business needs.
Topics: Public relations, Content marketing, Giveaways, Inbound marketing, Marketing strategy, Sales enablement content
How can marketers get smarter about marketing strategy? The answer is goal setting, and more specifically - SMART goals setting. SMART stands for: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound.
Topics: Content marketing, Content, Metrics, Social media, Persona, Inbound marketing, Messaging, Account-based marketing, Planning, Tactics, Buyer's journey, Integrated marketing, SMART Goals
Want to break through the clutter? Want to rise above the market noise?
Are there too many cybersecurity companies for our own good?
Some have become unsustainable as others have gone under. It seems ironic that cyberattacks - the biggest threat to both organizations and nations - have given rise to an enormous global cybersecurity market.
Should be good news, right? However, the unrelenting waves of cyberattacks and the increasing need to mitigate security risks has also given rise to more than 4,000 cybersecurity companies, whose marketing messages are now flooding -- make that clogging -- an already congested vertical.
Topics: Content marketing, Marketing, Audience, Message, Messaging, Personas
No other tool drives reputation management more effectively than public relations.
What Is Reputation Management, and How Does It Drive Investment Decisions?
Corporate reputation refers to what people think of your brand, company, or product. Reputation management deals with the efforts to influence and burnish such public perceptions - critical to your business’ survival and success. It has become pivotal in its impact on investor relationships, confidence, and, ultimately, decisions. The same goes for rapid, open response when there’s a problem or a crisis – the response immediately effects your reputation.
Topics: Content marketing, Social media, Brand, Customer communications, Corporate communications, Marketing qualified leads (MQL), Sales qualified leads (SQL), Corporate social responsibility, CSR, Investor relations
Social media has major impact – delivering increased customer engagement, free publicity, cost-effective public relations, enhanced brand awareness, stronger credibility, and thought leadership-building opportunities.
Social media gives you more control over your brand image and reputation – and less.
Topics: Content marketing, Social media, Brand, Customer communications, LinkedIn, Marketing qualified leads (MQL), Sales qualified leads (SQL), Twitter/X, YouTube, Facebook, Reputation
Nike’s online community built around its Run Club app not only benefits members through personal training tips and challenges, but also helps the company gain an in-depth understanding of its users’ interests and behaviors.
Online fashion brand Asos’ social followers constantly share content and respond to comments.
Spin Sucks’ 80,000+-strong community’s passion for content marketing has made the brand a leader in the PR and communications industry.
Social media plays a critical role in building a community of loyal customers who can positively impact your brand or business, especially with simple tools like WhatsApp or Slack.
Topics: Content marketing, Social media, Brand, Customer communications, Audience, Messaging, Personas, Client relations, Shared media, LinkedIn, Marketing qualified leads (MQL), Sales qualified leads (SQL), Twitter/X, YouTube, Facebook, Reputation
Getting truly qualified leads is a complex process.
By marketing to your followers on LinkedIn, BlueSky, X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, or anywhere else your customers may be, you’re reaching out to people who already love, support, or are interested in your company, or have had a prior relationship or encounter with you - in other words, a qualified lead.
Even if they aren't already following you, if they fit your ICP, the algorithm will make the connection for you.
Topics: Content marketing, Social media, Brand, Customer communications, Audience, Messaging, Personas, Client relations, Shared media, LinkedIn, Marketing qualified leads (MQL), Sales qualified leads (SQL), Twitter/X, YouTube, Facebook, Reputation
Know What Your Customers Are Thinking
Quick. Name the most powerful marketing tool you have.
The answer comes in various forms - consumer insights, customer data, market research - but all these terminologies amount to one critical word.
KNOWLEDGE.
Topics: Content marketing, Social media, Customer communications, LinkedIn, Marketing qualified leads (MQL), Sales qualified leads (SQL), Twitter/X, YouTube, Facebook
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Or How to Get the Most Bang from Your Inbound Marketing Buck
While marketing budgets are growing and more and more companies are leveraging inbound marketing, many CEOs want to know: what returns are we getting out of our investment to prove that inbound marketing is the way to go?
One, inbound has supplemented outbound in terms of clearly measurable ROI; two, the ROI areas prove the effectiveness of inbound marketing; and three, 10 metrics to consider when measuring inbound ROI.
Topics: Content marketing, Content, Marketing, Persona, Inbound marketing, Customer communications