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Clearing The Confusion Between Content and Copy

In the world of marketing and advertising, two terms that are often used interchangeably are "content" and "copy." However, while they may seem similar, they actually refer to two very different things. Understanding the distinction is

what you might not know about online marketing automation

What You Might Not Know About Online Marketing Automation

Ask the average marketing executive for a definition of Online Marketing Automation and you will hear an explanation pertaining to emails, lead nurturing, and response campaigns. Occasionally you might also hear something about scoring records and

Why Websites Need Regular Maintenance And Monitoring

Why Websites Need Regular Maintenance and Monitoring

Your brand needs a website to compete in today's exceedingly digital and mobile age. You know this, and you have worked hard with your development team and staff to build a website that serves your target

How To Evaluate Your Website’s Content

Creating compelling content is not easy whether it is for a B-B or B-C website, so before signing off on the content your agency or marketing department created, make sure that you do an objective review

Why Aren’t You Using Google Analytics?

Why Aren’t You Using Google Analytics?

The actionable insights Google Analytics generates could help companies of all sizes make a huge impact, even if you are leading a small marketing department with a limited budget. Despite its free price tag and near-ubiquitous

How to Develop Creative Design for your Customers

How to Develop Creative Design for your Customers

"Creative design" goes beyond surface aesthetics. It's the blueprint used in the WOW factor prospects will experience when interfacing with your brand. No one knows your business better than you and you have the ability to

How To Capitalize On Your Website’s Halo Effect

How To Capitalize On Your Website’s Halo Effect

There is an opportunity to create a Halo Effect each time a website is developed or redesigned. This is important because a Halo Effect impacts a potential buyer’s interest in your company, the decisions s/he makes,

How To Get The Most Value From Your Digital Marketing Agency

How To Get The Most Value From Your Digital Marketing Agency

Productive client-agency relationships take time to establish an effort to cultivate. While there is abundant information available online about what clients should look for when selecting a digital marketing agency, not as much is available on

apples and oranges

The Similarities Between Apples And Oranges

The common expression “apples and oranges” is often used when asked to compare two objects that are so different from one another that they should not or cannot be compared. An orange and an apple may

Overcoming Basic Brainstorming Barriers

Overcoming Basic Brainstorming Barriers

In a typical brainstorming session, people gather to generate new ideas and solve problems. The term "brainstorming" was coined in 1967 by an advertising executive, Alex Osborn, and has probably stood the test of time because

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Role In Reverse to Drive Your Marketing Forward

Our brains are alerted when contrast is detected. Role reversal is a creative technique used to capitalize on this cognitive phenomenon and can be applied to improve the impact of websites, direct mail pieces, and print

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Intersect Ideas To Attract Attention

There is nothing like a disruptive photo to attract attention - and a potential buyer's interest. For decades print media has successfully used photos to pique a viewer's curiosity and draw them into their ads. While

What You See Is Not What You Get

What You See Is Not What You Get

What do dk, VOGUE, MOTT's, and ASHLAND sell? Based on the print ad headlines below, it's hard to tell. THIS IS NOT A CHAIR …, This isn't an empty box …, It's Not A Roof … The

Three Ways Marketers Creatively Tell Time

MAKING UNCONVENTIONAL USE OF THE TRADITIONAL In this first set of ads, LUBRIDERM®, DR. VAN DER HOOG, and Volkswagen offer a means of avoiding the future, remaining in the present, and turning back time. The benefit of using

Creation Through Subtraction

"Less is more" is probably the last phrase that comes to mind when staring at a blank screen that needs to be filled with brilliant ideas. However, the creative method of subtraction is used regularly to

5 Customer Centric Content Tips for Web Design

Effective sales-oriented content can be difficult to create for any marketing initiative, including web design. On one side of the spectrum are those frozen into paralysis staring at a blank page after a number of false

How to Avoid a Marketing and Branding Identity Crisis

Before leveraging your brand in lead generation campaigns, you must first determine how you want to be positioned within the mind of your target market, then monitor the ways you are actually perceived.Use the two simple

Creative Design, Branding and Marketing

Creative design and most creative work in general is a remix of existing elements from a multitude of sources; not a copy of any one, but an arrangement of many.  Once this understanding of creativity is

Defining Prospect Research for Web Design

Prospect research is the basis for your web design strategy. It gives you the needed insight to develop the most effective copy, layout, design, and experience for your online visitors. A very important point to remember

Strategic Marketing Tactics for Social Media Lead Generation

90% of communication is non-verbal.  So, while contacting potential customers via social media is an efficient first step to a strategic marketing effort, face-to-face meetings could make you even more effective. There are a couple of advantages

Increase Sales by Creating Sales Ready Prospects

There are ways to accelerate the sales cycle, read: “increase sales,” using a little forethought and simple automation.  Once implemented, you’ll capitalize on more opportunities, nurture more leads, and keep your sales pipeline flowing smoothly. Here’s a

Marketing Collaboration: From Software To Solutions

Marketing collaboration is thought of most often as a type of software platform like SharePointAlfresco, Google Docs, or Box.net.  But in this sense “marketing collaboration” is just an adjective that describes a type of software, and

Infographic’s Relationship with Inbound Marketing

  The usage of visualization for data is becoming more popular, and rightfully so because visual data can be used in so many interesting ways. Now, it’s possible you’re not familiar with visual data, which is also

What Makes Up Effective Social Media Marketing Services?

So, if you’re a business owner, you’ve heard of social media marketing services. There’s also a good chance you’ve had prospective vendors reach out to you telling you why you need social media marketing services for

The Best Internet Marketing Strategies in Chicago-land

Your business is national, but your storefronts are local businesses. When building your website, you included links to your satellite locations. For your Chicago store, you need to cultivate a relationship with your local clients while

Make your Website Marketing-Oriented

As a business owner, you were involved in the web development and marketing strategy for your corporate website. You labored over every page, every layout, every word of text. Your site has been live for months,

How to Develop a Strategic Marketing Plan for Email

Wikimedia, Danilo94 As you well know, email marketing is the most straightforward way to keep your brand front of mind for your target audience. Regular email newsletters, whether weekly or monthly, allow your contacts to learn of

How to Find the Best Web Internet Marketing Services

As a business owner, you don’t have time to waste working with multiple online marketing firms to find the one that fits your online marketing goals and budget. When you hire an online marketing agency, you

The Best Internet Marketing Strategies

Your first month’s reports are in for your online marketing plan, and the numbers, while encouraging, seems a little low. You know for a fact that you should have more interactions on Facebook from your contacts,

The Best Internet Marketing Strategies for Content

All the graphics have been built and all your selected social media sites like LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter are in place along with your profiles on niche blogging and article marketing sites. You’ve decided on your

Develop Marketing Strategies with Focus

We’ve talked about many aspects of a business marketing plan, from Mobile Strategies to Social Media to Web Design and SEO, but there is one underlying factor that can unravel the best business marketing strategy. The day-to-day

How to Blend the Best Internet Marketing Strategies

With the plethora of media options available today, from the old-stand-by’s like print and direct mail, to the newest media options like mobile marketing, social media and video, it can be hard to select the right

Develop Marketing Strategies with Social Media

Have you been wondering what you can do to boost your online brand in the upcoming year? While it may be hard to believe that it’s resolution time again. The fact is that most businesses have

Three Tips for your Social Media Marketing Management

You’ve been investing in Social Media for some time now. You send content to your profiles and pages regularly and have seen some responses from your contacts. However, despite all your efforts, you are not seeing

Internet Marketing Trends – Google+ Business Page

Last week, we started the discussion about Google+ for your business page. Like other social media sites, Google+ offers distinct advantages to businesses looking to extend their brand awareness and extend their reach to a new

Add Google+ to your Social Media Marketing Package

Businesses – it’s Time to Get Involved. With all the hype that preceded the introduction of Google+, the realization that it was not “ready” for business use was more than a little disappointing for most business owners.

Employ this Mobile Marketing Program Now

1.08 billion smartphones around the world. Globally, 3.08 billion phones are SMS enabled. 71 percent of smartphone users that see TV, press or online ad, do a mobile search for more information. *Statistics from Socialnomics. See the whole article

Develop Marketing Strategies for Social Media

For brands using Social Media as an aspect of their web marketing plan, their social media strategy is the driving force behind how they approach their target market in the social media space. Without being redundant,

Social Media Marketing Management Builds Engagement

As companies continue to invest in social media to build their brand awareness online, the argument comparing the importance of “Like” quantity and “Like” quality for business Facebook pages keeps ongoing. On what side of the

Internet Marketing 101: Google+ for Business

Have you been hearing any of the chatter about Google+? This version of the Google Search Engine for networking allows for increased functionality than a standard Google profile and takes into consideration the social focus of

Social Media Marketing Management for Merchants

As the retail industry continues to solidify after the last few years of declined overall sales, there is a shift happening within the industry towards Social Media, enabling retailers the ability to build sales and brand

Facebook and Smart Search Marketing

In both the B2B and B2C sectors, many brands are turning to Social Media Marketing to build brand awareness. While search engine marketing is still driven by Google, as brands continue to increase use of Facebook

7 Tips to Get Real with Social Strategies that Work

“Join the conversation”, “Connect online”, and “Reach your audience”. We’ve heard the platitudes surrounding business social media marketing, but with all the same things being said all over the web, we’re all a little snow-blind to

Social Strategies that Work to Promote your Online Content

You have your content strategy in place and the wheels are turning, fingers are tapping away building the engaging, keyword-oriented, and timely content that will draw the attention of your target market online. You have your

Social Strategies that Work

You consider yourself a marketing “guru”. You’ve worked in or followed the marketing industry for years and understand the important of research to build a strategy for your marketing goals, who you are targeting, how you

Online Marketing Growth Drivers for 2011

As has been reported, online marketing is continuing to grow across most industries. Both B2B and B2C companies are investing more of their marketing dollars into the various tools and sites available on the web. To

How to do Local Marketing Online

Any local business engaging in web marketing knows that there is a very real need to enhance their web marketing with geo-targeting options. This means that, for those local companies that work with clients within a

A Social Media Marketing Trend You Need to NOT Follow

The Trend: Talking the Talk of Facebook Fan and Twitter Follower Value Simply search for the phrase “Facebook FAN or Twitter Follower value” and you’ll have tens of thousands of results of blog posts, articles, and

Developing a Brand Across your Entire Web Marketing Campaign

In the highly competitive world of web marketing, one of the key goals of any company’s successful online marketing campaign is the ability to build brand awareness. However, building the inherent “front of mind” reaction in

Benefits of Online Marketing Done Right

Web marketing offers businesses a no barrier access point for their marketing plan. Because of this easy access, many companies view the process as “simple” and use their existing internal staff to build and manage their

Social Media Marketing Management for Business

In a recent presentation to Chicagoland Architects, Builders and Interior Designers, Morris Sneor, VP Sales & Marketing at Paradigm Productions discussed the ins and out of Social Media Marketing. Leveraging their experience in the industry and

Social Media Marketing Package Benefits for Business

As the statistics continue to show increases in usage of Social Media by consumers and businesses, the concern for most business owners lies in the time and cost involved with a Social Media Marketing (SMM) plan.

Who Do You Think You Are?

Although the fundamentals of branding are straightforward, logical, and critical to a company’s ability to connect with its visitors, many companies overlook branding when designing, populating, or developing their Website.  However, those who do enjoy the

How to Do Web Design and Drive Sales

The average visitor decides to browse a Website or not in less than 8 seconds, so your Website needs to sell them on why they should stay. There are several aspects to a Website that can