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Content Marketing, Digital Marketing, Inspire, Strategic Marketing
Digital Personalization: The Key to Future Sales
Not so long ago, personalization in sales was as simple as a conversation and striking a deal with a firm handshake. But with the digital world somehow becoming more real than reality, the ways businesses personalize the sales experience has become more technical and a little more complicated. While this new way of personalization can […]
Content Marketing, Inspire, Publicity
Selling With Trust: The Power of Publicity
There’s that advertisement again. You’ve seen it countless times. It’s emotional, persuasive and memorable. It hits all the marks: demonstrates what makes the product special, how it can benefit your life and why you need it as soon as possible. So why haven’t you made the purchase yet? It’s because the advertisement is paid for […]
How Can Infographics be Part of Your Content Marketing Plan?
Anybody who has ever put together furniture knows the value of words and pictures working together as one. And in a world where attention spans are like an endangered species, an infographic can be a wonderful tool to quickly get information across in a digestible way. With that in mind, here’s an infographic about infographics. […]
Branding, Content Marketing, Inspire, Strategic Marketing
Servitization: How Good Communication Turns Into Revenue
The line between product and service continues to blur by the day. That’s even true in the traditionally slow-changing world of manufacturing. The days of “all we do is make things,” is slowly changing into a mindset of capturing post-sale revenue through service offerings. Servitization in manufacturing is all the rage now, and that’s because […]
Content Marketing, Inspire, Social Media
Going Viral: The Power of Native Videos in Social Media
You’re scrolling through your social media feed, more than likely late at night when you should be sleeping. It’s the usual stuff: news updates, too many selfies, a wordy rant about something you don’t care enough to read, and of course, an oddly specific advertisement about something you mentioned to someone earlier in the day. […]
An “Abridged” Look into the B2B Content Evolution
B2B marketing changes just as much as anything else. Despite what you might think, that change did not slow throughout the pandemic. At the beginning of 2020, we thought the world would come to a grinding halt. While true for some aspects of life and business, this halt didn’t apply across the board. B2B marketing […]
Do Androids Dream of Creating Content?
Imagine a future where artificially intelligent robots can analyze and replicate human behavior so perfectly that the robots themselves begin to believe they are actually human. This advanced technology would eventually make humans question whether they themselves are not simply robots programmed to believe they are human. Pretty trippy, right? This is the dystopian future […]
Content Marketing, Inspire, Social Media
The Value of User-Generated Content
Content takes on many forms – text, photos, video, podcasts, advertisements, and even all the billboards you see along the highway. Social media is comprised of platforms that contain just about all these forms of content (even photos of those highway billboards), but there’s something else that businesses and brands are taking advantage of that […]
Content Marketing, Digital Marketing, Inspire, Web
How To Put Your Best SEO Foot Forward
If they search it, they will come. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) may have fallen out of the marketing buzzword spotlight since its heyday, but putting your best foot forward to climb the search results ladder is still valuable marketing. Here are some common tips and misconceptions we’ve seen when it comes to boosting your SEO: […]
Content Marketing, Inspire, Visual Marketing
The Value of Short-Form Video
In 1969, filmmaker Marv Newland made history when he created the short film Bambi Meets Godzilla. The little cartoon has become an all-time classic in animation, running before and after movies in theaters across the U.S. and Canada throughout the 1970s and 1980s, subsequently seeing wide distribution on home video and spawning several sequels. What […]
Interactive Content: A Must for Encouraging Brand Loyalty Through Content Marketing
Led Zeppelin was ahead of its time in a lot of ways. When they released their iconic concert film and soundtrack The Song Remains the Same in 1976, they probably just thought they came up with a clever, quasi-abstract title. Certainly, they had no aspirations that it might be a quasi-applicable marketing analogy one day. […]
Content Marketing, Digital Marketing, Inspire, Marketing Automation, Strategic Marketing
The Ballad of “Always On” Marketing Campaigns
When it comes to executing a marketing campaign, there’s not always a good time to pause, or to shoo away customer acquisition at any stage. Unlike traditional, linear marketing campaigns which tend to focus on awareness, the intent of an “always on” (also known as “evergreen”) campaign is continually optimized to build engagement and retention. […]