What is video content marketing? This form of marketing is simply adding engaging videos to your marketing strategy. This is integral to modern day marketing, as videos are a growing social media trend due to their engaging nature and ensuing success in achieving sales. In the digital era, it is essential for businesses to be up-to-date with the most effective and successful forms of marketing trends. Video marketing is expected to be a permanent trend and therefore essential marketing technique for your company’s tool kit. Research exposes that 74% of consumers that view an online video explaining a product end up purchasing it. It would be impractical in the digital era to not include videos in your marketing campaign.
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We have all attended a meeting or consult at one point in our lives. At times, these meetings can leave some of us wanting to eliminate, shorten, or even improve the quality of the meeting – especially when the goal of the meeting is not being met. This is no different to a marketing consultation.
Whether you are an experienced or new marketing consultant looking for tips to help you reach your next level of growth and success, this post will provide you with 10 tips for maximizing your consultancy time.
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There are no two ways about it. Email marketing is one of the most popular, cost-effective and highest performing marketing channels currently available. A recent eMarketer study shows that the average ROI of email marketing is 122%. The ROI of email marketing is approximately four times higher than its next closest competitor. Every study shows us that email marketing is performing well and looks to remain the case for years to come.
When hiring a new marketing professional in your organization, you must think a little differently. The same can be said about the marketer you are hiring.
High performing marketers have certain traits and a mindset conducive to success. What that looks like is more similar than you may think.
While it may be scary starting a new role and learning the ropes, it can also be your biggest opportunity to star in a show that you take center stage.
With the current economic climate and the change in sentiment towards working, like many other companies we have felt that there has been a reduction in the number of available good talent in the Atlanta market.
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The world of accounting is ripe for disruption with recent reports from a Sage Survey acknowledging that being "reactive" the most common complaint of small to medium sized businesses with their accounting services providers.
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With more than 8,000 martech companies in America today, it’s become abundantly clear that the competitive advantage every business is looking for is being sought from the technology sector masterstrokes.
The current landscape between financial services firms and their customers remains precarious and dubious, to say the least. Firms are having to navigate boundaries that stand between complete transparency and understanding to develop symbiotic relationships with their customers. Digital marketing helps to bridge the gap between these firms and their customers – something that has been realized and become increasingly essential to firms all over the world amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
Read on further to learn about 5 powerful and proven digital marketing strategies for any financial service firm.
When you look at financial services firms, the first thing that comes to mind is accounting, financial planning, legal and management consulting firms. Although the breadth of professional services firms is much greater than that and includes marketing and recruitment, it’s our financial and legal counterparts that really struggle to stand out from the crowd.
Atlanta has become one of the biggest hubs for technology companies in North America - with good reason. Not only is the city a great place to do business, it also has an abundance of talent, affordable real estate and cost of living.
With so many technology company startups, the need for out-of-the-box marketing solutions that help brands stand out from the crowd is heightened. "If you always do, what you've always done..." you may not have clients moving forward.
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Content marketing is constantly changing, and so are the interests of consumers. While it's easy to get caught up in experimenting with new materials, it's also critical that we keep track of how our audience reacts to shared content. If you're looking for new ways to engage your target audience and keep them engaged, our four essential tips below can help you achieve this.
As restrictions have been brought upon us, almost everything has been temporarily shifted to the digital world. In early 2020 as you know COVID-19 was reported, and since then, we’ve had to adjust to new unprecedented ways to live.
Working remotely has become the new norm, and face-to-face contact has been shifted to the cyberspace world. This global pandemic has forced us to change the way we interact on a personal and business level. Who would have thought that going to work would be as easy as rolling out of bed and working from home? Work meetings, job interviews, events, and even shopping are all done online with just a click of a button. Businesses are now forced to turn to webinars and virtual events to showcase and expand their reach. So, the question lies here, ‘what will events marketing look like in 2022?’
You see, many things are constantly changing in the world, and we as marketers need to be ahead of the game and adjust to current trending marketing landscapes.
Read more about: What Will Event Marketing Look Like in 2022? → Working remotely has become the new norm, and face-to-face contact has been shifted to the cyberspace world. This global pandemic has forced us to change the way we interact on a personal and business level. Who would have thought that going to work would be as easy as rolling out of bed and working from home? Work meetings, job interviews, events, and even shopping are all done online with just a click of a button. Businesses are now forced to turn to webinars and virtual events to showcase and expand their reach. So, the question lies here, ‘what will events marketing look like in 2022?’
You see, many things are constantly changing in the world, and we as marketers need to be ahead of the game and adjust to current trending marketing landscapes.
When you go to college you learn two things 1) There’s a deadline for everything 2) If you start something, you need to finish it.
In truth, you learn a lot more than that, but these two points are a given. They also relate to life, work and for those Instagrammers, “living your best life”.
Each day I talk to entrepreneurs and business leaders. They tend to ‘like’ their marketing managers but there is one common thread that always comes out of their mouths. “I don’t know what they do and whether it works or not.”
For business leaders and entrepreneurs, uncertainty doesn’t sit well. It nags at them like this irritating voice in their head that never shuts up especially when sales are down, or everything isn’t going to plan.
Many entrepreneurs and business leaders do not function well in uncertain situations and find them stressful and distressing.
The past 18 months has been a blur for many of us, particularly if we have been working from home. Waking up each morning, brushing our teeth and hopping on a Zoom call usually takes us up until lunch. Then after a quick Netflix show and a few more Zoom meetings, it's time to try our skills in the kitchen.
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Being afraid for your job can be deliberating. It can create the wrong type of mindset where marketers are afraid to make the wrong choice or stop progress due to the fear of their job becoming redundant.
After interviewing more than 30 marketers over the past few months, it has become apparent that the biggest issue that marketers are facing is their ability to keep their jobs and remain secure, when in fact, the whole industry was built on risk.
Risky marketing tactics that paid dividends made entrepreneurs such as Richard Branson, Elon Musk and Steve Jobs. Nike didn’t hold back when they called out golf courses that had bans on certain ethnic groups playing on their courses with Tiger Woods advertising campaign, and again with BLM campaigns that cut through the clutter and while they may have offended a few, the marketing campaigns paid dividends.