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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.

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.

Figuring out how to say less, create less noise, and become more deliberate with your messaging, audiences, and targeting, is about learning to listen better as a marketer. The depth and amplification of your marketing can be achieved by listening more to what consumers are saying and less on the quantity of advertising. Let’s explore why every marketer should be a better listener, and how they can do this.

Many believe that great leaders are born or rise to the occasion, but with such a need for leadership ever-present in business, government, and the NFP sector the question hangs, can great leaders be created?

Creating an Instagram ads campaign can be a profitable marketing strategy when it comes to promoting your brand. With over 1.074 billion users worldwide in 2021 and users spending an average of 53 minutes per day on the site, it pays to use Instagram in your social media marketing strategy. However, with Instagram’s popularity comes dense competition and there’s no point creating an Instagram ads campaign if you are not sure who your target audience is, where they are based, and most importantly, what they are likely to respond to.

There are many steps that a marketer must go through before even thinking about creating the content for their Instagram ads campaign. Conducting thorough market research before this will help ensure your campaign is cost-effective and highly precise. In this post, we will outline the key stages to designing a highly precise Instagram ads campaign:

These days it seems that Twitter functions as little more than a platform to cyberbully celebrities.

For marketers, Twitter offers very little utility in generating qualified leads, with only fleeting opportunities for genuine engagement.

“It’s not what you sell that matters as much as how you sell it”- Brian Halligan, CEO & Co-Founder of HubSpot.

Marketers and Sales Representatives are two jobs that are essential to the successful operation of any growing business. While Sales representatives offer a more tangible contribution to achieving your bottom line, marketers coordinate a number of intangible associations surrounding an entire brand that, organizing public relations and media exposure activities, running advertising campaigns to develop a greater awareness of the products on offer, and employing a range of monitoring tools to provide quantitative results. In short, both roles impact leads and revenue with one more focused on building a transactional customer relationship, while the other is focused on managing.

Good marketing goes hand in hand with good selling and while both roles serve their own purpose, here is why being a marketer is just as important as being a Sales Rep.

Today, email marketing stands as one of the most effective tools in your marketing arsenal, but only if you know how to use it correctly.