Everything you put out there to attract more business is a message. The success of that message is getting someone to read it.  Much of the time, it misses the mark. It doesn’t get read because it's hard to read.  Readable quality is critical for sales. When a message is hard to read, it actually causes […]

Are you at risk of becoming a dinosaur? Customers are tired of the transactional approach. A transaction focus is business-centric.  Spending more time online in 2020 buyers started getting more picky. They want their shopping experience to be easy and feel good. In 2021 and moving forward, every business needs to become more customer-centric. Internet […]

The entourage effect impacts many aspects of our lives. The CBD niche has highjacked the term to mean how the different plant parts work together.  However, the word entourage is not new. It actually traces back to a French term dating from 1832 meaning surroundings or environment.  The French were referring to a group of […]

Many companies are marketing both to wholesale and consumer customers. In reality, for marketing, B2B and B2C are unique businesses.  Trying to mix them on a single website can send the wrong message and cost you money. You can do anything if you keep it simple. Someone told me that once at a trade show. […]

To maximize your business success in 2021, you need to look at how you connect with your prospects and customers.  Think of them as family, treat them as the best possible version of a family. It’s about building relationships first. I recently had an experience on a social media channel that you might have had […]

Readable copy is a big key to sales!  People today don’t want to wade through information that reads like a dull textbook.  Most of us skim-read, instead of word for word. We are such multitaskers and so many choices that we aren’t patient with reading.  Recently, I received an email promoting a new product from […]

Women buyers are magic to drive sales. Nearly 75% identify themselves as the primary buyer in their household. They hold the purse-strings to between 5 and 15 Trillion dollars in spending every year...and that’s just in the US.  And yet, 91% of them feel marketers and companies, don’t understand their needs. That’s a big gap. […]

We have been dealing with the pandemic for seven months. New research numbers are starting to emerge. Key is the shift in the customer mindset. This impacts our society, our businesses, and our marketing. One thing for sure...we aren’t past this.  We’re intra-pandemic.   All the marketing guides prior to the pandemic are out the window...useless.   […]

Consistently creating quality content is something every business needs to do. It keeps the customers and prospects happy, the search engines happy...and SEO ratings up.   Great content helps your customers and validates your market position.  However, repurposing content that's been there for a while, can accomplish many of the same things. In addition, it can […]

Creating valuable content is a great way to enhance your readership and the way search engines rank you.  However if you’re doing it all yourself, it can be overwhelming to get volume out there. Curated content allows you to get more volume out there and make search engines happy.   In my copywriting marketing, I meet […]