Visitors use Google to find solutions many times a day. Search engines seek the answers. When a person enters a question, the search bot responds with answers they located. Search engines seek content that provides relevant, helpful answers to online questions. Quality SEO content is what Google wants. When you can’t find answers I recently […]
We get all caught up in categories. We get hung up on names like B2B and B2C. Instead, we need to focus on how to humanize marketing messages by speaking directly to our prospects. We need to write H2H. Humanizing marketing is making it personal so readers connect with us more easily. When our prospects […]
The face of marketing to B2B buyers is rapidly changing, and there is a lot of somewhat confusing information out there. After sifting through mountains of information, I found three keys B2B buyers desire when looking for a solution. In one sentence—B2B buyers want their experience to mirror their B2C personal shopping experiences. My own […]
Your business is constantly evolving. If you don’t keep your website on pace with those changes, it leaves customers in the dark—or even misinforms them. Your website is dated. Your website is not a static brochure. Instead, it is a living document reflecting your business and how you interact with visitors and customers. Current relevant information? […]
Familiar with the term Digital Sharecropping? It’s a phenomenon that most people don’t understand. An SEO guru colleague, Heather Lloyd-Martin shared a newsletter email regarding it and got me taking another look. Digital sharecropping refers to social media channels and how people and businesses interact with them. The earliest concerns about it date back to […]
Consumer and business demand are fueling massive growth opportunities in 2021. Get these four business team components in place to maximize your 2021 business growth. It's all about you and your teams. When many businesses or marketers think of growth, they focus on new products or divisions. But for real change, you need to start […]
Personalization is something companies like Amazon, Sephora, and Nike have trained us to expect. It’s no longer enough to be customer-centric. We want experiences— a positive customer experience. That goes beyond personalization. In this time of massive upheaval and uncertainty, we’re looking for easy. Things that simplify our lives. People want easier, healthier, safer, more […]
Vaccines and stimulus checks have people thinking of moving toward what we used to think of as normal. Vaccinated seniors are setting the trend to get even with the pandemic by spending money and getting out. They call it revenge spending. Attending events, going shopping, and travel are rising to the top of consciousness. People […]
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. […]
CLV is a Customer's Lifetime Value. It's how much they make you in the time that they stay a customer. Focusing on CLV means you keep them longer and have a higher ROI. Many business platforms are set up to allow an automated response for a purchase. To maximize the buying experience for the customer, […]