Brands must break down online and offline silos to meet consumer expectations. As the old adage goes, A rising tide lifts all boats. The same principle applies to effective consumer marketing. A powerful broadcast campaign can multiply the impact of other marketing activities, from increasing your website and search traffic to boosting your social media engagement and public relations buzz. Savvy marketers have realized this for years and deployed multimedia strategies to take advantage of
Who Will Build Your Next Website?
I had a great conversation with a transitioning veteran today who was eager to dive into development. He was disappointed because he was applying for junior front-end developer jobs throughout the region but walked away feeling unqualified and defeated. I encouraged him that the issue wasn’t his qualifications, the issue was confusion within our industry. For the last two decades, I’ve sat on all sides of the online marketing wall – including consulting on and
Three Apps You Need to Run Your Ecommerce Business Efficiently
There are so many ecommerce retailers out there – and you’re one of them. You are in it for the long haul. As such, you need to be able to compete with the best of the hundreds of thousands of online stores currently on the Internet today. But how do you do that? You need to make sure your website is as appealing as possible. If it is poorly designed, does not have a great name,
Design Thinking: Applying Rose, Bud, Thorn Activities to Marketing
This week has been quite exciting as I’ve been working with some enterprise consultants from Salesforce and another company to see how I can improve strategy sessions for their customers. A huge gap in our industry right now is that companies often have the budget and resources, sometimes have the tools, but often lack the strategy to kick off an appropriate execution plan. One application that they take on the road to virtually every customer
UserTesting: On-Demand Human Insights to Improve the Customer Experience
Modern marketing is all about the customer. In order to succeed in a customer-centric market, companies must focus on the experience; they must empathize with and listen to customer feedback to continually improve the experiences they create and deliver. Companies that embrace human insights and get qualitative feedback from their customers (and not just survey data) are able to better relate to and connect with their buyers and customers in more meaningful ways. Collecting human