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How to: Build a referral outreach program
When you think of your target audience, do you think consumers? For many product-focused businesses, the buyer or consumer of your...
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Multi-Channel Marketing: How to carry strategic messaging across multiple channels
“Marketing” is a broad term that some define as anything you do to promote and sell your products or services. As a marketer, I try to...
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Annual Planning – The Key to a Successful New Year
We know many people are ready to say goodbye to 2020, but don’t rush the year away before planning for 2021. After everything this year...
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Event marketing nay-sayers: is it time to rethink virtual events?
Here we are, five months into a global pandemic, and virtual meetings are our lifeline to keeping business – and arguably life – running...
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First steps to developing an engaging B2B email newsletter
We’ve talked about hearing from companies that they struggle with marketing their self-proclaimed boring business, and a lot of these...
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Ask these 5 questions before you hire a marketing agency
Brands choose to work with us for a number of reasons – to assess and fine tune the look and feel of their brand, to leverage their...
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4 big lessons we’ve learned from Covid and BLM in a few short months
If you’re paying attention, you know that the worlds of public relations and marketing are already different from what they were in...
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Should you outsource your marketing or keep it in-house?
Some companies are intimidated by the idea of hiring an outside marketing agency. Many believe they don’t need outside support because...
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The Marketing Audit: What. Why. How?
Q1 is a great time to stop, take a close look at your marketing and communications efforts, measure and reflect. Even the most robust and...
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How to get your story covered by local TV
As an integrated firm, PR is a big part of our day-to-day work for clients. We’re often asked if a client’s idea will interest a local TV...
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It’s annual planning season…the hap-happiest season of all
It’s October. Q1 will be here in a flash. Now is the time for budgeting, planning and getting 2020 in order. ‘Tis the season for helping...
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How to measure your PR program’s effectiveness
The ROI of public relations has been elusive for many communications pros, mainly because returns on a brand awareness investment have...
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Email Marketing: Dinosaur or Superhero?
We all know the basics of old-school email marketing: drip, drip, drip. Email fatigue. Unsubscribe. We’re often asked by clients: is...
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Recruiting marketing: reach and engage candidates in a digital reality
As a company, you spend a lot of time marketing to your buyers. As marketers, we spend a lot of time figuring out the best ways to reach...
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Are you strategic about your referral network?
You have a strategy for reaching prospective clients. What about for reaching your referral sources? For many B2B professionals, referral...
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Is co-branding your content a good idea?
Partnering with another professional expert can be a powerful way to not only demonstrate your expertise, but to vastly expand your reach...
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The anatomy of a broadcast ad that sells
Anyone can write a script for a broadcast ad. It’s only 30 seconds of copy…how hard can it be? The truth is, the less time you have to...
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Who cares? Your target audience does, once you find them
What good is a compelling message if doesn’t reach the right audience? Many businesses and organizations make two common mistakes when...
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What’s the Difference Between Marketing and Business Development?
Marketing. Business Development. I hear these words used interchangeably all the time. If you want more business, everything you do to...
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The power of the call-to-action: How to give your prospects turn-by-turn directions
Remember the days of taking road trips with actual maps? I’ll never forget making the trip back to college from Maine to Pennsylvania...
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