“This is the BEST marketing tactic if you want to grow your company.” You’ve probably heard that line before, maybe hundreds of times. It seems everyone is telling you that they have the best solution if you want to drive phenomenal business growth, doesn’t it? And you’ve probably tried a few of those solutions – maybe more than a few.…
If you want greater success in business, you may want to consider where your focus is. Focusing on pain points could be affecting your bottom line negatively. You read that right. Your focus on addressing pain points may be costing you opportunities and income. Why? Because while your product or service might offer a solution for the pain your clients…
Productization is the process of taking a skill or service that has been used internally and developing it into a standard, fully-tested, packaged, and marketed product. It results in a cohesive, repeatable offering or set of offerings that solve a business problem for your customers. The offerings can be created to accommodate a degree of customization to make them even…
Peter Drucker once said that “The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic.” Drucker could not possibly have envisioned the turbulence we are experiencing today, yet his words are very applicable. If you have not started to strategically examine and realign your marketing, you might want to do so now.…
Lead generation is killing your business. Yes, you read that right. It’s true. Here’s how, and what to do about it. Lead generation is a reactive process for finding prospective buyers, creating a relationship, and converting as many as possible to customers. It relies on knowing that someone already has a pain point that your offerings can solve. And that…
Recent studies have shown that a focus on lead generation reduces the effectiveness of marketing efforts for all sizes of company, across all industries. That may seem counterintuitive, but it’s true. To generate closed and repeat business, it is essential to prioritize developing relationships and authentically representing the brand. A catchy or slick campaign, great lead magnet, or memorable elevator…
You’re spending more and more on marketing every month. Your Cost Per Lead (CPL) and Cost Per Acquisition (CPA) are going up, but lead generation and the number of conversions are dropping. These are all signs of a single issue: Your marketing strategy is failing! The strategy you initially created may have worked when your company was new, but what…
Chat GPT, BARD, and artificial intelligence are changing the face of marketing. But what are some best practices for the use of artificial intelligence that business leaders need to know?
Many smaller companies developed their offerings when the company first opened. But they don’t always revisit their products on a routine basis, and they are not necessarily as engaged in product improvement as they need to be. In the competitive markets we find ourselves in today, it’s important to keep pace with shifts in the market and changes that may…
As a small business owner you’re probably always looking for ways to improve the results you get from your marketing. Many business owners don’t feel that they are getting enough leads or that the leads they are getting are not closing as often as they should. These can be among the first signs that a marketing tactic is not doing…