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28th of February, 2025
In: Advertising/Targeting, Branding, Content Marketing, Social Media
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What to Look for During Quarterly Digital Audits image

The beginning of a new year is a prime time for year-end reviews. For many businesses, it’s the time to review annual budgets, expenditures, goals and traffic, and for good reason. There’s nothing like looking back to look forward, since it helps business owners reflect on strengths and weaknesses and figure out where to lean in or pivot for the year ahead. Where some businesses go wrong, however, is making the start of a new year the only time they do a check-in. When it comes to their digital presence in particular, business owners would do well to make dedicated time for review sessions not once a year, but every single quarter (at a minimum). The digital space is changing ...

28th of February, 2025
In: Advertising/Targeting, Branding, Content Marketing
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The Power of Free image

Who doesn’t love getting things for free? But when brands give out freebies, they’re rarely actually free for the brand. So how do you make sure you’re getting a return on investment if you’re not getting paid? We’ve compiled a list of tips for how to do freebies right. Give Away Something of Actual Value Chances are that people won’t remember you if you give them a free pen with your company’s name on it. But if you host a raffle for product samples or for a free hour of your services? That’s a different story. Potential customers are more likely to become customers when they’ve received a taste of what they’re missing. Add Urgency to Your Offer People respond best to freebies ...

How (and Why) to Create Your Perfect Brand Voice image

If you want to know why brand voice matters to your company’s success, just remember the chicken sandwich wars. Back in the distant social media past of 2019, Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen launched a chicken sandwich. Chick-fil-A apparently took exception to this, tweeting what the New York Times called “a thinly veiled critique” of the new offering. Thus, the first salvo of the chicken sandwich wars was fired. Within 15 minutes, Popeyes’ Twitter account returned fire with the now-immortal words “…y’all good?” The tweet went viral, leading to such massive demand for the new Popeyes sandwich that lines formed around the block at local Popeyes restaurants and the company eventually had to concede it had simply run out of the popular offering. While creating ...

21st of October, 2024
In: Advertising/Targeting, Branding, Content Marketing
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How to Keep Your Travel Content Fresh in 2025 image

The end of the year is somehow fast approaching already, so if you’re in the travel industry, now is a great time to plan your content for the 2025 travel season. To help you out, we’ve compiled some emerging travel trends from around the web — and offered some thoughts on how to approach those trends creatively in your content. Focus on Greater Health (and Less Booze) For years now, there has been a growing trend, especially among younger people, to take better care of their bodies. A trademark example of this trend is the phenomenon of shrinking alcohol consumption, especially among the younger generations. While many tourism destinations are rightfully proud of their microbreweries and distilleries (and there is great value ...

24th of July, 2024
In: Advertising/Targeting, Content Marketing
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Get Better Engagement, More Conversions With Targeted Emails image

You already know that email marketing is key to reaching your customers. But do you have the right targeting system in place to reach the people who are actually most likely to buy from you? Here are just a few targeting filters you should consider implementing to ensure you’re reaching your optimal audience: Location: Do you want to reach only people in your city or county? Or people within a day’s drive? Age: Is your ideal audience young and single, just starting a family or on the verge of retirement? Income: Do you only want to reach people over a certain income threshold? Lifestyle interests: Maybe your product or service is something that mainly appeals to, say, homeowners or hobby ...

How to Leverage LinkedIn for Your Business image

The professional social media platform can be a major asset for your business if you use it right. Ever since LinkedIn became “cool” again, there’s been more of a focus on the social networking platform — and not just for individual use. The career-centric site has long been a place for people to post job updates and company moves, but that’s far from all it does. For businesses with an eye on expanding their presence and fostering community connections, LinkedIn is the place to be. That being said, it’s far from a free-for-all when it comes to brand presence on the platform. Here’s what you can do right now to leverage LinkedIn for your business. 1 | Set Up a LinkedIn Page Let’s ...

24th of April, 2024
In: Advertising/Targeting, Graphic Design
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You Shouldn’t Let AI Design Your Ads. Here’s Why. image

With the much-discussed advent of generative AI — artificial intelligence that can produce various kinds of content based on prompts from a user — it’s become easier than ever to plug your information into an algorithm and let it do the work for you. But should you? It’s true that AI is constantly learning and getting smarter. But the truth of the matter is that, for now, AI tools still struggle with creating certain kinds of imagery — for example of human hands and feet. Then there’s the fact that AI learns by scraping existing information off the internet. What this means in practice is that any kind of design AI creates for you is going to be based on something ...

Grow Your Business With Full-Funnel Digital Marketing image

I’m sure you’ve heard at least one or two people talk about digital marketing, and maybe you’ve heard mention of a decision-making sales funnel too. But how are the two related and what do they mean for your business? The sales funnel is a way of visualizing a potential customer’s decision process. At the top of the funnel, you have customers researching a vague problem and discovering potential solutions. In the middle of the funnel are customers who have defined their problem and the sort of solution they need. At the bottom are customers who are ready to make an informed purchasing decision. Ideally, you want customers to discover your brand as a potential solution for their problem right at the ...

16th of October, 2023
In: Advertising/Targeting, Content Marketing
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SEM: What Is It, and How Does It Fit Into Your Digital Marketing Plan? image

Search engine marketing, often referred to by its acronym SEM, is a way for businesses to appear higher in search engine results. While search engine optimization (SEO) is an organic digital marketing strategy (meaning it creates traffic to your business over time rather than using paid methods), SEM is a “pay-per-click” (PPC) method of advertising in search engines. PPC means that a business will pay anytime a consumer clicks on their search engine listing. SEM involves identifying keyword phrases and trends in a target market and utilizing those keywords to show your advertisements on search engine results pages via Google Ads, Bing Ads, etc. It’s important to understand your audience and use pertinent keywords so that the most relevant consumers are ...

31st of July, 2023
In: Advertising/Targeting, Content Marketing
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Think Visitor Guides Are Dead? Think Again image

While consumers do turn to the internet for much of their information about travel destinations, printed guides remain relevant in the digital age. For example, a Destination Analysts study has found that more than 50% of U.S. travelers consult printed materials before making travel decisions. That said, you still need to find a way to help your publication (and destination) stand out from the pack. Here are three tips for doing just that. Embrace Magazine-Style Writing While newspapers have been losing readers, magazine readership has held strong, with the total number of magazine readers in the U.S. remaining above 220 million every year between 2016 and 2020. And when it comes to travel, research by the University of Massachusetts Amherst demonstrates that travel ...

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