In March 2012, marketing agency Cargo and Inc. Magazine found the majority (52%) of US small-business owners felt companies did not market to them effectively.
Moreover 43% – 45% of the small business owners said companies made little effort to understand their individual needs and their business.
Most of the...
A MarketingSherpa research found out that creating content is one of the most effective tactics for improving a website’s SEO.
User-Generated Content encountered for Organic search up to 10%, and lead conversion up 125%.
Companies who create content, operate a corporate blog and update it...
Successful companies use every possible communication channel to get in touch with their target audience. They are interested in what their recent and future customers are thinking and communicating about them.
This communication ability helps them to better understand and to serve their audience, which sets them apart from their competition and gives them wide advantages in their business field...
We all know them they request information or better a quote for products and services, you invest time and enthusiasm to help them and they do not come to the point or even to a deal!
When you have this kind of situation than a special sort of criminal is approaching your business, times thieve! 
But don’t panic and remain calm.
Sure he is not a real criminal in the sense of law, but he steals your valuable time, and time is money, so on the end of the day he steals you the opportunity to talk to a really interested future customer, right?
You protect your home from thieves but do you protect...
All successful businesses have one thing in common, they have great marketing and they care about their customers and restaurants are no exemption.
For a restaurant to get new guests the audience needs to know that you exist and what you have to offer. So you need to get found!
When you operate or just start a restaurant it can make sense to use Groupon for the first six months to help boost your reach so more people learn about your restaurant. But when the first six month are over you need to have a holistic strategy prepared to attract new guests to your restaurant and keep the...
When it comes to led generation than “nothing beats the inbound marketing strategy”!
Inbound marketing builds you trust before the sale. Means your audience learn about your business and your products before they are looking to buy from you and without pushing them.
This increases your chance they select your company when they are ready to purchase.
Studies from the past five years revealed that a seriously executed inbound marketing strategy...
BRANDfog found out that consumers and employees regard company leaders who engage on social media platforms positively.
Social media is a great way to showcase a C level executive’s personality and to offer a more personal insight view. C level executives have great opportunities to show personality to attract the right buyer persona and to get in touch with the right new future customer when this one is looking out for products and services.
Social media has become the most popular distribution channel, this is no secret. But still the most marketers rely on paid advertising nevertheless they can reach their audience in social media with no paid ads for a faction of the costs.
Advertising industry research firm Advertiser Perceptions found out that:
More than half (59%) of US marketers and agencies planned to increase their social media display ad spending on sites like Facebook in the next 12 months.
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Any B2B business can use social media as a source of unfiltered information and as powerful business intelligence tool to predict trends, for support and product development. Social media has proved in the past years that it can bring positive ROI when done right.
A recent study from Sagefrog Marketing Group shows how companies have learned to leverage social media.
Leveraging social media for branding and building awareness helps B2B companies.
Social Media has proven to be a source of targeted high quality leads for B2C and B2B. An increasing number of marketers see lead generation as their greatest online marketing challenge.
Marketers which experienced the business value of social media marketing know that social media is one of their most successful and cost effective marketing channels.
Studies show that companies which relying on online lead generation are two times more profitable than those who do not. Those companies achieve an up to 62% lower costs per lead.
In social media B2B marketers are focusing mostly on...
