How to Build a Marketing Strategy from Scratch (Without Any Employees) As an owner-operator business, it’s common to feel like you don’t have time for marketing. In reality, marketing is one of the most important hats you wear as a self-employed business owner. Marketing builds awareness of your company, generates leads, and convinces prospective customersContinue reading “How to Build a Marketing Strategy from Scratch”
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Create a Social Media Strategy
Use these steps to create a social media strategy. As social media and the social channels have grown in influencing buying decision, so too have the reasons to create a social an effective social media strategy. Using content, articles, video or online advertising, companies can potentially reach millions of buyers or potential consumers. It’s exciting toContinue reading “Create a Social Media Strategy”
Social Media Marketing Plan
A social media marketing plan should not pose any major challenges to a small business. As in any growing business with a great product or service, the marketing team or person is most likely to be working on different tasks at different times and these tasks can change rapidly depending on the business needs. However,Continue reading “Social Media Marketing Plan”
Inbound Marketing Strategy
Every business today needs an inbound marketing strategy. In the digital world nearly all marketing efforts are focused on actions like growing web traffic, increasing visitors, gathering sales leads, driving up conversions and securing buyers and customers. Inbound marketing strategies deliver on all the same marketing goals but in a different way. Traditional marketing orContinue reading “Inbound Marketing Strategy”
Why Customers Buy
Customers buy solutions to problems or solutions for outcomes they need to make their business or lives better. While pricing is important it usually ranks 3 or 4 on buyer’s criteria. Too many businesses rely on the assumption in the era of digital self-education that the most important thing to a customer is price. ButContinue reading “Why Customers Buy”
Marketing Plan
A marketing plan is a series of tactics that deliver agreed goals for the business First thing for any small business to note is that marketing plans do not have to be a complicated fifty page document. Marketing plans and go-to-marketing strategies may get more advanced and complicated as a business grows but for the vast majoritiesContinue reading “Marketing Plan”
Marketing Plan Template
Marketing plan template and guide The Bitter Business A marketing plan will help a business identify the markets, product to market fit, customers and competitors which underpins the strategy selection to make a business sustainable. ThisContinue reading “Marketing Plan Template”
Content Marketing Plan
As social media grows, the use of content marketing both as a social selling tool and as an audience engagement tool to acquire and retain customers has now taken centre stage within the marketing strategy. The great news is apart from time to preparing the content, content marketing is mostly free but there are someContinue reading “Content Marketing Plan”
Digital Marketing Strategy
Any Irish company with growth ambitions needs to have a digital marketing strategy in order to take advantage of the growing opportunities for sales, inbound lead generation, traffic and customers that digital marketing can generate. The internet is changing the buyer –supplier relationship, today businesses have to know that attention is a currency and socialContinue reading “Digital Marketing Strategy”
Lead Generation
Generating sales leads is a daily challenge for most companies and according to Forbes Magazine, more than 60% of the marketers polled in a recent marketing survey said their greatest marketing challenge for the year ahead was generating more sales leads to fuel the sales engine
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