Marketing Next Practices Blog
Social Ads Coming Soon to WhatsApp
Marketers need to begin preparing for WhatsApp advertising. Facebook is all set to start cashing in on the massive popularity of its free messaging application. With 1.5 billion total users and 450 million daily active users worldwide, you had to know it was bound to...
7 Sell Sheet Tactics to Get Your New Product Noticed
After you’ve had your “Aha” moment and created a new product or service, now the hard work begins. As an entrepreneur or product developer you need to attract interest from a potential licensee or investor to garner support for your new product or service. This is...
6 Tips for Creating Compelling Email Content
The American Marketing Association’s (AMA) publication, Marketing News, recently included the results of an informal poll that identified four tactics marketers plan to stop using in 2019. Guess what tactic wasn’t on the list? Email marketing. It remains a staple for...
What Does Your Digital Footprint Say About Your Company?
People are Googling your business. And while this may seem like an obvious statement, it brings up the topic of how your business is being promoted on digital platforms. Marketing has moved fast and furiously into the digital space. It has seen rapid growth and...
Do You Need to Hire an SEO Consultant in 2019?
Are you wondering if it is necessary to hire an SEO consultant in 2019? Regardless of the size of your company, incorporating good SEO tactics can give you a significant advantage over your competition. Small businesses tend not to hire SEO strategists. This is...
Building a Personal Brand Online
One of the reasons why the internet is awesome is because you can use the platform to build your personal brand. While there are clear pathways for people who want to become lawyers and doctors, this isn't the case for people in creative fields like art and comedy....
The Complete Guide To Micro-Conversions Exploring The What, Why & The How Aspects
A website has become inevitable for a brand as it's the primary asset to optimize the sales funnel and allow entrepreneurs to maximize conversions. But when thinking of conversions, do you envision a customer in the final stage of making payment to purchase your...
How to Identify Your Competitors And Spy on their Marketing Tactics
If you think about it, it’d be great if all marketing plans include competitive research strategies. After all, your competition is exerting tons of effort to take business away from you. This is especially true if they’re a well-established business with a strong...
To Pin or Not to Pin?
The past year social media has seemed to be dominated by likes of Facebook (for both good and not-so-good reasons), Instagram, and Snapchat. While these platforms spurred the trend toward video content, marketers have since continued to leverage this format throughout...
How Screen Recording Software Can Help Grow Your Online Business
In today's online retail market it takes much more than just getting customers to land on your website. You not only need customers to land on your website, but you need them to complete certain tasks on your website. Depending on the type of business that you are...
Micro-Vertical Marketing Guide
Prior to Micro-Vertical Marketing, there was Vertical Market Development, a mature and proven marketing approach or process defined as marketing activities that target and communicate with decision makers in specific/defined market segments. More recently,...
Email Marketing Automation Is All About Grow and Flow
Email marketing needs to be all about automation in 2019. Why? Because small business owners need it as part of their marketing mix and they need to handle it in a way that saves them time. Research drives this point home as a 2019 Infusionsoft Small Business...
Maximizing Mobile with Targeting and Personalization
Adults in the U.S. are expected to spend on average three and half hours on non-voice mobile media, and about 70 percent of their media time and 90 percent of their social media time on their smartphones. It’s settled then, right? You understand that mobile marketing...
6 Common Content Marketing Missteps
Most companies today would probably say they are involved in content marketing. The problem is many might also qualify this as an On Again/Off Again relationship or a Go Big/Fade Away relationship. I’m sure we can all relate… Writing a blog post once a month or so,...
Meet Customers Where They Live With Mobile Marketing
The mobile marketing space continues to expand and mature, encompassing everything from search engine optimization and marketing to text messaging to display ads. Many companies simply cannot afford to be left out in the cold when it comes to leveraging mobile...
6 Word of Mouth Marketing Tactics For Creating Compelling Conversation
Organic is good, right? Today everything from food to house cleaners to mattresses are better if they’re organic. That goes for marketing too. We’re talking about word of mouth marketing, the organic way of spreading information through natural channels – A.K.A....
It’s Time to Say “Thank You”
The year is winding down, but your marketing efforts don’t need to dwindle. Now’s the perfect time to let your customers know you appreciate all their 2018 business. You don’t even need a big budget for a “Thank You” marketing campaign, just a big heart. There are of...
Alexa: Develop a Branded Voice Experience for My Company
Brands looking for new ways too engage customers may find potential in creating branded voice experiences on Amazon’s Alexa, Google Home, Apple’s Siri, and Microsoft’s Cortana. You don’t want to miss an opportunity and not enter the voice-enabled world that seems to...
Shake Up Your Marketing in 2019
Year-end is often a time for reflection on the past year, along with planning for the new year. So why not marketing? How were results measured? What are specific plans for the year ahead? How can you “shake up” your marketing with a focus on results? Your friends...
Healthcare Marketing Looks to Bolster Healthcare Literacy Awareness
Healthcare marketing efforts throughout the United States remain focused on addressing healthcare literacy in 2019. Large national studies have demonstrated that approximately one third of adult Americans have limited health literacy and describe feeling uncomfortable...
