When you have a vast product line or offer many services in different niches, how do you know which part of the business you should invest in? You need to be able to make business and marketing strategy decisions on these regularly. And this may involve knowing when to grow a business unit or when […]
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You obviously want your brand to stand out from the crowd. And that crowd is an ever-growing mix of competitors, alternatives, and even aggregators. As a product or service, you try to be relevant, useful, and viable. From a brand perspective, you fight with the competitors or alternatives for space. You try and carve out
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If something published in the 1950s is still in use today to plan growth strategies, you can be assured of its usefulness. Published in the Harvard Business Review in 1957 by Igor Ansoff, in an article titled “Strategies for Diversification”, the Product-Market matrix was revolutionary for its time and effective nearly seven decades later. Popularly
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Psychology and marketing have been intertwined for decades! As a result, brands have tapped into the power of understanding human behavior. You have seen them use emotions to further their own interests time and again. And that has unfortunately led to some situations where businesses exploit their understanding of data to take advantage of their
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You have definitely heard variations of quotes stemming from the “Content is King” declaration. In some ways, content is not just king, but almost the entire kingdom now. A robust and clear content marketing plan for your brand is now the backbone of most long-term marketing strategies. Content creation has become increasingly easy. You can
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You don’t need to know much about marketing, strategy or even business to have heard about the 7P marketing mix. And if you still weren’t aware. Then you can easily apply logic to understand there are always factors affecting how products and services are marketed. The marketing mix is a favorite for marketers when designing
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Marketing communications have evolved from being one-sided broadcast advertising. Now, the goal is to have genuine conversations between your brand and customers. A huge contributor to that evolution has been the evolution of the buyer’s journey or customer journey. As a marketer, you need to truly understand how you can deliver the most value to
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The days of simple segmentation of audiences and customers seem irreplaceably over. This means brands and organizations have to dig deeper. Why? To understand how they can meet their customers. How? By creating customer personas. But, how does that help? The brand needs to be at the forefront, in the minds and hearts of their
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SEO is great, but local listings rank even higher on search result pages. This is why you should use the gift of web directories to get noticed online.
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The evolution of marketing has taken it from being conversion-driven to experience-driven. The marketing funnel has since been extended to take the shape of a marketing hourglass that encompasses a broader understanding of the consumer journey.
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You can increase the chances of attaining your goals and objectives and by making them “SMARTER”. Here’s how you do that.
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A tried and tested way to develop marketing strategies and tactics based on external factors and internal capabilities.
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Assessment of your business environment provides the basis for any marketing strategy. A thorough marketing environmental analysis is the beginning for creating your marketing plans.
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