A new year usually means a sense of renewal for marketers, with a new budget and new objectives to achieve. But in the midst of the pandemic, a lot of us are asking what we can do to be effective right now. The truth is, none of us know. But, we can use demand generation … Continue reading Revisit, Re-evaluate, Reheat: Demand Generation Ideas for 2021
It’s not an overstatement to say that 2020 was a year of tremendous change. The pandemic rocked the foundations of every business and brought sweeping change to our personal lives. We saw the rapid acceleration of digital transformation, and large scale protests following the death of George Floyd. New data privacy laws took effect. Tech … Continue reading 2021 Digital Marketing Predictions from Top Consultants
Can anything stop the Facebook juggernaut? Despite almost four years of bad PR; a host of government inquiries into its practices; the pandemic and this past summer’s highly publicized #StopHateForProfit advertiser boycott, as an advertising platform Facebook is untarnished. While ad rates declined somewhere between 15-25 percent in March at the outset of the pandemic, … Continue reading 6 Tips for Improving Facebook Ad Performance Now
I recently conducted six social media audits in six weeks, for a mix of B2B and B2C companies across several industries, viewing 25 profiles across the major social channels. What does a social media audit entail? Everything from making sure profiles are up to date, to evaluating the quality of content and the level of … Continue reading 9 Ways to Move the Needle with Social Media
With over 20 years of experience in demand generation, I can normally use past learnings to help my clients shift their strategies and tactics to deal with market changes. But the COVID-19 pandemic? Nothing I’ve seen even came close to preparing me — or anyone else — for what to do next. Never have we … Continue reading How to Do Demand Gen During the Pandemic
So you’re ready to launch a digital marketing program. You’ve got a website with a CMS that is owned by marketing. You’ve got a hands-on digital marketing strategist on board, a design resource, and a data analyst to set up your basic measurement infrastructure, as we advised in part one of this series. You’ve checked … Continue reading How to Launch and Grow Your Digital Marketing Program
Now is a great time to launch a digital marketing program. Whether you’re a startup, or a mature company that has previously relied on PR and in-person events to generate sales, it should be very clear that digital has to be part of your marketing mix. With marketing budgets being reallocated from in-person events, and … Continue reading 8 Things You Need to Win at Digital Marketing
The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on the corporate events industry, with huge, iconic tradeshows and user conferences scheduled for the spring and early summer of 2020 being canceled or postponed in rapid order. These are conferences that are held in huge venues, with tens of thousands of attendees, hundreds of show booths and dozens … Continue reading How to Take Your Tradeshow or User Conference Virtual
Marketers across the world are in the mode of reevaluating their marketing strategies, taking into account the economic and emotional states of our target audiences as well as reduced budgets. As we do so, there’s an opportunity to reexamine both the mindset and the approach we take in our direct marketing — that which is … Continue reading An Opportunity for Mindful Direct Marketing
2019 was a busy year for digital marketing. Platforms rose and fell (Think TikTok and Snapchat). Privacy rules forced marketers to create inventive workarounds for using customer data. And, in the pursuit of capturing the total customer journey, marketers put extra focus on data analytics — maybe to their peril. We invited three top growth … Continue reading 3 Digital Marketing Experts Reflect on 2019 and Predict What’s in Store for 2020