Author: Daniel Page

  • What Is Wokewashing, and How Can Your Brand Avoid It?

    What Is Wokewashing, and How Can Your Brand Avoid It?

    Marketing and politics can no longer be kept separate from one another. Maybe they never could. Either way, brands have woken up to the fact that modern consumers desire more than simply a product.

    They want a brand that actually has principles and values. In a recent report by PR agency 5WPR, 83 percent of millennial respondents want companies whose values align with their own, and 76 percent believe executives should speak out on issues they care about. 

    Moreover, a further 65 percent said they have boycotted a brand that didn’t share their beliefs on an issue, while 62 percent favor products that allow them to show off these beliefs. 

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  • 3 Things to Remember About Seasonal Marketing

    3 Things to Remember About Seasonal Marketing

    Most businesses are impacted by changing seasons. People are less likely to buy products such as sunscreen during winter, for instance. There likely won’t be much interest in Christmas during Spring. 

    For some organizations, however, the seasons almost entirely dictate their profits, and ultimately their success or failure. Airlines and hotels, for instance, see a significant boost during vacation times, and many tourist agencies are suffering greatly as a result of the novel coronavirus. It’s important to understand where you fall on this scale.

    Are there certain times of the year during which you experience a huge boom, whilst others are much slower? Or do you manage to bring in plenty of business year-round?

    Armed with this understanding, you should create a marketing strategy that capitalizes on the time of year, leveraging imagery that resonates with your audience and tapping into your busiest seasons. 

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  • 3 Major Mistakes Businesses Make With Pay per Click Ads

    3 Major Mistakes Businesses Make With Pay per Click Ads

    In case you haven’t already heard of it, pay per click advertising is an ad model where a business only pays if a customer clicks on one of their ads. It’s most popularly known through the Google Ads platform, which distributes advertisements across Google’s myriad properties. How it works is fairly simple.

    First, an advertiser determines what keywords they want to target, based on what’s likeliest to bring in qualified leads. They can also add negative keywords so they aren’t paying for clicks from people who aren’t sales prospects. You then bid against other competing advertisers on your keywords – whoever puts in more money per click gets a higher placement and, consequently, more clicks. 

    It seems pretty simple, right? 

    Unfortunately…it’s not. There’s actually a fairly steep learning curve in PPC advertising, a wealth of pitfalls that can see you wasting a ton of money for relatively little gain. 

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  • Why Fake Authenticity is a Road to Disaster for Your Brand

    Why Fake Authenticity is a Road to Disaster for Your Brand

    Authenticity is a critical driver of modern marketing. 

    When a brand makes an effort to be transparent in everything it does, people notice. They appreciate a business that they feel they can trust, and direct their spending and loyalty accordingly. By that same vein, if it turns out that authenticity is in any way not genuine? 

    There will be backlash, and it will be significant.

    As noted in the 2020 Gustavson Brand Trust Index, consumer trust in brands is now at an all-time low. People are more skeptical than they’ve ever been. They simply do not believe that businesses have their best interests in mind any longer.

    Trust, in other words, is hard one. And once lost, it’s nearly impossible to regain. This is in no way helped by the constant barrage of high-profile data breaches and privacy violations in the media – from questionable data management practices to downright unethical activities, many businesses are being cast in an extremely unflattering light.

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  • 3 Marketing Mistakes You Need to Avoid During COVID-19

    3 Marketing Mistakes You Need to Avoid During COVID-19

    The coronavirus has changed the world in unprecedented ways. Schools have closed. Graduation ceremonies are canceled. Hundreds of thousands of people have lost their jobs, homes, and even loved ones. The global economy sits in an uncertain, and unpredictable place

    Even if you believe the pandemic is over and we can begin reopening, we’re still going to be recovering from the financial and emotional impact of the pandemic for a very long time. That, more than anything, seems to be the thing businesses are forgetting. As a result, many marketing campaigns are reacting to 

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  • Here’s What You Need to Know About Featured Snippets

    Here’s What You Need to Know About Featured Snippets

    Small boxes of text that appear at the top of the search engine results page, featured snippets are an effort by Google to provide users with a clear, concise answer to their questions – one that doesn’t require them to click through to the result.

    On the surface, that may seem a bit counterproductive. After all, isn’t getting people to access your website the whole reason for doing search engine optimization? If someone doesn’t even click on your site, how does having a featured snippet help you? 

    In a few ways.

    First, featured snippets appear in what’s known as position zero on the SERP. Indeed, they always precede the first link on the page. Consequently, this means they’re the very first thing a user sees. Therefore, this goes an incredibly long way towards building brand recognition.

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  • 3 Signs Your Company’s Efforts on Social Media are Failing (And How To Fix It)

    3 Signs Your Company’s Efforts on Social Media are Failing (And How To Fix It)

    First, social media is a very powerful marketing tool. It helps you understand your audience. Also, it lets you promote your brand. Furthermore, you can engage with customers. Best of all, it requires little investment. To succeed, focus on what each target group needs.

    Social media is about building relationships and conversations. Ultimately, listening to audience feedback can make or break your brand.

    Many brands don’t grasp this and end up doing social media wrong. We’ve listed common mistakes and signs your social marketing might not be working.

    Shameless Self-Promotion

    On the other hand, your brand’s newsfeed shouldn’t be boring. It also shouldn’t be too focused on sales. Instead, people love content that entertains them. They also like content that informs and engages them. However, posts that are just about self-promotion don’t do any of these things.

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  • What You Need To Know About Marketing For a Healthcare Organization

    What You Need To Know About Marketing For a Healthcare Organization

    With so much information freely available online, modern patients are more educated than they’ve ever been.  Many no longer feel the need to visit a hospital, urgent care center, or clinician’s office unless treatment or testing is necessary.

    Moreover, competition amongst healthcare organizations has never been higher, particularly with the rise of telehealth and digital care options.With this in mind, it’s incredibly important that your organization has a properly-budgeted marketing plan.

    Even if you’re happy with your current patient volumes, you’ll need a strategy that helps you reach out to both new and returning patients. Success in this regard starts, as it often does, with outreach.

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  • What You Need to Know About Marketing Your Business During (And After) COVID-19

    What You Need to Know About Marketing Your Business During (And After) COVID-19

    No one could have predicted this.

    In just a few short months, the coronavirus has changed society. Distributed work and delivery services have never been more important, and all over the world, people struggle to cope with an uncertain future, one marked by isolation, unstable finances, and a spreading pandemic. Businesses have either suspended their marketing or pivoted hard. 

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  • How Infinite Scroll Impacts SEO: Pros and Cons!

    How Infinite Scroll Impacts SEO: Pros and Cons!

    Infinite scroll and search engine optimization don’t play nice together. Given that infinitely-scrolling websites aren’t exactly a new thing on the web, that’s something we’ve known for at least a decade. The problem, as noted by search engine marketing expert Moz, is that many sites implement infinite scrolling via JavaScript, which Google can’t really crawl effectively. 

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