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Your Ultimate Guide to Planning Next Year’s Marketing Strategy!
As we gear up and plan for 2024, it's time to dive deep into your marketing, dissecting what’s worked and what hasn’t. Here's how to make sure your marketing strategy is both actionable and impactful for the year ahead. Take a Marketing Selfie 📸 Start with a holistic look at your current marketing initiatives. Which campaigns drove the most engagement? Which platforms resonated with your audience? Were the KPIs you set in line with your ROI? This snapshot will help [...]
4 Reasons E-newsletters are a Must For Your Marketing Strategy
1. It keeps you top-of-mind! Recently I was working on getting pricing for a direct mail piece for one of my clients. It wasn’t a straightforward direct mail piece, so I was contemplating which company I should contact to send me pricing. Next thing you know, I received a newsletter from a printing company that I had completely forgotten about. With so much going on, their company’s name wasn’t coming to me. The newsletter came, I called my contact, and [...]
5 Things You Can Do Right Now to Market To Potential Franchisees
Hey there, future franchise magnates! Are you on the hunt for the best ways to attract potential franchisees to your brand? Well, you're in luck! Here are five things you can do right now to market to potential franchisees and grow your business. 1. Clean Up Your Brand - First impressions matter, and your brand is the first thing potential franchisees will see. Make sure it's polished, professional, and clearly communicates what you stand for. If your brand is all [...]
Why Your Business Needs Brand Guidelines
So what exactly are brand guidelines? Essentially, they are a set of rules that explain how your brand looks and feels at every touch point. They are a roadmap of information surrounding the personality and values of the brand. Brand guidelines incorporate the colors & fonts, logos, and other brand essentials that help define the brand’s identity. Now let’s dive into the importance of these bad boys! Differentiation To be successful, your brand needs to build awareness and develop trust [...]
The Future of Digital Marketing: Trends to Watch Out For
Predicting the future may be impossible, but we can always try to uncover what’s next in digital marketing and the trends that will reshape the industry by staying on top of new technology. As tech continues to evolve, so do all the ways brands connect with their audiences. Here, we will delve into six key trends that will define the landscape of digital marketing in the coming years. AI and Digital Marketing The buzz around AI (Artificial Intelligence) is truly [...]
4 Steps to Keep in Mind for a Brand Refresh
As people grow and mature, their style and look changes to adapt with the times, and the same can be said for a brand! As time goes on and culture and trends change, a brand may decide to conduct a refresh to make sure it doesn’t get left behind and look dated to their consumers. A brand refresh can be utilized to celebrate a milestone - such as when our clients Triad Associates secured $1 billion dollars in funding, and [...]