What should you do to market your business in 2012? To answer that question, I created this short video for Network Solutions’ 12 Ways to Makeover Your Small Business in 2012 series. (email subscribers and feed readers, click here if you don’t see the video: Sharpen Your Brand) The Rules of Marketing A new year
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The Best of The Marketing Spot 2011
Where oh where did the time go? Here we are in 2012 with another great year of marketing ahead of us. But before we get too far down the highway, let’s take a look back at the best small business marketing articles of 2011. I’ve organized the list around the four essential spots of small
Brands Help Customers Make Choices
Why branding? What is the value of a brand? The simple answer is this: Brands help customers make choices. [Reference: What is a Brand?] Just look at it from the customer’s perspective. A customer is having some problems with her car and she doesn’t know what’s wrong with it. She begins her search for a
Brand vs. Brand vs. Local Brand
Every new customer goes through a decision process. And the first decision is “Where do I buy?” The answer to that question is determined by the strength of the brands in consideration. Whether or not you get a chance at the business is determined by the strength of your brand. It’s a competition between brands
Taglines: When the Brand Name Doesn’t Promise
This week on The Marketing Spot features a series of articles on Brand Building to Build Your Business. Part 1: It’s Never Just a Marketing Issue Part 2: Define Your Brand Part 3: Creating Your Brand Vocabulary Part 4: Brand vs. Brand vs. Local Brand What’s in a brand’s name? Not nearly enough. Especially when
Define Your Brand
Yesterday we discussed how marketing and business are one and the same. Marketing is not something you do to get more business, it is a natural extension of how you do business. This week I’ll feature a series of articles that will help you align your marketing with your business, focusing on the brand. The
The Product Thinking Trap
This morning I was searching online for some granite countertops in my hometown of Waco, Texas. Clicking one of the websites I found this mission on the front page of a local company: Our goal is to provide top-quality, eco-friendly granite, marble, quartz, and recycled glass products. This is a fine goal to have and
How to Create a Tagline Webinar
Although taglines are not necessary, they help your business cut through the clutter by adding clarity and sizzle to your brand. In fact, a tagline can be your most effective brand communication tool. The first webinar in the Marketing Edge Series is How to Create a Tagline That Makes Your Brand Pop. I’ve prepared a
Fire This Consultant
Fire this consulting firm: It tells you to not be you, but instead to be something you’re not. Brand Sustainability Let’s start with some context, this article from Fast Company: A Hamburger Chain That Asks Its Customers To Not Order Hamburgers, which details how a sustainability organization, The Natural Step, convinced Swedish hamburger chain Max
Getting Attention vs. Being Liked
Is your business able to grab customers’ attention? Or do you think people just like your business? There’s a difference. One of the primary purposes of a brand is to get people’s attention, to be able to stand out in a sea of commodity businesses. For people to start doing business with you, they must
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