Brand storylines make brands stick. Instead of marketing to your customers, speak with them. Share ideas. Find common ground. Have a conversation. Muldoon's Coffee leverages storylines to go beyond marketing, and engage their market in a conversation.
Every company wants client referrals, but are you too dependent on word of mouth marketing? Avoid 5 pitfalls of being too dependent on word of mouth marketing.
Happy employees create happy customers. DevFacto stands out with a dynamic culture that radiates through their brand. They are a software development firm based in Edmonton, Canada. The firm has grown over 96% in the past 3 years, and their culture is a key contributor to their success.
What do you want your website to do? We launched a new version of StickyBranding.com with a clear goal: generate email subscribers. Within 30 days email subscriptions are up 400%. And we're seeing gains across the board: 38% increase in unique visitors, 129% increase in average duration on the site, and the bounce rate fell from 86% to 35%.
Customers come for the products, but stay for the results. The Central Group has innovated beyond their products with sticky value-add customers. As Rick Eastwood, President of The Central Group explains, "We're not in the business of selling displays and packaging. We're here to help our clients get their products out the door."
Dissatisfaction is the great divide between action and inaction. Are you pissed off enough with the status quo that change is not an option? Use this short equation, D x V x P = △, to determine your company's ability to make change.
Your founding vision will have a great deal of impact on your future brand. Are you building a business that will grow through the generations, or are you building a business to sell? ProVision IT is built to last, and their founding philosophy is embedded in their culture and systems.
If an article is posted on your website and no one is there to read it, does it make a sale? Nope. It just goes unnoticed. For every hour you create content, invest two more to grow your distribution.
Twist Image: Monetize Your Marketing – It’s Not A Fantasy
Twist Image makes their marketing so good their customers pay for it. Twist has baked content into the fabric of their business, and leverages the persona and expertise of Mitch Joel, as a writer and professional speaker, to monetize their marketing.
The New Year is a time for renewed optimism and planning. Before you start plotting your priorities for the upcoming year, take a moment and look backwards. Measure your New Year's Resolutions by looking to past milestones, and then setting goals and measures based on how far you've already come.
Core metaphors are the linchpins of brand experiences. They span cultures, languages, dialects and countries. They are universal to all human beings, and the building blocks of our communications. LEAPJob uses the core metaphor journey in its brand architecture.
"You can't manage what you can't measure." Sage advice. I'm not interested in the soft-squishy side of marketing. I want to see brand strategies that clearly move the sales needle. Mid-market companies can look to six brand metrics that drive sales.
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