Marketing
Content Marketing means creating and sharing valuable free content to attract and convert prospects into customers, and customers into repeat buyers. The type of content you share is closely related to what you sell; in other words, you’re educating customers so that they know, like, and trust you enough to do business with you. The…
Don’t miss our seminar tomorrow on Cross Media Marketing at the BizTimes Expo. Heritage and Cultivate Communications will be presenting tomorrow May 17th at 11:00am at the BizTimes Expo at Potowatomi Casino. Learn some great insights into how to choose the right marketing strategy to reach the right clients with the right message.
There are several ways to measure the effectiveness of your marketing efforts. The key is to build a tracking mechanism into each marketing tactic before it is deployed. In order to respond to your Call to Action (e.g., discount, coupon, brochure, white paper, consultation, etc.) the respondent must provide a valid campaign code which is…
Go ahead and admit it. As marketers, we’ve all heard that ridiculous statement spoken at least once – for others, much too often. We have even heard it spoken by the CEO or CFO in leadership meetings. You know what I’m referring to: the statement that sends shivers down the spines of all marketers. What…
You probably have been seeing more QR codes lately. These are two-dimensional codes (most often in black-and-white but sometimes in color) that you scan or snap with your smartphone. They usually take you to a website where you can access content, get discounts, watch videos, and experience a wide variety of marketing content right on…
IFS is a public company founded in 1983 that develops, supplies, and implements IFS Applications™, a component-based extended Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) suite built on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) technology. And even if you don’t understand what IFS does, it’s easy to see that they are invested in working on direct mail pieces that work best for…
With the overall economy still down and with so many companies moving their marketing efforts online, mail volume has dropped tremendously. The resulting empty mailboxes present a unique opportunity. While competition to get noticed in email in-boxes keeps growing, a well-crafted direct mail package is now far more likely to garner attention than before. While…
As a marketer, it’s critical to quantify the effectiveness of your marketing efforts. But how do you define success? Particularly with 1:1 printing, it’s critical to use the right yardstick. Let’s look at seven ways to evaluate the success of a 1:1 print marketing campaign. Examples are greatly simplified for illustration and calculations do not…
It is important to take the time to analyze your previous direct mail efforts to ensure a greater return on investment. If you don’t measure results, you won’t know which elements of your campaign worked and which didn’t. If you don’t know what is most effective, you don’t know how to improve campaigns down the…