6 Tips to Build Brand Advocates
These representatives of your brand are exactly what they sound like: people loyal to your brand, who are willing to promote your brand on a more personal level. If that sounds daunting, it doesn’t have to be! 1. Provide Excellence in Your Service or Product It’s first on the list because it really is the…
Should Your Brands Use NFTs in Your Marketing Strategy
The buzzy tech concept of the moment is the NFT, the 21st-century version of the “collector’s item” that has been a marketing favorite for ages. Should your brand be investing in developing NFT-centric strategies? Here’s what every marketer should know about this emerging technology. First, let’s start with the obvious question: what exactly are NFTs? An…
Brand-Building with Instagram REELS
Instagram marketing has been around since 2010, but the platform keeps making changes that, in turn, require tweaks in marketing strategies. Reels, which arrived in 2020, are short videos of up to 15 seconds each, which can be created and edited within the Instagram app. Users can either record clips as they make their reel or…
A Brief History of the QR Code
The QR code (short for “quick response” code) has gone from a highly niche technology to commonplace in just a few short decades. These codes, which use tiny black and white squares arranged in unique patterns to store information for scanning, can store up to 200 times as much information as a traditional bar code.…
History of Pantone Color of the Year
It’s time to welcome Pantone’s Color of the Year for 2022: Very Peri! The purple-hued periwinkle blue “displaying a carefree confidence and a daring curiosity that animates our creative spirit” and “helps us to embrace this altered landscape of possibilities, opening us up to a new vision as we rewrite our lives,” according to Pantone’s…
Spot UV Coating Makes Your Images Pop
Business people collect a lot of business cards; in fact, there are so many that sometimes these items get lost in the shuffle. But there is a way to print business cards to let your message not only dazzle the recipient but help you get truly noticed. Let’s take a look at spot UV coating!…
Seeing is Believing: The Psychology of Color
Try imagining a blue can of Coca-Cola, or a red Whole Foods logo, or a brown Apple on the center of your laptop. It’s jarring, right? That’s because each of these companies has mastered the art of color psychology (or chromology, if you want to impress your friends). In their own way, Coca-Cola, Whole…
Who’s Mailing What! – A Tool from the Golden Age of Direct Mail Tool Gets a Data-Powered Update
In the 1960s, the marketer Ed Mayer set out a formula: “Success in direct marketing is 40% lists, 40% offers and 20% everything else.” Mayer’s formula is still valid today, maybe more than ever. Data is the king of mail. Spray-and-pray mass mailings are giving way to more targeted practices. Segmentation strategies enable brands…
UX Copywriting – What Marketers Need to Know
What is it? Years ago, “going online” meant scrolling endlessly through giant blocks of text, squinting blurry-eyed at blue underlined hyperlinks, and pulling at loose informational threads to find that one bit of information you needed. If the internet were a planet, those initial web spaces would be its single-cell organisms. Today, the…
How a Content Library Strategy Sets Businesses Apart
Imagine your business had a resource that allowed your company to land significant clients with little or no direct sales efforts. This resource would also actively generate brand awareness, capture leads, and consistently grow your organization by helping to close deals. What is this resource, you say? This robust sales and marketing resource…
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