If the majority of your marketing efforts are targeted toward men, then you may want to think twice. According to Women’s Marketing Inc., women control a whopping 85 percent of the purchasing in the United States. Need a little more convincing? Continue reading “Boys Drool and Girls Rule: Why You Should be Marketing More Toward Women”
Is Your Content Making a Point?
Have you ever read through an article only to walk away asking yourself what the real point was? If this sounds familiar then you’re not alone. I recently read what I thought was going to be a compelling article judging by its witty title, however, when I finally got to the end I thought to myself, ‘Wow I didn’t learn a thing I didn’t already know.’
In content marketing, you hear the word storytelling a lot. While every story needs a beginning, middle and end, it also needs a point. As a business, your goal is to persuade a customer to take action, whether it’s downloading your latest whitepaper or ebook or leaving a comment on your latest blog post. Continue reading “Is Your Content Making a Point?”
Don’t Be the Pushy Salesman
You’ve experienced it a hundred times before – you walk into a store and are immediately bombarded by a slew of salespeople asking questions about what you’re looking for and directing you to their current promotion. Like most people, I want to immediately walk out.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, you’ve probably experienced helpful sales staff. They let you take a minute to look around and settle in before approaching you and answer your questions not because they’re looking for a sale, but because they genuinely want to educate you about a product. I don’t know about you, but those are the brands I recommend to others and return to again and again.