Let’s get right to the point.

Your personal social media profiles can be leveraged to achieve business goals.

When it comes to marketing, many people have opinions about the death or imminent death of an entire approach or tactic. But these opinions often miss the mark because they don’t consider evolution.

Marketing automation tactics are some of the most useful tools marketers have at their disposal. However, they always come up as a subject of debate in many offices. A “should we, shouldn’t we?” type of debate that usually involves someone mentioning budgets at least 31 times, someone citing potential changes in company processes and training, and everyone posing as the obligatory skeptic questioning whether marketing automation is really necessary or not.

Today, there’s no shortage of data being collected, cleaned, and analyzed. The question isn’t what data we can get, it’s a question of what data we care about. At the end of the day, the data you should be collecting and interpreting is determined by your business and marketing goals. 

Most companies know that social media marketing is now mandatory to some degree — regardless of your industry or company size. 

We love anything to do with tech. We love writing white papers. However, we don’t always love the idea of writing a white paper for everything to do with tech. 

In our business, the reward for a job well done is a happy client. But, every now and then it’s nice to get a tip of the hat from our industry about the work we do. That happened earlier this month when our team was recognized for excellence in marketing with three 2018 Summit Marketing Effectiveness Awards from the Summit International Awards organization. 

Search engine optimization (SEO) is one of those areas of marketing that still scares quite a few people. 

Your social media and digital marketing strategies provide a great way to get potential leads to your website. Once they get there, the website should be structured to capture leads and move them into the marketing-to-sales funnel. As you do this, there are a few key visitor behaviors that will help you categorize leads as accurately as possible. 

When we get into conversations about competitive marketing intelligence with our clients, they’ll often say something like, “Nope. No. We don’t need that. We just did that six months ago. We tore through all of the information on our competitor’s solution. Right down to the specifics of the hardware and software and how they’re listed. We know exactly what’s on the market now, and we have a pretty good guess about what competitors are going to bring to the market in the near future.”