Posted on May 20, 2010
by Jerry Suhrstedt
in Hopper Systems, Marketing 101
Do it right and you can convert more leads. Do it wrong and your customer gets the water torture. By Rick Cook | September 23, 2008 Drip marketing is the rather inelegant term for a marketing campaign that relies on repeated contact, or “touches,” with a potential customer. Unlike a leaky faucet, drip marketing is [...]
Posted on September 6, 2009
by Jerry Suhrstedt
in Advertising
Advertising is a form of communication used to help sell products and services. Typically it communicates a message including the name of the product or service and how that product or service could potentially benefit the consumer. However, advertising does typically attempt to persuade potential customers to purchase or to consume more of a particular brand of product or service. Modern advertising developed with the rise of mass production in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Posted on September 5, 2009
by Jerry Suhrstedt
in Marketing 101, Tactics
Image by natekoechley via Flickr Content marketing is an umbrella term encompassing all marketing formats that involve the creation or sharing of content for the purpose of engaging current and potential consumer bases. In contrast to traditional marketing methods that aim to increase sales or awareness through interruption techniques, content marketing subscribes to the notion [...]
Posted on September 5, 2009
by Jerry Suhrstedt
in Marketing 101, Planning, Strategies
By Rich Harshaw Everything you’ve ever learned about marketing and advertising is WRONG. Everything you’ve ever heard everything you’ve ever tried, everything you’ve ever done, it’s all WRONG. Hello, my name is Rich Harshaw; I’m the CEO of Y2Marketing, the nation’s leading marketing consulting and fulfillment agency. What I want to do in this series [...]
Posted on September 5, 2009
by Jerry Suhrstedt
in Branding
Brand management is the application of marketing techniques to a specific product, product line, or brand. It seeks to increase the product’s perceived value to the customer and thereby increase brand franchise and brand equity. Marketers see a brand as an implied promise that the level of quality people have come to expect from a [...]
Posted on September 5, 2009
by Jerry Suhrstedt
in Marketing 101
Marketing is an integrated communications-based process through which individuals and communities discover that the products and services of others may satisfy existing and newly identified needs and wants. Marketing is defined by the American Marketing Association as the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for [...]
Posted on August 29, 2009
by Jerry Suhrstedt
in Featured
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Posted on August 27, 2009
by Jerry Suhrstedt
in Referrals
Do your clients LOVE YOU? Love you enough to refer a friend or family? Referral marketing is a structured and systematic process that maximizes word of mouth potential. Referral marketing does this by encouraging
Posted on August 27, 2009
by Jerry Suhrstedt
in Strategies
When creating a formal, written marketing plan, your marketing strategy will become the meat & potatoes from which you will generate new business without wasting precious capital. Marketing strategy is the process that allows your organization to use its limited resources on the greatest opportunities to increase sales and achieve a sustainable competitive advantage. While [...]