Jose asks, "I’ve also like many others decided to get into marketing to change their lives and others. After 15 years in the landscape industry, I have noticed that there is a lot of potentials to help many companies in this Industry. My questions are. Do you have any experience with this industry? Do you…
Pick a term that is bandied about the most but understood the least in business (especially marketing) and chances are it will be ROI, return on investment. Many marketers are asked by senior stakeholders what their ROI is, how to calculate marketing ROI, or whether their ROI is trending in the right direction. Before we…
For those who haven’t bought Marketing White Belt or haven’t gotten a business degree, the SWOT analysis is one of the oldest methods of assessing your company’s capabilities and abilities to respond to different business situations. I won’t rehash the basics of SWOT here, but I do want to highlight something I persistently see wrong…
We use the term marketing often, but we rarely talk about markets, the groups of people we market to. What does our market look like? Who’s in our market? If we don’t know who our market is, we’ll spend hours and dollars in vain, failing to generate results. On the other hand, if we know exactly…
I was asked recently about my books and what order you should read them in. That’s an interesting question. The order they came out in is not necessarily the order you should read them in. What order you should read my books in depends on what problems you’re facing. Are you struggling with creativity? Start…
One of the most important metrics in web analytics is the number of returning visitors to your site. This simple number tells you just how well your site is really doing; after all, it’s easy to get someone to visit your site once. You can run ads, engage on social media, run a great PR…
How many of you remember the classic martial arts movie The Karate Kid? If you’ve never watched it, go find it on the movie rental service of your choice. Remember how Ralph Macchio’s character Daniel was put through a series of seemingly pointless exercises by his teacher Mr. Miyagi, the most famously quoted being “wax…
At a variety of events I’ve been to recently, people have been shooting videos using handheld video cameras, usually inside their smartphones. These devices are wonderful – compact, good quality video recorders, even recording in 1080p. However, they all suffer from one major deficiency: The sound is usually terrible. Why? Most smartphones simply have small,…
Marketing tends to be divided into two houses. One house is the analytical side, where data is the order of the day and results can be quantified with incredible precision. Return on investment is a straightforward financial calculation and campaign performance is measured by wonderful tools and methods. The other house is the creative side,…
