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Referral Marketing: Take Word-of-Mouth to the Next Level

Many business leaders chalk most of their sales up to “word of mouth”. And having an active referral network of acquaintances and past clients that think of you first is a fantastic gift. But have you considered how you nurture your network to get the most out of the relationships you have created over the … Continued

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Leverage Customer Reviews to Build Your Target Avatar

Customer interviews are just one of the ways we gain insight into our clients’ performance and the “why” behind what motivates their audience to engage. When interviews aren’t an option, we turn to reviews to get a better understanding of their audience preferences, challenges, and outcomes in order to help formulate persona profiles. One of … Continued

Get Better Engagement on LinkedIn

What are your top, LinkedIn tips? Clients ask about my activities on LinkedIn and what works best on the platform all the time and have done a LOT of learning about the channel over the last few years. Here are just a few LinkedIn tips I’ve picked up. Here are a few general tips: Get … Continued

Structured Data: Speaking the Language of SEO

Structured Data: Speaking the Language of SEO

In the world of search engines and Google, where your website ranks and how it displays can have a huge impact on the incoming traffic volume for your site. The average click-through rate for the first Google desktop search results is 32 percent. And for mobile sites, the click-through rate for the top-ranking search result … Continued

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The Marketing “Cost Trap”: How to make better investments

Every organization should be focused on the bottom line when looking at investment in marketing. Purpose-driven companies are no exception. Because they put so much effort into creating with intention, leaders of these organizations want to see their efforts reflected through a solid, measurable return on their marketing investment. Makes sense, right? Unfortunately, marketing often … Continued

Don’t Forget the People: Persona Development Helps Target Your Organization’s Outreach

Let’s face it, plenty of businesses get by just winging it when it comes to strategy. If you really want your organization to take off, it’s probably worth investing some time and effort working on your business. With limited time and resources, however, where should you start to really recognize the most bang for your … Continued

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On a road to nowhere

Do you sometimes feel like you can never win—like no matter how hard you work, someone keeps moving the finish line? Growth-focused leaders often feel this way. As driven individuals, we tend to be overly critical about how things are going, or about the results that a certain project achieved. This is because aspirational people … Continued

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Marketing: Right message, right people, right time

Marketing has always been complicated. These days, however, it’s even more so. New channels, new features, new audience preferences, and all-new (sometimes lower) levels of audience participation… It’s no wonder if you feel frustrated with trying to get the word out about your organization. That’s why—when we’re working on a marketing and outreach plan with … Continued

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Email is not dead

Have you given up on email as a mechanism to drive engagements? If so, you might want to rethink that approach. We know it can be frustrating to feel that you aren’t seeing any response to your emails. You feel like you are sending them out and nothing is happening. But it isn’t that email … Continued

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Why’s The Lock Icon On My Site Open?

Whenever we are working with a nonprofit or business one of the first things that we look at when we are doing a site audit is whether or not you have an open or closed lock icon by your web address. It might seem trivial but this open or closed lock is a quick and … Continued

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