By Integrated Marketing Platform | July 26, 2022 | INTEGRATED MARKETING, MARKETING STRATEGY,
MARKETING STRATEGY
Streamline Your Marketing Efforts By Working Backward From Your Goal
When you’re trying to reach a specific destination, there are two fundamental things you must know: where you currently are and where your destination is. Full Story: Forbes
Customer Retention Fails: 5 Signs A Client Is About To Break Up With Your Marketing Agency
Load up your saddest playlist, because we’re talking about clients leaving you. Full Story: Search Engine Journal
How to Ensure Authenticity in Marketing and Build a Loyal Audience
The bar on doing business has been raised. Speak consistently and authentically and you’ll earn your customers’ trust – and likely, more of their business. Full Story: Entrepreneur
Early-Stage Companies Should Consider Marketing By Building In Public
If an early-stage company hasn’t determined its target audience yet, it’s often best practice to avoid paid marketing. This helps businesses avoid high customer acquisition costs that they can’t sustain. Full Story: Forbes
Incorporating Data And Analytics Into Your Marketing Plan
Businesses that use data-driven (personalized) marketing strategies have five times more ROI than businesses that don’t. Full Story: Forbes
How To Win the Era Of Customer-Centric Marketing?
When we think of customer-centric marketing, we tend to imagine a brand with a website that’s easy to navigate and use, or a mobile app that is responsive and intuitive, or in-store displays that are informative and engaging. Full Story: Security Boulevard
How to Ensure Authenticity in Marketing and Build a Loyal Audience
The bar on doing business has been raised. Speak consistently and authentically and you’ll earn your customers’ trust – and likely, more of their business. Full Story: Entrepreneur
What is marketing performance management and how can it help you?
One of marketing’s greatest challenges is proving its value to the business. Full Story: MarTech
SOCIAL MEDIA
5 ways to turn employees into social media advocates
Employees can be a secret weapon in your social media marketing. Full Story: PR Daily
Twitter Adds Hashtag Discovery to Communities to Help Improve Engagement
Twitter’s added a new discovery element to its group-like Communities, with a new display of the top hashtags used in each community, which will then link you through to relevant tweets around those topics. Full Story: Social Media Today
Customer Satisfaction With Social Media Platforms Is Slumping
A sweeping customer satisfaction survey finds social media platforms are getting fewer Likes than before–with Facebook ending up in last place. Full Story: PCMag
4 LinkedIn Company Page Features to Start Using Now
Looking for a cost-effective way to improve your LinkedIn lead generation? Wondering how to engage more effectively as your business on LinkedIn? Full Story: Social Media Examiner
SEARCH ENGINE
What is SEO and how does it work? Learn more about how marketers use search engine optimization to rank higher and increase traffic. Full Story: Search Engine Journal
Top 3 SEO Tips to Grow your Etsy Store
People do business because they want growth in whatever they do. Selling products on Etsy felt like rocket science. Full Story: Digital Journal
Web hosting for SEO: Why it’s important
Great web hosting won’t put your website at the top of the search results, but it’s a prerequisite for strong SEO results. Here’s why. Full Story: Search Engine Land
Everything You Need to Know About the 4 Pillars of SEO
Search engine optimization (SEO) can seem like a headache. But if you’re a business owner, it can be one of the best ways to get your… Full Story: Entrepreneur
MOBILE MARKETING
Four Things E-Commerce Businesses Need To Know About Mobile Ad Fraud
We’re shopping via phones more than ever—even from brick-and-mortar retail stores. Full Story: Forbes
Could rich mobile messaging be the next frontier for advertisers?
From carefully curated apps to artificially intelligent chatbots, the marketing landscape has evolved into an interconnected multichannel hive of tailored communication. Full Story: Mobile Marketing Magazine
How to Manage Your Small Business Finances On the Go
Today’s mobile financial management apps enable you to access and manage your small business finances from wherever you are, whenever you want. Full Story: Entrepreneur
iPhone and Android phone users are getting this great free Spotify upgrade
The Spotify app is now much more social on your iPhone or Android phone. Full Story: T3
DIGITAL SIGNAGE/ SCREEN MEDIA
Why Digital Out-of-Home Advertising Is a Perfect Match for Startups
Effective advertising is often the difference between success and potential failure. Full Story: Grit Daily
DOOH: advertising’s big opportunity?
Not for the first time, digital out-of-home (DOOH) is on the rise. Investment in the medium was rising steadily until 2020,… Full Story: ExchangeWire
EMAIL MARKETING
5 Ways to Delight Your Customers With Email
Are you using every email you send to delight your customers? Here are some great ways to do that — and build more engagement. Full Story: Entrepreneur
Why Direct Mail Is the Anti-Email Marketing Channel
Email has a place in your marketing strategy. It is the most common and cheapest way to keep in touch with prospects and customers. Full Story: Dealerscope
E-COMMERCE
Sink or Swim: 5 E-Commerce Pain Points To Address for Success
Cart abandoned! That is the action no e-commerce seller wants to see at their online store. Full Story: E-Commerce Times
New e-commerce policy may allow only third party items on e-marketplaces
The proposed policy seeks to ensure that e-commerce marketplaces sell only third-party products on their platform. Full Story: Business Standard
PUBLIC RELATIONS
How To Survive In PR During An Era Of Cancel Culture
As public relations specialists, we are in the business of building images, creating relationships, looking after reputations and at the forefront of it all, trusted communications. Full Story: Forbes
‘If used correctly, PR can add human touch to any field’
Basically Public Relations (PR) refers to managing how others see and feel about a person, brand, or a company and PR personnel are responsible for crafting… Full Story: BizzBuzz
MARKET RESEARCH
Market research is essential for entrepreneurs who want their businesses to succeed
Contrary to the story about the intuitive and visionary entrepreneur, and in a context where modern society applauds action over reflection, it turns out that market research is both essential and relevant. Full Story: The Conversation
WEB DEVELOPMENT
7 Best Frontend Frameworks That Accelerate Pace of Web Development
They say one should use the correct ingredient to create the perfect taste. Full Story: ReadWrite
Best web development bootcamps of 2022
Web development bootcamps provide intensive, immersive training to equip you with what you need to know for a career in the field. Full Story: ZDNet
MARKETING AUTOMATION
The myth of ‘artificial intelligence’
AI has consistently failed to deliver results – so why do our elites have so much faith in it? Full Story: Spiked
What’s Your Future of Work Path With Artificial Intelligence?
Over last few years, artificial intelligence (AI) has become a very significant part of business operations across all industries. Full Story: CMSWire
ANALYTICS & BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
Four Tips: What CIOs Need For A New Data Window
One thing that connects nearly all companies in today’s digital world is the universal quest for data. Full Story: Forbes
Using Data Analytics Will Transform Your Business. Here’s How.
Many startups incorporate data into their decision-making. Find out what makes analytics so valuable. Full Story: Entrepreneur
BRANDING AND DESIGN
How to Choose a Strong Business Name and Amplify Your Brand
Many businesses make the mistake of choosing names that do nothing to amplify their brand. Don’t be one of them. Full Story: Entrepreneur
Looking for a job? 6 expert tips to develop a personal brand that gets you noticed
Contrary to popular opinion, branding isn’t just for large companies or promising startups. Full Story: TheNextWeb
VOICE STRATEGIES
Crafting a Voice Strategy – How 3 Global Brands Planned Their Custom Assistants (VIDEO)
Custom voice assistants are the most important trend shaping the voice AI industry today. Full Story: Voicebot.ai