Having a strategic marketing plan is a long-term play. It requires having a strategy with day-in-day-out execution that you can commit to for at least a year. But how do you put scale behind these efforts? The short answer: you need automation. However, how or what...
Remember when your website was really just a replacement for the yellow pages? Prospective clients would find your business, and then pick up the phone and call you. The customer journey looked a lot different then, and bringing a prospect through the sales funnel was...
When it comes to getting data on your marketing, there’s no shortage of places to look or things to analyze and interpret, but some data is more valuable than others. What analytics or data points should you actually pay attention to, and what do they really mean?
The lack of transparency is one of the things that has always driven me nuts about the discipline of marketing. I commonly joke that you go into marketing so that no one can figure out what you do. I can tell you from a business owner’s perspective, that’s immensely...
SEO has changed considerably over the last 20 years since Larry Page and Sergey Brin first came out with weighted rankings. There was a time when in investing time and money into figuring out to fool PageRank, formerly the primary driver of Google’s search algorithm...
Why is it so hard to get a quality website built on time and on budget? The answer is really simple: most websites are almost always built backwards, starting with design. Why doesn’t it make sense to start a website project with design? It comes down to how well you...
I love marketing automation. It’s the only way to get scale and efficiency in your marketing. We work with businesses that don’t have the time and resources to figure all this out themselves. Having done it for hundreds of companies, I’m going to share what we’ve...
When you take the time to create a strategic marketing plan and commit to it long-term, you want to leverage it for all its worth. That means putting scale behind your strategy, and that requires automation. While the shift to automated martech tools has significantly...
Something we hear fairly often at boomtime from our clients is “Should I run this ad? It seems like a great deal, or, “should I boost this post on Facebook? It’s getting great engagement.” The thing is, these questions really surface a bigger, more pertinent question....
I recently wrote about the three big goals you should be aiming for in your B2B marketing strategy: building your audience, capturing new leads and referrals, and staying top-of-mind with your audience. But how do you achieve these goals? It’s time to build the three...
