Author: Shannon Kenner

Which campaigns were the most successful? How do you prove the value of each campaign? The beauty of online marketing is that every action your visitors take is tracked and stored somewhere – this represents a tectonic shift for marketing strategy. Rather than relying on your gut to decide how well...

Not all videos work. Those that do join visual and audio elements with a purpose. Instead of several ideas, they concentrate on singular goals around one theme. And they result in compelling moments that move interested viewers toward action. To learn how to design videos that work, consider several basic principles. Less...

A typical consumer perspective on Social Media Response to a lead generation campaign piece: “I got your card in the mail. I just found your Facebook page, so now that I know you’re real, I wanted to reach out and learn more about your company.” This illustrates the growing perception of the...

As marketers, we struggle with how to calculate ROI (return on investment) and improve a host of key performance indicators (KPIs). With metrics like website visits, conversion rates, generated leads per channel, social media platform engagement, blog post shares, email click-through rates, the list grows every day. But for the...

Some of our mid-sized and corporate clients have internal marketing teams who handle most day-to-day marketing tactics. But they don't always have enough time, or specialized expertise, to develop and execute a full range of marketing functions. So where can they go for last-minute and specialized marketing?

Consider the four major categories of company names. (Imagine getting told this by a cigarette smoking, scotch tossing Don Draper): Descriptive They simply describe the company or product in a transparent way. Examples: Martha Stewart, BMW Upside: They work when they direct most of their brand equity to the company name (instead of...

Every business has a sales cycle. The more expensive the product or service you sell, usually the longer the sales process. Email newsletters are a great way to ignite an interest in a prospect or gently push someone down your sales funnel. Either way, your emails should be about quality content that your target audience will find valuable. There's no need to include your blog post about your presentation to Rotary. That's not that interesting to your prospects.
According to Nielsen, total social media time spent in the US increased a whopping 37% from July 2011 to July 2012, from 88 billion to 121 billion minutes. That’s an average of 7.4 hours for every single person in the US aged 10 or older. That’s over 14.3 minutes a day, while we spent only 9.6 minutes on email, snail mail and telephone combined.
How do you actually drive interest in your organization? How do you create warm prospects and convert them to customers and brand evangelists? Here's how.
Social Media turns the whole world into one neighborhood. It's NOT simply about advertising or promoting your company, product or service. It’s about using technology to expand a word-of-mouth network, unbound by physical location, to make it more effective. And maybe even that nebulous new goal: viral.