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Marketing has Changed

Consumers (and purchasing managers) of 20 years ago were targeted with television ads, billboards and direct mail offers. Those don’t work nearly as well as they did then, so rather than try to interrupt prospects, smart businesses now use techniques that attract attention.
09 April, 2014
With the major search engines getting increasingly better at targeting search results to individual users, local online marketing should be near the top of any local business owner's list of priorities. Local results get a large share of the real estate on search engine results pages (SERPs), so it's worth the time to at least take some preliminary steps to help increase your chances of appearing on that all-important first page.
22 November, 2013
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.
07 November, 2013
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.
30 October, 2013
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.
14 October, 2013
The Amelia Island-Fernandina Beach-Yulee Chamber of Commerce continued its popular Build a Better Business series this past Friday, June 28, with a seminar on “Using Social Media to Promote Your Business” presented by Grasshopper Marketing.
28 June, 2013
When designing any of the elements in this list, consider your target audience carefully: their needs and pain-points, their values, where they are in the sales cycles, and how they think.
13 June, 2013
A business should not be on every social network. What are the right social networking outlets for your business? To know that, consider what each is good at doing. But remember, the social media landscape changes VERY quickly, and keeping abreast of new channels is a part of a good long term social media strategy. If you want to do your best in social media, but don’t have a full time marketing department to manage all those channels, the solution is to find those very few that are right for YOUR business and its industry. Here’s a rundown of several of the CURRENT social media biggies.
07 June, 2013