Digital Marketing Archives - Page 3 of 8

Portrait of young smiling cheerful entrepreneur in casual office making phone call while working with laptop

How to sell

I’m writing this for anyone who owns or runs a company. If that’s you, you weren’t “born” a company owner; you probably came into it after working in some other specialty. Finance, engineering, programming, plumbing, baking . . . whatever. Now you have to make sales. As the owner, you need to know how to sell and how to direct and manage others who sell for you.

Illustration representing SEO with cityscape in background

SEO for CEOs: What you need to know

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is one of the more mysterious aspects of digital marketing; difficult to understand or manage, driven by arcane rules, and dominated by “leave me alone in my cave and let me work my magic” vendors. But it’s important; you can’t claim to be successfully engaging in online marketing without doing a proper job on your SEO.

Real-world branding strategy: Your brand is the promise that you keep.

I have a real-world definition of branding strategy, based on working as a revenue coach for hundreds of companies and interviewing thousands of customers. It is this: “Branding is the promise that you make; your brand is the promise that you keep.” To help company leaders put this truth to work to increase their own revenues, I explain that they keep (or break) their branding promise with five tools: products/services; people; processes; policies; and passion.

People in an office looking at a computer together

Digital marketing strategy: What you can expect—and how to manage it

We’ve all heard the management adage: “You can’t manage what you don’t understand.” Unfortunately, digital marketing has gotten so complex, specialized, and fast-moving that it’s harder than ever for busy CEOs and entrepreneurs to understand what is really going on.

The most successful branding strategy: Mindset Immersion

Branding strategy is usually an “inside” affair, created in windowless (or now virtual) conference rooms. “What do we want to be known for? What is our mission? What do we do better than competitors?” What’s missing from this conversation? Customers. Who buys your product or service? Customers. No wonder so much marketing doesn’t work. My

Man with question mark attached to his forehead

Wondering how to increase sales? Answer the buyer’s most important question.

Lately we have been talking about the customer’s Mindset and the critical role it plays in your marketing. If you really want to know how to increase sales, that’s the factor that you need to focus on first. I’ve been defining the customer’s Mindset, at the start of their buying process, as the combination of