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Marketing Action Planning for Financial Service Providers—It’s Time to Tune Up
Is it time for a marketing plan tune-up for your business? If so, a Marketing Action Plan (MAP) may be just the resource you have been searching for. Reading time: 3 minutes
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Social Media Marketing for Small Organizations
For small organizations with limited resources, we sometimes find that necessary marketing strategies remain unexplored due to lack of funding, a small staff, or both. Fortunately, there are some strategies to put social media to work no matter how small your team is. Here are a few ideas to help solve your “too much to do and not enough time to do it” challenges. Read time: under 3 minutes
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Shift Focus to Quality vs. Quantity of Organic Social Media
Social media algorithms have made it harder and harder for businesses to reach new audiences without paying up. Get ideas to optimize your organic social efforts. Read time: under 2 minutes
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Effective Marketing Is Deliberate
Clients understand that managing marketing that delivers success for an organization is more complex than ever. A disciplined marketing approach is the most effective way to drive efficiency and effectiveness. Fortunately, we have a process that can help and have included links to some free resources you can leverage to follow this process. Read time: under 1 minute
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Why You Need a Success Statement
What is success for your organization? A Marketing Action Plan (MAP) is a master plan for prioritizing and then building trust with the target audiences that will lead your organization to success. However, at the beginning of the process, it is critical to define what success is. Here we review the formula we use to develop what we call the “Success Statement.” Read time: under 2 minutes
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Making Social Media Ads Work For You
Meta advertising can be scaled to your budget and help ensure that the content you’ve worked so hard to create reaches specific, targeted audiences and helps you achieve your conversion goals. As Meta continues to embrace a “pay to play” model, you will need to include Meta ad spend in your monthly budget projections, but investing in Meta Ads is one of the best things you can do to achieve brand awareness with the right audience and on a scale that will make an impact. Read time: 4 minutes
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6 Pitfalls of Social Media Management
Regardless of your team size or budget, there are ways to make social media work for you without cutting corners. Here, we've summarized 6 common social media management mistakes, how they can affect your brand credibility, and what you can do to avoid them. Read time: under 3 minutes
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Importance of a Brand Standards Manual
A brand standards manual (also known as a brand book, guide, or bible) guides anyone in the use of your brand messaging and appearance across all platforms. It plays an important role in protecting the outward appearance of your brand—it tells your company story so your employees and vendors know what you stand for and how you should be perceived. Read time: 7 minutes
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Revisiting Your Social Media Marketing Plan
Like your Marketing Action Plan, your social media marketing strategy should continually evolve to reflect what data is telling you about the platform preferences and media consumption habits of your target markets. What made your social strategy successful two years ago likely will not have the desired impact today due to evolving trends and algorithms. So how do you stay ahead of the curve? Read time: four minutes
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Effective Website Planning Steps
Developing your website requires comprehensive, strategic planning. Read about our website planning process and which questions need to be answered as you work through each step of creating a website. Read time: under 4 minutes