Companies today are faced with the ever-growing challenge of gaining buyer trust. With a digital environment filled with scams, credit card fraud, trolls and bots, consumers have reason to be skeptical. What does this mean for brands trying to gain trust?
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In Part One of this series, we looked at the rise and possibly the decline of email marketing due to the sheer overload of business emails currently being sent and received each day. Is one quaint tactic – which gives marketers the ability to stand out from the competition – making a comeback?
Is the Marketing Pendulum Swinging? (Part 2 of 2) Read More »
According to a survey of 244 marketers, 45 percent of respondents said email was one of the most effective online tactics for lead generation. But, with the average office worker receiving more than 120 emails a day, has email marketing plateaued? Is the marketing pendulum swinging away from email, and its total reliance on hard data?
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Our firm’s founder Peter Baron speaks with Evelyn Ashley and John Monahon, hosts of the podcast show “In Process: Conversations about Business in the 21st Century,” about what company leaders need to consider from a marketing and branding standpoint prior to a potential sale.
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Healthcare marketing can be a challenge when gatekeepers surround decision makers. Read how we helped a healthcare client leverage a micro-influencer strategy to amplify a CEO’s voice and build trust.
Micro-Influencer Marketing in Healthcare Read More »
Whether your company is young or well established, sometimes events change. Perhaps your customer needs have evolved, or your service offering has changed. Here are five signs it’s time for a rebrand.
Five Signs It’s Time for a Rebrand Read More »
Complacency is a killer in any relationship. Here are a few suggestions on how you can turn up the heat to transform your “average” customer relationship into everlasting love.
Seven Ways to Grow Customer Love Read More »
As marketers are making plans for 2018, here are some of the important programs we think they should consider combining to their core campaign elements to get the most impact on lead generation in the coming year.
We’re Checking It Twice: 2018 Checklist for Marketers Read More »
A harsh reality for today’s CMOs is lack of public trust in most brands, and it’s infiltrating into many of their organizations’ marketing channels. Fake news. Digital ad fraud. Brand safety. Data breaches. The list goes on and on. Proven public relations tactics adapted for the digital world can be your biggest ally in winning trust — and achieving credibility — for your products or services.
How PR Helps Build Trust Read More »
It’s the same old love song popularized by Janet Jackson in 1986: “What have you done for me lately?” Sometimes it feels to those in the PR world that they’re consistently trying to prove value in a monetary, quantitative way. But because they’re in the business of credibility and trust – they are balancing two things that cannot be directly measured with a solid line to sales growth. Or can they?
The (Unrequited) Love Affair Between PR and Sales Read More »
