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Marketing and 5G

Now that nearly all cellular carriers have announced launches of 5G networks, what can marketers expect and plan for the future? Let’s start with the given. Each generation is faster. Some networks are a hundred times f

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Help is More Than a 4-Letter Word

The help link on your website can do a lot more than answer questions. Done properly, it can generate more leads and business to you. Some customers aren’t ready or just don’t want to talk directly to a representative.

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Thinking Like a Consumer Will Win the Marketing Game

A cursory Google search for “marketing tips” yields a predictable number of articles promising the secrets to effective marketing and the best practices for winning the marketing game for a leg up above the competition.

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Keeping Ahead of the Media

In today’s rapidly-moving world of social media, it’s critical to be proactive to pre-empt rumors and some of the potentially negative things that may be written and said about your company. Leaving questions or doubts

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Story Sharing

It might surprise you to learn just how many platforms support storytelling formats these days. We all know the major players: Snapchat, and Instagram. Cast your mind further afield, however, and you’ll note that WhatsA

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Expanding beyond your niche audience

Building up a niche audience is often the key to success for many brands. Even so, sometimes it becomes important to expand your brand beyond its initial niche. Introducing your brand to a more global audience carries t

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What Does Customer Service Have to Do with Marketing?

Right under your nose lies one of the simplest and most effective approaches to marketing for any business of any size. What is it? Customer service. This may seem a bit odd. However, customer service is, in fact, an imp

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Assessing Potential Crisis Counselors

No matter the industry, your brand is likely to face some form of PR crisis at one time or another. Surround yourself with the right people, and you stand a far greater chance of riding the wave and surviving the damage

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Negative Customer Experience: How to Diffuse the Situation

It happens to even the best of us. Sooner or later, a customer will likely have a negative experience at a business. It’s not always due to something the business or manager did wrong; sometimes there are misunderstandi

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Why Retargeting Can Help Improve Marketing Results

We’ve all been in this scenario: while perusing social media, an interesting ad pops up on the feed. It’s a new product that looks enticing, so we click on it and poke around on the website. The product, a new meal deli

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Encouraging Creativity Among Marketing Employees

Team morale in the office has hit a low. For some reason, it seems that pitch meetings and brainstorming sessions are more full of awkward silence than buzzing ideas. For those in creative fields, such as advertising an