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Why your marketing career isn't lifting off – and how to change it
Aug 10, 2021 Written by Mellissah Smith
This pandemic provides a tough environment for marketing as brands wonder how to realign their strategies to match the changes in the business environment. Yet, in the ever-competitive and changing business world, a number of factors exist that when acted on, can be used to augment your brand's marketing strategy. COVID-19 is changing consumer behavior in various different ways, there must be a shift in marketing objectives and the strategies used to achieve brand success. Augmented strategies won't just help your business gain resilience to the effects of COVID-19, but allow your business to thrive as a leader within your industry.
Effective marketing can only begin with a carefully planned marketing strategy. Unfortunately, most businesses aren’t able to reach their full potential because they lack a clear marketing strategy. A marketing strategy should be a clearly defined long-term plan, one which outlines quantifiable goals and key steps towards how to define your business amongst competitors and generate brand awareness.
Discovering exactly what your digital marketing strategies and marketing campaigns need, and exactly how to develop them will help you make the most of your business and boost overall revenue.
The meteoric rise of digital marketing only proves the importance for businesses to understand how to effectively measure their success. We've discussed what the best marketing tactics for lead generation and marketing strategies for small companies are, but how can we actually know whether these strategies have worked or not?
This is where Digital Marketing Metrics come in. Metrics are the tools we use to measure the effectiveness of marketing campaigns. You can capture these metrics through analytic tools such as Google Analytics, HubSpot Analytics, and SEMrush. This is not to be confused with your business Key Performance Indicators. Key Performance Indicators track the performance of your business, whilst metrics are an indication of how effective your processes are. All KPIs are metrics but not all metrics are KPIs.
An advantage of understanding how to read metrics is that you are often able to see the impacts of your marketing campaigns in real-time, as opposed to traditional marketing campaigns, where the results were often not seen until months to potentially years later.
When a marketing student graduates, there is so much uncertainty, especially in the current climate. As a company that fosters growth in young graduates, we are determined to help people that are embarking on a career in a profession that is ever-changing, dynamic and technology driven.
As a Marketing Graduate we will on-board you to Marketing Eye in a way that allows you to see the full breadth of what a career in marketing will look like. We work with a variety of different industry sectors including technology, biotech, medical, health, logistics, manufacturing and professional services.
Why Blogs Are Critical to Successful SEO and Website Traffic
Jul 26, 2021 Written by Phoebe Simmonds
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is one of the most important tactics for marketers and business owners looking to boost their website traffic. Optimizing your website pages, images, and blog posts help to ensure that your website is visible to more people. Search Engines like Google don’t know who you are, or how great your products are. All they can do is match users up with websites that include the key terms they are searching for. SEO involves embedding these terms into your website, increasing the chance that potential customers will find you.
One of the easiest, cheapest, and most effective ways to optimize your website is through blog posts. These should be well-written- long-tail forms of content that contain keywords that are relevant to your company, products, and what users will be searching for. There are so many benefits and hacks when it comes to writing well-optimized blogs and boosting website traffic. In this post, we discuss the importance of blogs and their effects on SEO.
Team leaders, external third parties, or marketing managers alike, hosting a marketing strategy workshop can be daunting - particularly if you haven’t prepared.
Marketing strategy workshops provide an opportunity to review the process of marketing operations in your business and its influences on key stakeholders. Bringing your team together to help foster an understanding of the various goals of your management, sales, and marketing team, and how each of these applies to your product or service development strategy.
Deliver an experience that will motivate your team through stimulating exercises and running through a fast-paced checklist that will further assist your business in achieving goals.
As the global marketing space continues to evolve and change, so must we. It is not enough to rely upon a college degree or traditional marketing theories. Being a successful marketer requires you to draw upon a diverse range of skillsets and apply your knowledge.
It can take years to truly master the art of marketing but homing in on relevant skills in the short term can help take your marketing game to new levels. Therefore, we’ve compiled a list below of the ten most essential skills you’ll need as a marketer to succeed and provide the best experience for your clients.
6 Tools to Build and Drive Authentic Customer Engagement in 2021
Jun 30, 2021 Written by Marketing Eye
Brands currently face the post-pandemic challenge of competing for consumer engagement in a densely populated digital space. Here are 6 tools to get up to speed.
Many brands struggle to harness the lightning strike that is highly engaging content and those who, often fail to see it hit twice in the right place. Even when engagement appears to be high for some brands on their social media handles and other interactive networking platforms, it can be faked using bots. As a result, the importance of developing authentic engagement in the marketplace and on the street has never been higher. The difficult task many modern brands face is to consistently replicate this while building a strong emotional connection over time between their brand and their customers.
Establishing the best practices for work-from-home employees will help reduce distractions and helps increase productivity. Keeping your team on the same page, involved, and regularly providing guidance is the best way to motivate your employees as they work from their homes. This is key to having a successful team within your business.
Best Practices to Market a Podcast
You could have the best podcast, but it won’t gain a considerable following overnight and without promotion. However, if someone has never promoted a podcast, it might be unclear where you to start. The tips located below will detail a starting place that can be used for the most new podcasters or experienced podcasters.
5 Marketing Megatrends to Help Prepare your Business from Today to 2025
May 18, 2021 Written by Cian Cornish
2021 has already involved a massive year of rebuilding and attempting to reset our economies while keeping safe from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. After such a shocking year, it’s hard to consider exactly how things will change in response to the pandemic and important global factors in the coming years. Luckily, we’ve compiled our list of 5 of the largest marketing megatrends for 2025, to get you up to speed.
We’ve all done it. You know – got so busy that we forgot that the saying “hello” to our team just doesn’t cut the mustard.
One of the biggest topics that clients are talking to our marketing agency about today is how they can use marketing to better communicate to their people and help manage them in a way that everyone remains on the same page and grows from the experience.
Creating content is more than just writing and posting blogs to your company website. Once it goes to the website, it may or may not get read by your audience. Even if you are writing interesting, compelling blogs that are informing your audience on your team’s industry insights, your audience may not be reading them. It’s important to create content that’s not only informative but shareable. Below, we have four ways to create shareable content to attract your audience.
Businesses around the world are struggling to find ways to be relevant in a business climate that is constantly changing. It can be a difficult process to find new ways to stick out from your competition on a good day, so it's important to find ways to reach your audience even when it's challenging. Below, we discuss four ways your business can stay relevant in even the most challenging business climates.
