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How Infographics Improve Your Content
Learn ways infographics improve your content. Including an infographic with your content is going to improve it by 110%, guarantee, and here’swhy. For our brains images easier to process than text. We remember facts that are given to us in simple to understand terms, and even more so when there’s
The Marketing Metrics Holy Grail
Why Are Marketing Metrics Important? If you want eternal life for your marketing efforts, there is one key action you must take: tracking marketing metrics. For Instance, If your marketing campaigns are not carefully tracked, monitored, and analyzed, they will NOT be as effective, and certainly will be more expensive.
Hedgehog Concept Guide
The Hedgehog concept is a classic Venn Diagram incorporating three circles with common elements represented by the areas of overlap among the circles with the hedgehog being the center Jim Collins, in his book Good to Great, stated “The essence of a Hedgehog Concept is to attain piercing clarity about
Beginners Guide to Email Marketing
Email Marketing Emails are one of the top ways to communicate and are a daily use by the majority of the world’s population. According to EMarketer, nearly 76% of all US adults still use email frequently, however, most emails are not opened. According to Blog Marketing Academy, 28% or fewer
Critical Success Factors for a Business
What Are Critical Success Factors for a business and Why you need them? What are Critical Success Factors for a business? Whether you have just started a small business, have been running an enterprise business for the past 10 years, or are just thinking about starting a business, you should
How to Create Your First Customer Journey Map
How often do we step into the shoes of our customers? Many managers find it difficult to really understand the needs of their customers. Customer Journey Mapping allows you to illustrate the experience a customer goes through as they engage with your company. There’s no right or wrong way to
Market Segmentation: Increasing Your Reach
Why is Market Segmentation Important? With over 7.8 billion people living on the planet earth, you will shortly come to find that marketing is not a one size fits all situation. For instance, In marketing different messages are going to have different meanings based on gender, age, values, culture, location,
Business Motivation Model
Successfully creating end results based on a business strategy is a complex task. There can be many key factors that play into this process and confusion along the way. This is where enterprise architects save the day. As an enterprise architect, it is your responsibility to make sure the tools
Keller’s Brand Equity Model: Steps to Strengthen Your Brand
Customers create and establish feelings and thoughts regarding your brand with every experience they have with it. These can be negative or positive. Keller’s Brand Equity Model is all about taking control of what those feelings and thoughts are. You need to shape the experiences to create the desired thoughts
5 Real Life Blue Ocean Strategies
Before we get into the 5 products it is important to know what a blue ocean strategy is. A Blue Ocean Strategy is when a company builds a product or service that has no previous market. Meaning that since it doesn’t currently have a market it also doesn’t have any
Breaking Down the BCG Matrix
What is the BCG Matrix? The BCG Matrix is a popular conceptual model that’s very helpful when you’re reviewing your business strategy. It provides a way for companies to review their products and brands based on the product’s competitive position, or how it performing compared to competitor products in the
7s Model: Evaluate Your Business Strategic Plan
Starting a new company can be difficult. There are several factors that contribute to why some businesses fail when others don’t for example too little capital, too much overhead, or simply wrong timing to name a few. However, many fail simply because of poor strategic planning. Of the many tools