Guest Post As a good business owner, you’ve probably thought a lot about what your customer needs and prefers. But what about how they feel? It’s not enough to have the right product or service at the right time, you need to make an emotional connection with your customer. That emotional connection creates a bond that leads them to not only buy but also...
Read MoreIt was just another day with another important marketing campaign underway. We were about to send an email that had taken many hours over many days. It was carefully planned and carefully set up. Several rounds of revision had yielded a marketing masterpiece. The words just right. The graphics eye-catching. The call-to-actions pitch-perfect. Hit send? Hit send. ...
Read MoreThere is a big and hairy scary question facing anyone who is writing a business blog during this pandemic. Do you write about it or not? If you choose to not write about it will your readers think you are ignoring the obvious? Are you risking being irrelevant at the moment? If you do write about it, will you be seen as exploiting the situation and perhaps even...
Read MoreThe bread shelves were empty, but at least there were Cosmic Brownies. This has certainly been a time of adapting. Now more than ever, the future of our businesses depends on our ability to pivot and persevere. A big part of that is outreach to customers and clients. But where do you begin when you don’t know what next month holds, let alone this afternoon?...
Read MoreHow do you market in the midst of a Coronavirus pandemic that is uprooting all sense of normalcy across the globe? Especially when the response is a massive call for social distancing, which is the exact opposite of what we generally strive to achieve? Start with some deep breaths. Recognize that with the shifting landscape, there is a need to pivot and adapt our...
Read MoreNOTE added 5/9/2020: It appears that Facebook has changed the procedure for going to a page’s activity log. Now when you follow the instructions provided by Facebook, you are taken to your personal activity log rather than the page’s activity log. This is causing hours of frustration for users. I have submitted questions on Facebook and researched but I...
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