It’s all about the email subject line – right? If you create it correctly then riches, fame, and glory will follow. I wish it were that easy. There are many moving pieces when it comes to an email campaign and the subject line is just one of them. It just so happens that it’s the […]
Starting a new brand with an idea you think will succeed is exciting. The truth can be a bit depressing. Oft-quoted statistics say that up to 90% of new businesses fail within their first decade and this number may be worse for first-time founders. Business failure is often preventable if you do your research beforehand […]
With our increasingly busy schedules, it can feel as if the simple pleasures – like a few trivia questions – are harder and harder to come by. Of course, you can go through a few fun trivia questions using apps but there’s nothing like having a trivia night with friends and family. While I can’t help […]
A well-designed and considered questionnaire can be the difference between success and failure. Customers have wants and needs that are constantly changing and evolving. It’s no longer enough to be reactive when situations arise. Now, your customers expect you to solve problems before they become problems. Questionnaires make it possible to better understand […]
A segmented market is valuable. Demographic segmentation is often the first step in creating customer profiles that help you make better products, messages, and close deals. Before we had things like Facebook and Google that let you target your customer’s interests, intent, and behaviors, – the things that make up psychographic segmentation – all we had was […]
Almost no one buys from your website on the first visit. It takes multiple interactions. The onus is on you to create an opportunity for your visitors to come back and interact with your brand. How do you do that? Blog into oblivion? Spam social media? Create awesome videos? No, not exactly. If you said […]
It’s about time we started optimizing for humans. I started my journey into all things digital a little under a decade ago. What works has changed. It was easier to get an email address. It was harder for people to pay for things. There weren’t so many digital services. It was hard as hell to […]
Marketese is your enemy. Marketese kills your conversions. Marketese is to be fought with extreme prejudice. If marketese were a living creature, we’d shoot it in the head, drag it back to its home, shoot all its offspring, burn everything to the ground, then dissolve the remains. Marketese is a disease. If left unchecked, it […]
They say knowledge is power. Do you have the right information about your customers – the right knowledge? Do you know what they want from you and whether your products and services are truly meeting their needs? If you have any doubt whatsoever or can’t really answer that question then it’s time to explore different […]
You know what would be amazing:If you could read minds…… and figure out what made people tick as individuals.How would your message be different if you knew what someone wanted…..and WHY they wanted it? That’s the information psychographic segmentation gives you.It’s almost like reading minds….We’ve covered market segmentation which allows you to divide the world into groups […]