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Your first step to a Marketing Strategy Roadmap: The Brand Blueprint

Julie Ewald branding, content strategy, marketing strategy

As an entrepreneur that had, at some point, defined your product or service, you now feel ready to start showing it off to the world.  You want to start churning out content, attracting traffic that will turn into leads and convert to customers before they even know what hit them. If only B2B marketing would be that simple…

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COVID-19 crisis communications for B2B brands

Julie Ewald content strategy, FAQ, marketing strategy

With the current COVID-19 global pandemic, crisis communications are suddenly one of the many new things businesses are finding themselves wrestling with. It’s understandable. Knowing what to say to your clients, leads, and other list members — and if you should say something at all — is an incredible challenge. There is no single “right” thing to say, but there are plenty of wrong things that could come off as tone-deaf, insensitive, oblivious, or worse — creating negative, lasting repercussions for your brand.

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A Facebook page is NOT an alternative to a website

Jonathan Powell branding, content strategy, marketing strategy, social media Leave a Comment

When it comes to business, Facebook can be exceptionally effective in several ways. Outside of offering insightful statistics, solid ROI on digital ads, a direct connection to customers, and a user base in the billions, it also has one particularly alluring feature: it’s free to set up. Unfortunately, many businesses also confuse that effectiveness (cost or otherwise) with a reason

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The #1 B2B content marketing strategy fail

Jonathan Powell content marketing, content strategy, digital marketing, marketing strategy Leave a Comment

So, you’ve come up with a topic, done your research, and created a fantastic piece of content, perfectly aligned with your inbound strategy and sure to give readers what they’re looking for. You click that faithful “Publish” button. And now… you wait for magic to happen, right? Wrong.