7 Ways to Boost Your Consumer Trust

If you polled your consumers right now, would all of them say that they trust you? Are you 100% sure? More than ever, competition is fierce and customer loyalty hard to come by in almost any market. Consumers are becoming increasingly skeptical as they receive Dozens or perhaps even hundreds of brand messages daily, both…
B2B Branding: The Importance of a Great Value Proposition

Branding. It’s something that B2C companies need to do well. Why? Because it’s a competitive world out there, and a lot of sales are based on being memorable in consumers’ minds. Everyone knows the logos and slogans of these two B2C brands: These logos and slogans are part of a larger branding message that companies…
5 Tactics For Extending Conversations With Customers

Communication is the key to building a long lasting relationship with your customers. After all, it’s fairly rare for a relationship to form between a brand and a consumer after a single moment of contact. Your job, as a content marketer, is to find ways to maintain contact by identifying opportunities to keep the conversation…
6 Reasons Why Facebook Still Reigns for Brand Promotion

Reason #1: Your Demographic is There Some have called Facebook the “Coca-Cola” of this century. And that’s a pretty apt description. The company is huge; of all adult users of the Internet, 72% are on Facebook. And these users are from all demographics – young, middle-aged, seniors, rich, middle-class, poor, all races and religions, all…
The Proven Impact of Color On Consumer Behavior

Color is one of the most important elements of a corporate identity. Choice of color affects all promotional efforts of a company. In this regard, it is best is to adhere to a scientific approach rather than rely on your own preferences. Inflexibility when choosing a color gamut can spoil the design, nullify all the…
Brand Journalism versus Brand Storytelling

By Andrew Hutchinson I read an interview with author Arnold Zable recently in which he discussed his work in championing causes through his writing, most notably asylum seekers. Zable talked about the power of storytelling in such efforts, saying that ‘story is a very beautiful way to lead people somewhere else’. Zable noted that more…
How To Build Trust And Identity On Social Media

Depending who you listen to or read in the social media space, the best reason to use social media for your brand varies. It can be for listening; resolving issues; lead generation; focus groups; recruitment; and much, much more. All good reasons. All good value. And yet…. While these are all solid enough reasons to be…
Generate More Interest in Your Business with These Social Selling Tips

Social Selling Strategies Are you getting all the sales you want from social media? Do you wish your followers showed more interest in your products or services? Social selling is not an exact formula for sales, but instead an end result from strong interactions with your business or brand’s community. As word-of-mouth becomes the new…
Use Social Context To Connect

Is it just me (and my timelines), or is everyone suddenly talking about the unignorable power of social context? I often see patterns emerging across all my information feeds, from thousands of sources in my realms of culture, media and publishing, technology, marketing, entrepreneurship and leadership. What bubbles to the surface across multiple fields is…
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