How Digital Competency Defines Marketing Success
Digital competency sounds like marketing speak. It is not. Today, as never before, barriers to entry for small biz brads are defined by your ability or lack thereof to shape technology to fit your business rules. Over 37% of small business owners plan to spend more on digital the next 12 months. Technical competency…
Social Platforms Move at Warp Speed – How to Get Heard
By Lee Traupel No business can grow in today’s always on Digital Eco System unless you are a social platform competent brand. Marshall McCluhan was prescient beyond his years when he published: “Understanding Media: The Extension of Man.” Platform and message are symbiotic. Your brand story has to be optimized for each platform, with visuals…
The 9 Critical Drivers for Social Selling
By Lee Traupel The face of sales is longer mired in the old school of sales approach imprinted in the culture by David Mamet’s culture defining “GlenGarry Glen Ross” – a tale of desperate men chasing the American dream using outdated sales “methods.” Social selling is not new. People have always “bought socially”: asking advice…
Amplify Your Messaging With a Less is More Strategy
By Lee Traupel I can’t believe the amount of content shared targeting small business that rhapsodizes about the endless rewards bigger brands are generating with social media marketing like Toms, SAP, Cisco, Intel, SalesForce, et al. Many of you do not have the marketing resources, staff and/or technical expertise to create and deploy this…
Why Your Content Lives or Dies in 10 Seconds
By Lee Traupel Content marketing is non-interruptive marketing that engages and informs a visitor. It’s gonna work or fall flat in about ten seconds like a great Sam Cooke song – you’re humming along or tuning it out. You have ten seconds to get the attention of your visitor. The usability maestro Jakob Nielsen’s Darwinian…
