What is a buyer persona? Buyer personas are detailed descriptions of each of your target customers/audience. Based on previous customer and consumer research, each buyer persona describes a different fictional buyer who embodies the identified demographics. These are personality traits, income, relationship status, buying behaviours, and motivations of a specific segment. They help you to…
For businesses new and old, there is a holy grail of marketing. Positive PR. Even better, natural positive PR as a direct result of the groundwork put in place by your team. Today, marketing professionals must straddle a line between social media, advertising in print or digital, creating topical and engaging press releases, maintaining close…
The importance of marketing within any business remains an important necessity. Its presence allows the customer to be educated on the products and services that a business has to offer. Marketing engages any customer and helps them to make a buying decision. Not only that, the marketing function within a business helps to create and…
For many PR and marketing professionals, or simply business owners aiming to expand their customer outreach, earned media value is an invaluable metric. Yet, all too commonly it is referred to as a vanity metric, appealing to the successful as a form of ostensible arrogance. We disagree – with the correct use of EMV, we…
Whether you’re a business owner or marketer, data analytics are key to learn about customer habits with target precision. This data includes, but is not limited to, from their favourite TV shows to what time they nap or take out the dog. To compete in today’s marketplace, understanding your customer and their preferences is essential.…
Social media has been at the cornerstone of reaching new clients as well as maintaining relationships with current and lapsed customers. The art of social media marketing can be a difficult one but if mastered correctly, can come with great rewards. As the new generations grow up with the use of the internet and digitisation,…
The integration of social networks like Facebook and Instagram are attractive for most marketers. The ability to gather exposure for a brand or product organically has allowed exponential growth in the e-commerce space with firms gathering demand through greater use of social media content marketing. This even includes platforms like TikTok. Real salespeople, however, know…
Attracting formidable talent to your business is hard enough. Businesses have dealt with the conundrum of creating the perfect incentive package to attract effective talent to their organisations whilst maintaining the financial viability of hiring such employees. If your business has been around for a while, you would understand that good talent pays for itself…
During the last year, everyone has been affected by the pandemic crisis in some way. This helped recognise the importance of prioritising mental health and raising mental awareness in both personal and professional lives. As part of this, workplaces have worked to destigmatise issues around mental health. Employees are to feel better supported. Leaders can…
When you develop and launch a product, it can feel like a huge relief to see the progress you have made up until the finished product line. But the next step is crucial; gaining traffic into your ecommerce site or attention for your product can be difficult, time-consuming, and sometimes may seem impossible. This is…