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Back to Basics: Marketing

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As the year draws to a close, most business owners start thinking about how they can grow in the year ahead. One great way to do that is to look at your marketing efforts over the past year to see what worked and what didn’t.

Were your marketing efforts spot on for 2011 or not? Can your results be improved by revisiting the basics of effective marketing? Are you considering rolling out a new product or service in the year ahead?

Here are 10 basic tips that can help get your marketing on track and help you start planning for the year ahead.

10 Things Every Business Owner Should Know about Marketing

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Back to Basics: Keyword Research

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Keyword research is an important foundation for a number of marketing channels, not just search engine marketing. Knowing which keywords to target is important for content marketing and social media marketing as well.

Unfortunately, too many marketers and D-I-Yers either overlook keyword research altogether or do an inadequate job of researching keywords.

Planning, writing and publishing content that’s based on inadequate research is a recipe for failure and ‘do-overs.’ This post looks at how effective keyword research can boost your brand’s visibility online.

Keyword Research, Search and Content Marketing

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Back to Basics: Direct Marketing

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Direct marketing campaigns are still effective – especially when used with other marketing tools as part of an integrated, multi-channel marketing strategy.

There are some basics to getting the most out of a direct marketing campaign. Without them, you’re probably just going to waste time and money, and you run the risk of turning off your prospects.

This post will give you some ideas on the critical elements that must be included in direct marketing campaigns to make them successful.

7 Critical Elements in Direct Marketing Campaigns

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Back to Basics: Email Marketing

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Some marketers have given up and abandoned email marketing as a viable tool for building their business, crying, “Email marketing doesn’t work anymore.” Others simply believe that reaching out to prospects by email is tantamount to spam.

Our experience has been that email marketing most certainly does work, and if you follow certain guidelines, you won’t be seen as a spammer.

Here are some basics on using email as part of your online marketing efforts and how you can get started or just get back on track.

Email Marketing Basics

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Getting Back to Basics: Blogs

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Are you still on the fence about a blog? Maybe you haven’t made up your mind if a blog will be useful to you. Or, maybe you have a blog but it doesn’t seem to be working the way you thought it would. Sometimes, getting back to basics can help.

Blogs can provide greater visibility within your industry, help position you, your company or organization as a thought leader in your field, and generate speaking opportunities.

But, like anything else in the digital marketing arena, blogs have their downsides too.

Here’s a look at the basics of blogs and blogging, why they work and what you’ll want to watch out for if you have a blog or are planning to use one for marketing purposes.

Blogs and Blog Marketing

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"I'm always inspired after a meeting with Market it Write. Mistina's insight into the needs of my company's marketing strategy brings clarity to our messaging and pushes our company closer to the high-performance business model we strive for."  

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