May 21, 2012
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Compelling Ideas that Add Value to Your Content Marketing  Content Marketing Series-3

Compelling Ideas that Add Value to Your Content Marketing Content Marketing Series-3 Stay relevant, be compelling, follow your corporate mission. Content marketers face a mix of challenges. Get beyond writer’s block and start creating quality content. You will attain more results. Start with a well, thought-out plan and understand the process: Publish. Share. Increase traffic … Read more

10 Trends in Association Meetings and How To Use Them

What do your members want this is the question at hand The solution will bring forth recruit, renewal and demand. This month, the Sales and Marketing VP for the Vancouver Convention Centre presented on the newest developments in association expos and tradeshows at the ASAE Business of Meetings Certificate Program that took place in Washington. … Read more

Let Bart Simpson Inspire your Business:  Add this tool to inform and attract your audience

Every year organizations redefine their corporate visions and missions. New strategies are formed to support the foundations. Sometimes, as a business, you may be limited in budget or resources to stretch ideas into tangible tactics. Inspiration can derive from anywhere. For B2B businesses, it can even come from a consumer-driven entity. The skill is in … Read more

Get creative with your promotions: Instead of eye candy Restaurant beefs it up with Eye Burger

It’s true. The Netherlands Burger King has gone fashionista using eye shadow to promote its restaurant items to its female audience. This is a new direction for the fast food restaurant. It matters not what type of business you manage, leveraging high creativity to penetrate a new market can reap great rewards. Just getting the … Read more

Utilize content to drive demand: 3 Secret Tools to Create a Great Content Marketing Campaign

Content Marketing Strategy Series-2 Content marketing gives you control to convey the message, your brand’s role Write well, educate and inspire Said right, it’ll spread like wildfire. Whether you are a marketing communications executive, business owner, or CEO, you know how important a corporate online presence is these days. You most likely keep your website … Read more

Generate more leads: How to get started on Content Marketing

Content Marketing Strategy Series 1 of 3 Content marketing is now it gives your business more WOW Keeps you relevant, informative connected, sales active Real value if you know how Content marketing is the newest way businesses can engage buyers or members and drive sales, but in a more indirect way. It is not about … Read more

What’s your company’s current challenge? Identifying your marketing problem is half the work but the skill is in applying the right strategy and execution. Boston Pizza (BP) is a prime example of a marketing success story. The Canadian restaurant chain offers up a family-style dining room and a sports bar. However, the brand awareness is … Read more

9 Ways to Add Value to Your Events

How to increase your ROI on trade show event marketing. Can you believe January is already behind us? Most businesses are revving up for a busy year of B2B trade events. Biztradeshows.com states: ‘Trade Fairs have evolved into one of the most important Buyer-Seller meeting platforms. Most of the leading manufacturers spend up to 10% … Read more

5 easy Social Media steps to get your business started with Twitter:

Twitter is here to stay with over 300 million users and can become a powerful part of your business marketing and communication mix. What is Twitter? It is a free microblog, or social messaging tool that enables people to stay in touch with each other using short text messages (140 characters, to be exact). Twitter … Read more

Holiday shopping market research or Big Brother watching?

When the American Thanksgiving approaches, most of Canada is aware of this momentous occasion. The day is mostly about turkey, and football (for some, not necessarily in this order). However, their long weekend is focused on sales and shopping. New promotion campaigns and purchase incentives flood new and traditional media channels. The airwaves enable us … Read more