Branding
3 ways to reach your ideal customers
During the last decade, the amount of content aimed at your target audience has exploded, making it harder than ever for your company’s voice to be heard. This exponential proliferation of content also makes it harder for your ideal buyers to find you. It’s like playing a game of Marco Polo in a huge, crowded…
Read MoreLeverage these opportunities to grow your brand strength in 2021
Now that we’re two full months into 2021, it looks like the world is starting to return to normal – at least a NEW normal, anyway. It’s time to put a stake in the ground to see what our Brave New World of B2B marketing and sales looks like, and what you need to do…
Read MoreAgile approaches for uncertain times
A local printer has not only endured seismic shifts in its industry and thrived but has also reimagined itself by staying close to its customers and taking cues from their requests and feedback. The parent company of Cultivate Communications, Heritage Printing, has offered a wide spectrum of services to support its customers’ needs, providing a…
Read MoreWrangle new prospects with LinkedIn’s outbound marketing tools
Now that you understand how to organically attract traffic on LinkedIn and to your website, it’s time to focus on the outbound side of the rodeo. In this article, we’ll teach you four ways to use LinkedIn’s tools to identify, connect and interact with the right companies and people. 1. Build your network with a…
Read MoreDrive more prospects to your LinkedIn company page
In our first post in our LinkedIn Strategy series, Crafting Your LinkedIn Company Page, we showed you how to make your LinkedIn company page visually compelling, on brand and focused on the needs of your ideal prospects. Now, it’s time to focus on driving the right people to it. We’re going to show you three…
Read MoreCrafting your LinkedIn company page
In the last several years, savvy companies have discovered how to land new business and increase sales using LinkedIn. It has become so effective as a business development tool that if you don’t start leveraging it today, you will soon be at a competitive disadvantage. In our new Linkedin Strategy: Getting New Business article series,…
Read MoreMarketing’s Secret Sauce: The Message
It seems like anything successful has a secret formula, proprietary technology or “secret sauce” behind it that makes people talk about it. Marketing is no different. The secret sauce of successful marketing is the message. It must command the attention of its target audience, get them to think and feel something – and ultimately like,…
Read MoreWhy You Should Care About Your Brand Colors
Your logo and brand colors often create that key first impression in your customer’s mind—and visual impressions impact customer response. To harness the power of visual stimuli, you need to understand the psychology of color. Color invokes multiple layers of meaning, including instinctive responses associated with primal impulses and modern cultural cues based on familiar…
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