There are lots of trendy terms these days in marketing and one is called “Real Time Marketing”, but what exactly does that mean and how is it different than what marketers have done in past years? Real Time Marketing is responding to data analytics and messaging in real time or close to real time. Unlike… Read more »
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Great Week, Six Year Anniversary and Awarded Sole Proprietor of the Year
Today is March 1st and for most it is just a cold Saturday in March, but for Purple Diamond it is a milestone and an end to the most amazing week. Six years doesn’t seem like much for businesses that have been around for 20 or 50 years, but this anniversary was marked with a… Read more »
Competition is Healthy for Your Business
There will always be competition, but how you choose to view competition and act can actually make your business stronger and with a healthier bottom line. There will be businesses who ignore the warning signs and refuse to work with a marketer who will do a good competitive analysis which goes in to detail about… Read more »
Niche Marketing Mistakes
A niche market is a small market segment of a larger targeted market. A great example of a successful niche market is the hybrid car market in which Toyota cornered the market early on with the Prius. The reason businesses choose to focus on niche market is that it allows them to be more targeted… Read more »
Marketing Tip – Have a Ribbon Cutting
Marketing Tip: Have a ribbon cutting for your new business or new location. [“A ribbon cutting is the ceremonial opening of a brand-new or newly-renovated/relocated business that has opened within the last six months. It can inaugurate a business’s first day of business or it can take place weeks after the business’s soft opening.”] By… Read more »
How Do You Measure Results from Social Media Marketing
As a marketing coach and social media marketing strategist who has worked in the past as a senior level sales executive in TV advertising, my first measurement is always… sales? Has your sales increased from your efforts using Social Media Marketing? Do you know your ROI? My client, Haven From Hunger, recently won a $20K… Read more »
Social Media During a Difficult Week in Boston
I saw the best and the worst this past week on Social Media sites and being a Marketing Coach based in Beverly, MA where we are only 18 miles north of Boston, I was not a casual observer. Let me start by saying I was working in TV advertising during the 9-11 tragedy. As a… Read more »
Why Did You Start Your Business?
Today is Purple Diamond‘s 5th year anniversary and the morning was spent first on Facebook saying Happy Birthday to various friends and commenting on posts, then attending a business networking group at 7:00am followed by a Board of Directors meeting for the North Shore Business Forum and then meeting with a new client who has… Read more »
Have You Checked Out Your Social Media Strategist
Social Media Marketing is still very new and so we are seeing many many marketing professionals jump in and call themselves “Social Media Marketing Strategist or Professionals”. Some are, but many are not. So, before you sign-up for a class or attend a seminar or hire a company to help you with your Social Media… Read more »
Marketing Trends for 2013
As we end the first month of 2013, we notice that more businesses have added staff positions to handle their on-line marketing or have hired outside Social Media Marketing Consultants to manage their Social Media Campaigns. Content…content…content…that is the buzz word for 2013. Companies will spend more time and money creating quality content that will… Read more »
