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 [...]
There is no doubt that getting results from Social Media Marketing takes time, needs a clear strategy and a true understanding of how to engage an audience that is being bombarded with information. So, what does a small business do when they lack the time and money to invest in the help they need to [...]
The biggest reason why businesses fail at Social Media Marketing is that they don’t understand that talking at someone is not the same as talking with someone. The word “social” implies that there is a conversation between two or more people. Many businesses use sites like Facebook to push their marketing messages out to the [...]
OK, so that is probably a strange title for today’s Purple Diamond Marketing Blog, but as I listened to the news talk about Groundhog Day and if the Groundhog will see his shadow to help us know if winter will soon be over I laughed and realized it is much like the trends in marketing. [...]
1.) Maintain a customer data base and enter all customers and prospects in this system and continue to update with notes about their birthday, hobbies, family, their likes and dislikes, etc. 2.) Make a list of topics for future press releases to use during the year and go beyond sending them to just the newspaper. [...]
If you own your own business and your marketing and sales efforts this year are just “OK”, do you want more? Seems like a silly question, but it might be the reason you are not getting the results today that you want for your business. During tough economic times there is always a large percentage [...]
This past year when I attended a business networking event in October the host requested we wear costumes and I was voted to have the “Most Original Costume” that night. Though I was flattered to have been voted “Most Original”, only a handful of attendees at that event dressed in costumes. The room was filled [...]
Thanksgiving is over and businesses are in the home stretch for additional sales to end the year with their best effort for 2010, but this is also the time you need to review your marketing and advertising efforts and consider what you need to change and what efforts will be repeated and or improved. Do [...]
We have all heard of personal trainers, life coaches, career coach specialists , real estate agents who coach you on buying or selling your home, and business consultant/coaches, but do you understand what a marketing coach is and if you need one? First, a marketing coach will offer help in key areas of marketing. They [...]
Today, I attended a business seminar in Salem, MA. that addressed the financial challenges of new businesses and what they needed for a business plan to receive funding from a bank or other financial source. In the audience there were mostly people looking to start new businesses that had never owned a business before and [...]
