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 [...]

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 [...]

If you have recently gone for a business loan you may have had to submit a Business Plan and in that plan there should have been a section for your marketing.  A formal Marketing Plan is not just for large corporations or small businesses who are looking to secure a loan, the plan is a [...]

Websites in 2012 offer so many more options than sites in the past.  From adobe flash-based websites that offer animated messages to the basic WordPress format, businesses must decide what design platform is the best one to reach their target audience. Purple Diamond just converted from an Adobe flash-based site that allowed for a diamond [...]

Purple Diamond is a marketing coach, advertising agency and social media marketing maven which coaches companies on affordable and effective ways to market and advertise their business. Purple Diamond was started in 2008 as a boutique marketing consulting company focusing on small to mid-sized companies who have a need for greater growth through business strategy, [...]