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Focus, Niche Down, and Skyrocket Your Business

Selling to businesses locally or internationally usually entails selling services or products. Products are a bit easier since you can provide a trial version of your product and broadcast it everywhere. Products are also well-defined, you can easily outline the scope of your product and draft several case studies tackling specific problems. Services are different. If you offer a wide range of services for different audiences, you need to niche down.  What Does It Mean to Niche Down? To put it simply, niching down means to pick a specialty and a specific target market for your business. For a new… Continue Reading
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How to Align Your Business Strategy Based on Client Feedback

Client feedback is one of your most important weapons to design a bullet-proof business strategy that scales.  Feedback can identify operational inefficiencies, helping you allocate resources more effectively. It also validates your business model, indicating readiness for scaling. Negative feedback serves as immediate quality control, allowing quick rectification of defects or service lapses, which in turn safeguards your brand reputation. The feedback that your clients give you is extremely powerful because you are getting paid for it, meaning that they are willing to invest in you and your services or solutions make sense.  You just need to reverse engineer what… Continue Reading
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Brand Building vs Silent Building: Choosing the Right Strategy for Your Business

In the dynamic landscape of e-commerce, the debate between brand building and silent building has ignited discussions across various platforms. As I engaged in conversations on four different podcasts this week, one central question emerged: why are many dropshippers hesitant to embrace brand building and showcase their stores? The apprehension often stems from a fear of imitation and resistance at scale. However, let's delve into the essence of both strategies to better understand their implications. The Power of Brand Building Brand Building is an artful process that involves crafting a distinct identity for your business through deliberate actions and targeted… Continue Reading
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Mastering the B2B Sales Process: How to Effectively Reach Decision Makers

Budget and timing are the two major reasons why businesses and salespersons lose B2B deals. This is according to a report from Chorus. This gives emphasis to the fact that the B2B sales process is a long one and it needs strategic approaches not only in budget and timing but also in other key aspects. To be successful in B2B sales means to have a deeper appreciation of B2B processes and sales stages, determining and reaching the decision-makers, and knowing how to go through the sales process efficiently. Understanding the B2B Process The B2B process takes longer than B2C since:… Continue Reading
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The Business Executives’ Guide To Inbound Marketing

The business executives of a company should be the frontliners in marketing the company’s products and services. There’s hardly any way around it.  If you are a part of a company's senior leadership or management, it’s crucial to learn how to navigate marketing alongside other business operations. Digital marketing involves several skills, including content production, email marketing, affiliate and partnerships, as well as social media, analytics, setting and measuring KPIs, and tracking and launching campaigns. Once you have the background in place, you can hire someone or work with a team that can follow the successful steps and expand further.… Continue Reading
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8 Strategies How to Promote Your Blog Content

I am a great proponent of Inbound marketing - and investing in content development is brilliant in the long run. But unless you promote your blog, there's virtually no way for visitors to discover your content. SEO has evolved drastically over the past two decades. I was crushing it for all sorts of keywords in 2007, content production was all about "keyword density", bombing any business was contingent on 10 marketers adding malicious anchor text pointing to a website. Social media is changing rapidly, too. Facebook has built a whole empire around brands building groups and fan pages for promotion… Continue Reading
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How Mission and Vision Statements Work

When starting a business or setting a new direction for an existing one, two guiding stars often lead the way: mission and vision statements. The mission statement is like the company's backbone, outlining its core purpose and the reason it exists. It answers the straightforward question: Why are we here? On the other hand, the vision statement is the big dream, the picture of what success looks like in the future. It's the company's north star, giving everyone a clear direction and something to strive for. Have you developed a mission statement for your company? What about a vision statement?… Continue Reading
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Strategic Channel Partnership: A Guide to Finding and Cultivating Successful Collaborations

Channel partnerships can be an effective strategy for businesses to cross-sell and upsell to the same target market as other vendors in their space. However, a partnership's success largely depends on the alignment of the partners and the value proposition offered to customers. Before reaching out to potential partners, businesses must consider several factors, including whether the partner is suitable for the customers they serve, whether there is alignment in value propositions, and whether both parties can contribute equally to the relationship. The success of a partnership also relies on clear communication channels, shared goals, a co-marketing plan, resource sharing,… Continue Reading
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Content Marketing And The Future Of Audio/Video

Content marketing is basically a form of marketing that is focused on producing and distributing content online to target a specific audience. Businesses employ content marketing to attract attention and generate leads expand their customer base increase brand awareness or credibility engage an online community of users generate or increase online sales I consider content marketing a crucial part of my main job. It helps with branding, partnerships, community resources, accessible content for my team, educational pieces for new candidates, sales material, and a PR powerhouse. Even if it takes 50% of my time, its compound power is generally worth… Continue Reading
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8 Reasons Why You Should Start to Build a Brand ASAP

In the 21st century, with the evolution of digital and everything else that's happening behind the scenes, and with different companies popping up, building a brand is the best way to achieve a lucrative business venture. Brand building is extremely important for various reasons. But specifically, brand building can be positively impactful in establishing your business strategy, augmenting your recruitment process, navigating new opportunities, finding new ventures, enabling great PR, and so forth.  What is brand building? Brand building is basically about generating awareness about you and your business by organizing effective campaigns and using certain strategies that consider some… Continue Reading