Friday, August 15, 2014

How Web Marketing is Your Approach For Digital Strategy

Today, there are many forms of promotional media. Some marketers also refer to them as "touchpoints," since they are every place where people encounter your brand. I will  describe a one of these tools (which I know best) Web Marketing. Effectiveness and popularity of these media  and even how they are used vary from country to country, even neighborhood by neighborhood.

In addition, what works for one industry or brand may not work for other industries and brands. This is simply to provide you with an idea of the  options; it's imperative that you adapt the medium to what works best for your brand, your stakeholders, and your goals!

One of these Promotional Media known as “Traditional Media” and other one has been named “New Media”

To begin with, do you know the first websites are nearly 20 years old, it's odd to refer to many of these media as "new." Some marketers prefer to call these options "digital  media." There's a lot of excitement about new media, since consumers are spending a lot of time online, and the media are relatively inexpensive to produce. However, doing new  media properly often requires a large investment of time, talent, even money. I'll introduce the most popular form here, and will discuss what is the impacting of mentioned tool  in your Digital Strategy

Websites: A website can serve what you would like to tell customers and people about YOUR brand, yourself and niche and even product. (Consider sait.ca website we have used  before) Creating a website is easier and more affordable than ever, though some complex websites can still require millions of dollars and several months of high-skilled labor.  The challenge with websites is that, even though they serve as a promotion, they usually need to be promoted themselves. You can't just build it and expect customers to find it.

From my perspective, every business has main goal which is establishing a customer centric environment/strategy, by providing customized and one to one experiences to the  various business or company stakeholders, across the multichannel communication platforms (offline, website, social media, mobile, blog, etc.)

So to achieve this, we should have an in depth understanding of the needs of our business stakeholders via establishing genuine and interactive communications with them.

In this article I will be highlighting the road map for planning a web effort. Along with suggestions for prioritizing objectives so it reflect organizational needs and strive  towards a web presence of the highest possible standards in terms of content, delivery and integration with other communications channels, therefore the benefits of improving  Web site/church to activate data integration, and the pros and cons of custom and template-based development strategies.

Website for your Web Marketing
Web presence can enhance the bottom line of any business, large or small, anywhere in the world. I would say communicating your company's message has never been easier, cheaper  or more necessary. As your Web presence matures and begins to grow in unforeseen directions, surpassing the competition becomes not only viable, but plausible. Here are just  most important benefits that come along with creating a usable website for your business:-
  1. The website is the official digital image of the business therefore the website’s branding and content style should be a reflection of that image. 
  2. You stop being invisible
  3. You create another sales tool 
  4. Growth Opportunity
  5. Generate leads  
  6. Helping to find and connect with new clients
To really get the benefits of a website for your business, your site will need to serve as a professional online presence that conveys your credibility, showcases your  solutions, and makes it easy for people to contact you.

On the other hand, no matter what kind of online business you have, it is essential that customers are able to find your company. Once they locate you, it is necessary to engage  them in the browsing or buying process, depending on your site objectives, using various promotional tools and techniques to enhance the online experience. As I mentioned in  previous articles; the challenge in getting customers to visit your site and return in the future is a reflection of the competitive nature of the online environment.

I would therefore say, if you want to stand out from the endless stream of online businesses and gain the attention of customers, you need to promote your site, and you need to  do it well.

Digital Marketing Funnel
There are many reasons as to why effective digital marketing has become a necessity for small businesses these days. According to Business Zone, digital marketing is the  marketing of the future. While the traditional methods used for advertising and promotion can still be successful in this day and age, the fact is that the world is more  connected online than ever before.

One of the main purposes of Digital Marketing is to generate customers, most perspective customers or consumers will do their research about some product or service online,  either by searching in Google or discussing their inspirations in the various Social Media platforms, therefore it is very essential to be found in the first page of search  results, placing Ads related to our business, and most importantly having strong engaging presence in the various Social Media platforms.

One of the most important aspects of digital marketing is the website. While small businesses and merchants work hard to maintain their brick - and - mortar locations, it is  also vital that they have updated, informative websites. Researchers and Marketers assured  that the website should be the start of any digital marketing initiative.

Since that website acts as the hub that all other avenues will drive traffic to - from social media to search engines and even traditional marketing campaigns - the website  needs to be the best that it can be. This means it should be easy to use and attractive, with relevant, timely content. It also needs to be unique to companies' individual goals  and the needs of their audiences - something an off - the - shelf template - based website will rarely deliver

The ultimate goal should be engaging and delighting the various stakeholders to be your number one promoters, it is no secret that happy customers are the best sales people for  any institution, and we should make use of that.

Monday, August 11, 2014

Why Do People Think Content Marketing is a Good Idea for Boosting Business

Nowadays, content marketing is considered THE Hot Topic of any business which is looking to ensure it continues to meet its needs and helps you set the course for your business. In fact, it’s smoking hot. Though many would have said “don’t waste your time” a few years ago, it is now the main focus for a majority of marketing professionals today.

In 2014 I have seen there are several trends from different aspect to apply content marketing as strategy to boost and growth business. For instance, leading experts and analysts in the digital marketing industry have continued to include content marketing in the conversation of “Top Marketing Trends” to watch in 2014. So, for business owners it’s definitely time to take notice and develop an effective strategy to leverage content marketing as a lead generation tool.

The experts in Digital Marketing industry have discovered there is a magic relationship between your business and content marketing – Why? Because it’s an effective method of advertising at a time when old marketing models aren’t as effective as they once were. Rather than buying a full-page newspaper ad and hoping your customers see it, now you can create brand-specific content to help customers find you.

Consumer trust in advertising is certainly not what it once was and because of this, a strong, focused content marketing strategy is needed. Internet users do not want to be bombarded with pop-up or banner ads and for many businesses, pay-per-click advertising does not provide an acceptable ROI.
However, a content marketing strategy can boost your business’ bottom line and provide the advertising and marketing results you need.

In the same time, we need to know how to prepare for this content as make quality content the key to your business success. There is a book for Sharon Tanton “The Valuable Content Marketing book” explains the role of content marketing in the business growth by creating and sharing valuable content. Get your message across in the right way, and the clients and customers you want will come to you. No hard sell required!

Here are three reasons to develop a targeted content marketing strategy.

1. Search Content Words
Creating good content is good keyword research. You content should have real value that allows you to discover the specific ways that people may be searching for your content. Content marketing provides consumers information they want. This is essential today, as more potential customers will search out information about your business before asking a friend or looking at various other media. Your content must educate, inspire, inform and engage the readers.

2. Trafalgar Communications
Consumers prefer content marketing over advertising. Consumers prefer want to hear what they like, so they have the ability to pick and choose what they like! Customers need a reason to visit and interact with a company's to learn about your business through articles instead of advertisements. A study by Roper Public Affairs found that 60 percent of decision makers felt they made better purchasing decisions with the help of content marketing. Equally important, the study found that 70 percent felt closer to the business brand.

3. Generate more Leads

If you want to generate more leads and sales for your business, I would say Content Marketing is one of the best ways to make this happen. It also lasts longer. Paid advertising may only benefit your business for a few weeks or days. Your content can end up shared through users or others, effectively increasing the reach and longevity of your message.

So every time you can provide value to your reader when you have a solid and educated content, you have an opportunity to ask for something in return. The challenge is for companies to rethink their content marketing strategy and incorporate Social Media and SEO in order to fulfill customer expectations for ease of discovery, consumption and sharing. On top of that, content must educate and make it easy to follow a logical conclusion to buy.  The companies that do those things best, will win the incredibly competitive online marketing race we’re in.

Sunday, August 10, 2014

The B2B Marketing Budget: When to Invest in Digital Marketing

A marketing budget can be tricky to define in the B2B environment. While all items in your budget should contribute to your Return on Investment and overall marketing success, you should know how your budget is broken down and how much of your budget goes towards digital marketing expenses. For example, I know that every year between 50-60% of my budget goes towards event marketing expenses. About 30% of my budget goes towards digital marketing, so I need to be sure every penny counts. Therefore, how do B2B companies know.
 

What marketing tools to be investing in?

Before considering the options below, make sure you know:

What your overall budget number is:

  1. How many people are responsible for implementing marketing activities?  
  2. Timelines for executing marketing activities (you don’t want to invest and then not have time to carry out your plans)
  3. What are my main marketing goals (strategy, branding, lead generation) and which are the priorities?
    The Freebies

    If your budget is tight, and like most companies in the past decade it probably is, take advantage of all the “freebies” you can. This includes free versions of LinkedIn, Hootsuite, Twitter, Slideshare and YouTube. There is no reason your company shouldn’t at least have LinkedIn and Twitter. Implement Hootsuite, which lets you manage up to 5 social media accounts for free, to manage your social media platforms from one website.


    The only investment you need to make here is time. Just because it’s free doesn’t mean you don’t need to dedicate time. Make sure your marketing people are maintaining your social media accounts with quality content.


    Small Investments with Big Impacts

    Sometimes making a small investment in a digital marketing tool can make a big impact – either for strategy purposes, branding or lead generation.  Here are some smaller digital marketing purchases that are worth the investment:

    • LinkedIn Premium Account (Lead Generation): LinkedIn is a fantastic tool for B2B marketing. For $30/month you can upgrade to the premium account and access features like InMail and sales lead generation lists. It is a great way to get marketing and sales on the same team.
    • SurveyMonkey Select Monthly Account (Market Research & Branding): For $25-30/month, SurveyMonkey is a great marketing tool for both strategic market research and branding. I’ve used SurveyMonkey to build customer and industry surveys for market research as well as registration forms. SurveyMonkey is also free, but the added benefit of a paid account is for branding such as personalized themes and the ability to send more surveys. It also has some added features to make your surveys very professional.
    • Email Marketing tools (Branding & Lead Generation): if your company focuses heavily on email marketing, consider upgrading from a free plan to a monthly subscription. This will generally allow you to send more email campaigns per month to more subscribers. With companies like MailChimp, it allows to remove the logo from the email footer, therefore avoiding emails that look too “spammy”
    Bigger, Riskier Investments with Bigger Potential Rewards

    Finally, there are those digital marketing tools that will make an imprint on your budget. These are the tools that require a strategy before investment, and if you choose to invest, require time. However, these tools have the potential for big pay-offs if used strategically.

    • Google AdWords (Lead Generation): the great thing about AdWords is that you decide how much you want to invest. Obviously the smaller the investment, the less Google runs your ads. But this is a perfect tool to invest small and then grow your investment as you strategically monitor your campaign. If you’re starting out it’s recommended to go with a budget of $4/day. This is the max you can spend, and Google makes it easy to monitor the progress of your ads so you know whether to increase, decrease or stop your investment
    • Website Development and/or Hubspot (Branding & Lead Generation): website development is not cheap, but it should be part of your annual budget. Websites need to be continuously updated to refresh content and move at the pace of your customers. Hubspot is a great tool for lead generation by implementing landing pages, doing keyword analysis and optimizing your website for search engines. But, it can cost you – from $200/month to $2,400/month. Here’s a tip: if you want to save money on website development, ask your developer to implement an administrative panel that’s editable by your marketing person. Invest in Hubspot only when you have a firm grip on your digital marketing strategy and you know you are ready for your website to take off.
    • SalesForce (Lead Generation): yes, this is a CRM tool but it’s a great tool to connect Sales and Marketing. Marketing can keep a database of contacts, build fields useful to them to generate email marketing lists, run reports, log and track campaigns and much more. Again, it’s costly but it’s a worthwhile investment for those who have a handle on their sales and marketing process
    Not sure where to start? Most marketing budgets will need some sort of financial investment in digital tools. Start by checking the freebies off your list. Then decide if your marketing goals are strategic, branding or lead generation and base your decisions on your end goal. The most important step is to monitor your investment and make the necessary changes. If you made a bad investment, get rid of it! Keep investing in what has paid off for you in the past



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    Article source: Mary Wieder-Bottaro

    Friday, August 8, 2014

    Why Your Promotion Never Works Out? 4 Ways You Will Ever Need

    Everyone thinks they deserve a promotion. But how do you truly know if you deserve one? In the same time you get great reviews from your boss and your coworkers, so when a senior-level opening promotion in your group, you surprise that your boss has chosen a person for that promotion, and he picked someone else!! Not you

    In my career I witnessed what I deemed to be travesties of employment equity laws when promoted colleague ahead of other employee. It's okay to be angry and upset, especially if you know you deserved that promotion or merit. Hang your ego on the hook with your coat and go back to work like normal. There's nothing for you to gain by moping around the office or being snarky or short with your colleagues—or the boss who passed you over. BUT focused on how seemingly unfair these outcomes were, never once did you consider your own contribution to your lack of success.

    I have different perspective might be help to understand how to stand in the level to get on your management’s radar fast, to get identified as one of the key assets in your company, and get promoted and compensated accordingly
    You may not agree with my advice below, but I believe it will work

    1. Look outside, not in

    It is really important to spend time observing external environments that ultimately will affect your organization’s future. Study trends, commentaries, and any other information that sends relevant signals about what is occurring in your sector. Begin to socialize these topics with operational and senior colleagues. Become known as the person who is wired in to what is going on in the market place.





    2. Build up your image and Effective Relationships

    Relationships between people can exist in many form, those that are most productive, effective and rewarding operate in a state of inter – dependence, such as involving yourself with voluntary and other groups relevant to your business. Identify individuals who may add value to your colleagues’ or your bosses’ business objectives. Self-awareness is considered as key role in building your image and relationship among your coworkers and group. With this awareness, you are able to approach new situations – those that excite you, those that daunt you and those that challenge you – with more confidence in yourself to deal with the issues you may encounter – known and unknown. This will no doubt enhance your relevance, relationships and opportunities.

    3. Work to respect not to show off 

    In the short term, promotions come and go – in the long game, respect builds a positive career trajectory. Also respect for others sets the work environment that allows the parties to interact with each other in a dignified way. To build sustainable respect with your leaders, exhibit the capacity to look for solutions when others may have given up. Being the positive voice when difficult issues arise will set you apart in the minds of your colleagues, and leave the clear impression that you can be relied upon in difficult or complex circumstances. Consistent and positive body language, along with a constructive attitude, will always provide long-term rewards.

    4. Always be open minded

    There are many benefits to be enjoyed from being open-minded, particularly in the workplace, I would say it helps us to experience new ideas and thoughts and we challenge the beliefs our currently have. It can be very liberating to look at the world through an open mind. No matter how important your role is to you, it is not who you are. This is a simple reality that took me a long time to learn and see how other think. 

    The business that we are working in or with is not always fair; your reaction to defeat is often the best test of character known to your boss or manger. Being open-minded puts you above others who refuse to look beyond horizons they’ve set for themselves and explore possibilities.

    By applying these four principles of the long game and sooner or later that promotion will likely come, within or outside your work environment.  I would therefore say business like life, is all about learning from it and more about yourself “You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you" - Barbara Sher .  In so doing, you will identify how you can make a valued contribution to your environment and stand out in the process.

    Monday, August 4, 2014

    Promote Your Niche Will Change Your Image In The Market Place and Community


    I believe people who plan to sell their image or promote their product or service need to find the sweet spot for their blog sometimes feel like tuning an old radio to new FM Channel. Am I right?

    So by working to find out the proper way to get that perfect connection with your readers, it considered a main axis to build up the network with your customers, clients and other social networks

    I would say that you know you’re close. You know some of the signal is getting through. But it’s not loud and clear.

    And no matter which direction you turn the dial, you can’t find the perfect position. Sure, a few people share your posts. You get the occasional comment. And a handful of people have joined your email list for updates.

    But it’s taken weeks, months or even years to get this far. How much longer must you wait to break through?

    Luckily for you, a small adjustment is often all you need – a subtle shift in direction that allows your blog to finally resonate strongly with your readers.


    Great Content, Design, and Other Blogging Myths.

    As I mentioned before in my previous blog the quantity of your content isn’t enough to make your blog a success.In the same time you’ve probably found plenty of great content that you haven’t done anything about. You didn’t share it, you didn’t comment on it, and you didn’t subscribe to get more of it.

    Let’s face it and talk frankly, what we need else to enhance and promote the content that we publish?
    It’s the same with great design.

    Based on how often blogging and marketing sites talk about design, you could think it makes a huge difference. But it doesn’t.

    Of course your site should look good. If it looks like it hasn’t been updated since the ’90s, people won’t expect much from your content either. But be honest – when was the last time you subscribed to a blog simply because it had good design? Exactly. Good design is simply a given – an expectation you have to meet. But it doesn’t give you an advantage.

    Objection: People Don’t Care If You’re an Expert.

    When you search about some content or find a site run by a recognized expert on the topic, it doesn’t mean you automatically subscribe. Even if you think the topics might help you, too many “experts” are sharing their ideas for that to make a difference anymore.

    The same thing causes many businesses to struggle with sales.

    For example, Online English Language Institute always claim to have solid-experience and reliable background. So, it’s just an expectation, which doesn’t have much weight in the qualification’s body to hold the process.

    You need more to get excited enough to take action. And so do the people who find your blog.

    So What Makes You Different?

    Think what sets your content has to be differentiate and apart from the competition.

    For example, do you provide more in-depth content than others? Or is your content more straightforward? Easier to implement? More entertaining? Or do you have specialized expertise or authority others in your field lack?


    Do you focus on solving more specific problems? Or help a more specific group of people? Or help in a way others don’t? Something has to make you different.
    The good news? Usually only a small adjustment is enough to make your blog worth the attention you desire. But if you don’t make that change, you have a squirrel’s chance on an eight-lane highway to build up a significant audience.


    How to Make People Understand Why They Should Pay Attention

    So you’ve figured out what makes you different. And written it down, so it’s not just in your head, right? Because it you haven’t written it somewhere, chances are the idea is less than perfectly clear.

    For example, it could be something like this: “My blog helps people to improve their way to run the business in terms of Information Technology, Organizational  Sustainability and Digital Marketing, so they can change their vision or style on the mechanism of using technique in applying or adopting different tool to enhance their business. . I give them practical, interesting information that they can easily add to their strategy.”

    The point is, you must already have it clarified for yourself. If you don’t, you’ll struggle to make your visitors understand why they should pay attention. You need to focus everything on getting that message across. Every aspect of your marketing needs to support it. 

    Even the content you share in social media and your guest posts should work hard to make people understand your value proposition.

    If anything isn’t in line with it, people won’t get a strong “signal” because you’re not consistent. And then, again, they have little reason to stick around reading your blog. But getting it across isn’t as complicated as you might think.

    Dominate Your Niche
     
    You know what compels people to pay attention to you, share your content, leave comments, and subscribe to your list.


    You publish content that your target audience has been craving and would be willing to jump through flaming hoops for. And all your content is focused on making people understand your value proposition.


    Things start rolling. People start subscribing. They share the content, so more people find you. Even Google understands you better when your content is focused.


    You’ve found just the right position for the dial, and the signal is clear.


    Try to apply what I  raised above and dig deep to find out additional details that might be help to support what we pointed out!


    Good Luck

    Sunday, August 3, 2014

    Want Better Business Growth? You Should Harness the Power of Your Business Strategy

    If you have a business or a company can you summarize your company’s strategy in two lines or less? If so, did you apply the sustainability as a management agenda in your business strategy? 

    When I was sitting with one my friend who has a company offers Green IT Services, I asked him about his company strategy and how he created it when he started up the new business? 

    He started talking about the concept of strategy statement and what we should do before even start doing any business and what is the road map we need to sketch out to know where we are going. I like the statement that he raised it “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there” so you we should have a clear goal and objective to your strategy to let stakeholders and shareholders know what is your vision and where youe plan to reach. 

    There is sentence says “You could go into business tomorrow with the goal of becoming the world’s largest hamburger chain within 10 years. But will anyone invest in your company if you have not explained how you are going to reach your objective?

    He explained to me how many months he spent to draw the outlines of his business strategy to make sure that it is one with which he feels comfortable, and what we need to ensure that our strategy is compatible with the type of business we want to run and the industry in which we will be working. 

    The idea was to adopt a strategy that integrated Information Technology Services and Sustainability to foster greater collaboration and offering green services in organizations. The objective was to offer unique services that make his company different from rivals by focusing on energy conservation and applying “green” service. 

    Your competitive advantage is the essence of your strategy: What your business will do differently from or better than others defines the all-important means by which you will achieve your stated objective.

    I admit that I love the term of sustainability and what
    does this term details has as my MBA was in organization leadership and sustainability.  Not so long ago, sustainability wasn’t even on the radar screen of most companies. Nowadays, we can see there are several corporations view sustainability as a strategic opportunity and are pursuing it as operational competencies.

    Recently, many business leaders have begun to view sustainability as a more integral component of their business strategy, identifying opportunities and risks as a way to enhance revenue, margins and brand value. Organizations with a broader, more strategic plan for sustainability will not only drive innovation across their enterprise including transforming key processes, but may also influence what their customers want and how their suppliers operate.

    For instance, Toyota’s leadership drew a different direction that placed sustainability into the core of its business strategy. Unlike Ford, Toyota was not losing money; in 2010, it reported record profits of $14.9 billion. The company has built its strategy around all four aspects of sustainability (Social, Economic, Environment and Culture). Toyota’s efforts to build a company that is harmonious with the changing needs of society led it to develop a balanced and diversified portfolio of cars. 

    So the movement toward sustainability is just getting started, and a few corporate leaders are rising to the challenge. Another example comes from the home-furnishing retailer IKEA has “air-hunters,” people who search for empty space to reduce the size of packaging, and the merchandiser will stop giving out plastic bags and start selling solar panels and smart energy meters.

    I would therefore say, creating and implementing a strategy will not only set the company on a clearly articulated course to growth; it will also produce positive side effects. Having a business strategy can give us the real company future shape on long term. So when you are choosing your business strategy, you should consider the future of your business as well as your current resources and situation. 

    You may want to think about the long-term potential of your business strategy and how it may develop and change as your business grows. So we need to make sure that we choose the right strategy for the present, in order to ensure that we achieve the success we need now before we can think about growth and expansion into new areas of the market. 

    In fact, start up a company without a strategy may run the risk of losing the company! 

    I hope that I presented my point of view in a right form :)

    Thanks!

    Friday, August 1, 2014

    Why Your Business Needs to Think Out of The Box?

    Innovators have a major role in way we see the world but from different lens. Companies that successfully market and sell innovation are able to shift how people think not only about their product, but about themselves, the market, and the world.  Mark Zuckerberg was one of the great mind shifters of our time. He championed the mantra “think different” and create the way people think about social networking.


    Innovations has entered many industries and have made the concept of impossible word to be unavailable in the dictionary of innovation. So whether big or small, ideas that challenge the status Quo usually lead to innovation, and  thinking outside the box is more than just a business cliché.

    To truly move forward and make your name as well known trademark in  business and industry, you need to do things differently from the rest of the crowd. you should create a Blue Ocean Strategy to make your business unique and different. Not everything needs to be radically different but you shouldn’t wait around for other individuals or companies to come up with the ideas or solutions that you need. Find them on your own by remembering to think outside the box. When you open your mind to new ways of accomplishing things, you end up being a lot more innovative and this typically plays a key role for success.

    In this article, I would speak about the role of Information technology in the power shift of Digital Marketing in the market place.

    We know that the internet now provides a wide variety of search services for finding websites, sellers, services, product information, reviews, other search engines, and so on. There are now a variety of web search services and other social networks channels that enable both business and consumer—to find, at least, each other.

    Marketing finds itself in the vanguard because it stands to gain the most from digitization. Digital data describes a customer’s history, preferences, and — as the proliferation of smartphones grows — immediate context. When combined with powerful analytics, digital data allow marketers to segment their audience and create propensity models that can predict how and when to influence customers to buy.

    Digital data also describe the amount and location of current inventory, offering merchants an opportunity to make offers based on a sophisticated knowledge of supply and demand. From this point we can see how much the innovation in small part of IT side has significant impact in the evolution of digital marketing.

    Furthermore, with data analytic as the driver and automation as the goal, marketing departments are scrambling to pull in skills that would have lived purely in IT and in the quantlabs of financial service firms. These skills are now reaching beyond data analysis to encompass information architecture, application development, and technology project management.

    Over the last ten years, HubSpot.Com has grown from an upstart to a market leader in enterprise software for inbound marketing. From the beginning, HubSpot.com has focused on shifting the paradigm of inbound marketing as much as shifting customers over to its product.

    We need to really think about these technologies and how they’re going to assist us. Analytics at it’s most basic level is the information resulting from the systematic analysis of data.  It is not only relating with the marketing digitization it pertains to online marketing, analytics platforms are the systems that collect, aggregate and report on the activity of visitors to your business online site(s) or social media interactions. 

    For instance, Search Analytics – backlinks are the gold standard of ranking on the internet and rank drives traffic and conversions. As result, tools that help you monitor your search engine keywords, competitors, and how your content is ranking can help you to attract new visitors and build content strategies that drive business. In the same time the ability to track products in use makes it possible to respond to customer behavior. And of course, products can now be connected with other products, leading to new analytics and new services for more effective forecasting, process optimization, and customer service experiences.

    From my perspective, I would say technology impacts marketing and marketers in several ways, a wide range of technologies could be identified including hardware, software and communication technology. It could be shown that technology has a strong impact on the marketing strategy in terms of collect, handle, interchange, communicate, analyze and customize information, leading to cost reductions, more effective marketing procedures and improved customer satisfaction.

    To sum up, thinking outside of the box starts with you and your creativity. It is what separates you from the rest of the crowd — to have the freedom to think on your own and your business as well as having the ability to apply it to what your working on is worth more than any amount of money in this world.