Tag: brand

Software as a Service (SaaS) businesses are facing fierce competition when it comes to gaining brand awareness in the market. With countless new startups entering the scene and established players vying for attention, achieving brand recognition can be a daunting task. However, with the right strategies and a focused approach, SaaS companies can overcome these challenges and create a strong presence in the market. Let us look at the struggles SaaS businesses encounter in building brand awareness and the steps they can take to achieve success.

In today’s digital age, social media has become paramount in developing your marketing strategy, a dynamic yet often overlooked aspect of this being social listening; monitoring social media channels for mentions of your brand, competitors, industry, and any other relevant keywords.

Memes have taken the internet by storm! They’re the fun little images or videos that get shared like wildfire on social media platforms and have become a staple of our online lives. But did you know that they have also become a powerful tool for marketers?

The rapid change of technology is changing the way we think, operate and work. Therefore, as businesses apply and adapt to the rise of new technologies, maximizing profitability of your business can be within reach. The Metaverse is a newly developed technology that is expected to change how business work as it continues to be integrated. Are you ready to take advantage of it and see how the Metaverse can benefit your brand in 2022?

Certain times of the year bring extra traffic for websites and businesses, creating the need for a fresh, exciting, and appealing approach to marketing. It's no wonder there is a surge in flower sales on Valentine's Day or an increase in turkey sales during thanksgiving. During seasonal transitions or the holidays, seasonal marketing creates a unique feeling of excitement and fear of missing out for customers worldwide, leading to encouraging actions, like purchases.

Marketing Eye’s Melbourne office has not been back for long, but that’s not to say it hasn’t been an eventful return to work already…

Influencer marketing is on the rise, and with all the different and new social media platforms available to utilise and post on today, an influencer or ambassador may be the key to improving your brand reach and engagement.

As a professional services firm, customer experience is in part about relationships and how well a marketing consultant listens to the customer’s needs, deciphers it, and executes on providing a solution to a problem.

Competition is rife for all businesses especially due to the impact of COVID. With an increasing number of people unemployed, the marketing profession has especially been affected by lay-offs and changing working conditions.

Marketing consultants vary from one to another, just like any other profession, however there is a cadence that all marketing consultants should follow.

Formally, I’ve been a marketing consultant for 21 years working in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, New York and Atlanta. During that time, I have had the opportunity to not only consult to hundreds of small and medium-sized businesses but also Fortune 100 companies, and surprisingly there is a lot of similarities.

What can you expect from a competent marketing consultant:

Ability to create a marketing strategy aligned to your business goals

If a marketing consultant is coming into your business and their only discussion is one or two areas of marketing, you must consider that perhaps they don’t have enough experience in marketing to understand that an omnichannel approach is the only way to build a sustainable marketing strategy.

A strong marketing consultant would have at least 10 years’ experience in marketing with successes and failures under their belt.

Whether they do marketing strategies the old fashion way or they use Robotic Marketer, it is important that they understand all the different facets of the marketing mix, and how they relate to connecting your brand with your audience.

Branding is a strength

Many marketing consultants fail to truly understand the value of brand leaving this side of the “business” to their advertising counterparts. To do marketing, you really need to understand the company’s brand; personality, values, voice, attributes, benefits and so on.

Branding is very important to differentiating your company from your competitors. At Marketing Eye, we focus on being an outsourced marketing department. Our brand personality is professional, inquisitive, forward thinking and reliable. Our voice is authoritive, knowledgeable, visionary and global.

To understand your brand is important to how you communicate your value proposition and connect with your audience.

A marketing consultant needs to know how to strengthen your brand in the market and ensure that you are consistent with all brand messaging and placement.

Technology-savvy

Reaching your customers and prospects is hard when you are doing it manually. By automating this process you will be able to reach more customers, more often with less effort in a way that they want to be communicated with. Having the right technology suite is imperative and ensuring that it is integrated, providing you with the right data to feed your sales team, will change your outcomes.

Always start with:

CRM: We use Salesforce but there are many CRM tools that are effective. Salesforce is the most commonly utilised CRM tool in the world, but not necessarily the best. It’s a bit old fashion in many ways and clunky, so find one that is easy for you to use. Other suggested CRM technologies include Insightly, ZohoCRM, SAP CRM, Oracle Sales Cloud (SMB), Netsuite CRM, Base CRM, Hubspot.

Email marketing platform: We use Mailchimp, Constant Contact and FutureMail, however there may be email marketing platforms that are integrated into your CRM or Marketing Automation software that is more effective for your business.

Scheduling Tools: We schedule all social media through Hootsuite and Buffer. Most scheduling tools do the same thing and are usually free to use.

Google Analytics: Key to understanding the traffic on your website and how to improve your search engine optimisation, Google Analytics is very important to any company with a website. If your marketing consultant cannot read Google Analytics, then fire them fast!

SEO Tools: There are so many to use with our preferred SEO Tool deriving from Robotic Marketer technology, but others that are awesome include SEMrush, SpyFu, Screaming Frog, MOZ, Yoast and Alexa.

For the past 16 years, Christina Kortesis has been a marketing consultant with Marketing Eye Melbourne. She epitomizes the way marketing consultants should interact with their clients.

Regular communications

Each week Christina contacts or meets with her clients and talks through the marketing activities for that week, analytics and deliverables. It gives the marketing consultant an opportunity to discuss freely all marketing activities and how they align to the company’s business plan. It also gives the client an ability to update the marketing consultant on the business and how the marketing efforts are affecting sales.

Weekly reporting

Reporting on marketing activities with analytics is essential to any marketing campaign. Marketing Eye’s marketing consultants use our own in-house data analytics program as well as Google Analytics and Alexa.

Sharing of ideas and campaigns

Just because someone else did it doesn’t mean that you can’t do it too! Part of Marketing Eye’s process is to constantly encourage marketers to keep up-to-date with the latest marketing campaigns. Sharing successful campaigns undertaken by other agencies inspires ideas.

Feedback

Clients are everything. Without them, marketing consultants don’t have a job. Ensuring that the door is always open for feedback is essential to creating great relationships but also better marketing results.

Being a marketing consultant means that you have accomplished enough to be able to provide expert advice to your clients. You also know what tools you have access to that enables a better outcome.

When you are building a business from the ground up, there is a lot to take into consideration. It’s easy enough to focus on how your company is going to turn a profit, but there’s one thing that shouldn’t be allowed to slip through the cracks: the creation of your logo. Your logo will do many things for your business by giving your audience something to recognise and setting up a visual identity. Below, we have some essential considerations for your logo creation process.