by King Monkey | Jun 19, 2013 | Uncategorized
Marketing 101 teaches us to define our ideal client or customer (our “target audience”) and to gear our communications and marketing efforts toward that broad group. Not to the exclusion of others, of course, but the idea is that if we communicate what we need to the...
by King Monkey | Jun 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
I read in a recent article from the American Marketing Association’s The Buzz that 70% of leads generated through marketing are never followed-up on, even though 65% of marketing budgets are spent on generating leads. Ouch! That’s like applying for a job and 70% of...
by King Monkey | May 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
Who are your customers? Do you know them, really . . . or do you just think you do. For most small- to medium-sized businesses, I’m betting on the latter, and here’s why: you would be amazed at how many times I’ve been asked to spearhead a marketing effort, or retool...
by King Monkey | Jan 9, 2013 | Uncategorized
These days, as consumers, we expect the businesses we frequent to be concerned with more than just their bottom lines. Sure, we still demand top quality products and services, but merely satisfying our demand for materials, things, and know-how just doesn’t cut...
by King Monkey | Jun 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
Sometimes ideas just pop into our heads. Intuitively, we seem to know what to say or write about our product or service, or some incredible insight we want to share with the world. The ideas and words come freely, easily, as though they’re on auto-pilot. Then there...