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Green Marketing: Advantages, Ideas, Examples And Best Practices
Many people have heard of the term “green marketing” but not everyone fully understands what it refers to and why it has become so important in our day and age. When climate change is on everyone’s mind and sustainability is trendy, green marketing is actively being used by brands all over the world to appeal to their customers. Here’s everything you need to know about green marketing.
How the Mandela Effect Affects Your Memories
Did you know that 30% of people could be convinced of experiencing a false autobiographical event?
Marketing Skills E-commerce Managers Must Master In 2022
Gone are the days of brick and mortar stores representing the retail buying experience. With online retail representing approximately 11% of all retail sales, digital buyers are expected to grow by over 13% in the next 3 years. With this sort of non-stop growth, e-commerce managers find themselves in an increasingly change-filled and fast-paced industry. To succeed where others fail, an e-commerce manager needs to master several crucial skills in this arena.
Are There Rules When Everyone's an Endorser?
There was a time when only celebrities and aspiring actors were spokespeople. Now the friend you’re having lunch with tomorrow may, unbeknownst to you, have an endorsement deal. It’s nice that company sponsorship has been democratized, but with so many people pushing products, how can consumers survive the promotional onslaught?
Building a Perfect Audience For Anyone (INFOGRAPHIC)
As social media continues to grow, people’s desires to make a name for themselves on these platforms only continues to grow alongside it. Nowadays there is not just money but an endless amount of fame and notoriety to be gained from sites like Facebook and YouTube.
Find the Right Influencer for Your Campaign
When used effectively, influencer marketing can produce incredible results for brands. The idea is to tap into the engaged communities to share your brand message with a wider audience.
How To Develop An Effective Marketing Strategy
Keeping up with the latest and most effective marketing trends could be a full-time job. In less than one recent year, we’ve seen both rises and falls of new platforms (Meta is a vivid example), a shift to short-form videos, and a bunch of new marketing approaches that appeared as a result of the global pandemic, etc. In short, it takes much time and effort to craft an effective marketing strategy, which involves building a compelling marketing website design, among many other things.
The Future of Nursing Homes: Better Infection Prevention and Control (INFOGRAPHIC)
Nursing home facilities are currently experiencing a significant lack of nurses that is contributing to many nursing homes closing their doors permanently. Combined with the fact that many nursing facilities are operating at a -4.8% margin each year, 25% of nursing homes are expected to close within the next year. In total, 400 certified US nursing homes are on the brink of shutting down due to financial burden as well as the severe lack of nurses.
The Importance of Data Analytics in Project Management
Managing a project involves using specific skills, knowledge, and expertise to deliver something of value to users of the project. When taken from a traditional aspect, project management involves using known scope, knowledge, and technology to achieve a result. Meanwhile, project management today serves individual projects such as website development or mobile application build. For this reason, modern project managers utilize automated tools to help organize and execute their work. However, to effectively manage a project today, the importance of implementing project management software and data analysis tools cannot be overemphasized.
2022 - Top Online Tools for Content Marketers
Content marketing is acknowledged as the most effective way to develop and promote a new brand, reaching out to the target audience. Content marketing includes several directions like blog articles, social media, mailing, etc. but each of these types has only one purpose—to help their potential clients resolve their daily issues with the help of their company products or services.
Do Subscriptions Make Sense?
“That’s the gift that keeps on giving the whole year”—such was Cousin Eddie’s inane attempt in Christmas Vacation to console a devastated Clark Griswold after he found out his firm gave him a Jelly of the Month Club membership instead of a generous cash bonus. Clark had good reason to resent receiving a product subscription, but how should consumers feel about more companies moving to subscription models?
Creating an Email List
Building an email list is an important step towards a successful email program. Several approaches can be taken, with some working better than the others. An email list can be built from scratch. The option to subscribe to the email program of a business should be offered on every existing touch point possible. For potential subscribers, the email program should be easy and visible.
Jason Hughes on Becoming a San Diego Industry Leader
San Diego-based executive Jason Hughes says leading a company that describes itself as having “the hardest workers in the room” has been a key component of his success.
How to Use YouTube for Marketing
YouTube is increasingly gaining importance as a social network. Why? YouTube is the second–most-visited website and has the second highest volume of online searches. Those stats alone are worthy of the attention of any marketer.
4 Social Media Marketing Trends in the Insurance Industry
In this digital environment, insurance companies need to arise with innovative marketing ideas to reach and engage their target market. While traditional methods of marketing and lead generation like direct mail and networking events are still popular among insurance providers, they can reach a wider audience effectively using social media. This not only helps promote insurance products but also helps companies to interact with their customers and respond to their queries in real-time. Social media is also a great marketing platform to build and increase brand awareness for insurance providers. Some insurance companies rely on mascots, some target users with particular demographics and a few connect with celebrities to reap the benefits of influencer marketing.
How Defining Workplace Values Impacts Ethical Marketing
When you’re running a business, it can be easy to become fixated on the bottom line. After all, you’re not the only one depending on your company to grow and thrive. Your investors, your partners, your staff, and your customers will all suffer if your business isn’t financially stable.
Quick Translation Tips For The Successful Entrepreneur
People go into entrepreneurship when they feel that their creativity does not fit into a corporate environment or simply want a life away from nine to five. Entrepreneurs are important to market economies because they create new products and services and therefore serve as important factors in a country’s growth and development. Passion, willingness to improvise and listen to others, as well as the determination to succeed, make a successful entrepreneur. Once all is going well, a business owner will want to extend his services globally and he or she must be ready to surmount the main brick wall which is the language barrier. There will always be a need for some quick translation of documents or speech when collaborating with clients or employees overseas. Here are some quick translation tips for a successful entrepreneur.
5 Tech Savvy Tips to Ensure the Success of Your New Business
Starting a new business is never easy, but with the help of technology, you can give yourself a better chance for success. Unlike in the past, when businesses had to rely on print ads and word-of-mouth to get customers, today, they use various ways to reach out to potential customers through the web. No entrepreneur should ignore technology trends, which could be the key to success.
Cultures of Corruption
“Auditors Cheated on Ethics Exams”—a recent New York Times headline revealed. During my 20-plus years teaching college ethics courses, my students and I have sometimes joked about that kind of thing, inferring that of all places, an ethics class is one deserving of absolute integrity. Who would cheat on ethics?— apparently plenty of people in one of the world’s largest accounting firms, but why?
Hybrid Work - Striking The Right Balance Between Comfort And Flexibility
Remote work has been largely removed from the American workforce picture, but in its place has come hybrid working. According to CNBC, 25% of people are now employed through hybrid working, with 14% mostly in-person, and 9% mostly working remotely. While some employers have seen remote working as a simple necessity, with a return to the office greatly anticipated, the benefits of the opposite approach has shown itself to have considerable benefits. Starting with overall employee happiness, remote working has revolutionized business in a way that has led to successes across the board.