In a 1921 article for Vanity Fair, Robert Benchley observed that there are two classes of people: those who divide people into two classes and those who do not. From my vantage point, people can be divided into those who understand and practice “otherness” and those that do not. When I use the …
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5 Ways to Keep Your Customers Coming Back
You don’t need a business degree to know that it’s returning customers who are the lifeblood of any business. While it’s important to attract new customers to your products, customer retention should also be considered a huge priority. A paying customer isn’t just paying for your products, …
3 Ways Customer Service Can Be Used as an Effective Marketing Tool
Gone are the days of traditional marketing techniques. Billboards, pamphlets, flyers, and radio ads just don’t pack the same punch that they once used to. Customers are done with gimmicks and mass marketing campaigns. Instead, people place more stock in what they or their friends experience …
Adapting Your Business to the Rapidly Changing World
Business isn’t what it used to be. With so many ways to connect with consumers worldwide and an entirely new market of competition, the necessity to stay ahead of the pack and find innovative ways to succeed is more imperative than ever before. Many old school businesses, especially those …
Could Your Small Business Benefit From an App?
Statista reports that over 179 million mobile apps were downloaded in 2015. That number is expected to increase to more than 224 million downloads this year, and that’s before rising even more in 2017 to almost 269 million downloads in the course of a mere 12 months. That’s almost 737,000 downloads …
5 Marketing Lessons that You Can Learn from Retail E-Commerce
E-commerce has been the force that’s driving brick-and-mortar stores down. The closure of a couple of the well-known brands is not helping disprove this idea either. It has been a solution for some other retail giants to also implement e-commerce in their strategies so that they can stay …
