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Marketing to Marketers

Because marketers know how much of marketing revolves around providing value at every stage of the customer journey, they also know how to sniff out gimmicks. When trying to build loyalty amongst marketers, know that a campaign with robust discount/reward system or a partnership with a useful external resource will almost always outperform the flashy campaign that lacks substance. If brands want to create loyalty within this segment, the marketing strategy needs to focus on building trust through transparency, engagement, and useful content.​​​​​​​

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Email Marketing: The Lessons I've Learned

How can you optimize your email marketing strategy to pique the interest of your followers? How can you get more clicks and engaged subscribers? Maybe you need a shift in focus…

Here are email marketing lessons learned from AgencySparks’ Director of Marketing, Kate Jacoutot.

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The Marketing Budget - Where Marketers Go Wrong & How to Get it Right

Creating a marketing budget is not always a simple task. Many marketers pigeon hole themselves by narrowly focusing on the previous year’s plan and ignoring potential new sales goals and opportunities. It is also particularly difficult to map out a budget plan when brand awareness and impressions are not concrete numbers. Use this guide and free budgeting template to ease planning.

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How to form the Perfect Team from the Masterminds behind Google, Pixar, Apple, and Tesla

The founders from Google, Tesla, Apple, and Pixar walk into a bar...what do they all have in common? Successful companies, yes, but, more importantly, fantastic teams.

Forming a cohesive team seems simple enough, yet, why do companies struggle to maintain employees and effective strategies? There is no question companies like Google, Pixar, Apple, and Tesla have reached momentous success in their industries. How did they do it?

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Company Rebranding Can Be Fraught With Peril: Strategies to Avoid Pitfalls

The rebranding process often entails restructuring a brand’s message to reflect market trends and spark a brand’s momentum generating buzz. Whether in the form of repositioning, renaming, or even adapting a new logo, the rebranding process strives to put a new spin on an old brand identity.

While rebranding should be forward-looking, it is sometimes poorly executed. Rebranding should be influenced by changes in consumer desires, yet there are numerous cases where rebranding is a result of a marketer’s personal perception of brand fatigue.

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