Branding

What is in the Future for Marketing?

Marketing is moving away from a type of interruption marketing to more of a true personalized engagement. What do I mean? Just Marketingthrowing an ad in someone’s face, spamming their inbox with emails, posting the same message over and over again in social media on a continuous basis, is on the way out the door. A more direct approach, with more of an individualized interaction between the consumer and the brand is taking over, on multiple channels.
 
This type of individualized interaction brings a brighter future for businesses. According to Forrester Research, their experts are predicting that digital marketing expenditure is to grow at a rapid rate in 2011. More businesses will be increasing their marketing budget for 2011 and beyond. This is an indicator that we will see a growth in the economy this year.
 
Furthermore; Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business along with the American Marketing Association found from their research that spending was up by 9.2 % over 2009. They also found that budgets for projects will double over the next year — pointing to continual economic improvement across the industry. Continue reading

Personal Branding?

With the big move toward web marketing and social media self branding is becoming an important role in promoting your business. Are you asking yourself why brand myself – my company is already branded? That is a very good question. Let me try to address that question. Continue reading