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People, Personas and Motivations– Behavioral Marketing Works.
Blasting Ads At Everyone is Like Talking to No One. Historically, marketers have had a very difficult time identifying groups or subgroups that best benefit from a product. Obviously, that never stops anyone from selling. With minimal data to work with, companies bombarded consumers with unrelated ads, emails, phone calls, and other outreach that is…
Read MoreCrypto QR Code, Uber’s Customer Journey, Millennials and Craft Beer
Why Not Try a Super Bowl QR Code Ad? A $7 million price tag for a 30-second Super Bowl ad may have been worth every penny for Coinbase, a cryptocurrency exchange app. With roughly 100 million viewers it’s worth throwing some serious money at an ad if it can get measurable results. So why not…
Read MoreThe Customer Journey, Building Connections That Stick
Building Brand Value is About Creating Relevance Over Time. At Radiant we focus on what is at the core or essence of a brand, a company, an organization. Diving into this essence and doing a competitive analysis is essential since your audience or customers are hearing a cacophony of voices, offers, and representations of value. How…
Read MoreAmateurs, Experts, and Strategists
Focusing on a Plan Requires A Strategic View. The key to understanding economics, marketing, and war is in seeing the big picture and being able to adapt, shift and change even the small things to achieve your goals. You can’t get stuck in one way of viewing the world. That becomes the weak point because…
Read MoreListening.
Getting Away from the Noise. Marketing has a bad reputation. It should. Most marketers look for tools to reach more and more customers and grow their audience but do they really know who they need to reach and why anyone would be interested in what they are offering or broadcasting? New technologies allow us all…
Read MoreA Year Ending in Flux. What are the 2022 Marketing Trends?
The Global Disruption of Everything Two years ago the world was predictable, measured, consistent in all ways…often annoyingly so. As we all know, this suddenly and shockingly ended. The pandemic has brought with it the largest shift in global systems in recent memory. This disruption only emphasized the always-on connected and predictable way business, markets,…
Read MoreNot knowing the future is a way to invent what’s next
And then there was COVID… It’s March 2020: suddenly restaurants, bars, and schools are closed. When COVID hit and began to have global impacts, everyone was forced, location by location, nation by nation, to face a new reality. How and what we purchased changed overnight. Remember the toilet paper shortages (I still wonder why that…
Read MoreDo you really know me?
Personas: They are customers and individuals with their own motivations. What’s my biggest problem? What do I need to deal with to make my job easier? Does someone understand what I need to get done? Can you say one thing to me that lets me know you’ll solve my problems? In the B2B world, the…
Read MoreStaying Connected – Eight Ways to Improve B2B Email Marketing
1- Know your recipients. Why are you sending emails to your core group? This is the biggest and most important question to ask yourself and your digital marketing team. Who’s on our list, for what reason and why do we know them? The “they” is all about people with titles and decision-making power, or at…
Read MoreNobody cares about your marketing.
Saturated: Search Results and Online Tactics Won’t Cut It. Many brands and companies believe that an online campaign to reach their desired audience by spending more on search, digital ads, and online marketing tactics will get them more customers. Not really. Consumers and customers of all kinds are lost in a world of information sorted…
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