i7 Marketing Blog

Have you ever wondered if your website is up to speed (both figuratively and literally)? Think about it - most businesses spend thousands of dollars to create and maintain an online venue for clients to find exactly what they are looking for.

We start today with a quiz. How many of you have heard the following statements (in some shape or fashion) before?

“Outbound (traditional) marketing is dead!!”

We are living in an ever-increasing connected world: from Facetime and Skype to Google Hangouts and GoToMeeting, the options and ease of which to connect with others face-to-face is changing the landscape with how we communicate both personally and professionally.

Connecting with your offline audience online can sometimes seem harder than it is. Businesses will often focus on their online audience and neglect the potential offline audience. That’s not a bad thing if your audience only spends time online, but that’s not always the case. People still travel to work, go to the movies, go out to eat, play sports - they live offline. They might even still read a magazine or newspaper. Don’t forget about that aspect of their lives.

Brands are present on social media so they can interact with their fans and customers about various social issues, as well as their own products and services, and provide customer service in fun and exciting ways through various types of content.

You have heard it before and we have said this before and we’ll keep saying this until the world takes notice and catches up with this new trend in business technology. This is why we’re glad Google is finally getting on board and issuing a world-wide announcement,

Welcome to the dawn of a new era where everything that is done on social media is trackable; analyzed more than ever before; and can be paid for in order to increase or improve results.

Yelp was in the center of customer review websites last year, and we want to tackle those concerns and clear any doubts you may have in order to help you make wise decisions that will determine whether what people say about your business online is creating a need among your audience to purchase your services.

“If your brand doesn't support social causes, it's missing out on a huge audience.” – Matt Petronzio

If last year taught us anything, it reminded us that everything keeps changing all the time, some things faster than others; and that adapting to the change can take some time, and that adaption must be done sooner than later if you want to remain relevant. Sometimes your business or you as a business professional will be forced to change something about your business or the way you conduct business simply because trends have overtaken your industry and have upgraded it to a new level of difficulty or added more obstacles for you to avoid.

Our goal here at i7 Marketing is to ensure that your business is reaching its maximum potential in connecting with your current customers as well as reaching new ones. Over these next few weeks we are sharing our approach to marketing that make up our seven pillars of marketing – thus i7 Marketing. Last week we shared our first pillar on how to identify your marketing strategy and goals. This week we move toward the marketing message that needs to be created.