I’ve watched a lot of trends come and go in my 30+ years as a marketer, but 2024 is shaping up to be one of the fastest-moving years I’ve seen. Reminds me of 1998. Whether you’re a marketer or business owner, you need to be prepared. Here are the four areas that will have an impact this year: 1: Social media and Google are fighting for search Continue Reading...
The Dispatch Year in Review
As we close the books on 2023, we’re doing something a little different for the final Dispatch of the year. You hear a lot from me and Ed in our marketing emails and articles. It’s rare that you hear from the rest of the RMDS team, but as our clients can tell you, our Client Services and DevOps staff are vital to Rainmaker Platform’s Continue Reading...
Don’t Let Your Email Data Deceive You
You’re going to see a lot of “here’s your email marketing strategy in 2024” articles in the next month or so. This is not that. Yes, email and engagement are the central pillar of content marketing. Yes, permission-based marketing has a power that other channels just don’t, and email is the way most users give brands permission. But when Continue Reading...
Turn Your Customers into Salespeople
A burned-out car handed the Stanley brand a gift last week. A woman posted a video to TikTok showing her destroyed vehicle… in the center console was an intact Stanley mug. The ice in the cup wasn’t even melted after the fire. https://www.tiktok.com/@danimarielettering/video/7301724587488759070 Stanley caught wind of the video, and within Continue Reading...
How Not to Bore Your Audience
Is your brand boring? Many marketers, especially in B2B, struggle with the perception that their product or service is boring. That’s not true. To the right audience, you’re not boring. I have an acquaintance who’s very passionate about airplanes. He knows every commercial plane by silhouette and will happily talk your ear off about it. Continue Reading...
Build Reputation, Not Backlinks
SEO has changed a lot in the last few years. If you were doing marketing in the 2000s or 2010s, you remember how central SEO was to everything. Marketers discovered that there was attention available for anyone who invested a little effort to publish relevant content. Content marketing was aimed directly at taking your site to the top of the Continue Reading...
Be Intentional With Your Content
Success isn’t random. That’s a well-known fact, and my conversations with our clients over the past year through content like Digital Marketing Done Right and our Q&A series have only reinforced that for me. Our most successful clients don’t rely on chance or hope to build their business. It came to a head in our recent Q&A with Continue Reading...
SMS Drives Your Audience to Act
Permission is powerful. When you have someone’s permission to market directly to them, they’ve chosen to listen. You’re not just another message fighting for attention in the middle of their social media feed — you’ve been invited in. Email is the predominant permission-based channel, but it’s not the only one. There’s another Continue Reading...
Knowledge In Your Inbox: Sell an Email Course
What does your business provide for your audience? Products and services are important. But knowledge is often the most vital solution your company provides. Knowledge isn’t just power. It’s profit. You’re missing out if you don’t use it. And one of the chief vehicles you can use to share knowledge with your audience is an online course. Many Continue Reading...
Mobile Matters: 5 Keys to a Responsive Website
Modern websites should be mobile-friendly, or they’re missing out on a huge chunk of potential audience. Don’t believe me? Look at the stats. About 60% of web traffic today is mobile. That number’s been over 50% since 2017, and it continues to climb slowly. This has had a number of knock-on effects — the rise of responsive web design, Google’s Continue Reading...
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