Marketing

How to Strategically Recover After Losing Your Biggest Customer

Small-business owners and freelancers are often one-person operations or have limited staff. They may rely on a single big client for most of their revenue. Unfortunately, even long-term relationships can change on a dime, and you might lose your biggest customer.

In forums across the internet, entrepreneurs lament a sudden loss of their income. Their longtime client hires a new manager and they cut ties, someone goes out of business, a customer dies or they outsource to another country or even move operations in-house. 

Things may seem bleak, but there are ways to recover and thrive after losing your biggest customer.

Here's How Your Customers Really Feel About Your AI-Powered Marketing Strategy

AI-driven marketing has the power to change how businesses engage with their customers, offering unprecedented levels of value. However, while many companies use it to optimize their strategies, consumer sentiment around its use is more complicated than it seems. Therefore, understanding how people truly feel is crucial for brands looking to stay ahead.

How Generative AI Is Making Transformations in Marketing

Generative AI has quickly become a game changer for marketers, opening doors to new opportunities and enhancing how businesses execute campaigns. It has allowed marketers to create personalized content at scale while automating tasks that once took hours. 

Enhancing CX With Data-Driven Insights From CRM Systems

Many people think customer relationship management (CRM) tools are primarily used by sales professionals. However, these products can also improve client experiences by giving personnel more insights into behaviors, preferences and pain points. Perception changes that position CRM software as a customer experience driver can help those in people-oriented roles get better results and become more productive. 

5 Considerations When Implementing a Digital-First Rebranding Strategy

Websites, social media and other digital channels have become the primary means of discovery and engagement. Since traditional branding has shifted to digital applications, maintaining a strong presence online is essential for building trust and credibility. 

Yet, if this presence requires you to rebrand, a strategy will need more planning than you might think. That is why there are several considerations to keep in mind when planning your digital-first rebranding strategy.

Leveraging Content Management for a Smoother Sales Journey

Sales content management systems (CMS) are crucial for organizing content assets and ensuring sales reps can engage prospective customers with the right content. Without a CMS, sales reps typically feel overwhelmed with the content they must choose during their sales process. Various types of content can stimulate information overload and sales content redundancy. However, a well-organized CMS will help a sales team stay prepared throughout the sales journey, ensuring productivity and efficiency.

Revolutionizing Retail: Live Online Video Sales Spurring Seismic eComm Paradigm Shifts

Even in a world where stunning technological advancements abound, seemingly daily, it’s not that often when such advancements have a genuine opportunity to revolutionize an entire industry—let alone one generating multi-trillion dollar annual revenues. Though exceedingly difficult and rare, that circumstance is not impossible. This as exemplified by the profound impact that live, in-person online video is now poised to make on the global e-retail trade, which some estimates project will grow to a staggering 5.4 trillion U.S. dollars in 2022.

TikTok Marketing Techniques: A Roadmap to Fuel Your Business Growth

TikTok is the newest wave of social media, but it’s quickly gaining attention with younger audiences. Gen Z and millennials are loving the short-form video content on the social media app, giving businesses a potentially huge market to tap into.

If your audience is active on TikTok, you can’t afford to miss the opportunity. Brands that leverage the platform’s marketing are seeing incredible growth from its video-first content. Whether you go viral or not, you can gain a powerful presence on the app.

Why Your User Onboarding Process Needs a Makeover

The user onboarding process is considered one of the most important of their life cycle stages. It’s at the start of someone’s journey, but it establishes their entire relationship with the company and product. 

User onboarding is significant because it can impact the customer’s decision to keep the product or discontinue use. When done correctly, it will lead to success by demonstrating the product’s value. Done poorly, it leaves the customer disappointed.

Here’s why the user onboarding process is important — and effective strategies to help you set up your new customers for success.

How to Assess Your Content Management Efforts and Improve Tenfold

Your content offers users a glimpse into the heart and soul of your brand. When it’s on-point,  you establish yourself as an authority in your field and become the first one people turn to when they have a related question. As a result, your brand becomes the best known source to solve customer pain points. 

HubSpot's State of Content Marketing report found 82% of marketers used content to promote their brands. Content marketing saw a whopping 70% increase from the previous year. With more consumers shopping online, digital marketing has become more important than ever before for brands wishing to remain competitive.