Budgeting & Strategy

We believe that “Brand” = Values + The People Who Support & Contribute To Them + What People Think About You. Marci will talk more about how to be a trusted brand in tomorrow’s post, but today we want to focus on the people part. When reviewing our own website and blog analytics we discovered that our Team and Authors pages are regularly two of the most visited pages on their respective sites, which is excellent news since your team page is ground zero for humanizing your brand.

This discovery indicates that visitors want to learn more about the individuals who support and contribute to your company values. They want to get to know you, in addition to knowing your products and services.

So, how do you know when you need marketing help? Here are 15 sure signs.

Too often, marketers spend hours designing, tweaking and perfecting the “front end” of a beautiful website and neglect to evaluate its’ performance, or what’s happening on the back end. But, you don’t have to be an Excel-loving digital analyst who spends their days in spreadsheets and pivot tables to gather insight on your marketing efforts (although, loving Excel doesn’t hurt). With a few basic metrics tracked over time, it can be easy to identify trends, successes and areas of improvements. All of these key performance indicators (KPIs) and more can be found in Google Analytics, a completely free web service for the basic version.

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