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Who’s there? Someone entering your website. Someone entering my website who? Someone entering your website doesn’t use the home page. It’s no joke. While many marketers still think of their home page as the front door to their site (and, perhaps, the foyer), in reality visitors are getting more and more accustomed to entering sites […]
Marketers often sit atop a mountain of content. Some of it is very valuable, some not so much. Which is why it’s a good idea to delineate categories as you develop content marketing to fulfill inbound interest. Plus, going forward, having a clear idea of the value of different types of content will keep you […]
It takes 1/5 of a second for someone to form an impression of your site. In another 2.6 seconds, they will have located the content that interests them. In that time span of 2.8 seconds the user has scanned the page, made some judgments, and is ready to move deeper into your site. Or move […]
Nonsense, poopypants. True, in the earlier days of the web, when it came to big-ticket retail purchases online, a brand’s site could move the target deeper into the sales cycle, but closing the deal was out of the question. Items like luxury watches, premium appliances, and other high-end merchandise needed to be sold in person, […]
Did you hear about the Zoe Kravitz Super Bowl ad for Michelob Ultra? The spot uses the sounds of near-silence – whispers, tapping finger nails, carbonated fizzing – to draw viewers into the ad by their ears as much as their eyes. The auditory phenomenon Michelob was leveraging is called ASRM, or Autonomous Sensory Meridian […]
To B2B or not to B2B: That is the question Many boating brands that sell to consumers as well as other businesses still feel like they’re facing an existential crisis: Are we primarily a B2B brand or a B2C brand? Our view: It’s a false choice. The idea that commercial-industrial brands should have fundamentally different […]
The idea is this: Buying a boat sucks. Before anyone takes the helm and feels the wind in their hair, there’s a mountain of variables to navigate: make and model selection, financing, insurance, transportation, storage, usage…and don’t forget the life jackets. The point: Keeping a lead in the sales funnel is hard to do. Small […]
Power boat OEMs fear Millennials, and they should. According to Boating Industry, affordability is a top 2018 concern for OEMs (and it has been for years). When it comes to Millennials, concerns about cost of boat ownership are justified. Millennials remember the meltdown of 2008 and are skeptical of chronically costly activities involving debt and […]
Marketers wake up to the pain of misspent resources A really disturbing recent study of 1000+ EU marketers reported that, on average, they waste 26% of their annual budget on “the wrong channels or strategies.” In other words, more than a quarter of their budget is gone and unrecoverable. In four years time, an entire […]
If you’re a marketer in the boating industry the thought may have occurred to you that, for all its emphasis on product advancement, the sector as a whole is still stuck in the mud on some very important marketing issues. Here’s our 2 cents and nickel of advice. 1. Viewing the product as an end […]