Marketing Mistakes: Page 4

Marketing

Email Subject Lines Can Really Suck. Here's How to Make Yours Better.

Here are some crappy email headline techniques -- or lack thereof -- that you will definitely want to avoid.

Business News

4 Examples of Bad Email Manners

Huge, unsolicited attachments and pretending you know someone you don't are among this writer's no-nos.

Business News

How Not Using Social Media Can Hurt Your Business

It's hard to believe, but some businesses are still slow to embrace social media for marketing and brand-building purposes.

Business News

9 Marketing Mistakes That Cost Your Business Money

When setting up and improving your marketing strategy, make sure to steer clear of these all-too-common mistakes.

Marketing

How to Experiment With Marketing Without Ruining Your Business

This is not your grandmother's marketing world. Here are tips for how you can engage the potentially awesome techniques of modern marketing.

Business News

5 Don'ts When Engaging Clients Online

Whether you want prospective clients to engage with your business, it's important to recognize the types of online behavior that discourage potential client involvement.

Marketing

4 Branding Lessons That You Don't Want to Learn the Hard Way

When you're branding your company and you're just starting out, you obviously want everything to go smoothly. That, of course, isn't always the case.

Business News

Brands Waste Resources on Facebook and Twitter

A recent study suggests marketers abandon platforms with low reach and engagement, and instead turn to other social media sites and brand communities.

Business News

The 10 Biggest Social Media Myths for Small Businesses

Despite the mind-boggling pervasiveness of social media today, certain myths persist about its relevance -- especially for small operations.

Business News

Uber Rides Into New PR Storm Over Digging Dirt on Hostile Press

A senior vice president said the company should hire investigators to expose details of critics' private lives.

Social Media

The New England Patriots Twitter Fiasco Was Wrong for So Many Reasons

The team's recent social-media disaster was more than just a fumble. And the apology was just as bad.

Business News

9 Mistakes Businesses Make on Social Media (Infographic)

Going into social media with a 'how hard can this be?' attitude is a recipe for failure.

Marketing

The 3 Questions You Have to Answer to Get Your Customers Eager to Buy

Apple makes a good phone but the Pavlovian response of their customers has as much to do with psychology as product quality. You can leverage the same marketing insights as the big brands.

Marketing

3 Fundamentals Learned the Hard Way About Generating PR for a Startup

You learned your customer's problem and offered a solution. That's the basic idea for selling your story to journalists, too.