The pandemic forced marketers everywhere to rethink their approaches. Some marketers stopped promoting entirely, while others adjusted and prevailed. Here’s what we can learn about smart marketing planning from those who successfully navigated an unprecedented challenge....
View MoreArtificial intelligence, or AI, is the hottest technology in marketing. But do you need artificial intelligence to develop good creative for a smart marketing strategy? Or do you just need a talented, insightful creative team? Cleveland marketing consultant Jean Gianfagna shares some perspective....
View MoreBranding is critically important to every successful business. That’s why smart marketers approach branding strategically. But how do you create an effective branding strategy? What should you consider when developing a new or revamped brand? What do you need to know to do branding right? As marketing and branding consultants, we’ve developed branding strategies and brand identities for many types of organizations. Here are 40 questions we ask when we’re creating a smart branding strategy for a client....
View MoreA versatile, robust customer relationship management (CRM) system is the best way to store, manage, and use customer data for sales and marketing. But many marketers who invest in a CRM system fail to capitalize on its value. On November 13, Jean Gianfagna of Gianfagna Strategic Marketing, Inc. and Bob Sullivan of InfoGrow will present the best practices of using a CRM system to grow sales at Sales & Marketing Executives of Cleveland’s SME-U Workshop....
View MoreUnderstanding the unique value your business delivers to customers is essential for a smart marketing strategy. Yet many businesses struggle to define their value proposition, especially B2B marketers that sell intangible business services. But defining your value proposition is easier than you think: Just ask your customers. In part one of a two-part post, here’s how Cleveland marketing consultant Jean Gianfagna recommends conducting customer interviews to determine a value proposition....
View MoreDo you market to college students and teens? There are valuable insights for your smart marketing strategy in the annual Beloit College Mindset list, just released this week. Here are just a few of the interesting observations from this year’s list for today’s 18-year-olds, who were born in 2000 and are the college class of 2022....
View MoreThe loss of a major client can be a huge blow to your business. But there are ways you can survive – and even thrive – following a customer defection. Here's how to do it strategically....
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A versatile, robust CRM solution is the best way to store, manage, and use customer data for your sales and marketing efforts. But many B2B marketers who invest in a CRM system fail to fully capitalize on its marketing potential. Gianfagna Strategic Marketing, Inc. and InfoGrow Corporation will present a free webinar on CRM Best Practices: Using Your CRM System for Smarter Marketing on August 2, 2017 from 2-2:30 p.m. Jean Gianfagna, agency President, will co-present the webinar with Bob Sullivan, President of InfoGrow. Jean is a leading B2B marketing strategy consultant in...
View MoreWhy is face-to-face contact so important when you’re trying to grow a business? And how does a background in copywriting and direct marketing give a marketing consultant a strategic advantage in content marketing and social media? These are just two of the topics agency president Jean Gianfagna recently discussed with well-known marketing consultant and author John Jantsch on the latest edition of his Consulting Spark podcast. Jantsch is a small business marketing expert. His firm, Duct Tape Marketing, partners with 125 marketing consulting firms and agencies in 14 countries to deliver marketing services...
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Does your organization need a new brand identity? Branding is one of the most important strategic decisions you will make. Getting it right can help your business vault to the top of your industry. Getting it wrong can result in costly misconceptions about your business. Here are the seven major steps of creating a new brand identity from our experience developing branding strategies and brand identities for many organizations....
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