Pricing Strategies and How They Can Work for You

Pricing Is a Big Deal Whether you’re marketing a product or service, one of the major determining factors in the success of your company or brand is going to be the price you are able to command and the corresponding impact on your profitability. Basically, your pricing must be structured in such a way that […]

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Why Large Companies Have Problems with Social Media

Quad City Business Social Media

Emerging Patterns We engage in Marketing activities with a variety of companies and our work crosses a number of boundaries with regard to industry and available resources. Additionally, we’re fortunate to work with companies of varying sizes from start-ups to large and established entities. Over time, a number of patterns have emerged and one of […]

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Good, Better and Best Backlinks for SEO

Quad City Website Backlinks

Better To Have Than Not Backlinks are like lifelines for your website. They bring help in the form of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) by aligning your site with other high traffic sites. Backlinks are basically an endorsement of your website by the referring website. While certain types of backlinks are clearly better than others, as […]

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Media Series – Issue 3: Magazine Advertising

Iowa Print Advertising

Overview of Magazine Advertising Campaigns Since they are both print media, magazines share some characteristics with newspapers. A couple of the major differences between them are frequency (magazines are issued far less frequently) and paper/print quality (magazines offer the use of better quality paper and graphics). Magazine advertising is generally more oriented toward image and […]

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Your Strategy Isn’t What You Say It Is

Iowa Business Strategy In Action

About a decade ago, I had the good fortune to spend a couple weeks in Europe being drilled by professors from one of the world’s leading business schools in Switzerland. The school specializes in collaboration with businesses around the world and high-level corporate instruction for promising executives. The instructors surpassed anything in my experience from […]

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