How to Create an Inbound Marketing Strategy

If you’ve found that your outbound marketing efforts are becoming less effective over time, then read on.

You may have noticed that your email blasts to purchased lists of unqualified prospects, cold-calls and direct mailers are no longer generating the quantity and quality of leads needed to fill the top of your sales funnel—leaving your sales team twiddling their thumbs.

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June 6, 2017
May 23, 2017

Marketing’s Role in Connecting Organizations with Customers

“The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.” This directive was identified by management consultant, educator and author Peter F. Drucker, whose writings contributed to the practical foundation of the modern business corporation.

Today, marketing plays an ever-increasing role in creating and growing businesses and brands by connecting organizations with current and potential purchasers along every step of the customer-experience journey. The role of marketers is to identify and research audiences, and then expertly reach and inform them about brands, products and services to facilitate the growth of business in today’s highly competitive environment. Marketers who embrace and combine the new tools of digital and social media with traditional and guerilla marketing will have greater success at connecting customers with their business.

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May 3, 2017

David Brond Elected to New Castle County Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors

WILMINGTON, Del. (May 16, 2017) — Aloysius Butler & Clark (AB&C), one of the region’s largest full-service marketing communications agencies, is pleased to announce that the New Castle County Chamber of Commerce has elected David Brond, AB&C’s Vice President and Director of Account Services, for its Board of Directors, effective January 1, 2017 through December 31, 2019. A resident of Middletown, Delaware, Brond also serves on the boards of the Del-Mar-Va Council Boy Scouts of America and Teach for America-Delaware.

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April 10, 2017

Maria Antonelli Joins AB&C as Account Services Division Director

WILMINGTON, Del. (April 10, 2017) — Aloysius Butler & Clark (AB&C), one of the region’s largest full-service marketing communications agencies, today announced that Maria Antonelli has joined the agency as a Division Director in Account Services.

In this role, Antonelli’s primary focus will be working to grow and develop the agency’s B2B and B2C account portfolio. In addition, Antonelli will provide mentorship to the AB&C account services team, as well as build external relationships on behalf of the agency.Read full post...

Media Training—3 Tips for a Great Interview

If you’re Skyping into a live TV interview from your home office, make sure you lock the door! Robert Kelly, a professor of political science at South Korea’s Pusan National University, learned this lesson the hard way after his two children stole the spotlight during his March 2017 BBC interview.

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Top 3 Tips for Public Relations Planners

This February, I represented PRSSA-UD at one of the Public Relations Student Society of America’s Delaware Chapter (PRSA-DE) networking events. As I sipped coffee and ate some of the provided refreshments, I listened to Dave Brond from Aloysius Butler & Clark (AB&C) and Cortney Klein from WSFS Bank discuss the elements of an effective strategic planning process. Here are my top three takeaways from Brond and Klein on how to best create a strategic plan in order to optimize its potential for success:

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Mindful Approach to Marketing

What Is Mindfulness?

The word itself is straightforward. Mindfulness suggests that the mind is full with what is happening around us, inside our bodies or with the task at hand. Yet finding that intensely present and aware mind is hardly an easy task. It seems that when we are doing one thing, our mind is already on to the next project.
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February 22, 2017

Key Takeaways for Women in Advertising

By Megan Egan, Dayna Hawco, Elizabeth Howarth, Paige Miller and Caity Smith

Earlier this month, the Philly Ad Club hosted its annual “Women in Advertising” event at the Courtyard Philadelphia Downtown. A panel composed of six successful women in advertising and communications imparted their knowledge to the female (and male) marketers in the room. The panelists—each with her own unique personality and job description—shared how they successfully handled adversity throughout their careers and overcame self-doubt to achieve their goals.

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Podcasts—Back and Bigger Than Ever

Let’s pretend it’s 2010. Your friend asks, “Have you been listening to this podcast?” Everyone stares blankly at said individual because they’re thinking podcasts are those weird audio recordings that loners produce in their parents’ basement when they’re not crushing the high score in DDR at the local arcade.

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December 6, 2016

5 Steps to Turn Your Employees into Business-Building Ambassadors

Whether your organization is large or small, it can benefit from greater awareness, more leads and higher sales by unleashing the power of your employees to serve as business-building brand ambassadors. Your employees have their own network of friends and potential referrals with whom they can share your brand and marketing messages and stories. Employees can also act as emissaries on social media and provide a layer of authenticity and internal credibility that builds trust with your prospective and current customers.Read full post...

November 7, 2016

Is Digital Media the Next Political Battleground?

By Erin Mulrooney, Ashley Shuey and Megan Egan

No matter where you fall on the political spectrum, the 2016 presidential election has been entertaining, unconventional and thought-provoking, with much owed to online media—and social media in particular. And as we take a look at the election through the digital media lens, it begs the question: Does the trick to attaining the highest office in the land have anything to do with winning the battle on social media?Read full post...

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