The Jam Study by psychologists Sheena Iyengar and Mark Lepper in 2000 demonstrated the phenomenon of choice overload. The study found that while a display of 24 jam varieties attracted more interest, shoppers were ten times more likely to buy a jar of jam when...
How Your Local Business Can Leverage Brand Equity
Many confuse the concepts of brand value and brand equity. Toward clarifying, brand value is the quantitative financial worth of a brand to a company, reflecting its monetary impact on the bottom line; while brand equity is the aggregate of customer’s qualitative,...
Why is Holiday Marketing Different?
The holiday season provides a crucial economic uplift for local businesses, driving significant portions of annual revenue. While the average for a small business can be 25% or more of annual revenue, this figure can be much higher, especially for retail businesses,...
How Can Your Local Business Use Automation to Improve the Effectiveness of Your Marketing?
Marketing automation is an effective tool for engaging customers and increasing the efficiency of your marketing by improving both marketing execution and personalization by delivering tailored content to the customer. It also enhances lead generation and nurturing...
What Are Multi-Touch Attribution Models?
As you may recall from a previous post, marketing attribution models are tools for distributing credit for a conversion across the various touchpoints of a customer journey. These models help marketers understand the effectiveness of different campaigns and channels...
Can Psychographic Segmentation Benefit Your Local Marketing?
Psychographic segmentation is a marketing strategy that divides a market into segments based on psychological characteristics including lifestyle, values, interests, opinions, social status, and more. The goal of psychographic segmenting is to understand why people...
What is Competitive Conquesting?
I recall an anecdote from back in the days of Yellow Pages (YP) advertising. There was a pizza restaurant in New York City who ran a full-page ad encouraging customers to tear the adjacent full-page ad of their competitor out of the YP and bring it into the...
How Useful are Hashtags?
Hashtags are keywords or phrases preceded by the pound (#) symbol, used on social media platforms to categorize and improve discoverability. Hashtags help users find content related to specific topics, events, or trends. Originally popularized on Twitter (now ‘X’),...
Is Your Local Business Ready for Zero-Click Search Marketing?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is significantly transforming local search marketing by making it more personalized, precise, and efficient for the user. To be successful, local businesses will need to adapt to these AI-driven changes to maintain visibility and attract...
Could a Long-Tail Search Strategy Help to Grow Your Business?
If you’re a local business in a particularly competitive category, have a limited marketing budget, and/or limited domain authority; you may want to consider incorporating long-tail keyword tactics into your search marketing strategy. A long-tail keyword strategy is...










