If you’ve ever visited a store to purchase a heavily discounted product and picked up a few other items ‘while you were at it’, you’ve likely succumbed to a loss leader pricing and product strategy. A loss leader strategy involves selling a product or service at a low...
Building Awareness for Your Local Business
In advertising, “awareness” refers to the level of familiarity and recognition a brand or product has with its target audience. The practice of building awareness is about ensuring potential customers know a brand exists and can easily recall it. For local...
What is Content Marketing and How Can Your Local Business Benefit from It?
Your local business can benefit from integrating content marketing into your overall marketing plan. Content marketing helps you to build brand awareness for your business, establish credibility, engage with the local community, improve local SEO, and ultimately...
How Can Sentinel Solutions Help You and Your Business?
For some local business owners, they may think of The Keene Sentinel as a great place to run their print advertising. And those business owners would be right. But thinking of The Sentinel exclusively as a print advertising resource would be missing the larger...
Why Is Brand Differentiation Important to Your Local Business?
Brand differentiation is critical to the success of local businesses because it allows you to stand out from competitors in your immediate market, attract customers by highlighting your unique value and selling proposition, builds customer loyalty, and ultimately...
Marketing For Lead Generation
If your business needs to attract new customers and build a sales pipeline, you might benefit from a marketing strategy that includes lead generation. Business categories that typically focus their marketing on lead gen include home services, like roofers, window...
What is Social Commerce and How Can It Help Your Local Business?
Social media is prevalent in our everyday lives. As of January, 2025 63.9% of the world’s population use social media which equates to an astonishing 5.24 billion people. As well, on average people spend 2 hours and 20 minutes per day using social media. The most...
What Is Influencer Marketing and How Can You Use It to Grow Your Local Business?
Influencer marketing is a marketing strategy where brands collaborate with individuals, known as “influencers”, who have a large and engaged following on social media to promote their products and services by featuring them in content, essentially leveraging the...
How To Use Owned, Earned, and Paid Media to Help Your Local Business Grow
Owned, earned, and paid media refers to three distinct categories of marketing channels that a business can use to promote itself. Owned Media: Here a business creates the content and distributes it on channels it controls. Owned media can include a company’s website,...
Where Does Storytelling Fit in Your Branding Strategy?
A branding strategy is a framework that helps a business establish its identity, define its market, and create a unique value proposition. Branding involves developing a name, logo, and other characteristics that distinguish it from competitors. Effective branding...