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...
Why a Strong Media Mix is Essential for Modern Marketing Success
Here at Sentinel Solutions, we are advocates of a multimedia approach to advertising, including a media mix that integrates targeted media to engage with your potential customers throughout their customer journey. We believe an integrated multimedia advertising...
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...
How To Effectively Use Framing in Your Local Marketing
In a marketing context, framing relates to messaging in a way that highlights certain details to make a product or service more appealing to potential customers. Local businesses can use framing to shape customer perceptions by emphasizing positive aspects to...
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...
What You Need to Know About Social Media Search
There’s no doubt that Google is the dominant search platform, handling trillions of searches annually and commanding search engine market share of 89% in North America. The platform sees billions of searches and 79% of people using Google every day. In the US alone,...










