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Plan Your 2023 Marketing Strategy Today!

end-of-year-payroll-checklistPreparing your marketing strategies for the end of the year will help you start the new year on the right step. Here are some steps to take now:

1. Review your monthly and annual performances: What worked? What didn’t work? Review all your marketing tools – emails, newsletters, social media, website, etc. Use analytical tools like Hootsuite and Google Analytics to look at specific monthly or quarterly performance rates and trends.

2. Review your budget: Did your current budget fulfill your marketing plans? Did you overspend, or were you under budget? Would better marketing technology or vendor sources have helped create different results?

3. Do a content audit: We talk about content audits all the time here! The primary purpose of having a content strategy is to make sure the information you are presenting online is consistent with your organizational messaging and brand identity. It’s a good idea to do audits to keep your content regularly and especially at the end of the year, to stay on point.

If you have any questions about how your company can end the marketing year right, contact us!

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2021: My Year In Review

I posted the top ten blog posts my readers seem to like reading based on my website metrics.  A few of them are articles I wrote before 2021.

Happy Holidays!

1: Revisiting Black Martha’s Vineyard

2. What WWI Posters Say About Early 20th Century War Marketing

3. ACT-UP, Gran Fury & The Legacy of HIV/AIDS Activist Branding

4. Why People Don’t Go To Church Anymore

5. Pose: Race and Ball Culture

6. How W.E.B. DuBois Used Innovative Communication To Advance Social Justice

7. The Talking Drums of West Africa

8. Marjane Satrapi: Life After

9. Things To Do Before Hiring A Ghostwriter

10. Cycling Isn’t Freedom For Everyone

Plan Your Year-End and 2022 Marketing Strategy Today!

end-of-year-payroll-checklistPreparing your marketing strategies for the end of the year will help you start the new year on the right step. Here are some steps to take now:

1. Review your monthly and annual performances: What worked? What didn’t work? Review all your marketing tools – emails, newsletters, social media, website, etc. Use analytical tools like Hootsuite and Google Analytics to look at specific monthly or quarterly performance rates and trends.

2. Review your budget: Did your current budget fulfill your marketing plans? Did you overspend or were under budget? Would better marketing technology or vendor sources have helped create different results?

3. Do a content audit: We talk about content audits all the time here! The primary purpose of having a content strategy is to make sure the information you are presenting online is consistent with your organizational messaging and brand identity. It’ a good idea to do audits to keep your content regularly and especially at the end of the year to stay on point.

If you have any questions about how your company can end the marketing year right, contact me!

The History of Insurrections

Broadcaster Karen Hunter does this really great weekly YouTube show with Dr. Greg Carr, head of the Africana Studies Department at Howard University.  Every Saturday, they have a discussion about Black history.  In November they discussed the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898, the violent overthrow of the North Carolina town’s biracial government by white supremacists, which is very reminiscent of the January 6 insurrection.

I was going to write a piece about this, but I think I will just place their discussion here for the full context instead.