Social Media

  • 4 of 5 doctors agree: Reviews Matter!

    ByCharles Crouch

    The classic ringing endorsement for a product is that: 4 out of 5 doctors agree. While the doctors may not have been asked about reviews, it is clear that reviews today matter. We used to go to the Better Business Bureau to find out if a business did good work. But today a business’s customers give you the best insight. After all who knows better? Reviews are endorsements for your products. Between Yelp, TripAdvisor, Amazon, Facebook, Google, and many more, people can easily share their experience with your product or service. You may be saying, “Yes, but this is a double-edged sword. What if they leave a bad review?” This is actually a good thing. For one thing, a bad review can tell you where you…

  • How to use Omni-Channel Marketing for your business

    ByCharles Crouch

    Omni-channel marketing should be a smooth and painless process to market to clients. The Crouch Group is a full-service marketing firm. However, Tim (Crouch) likes to say we are actually in the business of evolution. The world is changing so rapidly today that if we do not constantly evolve with it, we will quickly go extinct. When this company was started, marketing was largely the same it had been since the days Don Draper (Mad Men) worked on Madison Ave. But over the last two decades we have had to constantly pivot on how we market our clients. In the days of Mad Men, marketing avenues were largely print media, radio and television ads. With the advent of the internet, a digital component was added,…

  • How to get More Engagement with your Content

    ByCharles Crouch

    How do you get more engagement with your content? Everyone wants to have a viral video or something that gets everyone talking. However, the first question you need to be asking is, “Why should someone want to engage with my content?” Just wanting to have higher engagement is getting ahead of yourself. People need to have a reason to want to share or talk about your content. It needs to make people laugh, elicit strong emotion, or have an active participation aspect to it. In the 1988 Batman story, Batman: A Death in the Family, DC gave readers a chance to vote on whether Robin should be killed off. 900 numbers were set up for people to call in and vote. After over 10,600 votes…

  • Editorial Calendars – A Great Plan for 2018

    ByCharles Crouch

    Do you have a plan for your social media, email marketing, or blog posts? Or are you just creating content as inspiration strikes? While waiting for the muses to motivate your content creation is an avenue you can go down, with a little planning you can be much more effective at telling your story online. In your business, would you go into a new project without a plan for the goals you hope to achieve? Most companies spend time carefully planning out projects, and not just jumping into something new without thinking. Planning your digital presence deserves the same mental energy as a new project. The best way to plan it out is to create a formal editorial calendar. An editorial calendar is a simple…

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    The Crouch Group Unveils New Mission Statement

    ByCharles Crouch

    The Crouch Group has always had a passion for our clients and our community. One of the best reasons for hiring The Crouch Group is that we are great strategic thinkers for our clients.  For nearly 22 years, The Crouch Group has helped our clients to grow their business through a wide variety of platforms.  Platforms that have changed dramatically, since we opened for business in 1996, highlighted by the emergence of social media and digital marketing.  Staying on top of the changing media habits of consumers is our responsibility to our clients. Our mission, as a company, has always been to help our clients grow.  But there has also always been a subtext to who we are as a company.  We have emphasized community…

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    4 Easy Time Management Techniques

    ByCharles Crouch

    Do you feel like you are highly disorganized or are a major procrastinator? Fixing the issue may be less complicated than you are imagining. Working on your time management skills may have a huge impact on your organization and productivity. Improving time management means improving your organization and planning skills. The old saying is that “Failing to plan is planning to fail”. 1.Keep Organized How much time do you waste sifting through papers on your desk every day to find that one document that you need? How much time does that add up to every weak? Setting up a better organization system, or even keeping documents organized on a computer, will help you manage your time better. Having most documents on a computer is even…

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    Moneyball and Business: Doing the Most with Limited Resources

    ByCharles Crouch

    What would you give to have Apple’s marketing budget? or Coke’s? or Ford? It would be awesome to have near endless funding to market the company. But short of this, what should you do? The movie and book, Moneyball, tells a story that answers just this question. “For $41 million, you built a playoff team… You won the exact same number of games that the Yankees won, but the Yankees spent $1.4 million per win and you paid $260,000 per win,” says the Boston Red Sox owner to Billy Beane. This making an important point about ROI or Return on Investment. Every company, no matter how big, has to be very diligent about how they spend money to get the most ROI. In Moneyball, Billy…

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    6 Great Business Practices From TOMS

    ByCharles Crouch

    “Start Something That Matters” Book Review and Business practices TOMS shoes got started 2006 with a journey to another country. Blake Mycoskie went on a trip to Argentina in 2006, taking a much need break from his startup venture. He had been to Argentina before, but on this 2006 trip he learned about a major issue he wasn’t aware of before the trip. Children across the country lacked shoes, even in a moderately well-developed country like Argentina. This exposed their feet to major diseases some possibly life threatening. Blake initial thought was to create a not-for-profit soliciting money or shoes to donate to the children of Argentina. However, organizations like this already existed and struggled to get funds or proper shoes. Then a new concept…

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    New Marketing: Focused Target Markets

    ByCharles Crouch

    Marketing today means that you have to thoroughly know your audience Social media largely allows us to tailor what we see every day. Facebook allows you to block people or posts that are irrelevant or offensive to you. If you are a big fan of a of McDonalds you can see more and more from them. If you detest McDonald’s food, it can be tailored so you never see an “I’m lovin’ it” campaign again. So, what does this mean for business marketing? In simple terms for a business, you have to be very specific about which markets you are targeting. Spray and pray marketing does not work at all. Your efforts would be lost amongst cat videos and celebrity gossip without finding good ground to take…

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    5 Facebook things that may have confused you

    ByCharles Crouch

    Clarifying items on Facebook Does using social media, especially Facebook, for a small business baffle or even scare you? Whether you like it or not, social media is here to stay. The good news is that social media can be a very powerful business tool, if you use it correctly. Hopefully, this blog series will eliminate some of your apprehension about using social media as a business tool. Facebook is by far, the largest social media platform. The best descriptor is that Facebook is the Sun and all of the the other social media are planets and moons in comparison. That however does not mean that the other social medias don’t have their place with the audience that use each of them. But as a…