Marketing Blog for Outdoor Brands

Sep

2023

Ramp Up Your Site’s Conversion Rates With These 10 Easy-to-Implement Tips

Most brands that sell their products and/or services online invest significant amounts of time, effort and money into attracting visitors to their website. But once consumers get there, if they don’t eventually convert, the investment isn’t nearly as valuable as when they do — especially when it comes to impacting the bottom line.

Sep

2023

7 Ways to Boost Your Brand’s Existing-Customer Revenues

Common sense tells us that selling to an existing customer (customer retention) should be both easier and less expensive than finding and converting new customers (customer acquisition) — especially if the existing customer has been well-served. After all, the logic tells us, starting from scratch to gain a new customer will require more effort, more resources and more time than simply keeping a customer you already have.

Sep

2023

Power Up Your Customers’ Path to Purchase With These 7 Steps

As professional marketers and business owners know all too well, a lot of time, effort and money go into catching consumers’ attention and attracting them to visit a brand’s website or brick-and-mortar store. But once they’ve arrived, the job is far from over. If the prospective customer encounters any significant hurdles to conversion along the path to purchase, all the work and spending can be for naught, at least when it comes to the business’s bottom line.

Sep

2023

Holiday E-commerce Checklist for Outdoor Brands

Over the past five years, U.S. holiday e-commerce sales have risen from $108.7 billion in 2016 to $239.26 billion in 2022.

Aug

2023

The Ultimate E-Comm Playbook: 10 Keys to Online Sales Success

When it comes to finding e-commerce success, there are a lot of different paths you take to the top — as evidenced by the long list of modern businesses turning huge profits selling their products and services online. But no matter the type of business or what it’s selling, if it’s prospering in the online marketplace, it’s likely employing some key tactics in its online strategy. It’s also likely that some of those same powerful tactics are holding prominent positions in leading competitors’ e-comm game plans.

Aug

2023

4 Tips To Ensure A Successful Media Event

Working in the realm of public relations, there is no better aspect of the job than getting the opportunity to plan and implement a press trip or media event. And while we may be partial, planning one in the outdoor space may even surpass all other industries (combined).

Aug

2023

Hemingway, Rum and Key West: A Potent Combination

Some might argue that the Age of Exploration (and adventure) is over. When the word explorer is used, the term is likely attributed to the likes of Ernest Shackleton, Amelia Earhart, Lewis & Clark and even the likes of Teddy Roosevelt. However, there’s another who should join their ranks. He is arguably one of the greatest literary icons of the 20th century. Ernest Hemingway drew the inspiration for many of his prize-winning stories from his own life experiences.

Aug

2023

Protecting Brand Health In An AI-Powered World

When you first hear the term artificial intelligence, or simply AI, it can undoubtedly conjure up some connotations of HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey, Skynet and the Terminator, JARVIS and Iron Man or just about any other science fiction film reference. However, at least for the time being, we are in no danger of robots taking over the world.

Aug

2023

5 Top Revenue Drivers for D2C Brands

The direct-to-consumer (D2C) sales model has seen a significant and steady rise in popularity in recent years in the United States — and its growth doesn’t appear to be slowing anytime soon. In fact, D2C e-commerce sales have more than doubled over the past four years from $76.6 billion in 2019 to an estimated $182.6 billion in 2023, with 2024 forecast to hit nearly $213 billion.

Jul

2023

6 Steps to Sending More Successful Marketing Emails

It’s hard to ignore the huge potential that email marketing can bring for businesses. First of all, email is widely used by consumers everywhere. About 347.3 billion emails are sent globally per year, and nearly 4.4 billion people use email worldwide.