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Local Business Marketing Advice

Here are 16 essential local marketing strategies including timeless guidelines and timely tips to keep you in stride with the evolution of consumer choice and perception. Part One: Essential Marketing Strategies for Any Year 1. Set your direction. U…
A new year is upon us, and it’s a good time to take a few minutes to think about how to make your business more profitable. Without further ado here are 16 tips for 2016,… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/local-business-marketing-advice/

Use Online Reviews and Testimonials to Your Advantage

Can customers and prospects in your local market differentiate between your company and its competitors?
Can customers and prospects in your local market differentiate between your company and its competitors? Yes, they can, provided you are taking proactive steps to set yourself… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/use-online-reviews-and-testimonials-your-advantage/

How to Generate Business With Social Media

Facebook and other social media services can provide great support to energy marketers as they try to reach new customers and strengthen relationships. That is the message delivered by PriMedia Inc.’s Jenna Beneski during a presentation at the recent Sout…
Facebook and other social media services can provide great support to energy marketers as they try to reach new customers and strengthen relationships. That is the message… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/how-generate-business-social-media/

Shaping Customer Perceptions

There is no sound reason for converting from heating oil and natural gas. Not one. Close examination of the facts bears out that assertion, and you don’t need to be pro-oil to believe it. The price differential between the fuels has dwindled to the poi…
There is no sound reason for converting from heating oil and natural gas. Not one. Close examination of the facts bears out that assertion, and you don’t need to be pro-oil to… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/shaping-customer-perceptions/

Redefine Yourself to Your Customers

There is a lot of potential value in a great corporate reputation. If your company has earned the respect of its customers, you are sitting on a reservoir of goodwill that you can leverage for greater success.
There is a lot of potential value in a great corporate reputation. If your company has performed well enough to earn the respect of its customers, you are sitting on a reservoir… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/redefine-yourself-your-customers/

Recruiting New Customers and Clients Online

You don’t choose your customers—they choose you. But you can do plenty to influence their decisions.
You don’t choose your customers—they choose you. But you can do plenty to influence their decisions. By Richard Rutigliano, PriMedia Inc. A camera is a simple instrument… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/recruiting-new-customers-and-clients-online/

Content Marketing for Local Business

Share what you know to attract new customers
Share what you know to attract new customers Should a home comfort company or energy marketer become a publisher of information for the benefit of its prospects and customers?… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/content-marketing-local-business/

NORA Plans Digital Outreach

Campaign will draw on unused funds
Campaign will draw on unused funds The National Oilheat Research Alliance (NORA) is preparing to launch an online outreach campaign to help consumers and policymakers… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/nora-plans-digital-outreach/

Should Local Businesses Advertise on Facebook?

While imperfect, Facebook and other services remains vital
While imperfect, Facebook and other services remains vital The business press is complaining a lot these days about the ineffectiveness of social media, and marketers might be… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/should-local-businesses-advertise-facebook/

Does Your Local Business Need a Responsive Website Design?

Responding to Google’s new plan for mobile search
Responding to Google’s new plan for mobile search Many energy marketers have had their websites “in the shop for repairs” this spring after yet another significant change to… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/does-your-local-business-need-responsive-website-design/

Get Ready to Rumble

It may seem easy to dismiss the ideas of the Green New Deal as over-reach, and continue as we have done before. We do so at our own peril. Climate change legislation is real, and needs to be addressed. Taxation and electrification may not be the answers, …
It may seem easy to dismiss the ideas of the Green New Deal as over-reach, and continue as we have done before. We do so at our own peril. Climate change legislation is real, and… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/get-ready-rumble/

Capitalize on Improved Supply and Pricing

Tips on marketing price protection contracts
Tips on marketing price protection contracts Heating oil is on a roll. Prices are down by more than $1 a gallon. Increased U.S. production is making oil is more readily… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/capitalize-improved-supply-and-pricing/

Optimizing a Website for New Customers

Make it easy for prospects to embrace you.
Make it easy for prospects to embrace you. By Richard Rutigliano, PriMedia Inc. The most successful energy marketers are masters of creating great customer experiences, and… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/optimizing-website-new-customers/

Identify Opportunities, and Seize Them

Plan your strategy and market accordingly
Plan your strategy and market accordingly Another heating season is almost in the books, and it’s time for owners and executives to pause, take stock, and figure out how to do… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/identify-opportunities-and-seize-them/

Pricing Specialists Embrace Online Environment

Contractors create work orders with CoolFront app
Contractors create work orders with CoolFront app Profit Strategies Inc., a provider of flat rate pricing systems for heating and cooling service teams and other trades, is… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/pricing-specialists-embrace-online-environment/

Smart Thermostats and Smart Homes

New opportunities in connectivity and whole-home contracting
New opportunities in connectivity and whole-home contracting Adaptability is an essential characteristic that companies must have in order to stay on top in fuel delivery and… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/smart-thermostats-and-smart-homes/

Google Algorithms and Local Search

Search giant makes changes to help consumers find local businesses
Search giant makes changes to help consumers find local businesses Home comfort companies should have an easier time connecting with new customers in 2015, thanks to new… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/google-algorithms-and-local-search/

Price Parity Could Come Sooner Than Expected

Save customers from an expensive mistake
Save customers from an expensive mistake By Richard Rutigliano, PriMedia Inc. It’s official: Switching from heating oil to natural gas makes no sense. Natural gas has… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/price-parity-could-come-sooner-expected/

Own the Home

The Powderhorn Agency and the New England Fuel Institute (NEFI) are collaborating on a new set of protection and warranty programs to help energy marketers forge deeper relationships with their customers.
The Powderhorn Agency and the New England Fuel Institute (NEFI) are collaborating on a new set of protection and warranty programs to help energy marketers forge deeper… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/own-home/

Lessons From the Big Advertisers

Primetime television advertising is worlds away from the small-budget marketing campaigns that home comfort companies use to attract new business. While companies in our niche struggle just to be noticed, giant advertisers are creating touchstone images a…
Primetime television advertising is worlds away from the small-budget marketing campaigns that home comfort companies use to attract new business. While companies in our niche… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/lessons-big-advertisers/

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