With so many traditional and online channels for your business to reach out to clients, it’s more critical and challenging than ever to manage your brand. And we’re not just talking about your brand identity across all these channels. Brand consistency also includes the delivered message and client experience.

How do you achieve brand consistency without spending hours on dull daily tasks? The answer is automated marketing. Just what is this solution capable of?

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Modern marketers must keep many practical techniques in their marketing toolbox. Changes in technology, popular culture, and the online environment will demand adaptations for firms that must stay current. Here are three marketing trends that are going to make an impact on your business in 2014 and beyond.

To generate, manage and convert leads, you must triangulate your client relationship management (CRM) tool, social media, and email marketing. Here’s how to complete each leg of the triangle.

Defining marketing objectives and goals will help you organize and prioritize activities. Without setting objectives and plans that are clear and meaningful, you’ll only do well accidentally. Dreams and goals provide direction and structure for success, around which you optimize your marketing and business development activities. Being purposeful and heading towards defined plans will keep your company moving forward.

With the slew of emails you know your clients receive daily, it can be daunting to create something eye-catching and effective. Concentrate on the basics for the best results with your email marketing messages. You need to get attention in a crowded inbox, make a connection in your message and direct the recipient’s next move with your CTA:

Bad reviews are inevitable, and it’s no use dreading them. Negative thoughts can lead to positive experiences for you and your professional services firm. Much like in your personal life, no one will agree with everything you say, but you can’t let it keep you silent, interfere with your marketing or send you over the edge. What do you do if one of your visitors has a negative experience and posts a comment for the entire world to see?  You start by personalizing a well-thought response; boilerplate responses will not work here. It does not take too long to demonstrate goodwill and respond professionally.

If you’re spending valuable time on social media to promote your business, you’ll find it much more rewarding if you track your progress. There’s no need to practice social media marketing in the dark, especially when so much information is at your fingertips. Each social media network offers information to inform your business strategy. Check these individual analytics and track the effects of social media on your website with Google Analytics. If you’re just not a numbers person—and would instead go to the dentist than look at tracking information, use the following as an incentive. Tracking social media activity will help you to learn:

Trying to be everything to everyone is an exercise in futility. If this is your firm’s goal, you may end up spreading your firm and your firm’s brand too thin. This approach can result in not being known for anything in particular. If you are a marketer for a professional services firm, demonstrating your technical expertise to attract clients requires a niche. 

Creating new content to post is today's top challenge for content marketers. However, have you heard the expressions "mind the store" and "use what you’ve got?" Developing fresh content in your traditional and online content marketing strategy is essential, but so is freshening up valuable, existing, evergreen content.