For the third year, Hot Dog Marketing’s popular and completely free community workshops have been scheduled for 2025. We’re thrilled to announce that this year’s workshops will take place at the Greater Austin Chamber board room in Downtown Austin. Mark your calendars for these upcoming lunch-break events: February 13, 2025: How to Plan a Marketing…
Just like slowly removing vegetation and deforestation can lead to land erosion over a slow period, companies can pluck away at their customer and employee experience over time and ultimately erode their brand. Small companies and large companies can suffer from undiagnosed brand erosion. What is Brand Erosion? In our Hot Dog Marketing University Lunch…
Marketing is about speaking to your audience. The goal of marketing is to increase your market share, the percentage of people in the potential customer community who choose your product or brand over your competitors. The local burger place is competing for a percent of hungry people at lunchtime within a few miles of the shop….
Hiring the right marketing agency for your business is not just about hiring someone to write marketing copy or design graphics; it’s a partnership. Your marketing agency not only needs to have the right skills and workflow to meet your needs, but also to understand your brand well enough to represent your style, voice, and…
Customer reviews are vital for any small business. More often than not, we typically see business owners only responding to positive reviews, and that honestly makes sense in a way. It’s only natural to want to accentuate the good reviews in hopes that they bury the bad, and it can be completely disheartening to see a…
Pulling in Your Piece of the Pie There is no denying that every Software as a Service (SaaS) company has something unique to offer. The large audience already interested in SaaS products is also a huge bonus. However, as useful and groundbreaking as your software may be, its existence is not enough to ensure your…
Visibility, brand awareness, lead generation: these may all sound like corporate buzzwords, but each of them is an essential component to a business’s success. If potential customers don’t know your business, if they’ve never heard of it, and if they can’t find it, then it is doomed to failure. Especially if you are a small…
Fall Marketing Ideas The summer lull is almost over and everybody is getting back to town while kids prepare for school. Therefore, making fall the perfect season to ramp up your marketing strategy and promotions. It is the only way to keep your Austin area business fresh and reel in prospective customers. However, how do…
Does a SaaS marketing strategy differ from traditional product and service marketing plans? The short answer is: yes. SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) companies use and even require a different approach to marketing than most traditional businesses. Why? Because the traditional marketing approach is based on a one-time interaction with the customer. The idea is to get them…
“It’s just easier to buy from someone you’ve heard of.” What is brand equity? It’s best explained through a simple exercise. What are the brands that come to mind when you see this list of needs? I need to… blow my nose. make a paper copy. overnight this package. catch a ride. When you have…