#TheGroundFloor
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What Makes A College Student Stop Scrolling?
Learn what makes college students stop scrolling on social media. Learn how strong hooks, authentic content, real people, and relatable storytelling can help your brand capture attention and build meaningful engagement.
How to Create More While Stressing Less
Content batching is the practice of creating multiple pieces of content in one dedicated work session instead of one at a time. By grouping similar tasks together, businesses can stay organized, reduce last-minute stress, maintain a more consistent posting schedule, and spend more time focusing on strategy.
Marketing to College Students, From a College Student
Learn how to effectively market to college students by focusing on authenticity, meeting students where they are, and creating meaningful connections. Discover practical strategies for engaging today's college audience.
How To Turn Scrolls Into Clicks with Better CTAs
Your call-to-action can influence whether someone keeps scrolling or takes the next step. Clear messaging, thoughtful placement, intentional design, and ongoing testing can improve how audiences respond to your content. Small adjustments over time can help turn attention into clicks and engagement into meaningful action.
How Local Search Helps Customers Find Your Business
Local search helps businesses become easier to find when nearby customers are actively looking for products or services. Keeping your business information accurate, maintaining consistent listings, collecting reviews, and creating locally relevant content can improve visibility and help customers make informed decisions.
Why Flexibility Matters in Marketing
Marketing is constantly changing, and strategies that worked in the past may not always work today. Businesses that stay flexible, monitor performance, and adapt to audience behavior are better positioned to stay relevant, improve results, and grow long term.
Why Marketing Alignment Matters More Than Ever
Marketing works best when everything feels connected. When your messaging is consistent across social media, email, ads, and your website, your brand becomes easier to recognize, trust, and remember. Alignment turns scattered efforts into stronger, more effective results.
How To Lead the Conversation Online
Posting consistently is not enough to stand out anymore. Brands that share insights, explain industry changes, and offer real perspective can build trust and position themselves as leaders. When your content educates instead of only promotes, your audience begins to see your business as a valuable resource, not just another brand in their feed.
A Smarter Approach to Rebranding
Rebranding isn’t just about updating your visuals, it’s about realigning your business with your goals and your audience. Start by defining why you’re rebranding, then ensure your brand reflects who you’re trying to reach. Stay consistent across all platforms and clearly communicate the change to your audience. When done right, a rebrand strengthens how your business is perceived, not just how it looks.
Why Human Connection Still Matters in Marketing
People are more likely to trust and connect with a brand when they can see the real people behind it. By introducing your team, sharing their expertise, and showing authentic moments, businesses can build stronger relationships, increase credibility, and make their brand more relatable and memorable.
How to Make your Brand Stick
Visibility isn’t enough, memorability is what drives sales. Brand recall is your audience’s ability to remember you when they need what you offer, and that’s what gets you chosen. You build it through consistent messaging, recognizable visuals, repetition, and relevant content that keeps you top-of-mind. The brands people remember are the brands they buy.
Don’t Just Sell, Provide Value
Audiences don’t follow brands to be sold to, they follow brands that teach, inspire, or help them solve problems. By focusing on value-first content instead of constant promotion, businesses build trust, authority, and long-term loyalty, which ultimately leads to stronger conversions and sustainable growth.
Understanding Website Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Website Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) help you understand how your site is really performing. By tracking metrics like traffic, bounce rate, time on site, conversion rate, and click-through rate, you can spot what’s working, fix what’s not, and turn website data into actionable marketing insights.
Exler Marketing: A New Phase
Exler Marketing is entering a new chapter, evolving from a one-person consultancy into a team-driven, full-service marketing agency. The rebrand reflects our growth, collaborative approach, and continued focus on thoughtful strategy, strong partnerships, and long-term impact, while staying rooted in the values and relationships that built the agency from the start.
How to Choose the Right Social Media Platforms for Your Brand
You don’t need to be on every social media platform to succeed. The strongest strategies focus on the channels where your audience actually spends time, align with clear goals, and drive measurable results. Andrew Exler Marketing helps brands cut through the noise and build focused, data-driven social strategies that deliver real impact.
How to Encourage and Showcase Customer Reviews
Customer reviews are one of the most powerful credibility drivers a business can have, and yet so many organizations struggle to gather them consistently. If you’ve ever wished more of your customers would share their experience, you’re not alone. The good news? Encouraging reviews doesn’t have to be complicated. With the right approach and the support of Andrew Exler Marketing, you can make it easy, natural, and even enjoyable for customers to speak up.
The Four Stages of Campaign Development: Guest Contributor, Cate Cinti
From the classroom and into the industry, what are today’s marketing students carrying with them into their careers?
#TheGroundFloor welcomes University of Pittsburgh junior and Andrew Exler Marketing Intern Cate Cinti as she walks us through her main takeaway from her classes: the four stages of campaign planning. She discusses how to succeed in each of these steps and why they matter. She also shares some insight into facing the rapidly changing environment of the marketing industry.
The Magic of User-Generated Content (UGC)
Chances are, you've come across the term User-Generated Content (UGC) or seen it thrown around in marketing discussions, but it's still a bit of a mystery. UGC has become the not-so-secret weapon for many brands in the online realm.
So, what exactly is UGC? Read the full blog to find out!
Embrace the Future: Why To Include Generation Alpha In Your Marketing Plan
In the ever-evolving digital marketing landscape, staying ahead of the curve is essential to remain relevant and appealing to your target audience. For years, brands have concentrated on reaching Generation Z and Millennials. However, businesses must adapt and consider the next generation - Generation Alpha - as we move forward.
In this edition of #TheGroundFloor, I'll explore why Generation Alpha should be on your marketing radar and how you can engage with this emerging audience.
Social Media 101 for C-Suite Executives: Why It Matters & Getting Started
This one is for the C-Suite Executives and major decision-makers. If you don’t fall into that category (just yet), but you understand the importance of social media for a business, pass this along to the right person.
To the C-Suite Executives & Decision Makers of the world, in this edition of #TheGroundFloor, I feel compelled to share something that might not be on your radar but absolutely should be: social media. I understand that for many of you, the world of hashtags, likes, and posts may not seem too important and far removed from the core focus of your business. However, I'm here to show you why social media is a crucial tool for your brand and why hiring the right professional in this domain is a smart move. So, let's dive into Social Media 101!