Is a picture worth a thousand (marketing) words? Most of the time, when we think about social media for business, we tend to think of Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. There are a couple of other platforms that can be employed for business (if you take
Third party reviews and testimonials have always been a powerful driver of brand credibility, but a business stands to gain the most credibility when a customer is recommended by someone they know. This is customer advocacy that every business needs. Before the advent of social
Better hear me out on Integrated Marketing Communications. Why? Well, I’m an old man. I took Pascal in high school. (Go ahead and Google it, I’ll wait.) I typed my college papers on a typewriter/word processor hybrid. I hung out in MUDs and MOOs before
Are you struggling with social media productivity? Daily online marketing tasks overwhelming you so much you can’t tell what to do next, or where to turn your attention to? Before you bang your head on the wall out of frustration, be assured: there is a
Is a branding guide really necessary? Well, marketers talk about branding all the time: how it can generate excitement, how it makes promotion easier, how it builds loyalty – it’s important. But whether you’re working on rebranding your business or you’re just starting to build
For online business owners, a sales funnel is one of the most important marketing tools you can have in your tool belt. However, many entrepreneurs, new as well as seasoned business owners, do not understand what sales funnels are and how these sales funnels efficiently
While most companies, brands and personalities prefer to keep a tight rein on access to their social media channels, social media takeovers can create awareness and leverage an influencer or celebrity’s reach to increase your own audience. What is a Social Media Takeover? A social
You can always find different trends sweeping the older ones way! Just like other trends, email marketing trends come and go. What is most important is to stay up-to-date with them. Do the research, and make sure to follow the newest updates. If you are
Before getting into the world of LinkedIn Marketing Campaigns, first a question: Do you view LinkedIn as a job searching platform rather than a professional networking site? Many argue that LinkedIn is a site for gathering information about jobs. But is that all there is
While I’m well-known for my long and thorough how-to posts, I want to take a minute for a shorter, more important one on why you should always-always pay attention to your social media scheduled content and ads! You may be thinking to yourself of course,
In this digital age, it is imperative for small businesses to maintain a good online reputation in order to flourish, as the correlation between online rankings and user influx on the web site/page is often directly proportional. Reputation management today must be proactive, not passive.
Here’s a story for you… The conference speaker started talking about how great social selling could be. And when I saw the excited grins on the faces of my company’s sales team, I was scared, scared stiff. As a longtime professional communicator, I was extremely
One of the key skills that you need to have as an entrepreneur (and, arguably, as an employee) is having a perfect pitch. The elevator pitch is, in a nutshell, a brief snippet that outlines what you do and can ideally be delivered in the
Do you ever look at your own website? I don’t mean just bringing up the website and quickly scrolling to the item you are looking for. I mean really looking from your website visitors’ perspective. Your website needs to load quickly, be easy to navigate
It is awesome owning a business. If it wasn’t we wouldn’t keep doing it. One part of owning a business is that it comes with so many different hats, sometimes too many. Do you ever notice how you are good at wearing some hats verses
It’s interesting to me that for as long as we have been producing content, there is still a question of how long a blog should be, or how many words should be written. I find it interesting simply because the answer seems to be a
Did you hear the news that on Monday, August 24, 2015, 1 in every 7 people on Earth logged into Facebook? That is right, in a single day Facebook had over one billion users log into their platform to keep up with friends, read news,
Do you want to succeed in life and business? Of course you do. Are you doing business like it is a “Dog Eat Dog” world? I know you automatically think “No” and that this article isn’t for you. But, are you really sure about that?
Whether you’re posting images for your blog or for your social networks – from Facebook, Instagram or Google+ to Pinterest, Twitter or LinkedIn – here are my 5 favorite free tools that help you create cool graphics that rock! 5 Free Social Media Image Sites 1.
One of the hardest things to do in today’s business environment is balancing the things in your business that you love to do with the things you need to do. Outsourcing the things we do not like to do or do not do well is
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A website content plan sets out what a business should work on first. But when priorities change, the order of that work should change too.
We’ve talked recently about how site plans and content maps help organize a website. The next question is how the work they identify becomes a
Planning website content takes more than brainstorming topics and writing pages. Businesses also need to know where those pages belong on the website and how
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