Your online image is everything that’s on the Internet that’s associated with your business. Does your online image say “expert in your field”? Or does it say, “Clueless!”? You might think social media is not really important, but it actually is. In reality, the consumer is searching for information, entertainment, products, and/or services when they […]
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How do you measure your marketing success (or failures)? How do you know if your marketing efforts worked? What’s nice about today’s digital marketing is we have access to a lot of data – free. You must track your marketing efforts and review your data monthly. Don’t get nervous. You don’t need a degree in calculus or statistics to
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In this climate of deeply divided political and cultural issues, it’s very easy to offend someone just by replying, retweeting even posting on the wrong social media account. Now, if you happen to work in news media, politics or a religious organization, this article isn’t for you. It’s expected to see those types of posts
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The social media offers are so tempting! Offers like “I will promote Your Website, Blog or Anything 20,000,000 Members On Facebook Twitter for $5″ or ” I will add 32000 Twitter or Instagram followers or 6000 Facebook likes for $5″ — seem too good to be true and they are! You do not want to
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What is a Buyer Persona? It’s making up a description of what your perfect customer looks like — detailing their demographics. You can have more than one target market. Some businesses are B2B (business-to-business) or B2C (business-to-consumer) or a combination of both. Here, are some examples of target market or buyer personas to give you
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Success means different things to different people. Successful social media marketing means increased sales, exposure, and repeat customers. What do you Want to Accomplish with your Social Media Marketing? Got you thinking, right? Well, successful social media marketing starts with setting goals and metrics — and they have to be SMART goals. I see too
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Endeavoring to market local brick-and-mortar businesses organically (non-paid) is actually fairly simple when you take advantage of these 3 free tools: Instagram, Google Business Profile, and Facebook. How one local business managed to increase Facebook reach when others were losing theirs… You may have read — and I’ve written on the subject — that due
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Whenever I’m over on Quora looking for questions that people are asking regarding digital marketing, I always see someone complaining that their marketing or advertising on Facebook or Google isn’t working. Many blame the platform. Hint: It’s not the platform’s fault! Usually, it’s one or more factors in the marketing planning process that the advertiser
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Unlike for-profit businesses that usually have one main target market, maybe two, nonprofits have at least 5 distinct ones. These 5 target market personas need to be clearly identified and embraced. Ideally, you need to get to know them — intimately. You also need to find them in the social media networks to be able
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Blog is short for “web log”. Many people have them. They can be personal, casual blogs and then there are business blogs. A personal blog can be by anyone writing about what interests them – food, hobbies, politics, travel, religion, pets, etc. It’s a way to get your “voice” heard. For Business, however, it is…
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