What does search engine optimization — Local SEO — look like for local, brick-and-mortar businesses in 2025? Between Google, AI, schema, backlinks, and technical SEO, it’s not just confusing, it’s overwhelming! Here’s what you need to know to get optimized so that people will find your local business when they need what you have to […]
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Since each social network has a different audience, you need to consider the type of company you are to better reach you target market. Is your company more Business-to-Business (B2B) or Business-to-Consumer (B2C)? Sometimes it can overlap. Simply put, if you sell more to businesses rather than directly to the end consumer, then you’re B2B.
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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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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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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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Many marketers make the mistake of jumping into blogging and posting or advertising on social media without considering who their target market is and what they want or need. Obviously, you must think about the customer and not about what you want to sell or what you like. When a potential customer lands on your
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TikTok is the favorite app for 13-15-year-olds and was the most downloaded app in 2022. It’s extremely tempting if you are trying to reach the younger generations. Unfortunately, it’s bad news and dangerous. Here is why, along with some data. Plus, President Biden recently signed a bill to ban TikTok if it’s not sold to
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Technology – you can’t live without it and sometimes it just doesn’t work like it should. We’ve all had computers crash and Internet connections die on us. So what do you do when technology doesn’t work right? I taught a client how to share her boss’s blog posts with Sendible and one time she emailed
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