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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One thing’s for sure, anything having to do with digital marketing and technology changes at breakneck speed. I’ve been a witness to this since I created my first website back in 1995, yes, before the “Internet” was a household word. Social media networks come and go. Remember MySpace & Google+? They both had good intentions
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Just when you think you’ve figured out how Google and search engine optimization (SEO) work, Google goes and makes some changes. The challenge for the small business owner is… “Human search behaviors have changed, and so have the technologies used to interpret and serve up search results.” — Hubspot How Google’s AI Overviews Will Hurt
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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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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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You need to keep Google happy as well as attract new visitors to your website. Blogging regularly will do this.
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Usually, when someone asks me if they should do paid advertising or otherwise spend money marketing, I say — do everything I teach you for 3 months organically (non-paid). Then look at your analytics and see what’s working and not working. At that point, you’ll know which networks are… Then it makes sense to spend
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Love it or hate it, Facebook is still the number 1 social media network in the world! Why is Facebook so Difficult? Facebook, because of its algorithm change in March of 2018, made it increasingly difficult to grow a following organically — that is, without paying for advertising to get extra reach and clicks to
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No matter what you think about social media, it’s still a powerful, low-to-no-cost marketing tool available to every small business owner. The challenge is knowing how to do social media marketing effectively. This video covers the basics of the social media networks, and how they work together with your website, content marketing, and search engine
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The number one traffic channel is organic search, and content marketing for SEO (Search Engine Optimization), when done right, absolutely works. On most websites, when you look at analytics, out of 1000 visitors in a month, 600-700 of them would come from the search engine. Over 80% of them are from Google. The rest of
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