If you’re just starting with marketing your business on social media or if you’ve had your accounts set up but haven’t been using them, you need to spend some time up front building your social media following. Besides growing your following, posting on social media now helps you get noticed by the AI Answer Bots! […]
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It’s been said that if you fail to plan, you plan to fail. Given that, when you plan your marketing, what are you planning for? Success, right? Well, how do you know when you’ve achieved it? That’s where goal setting comes in. Furthermore, success means different things to different people. That’s where SMART Goals come
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Everywhere you look, you see visual marketing: pictures, photos, graphics, animations, and/or videos. For instance, did you know that YouTube videos appear frequently in Google AI Overviews? Plus, how does AI Search fit in? Besides that, what are today’s visual marketing trends, platforms, and tools — including AI? If you want your marketing messages to
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Facebook constantly creates new challenges for the small business owner to promote their business on their social media network.
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No matter what technological advances change HOW we do social media marketing, the marketing basics stay the same. I’ve seen many small businesses make digital marketing mistakes in my 30+ years of digital marketing experience. It behooves you to understand how these 9 “Ps” work together. The 9 Ps of Social Media Marketing Where do
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How do you measure your marketing success (or failures)? How do you know if your marketing efforts are working? What’s nice about today’s digital marketing is that we have access to a lot of data for free. Monthly, you must track your marketing efforts and review your data. Don’t get nervous. You don’t need a degree in calculus
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You know you need one — a Website to help promote your business. The question is… should you go the DIY route and build it yourself? Or should you hire a pro? That opens up a bevy of other questions, like: When Kerry Townsend, my co-author on this article, and I began building websites in
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing the way we search, and in this 2025 Holiday Shopping Season, it will change the way we shop. People will be searching things like, “What is a good gift, under $50, for a 54-year-old man who likes hiking and the outdoors?” What’s going to come up? Your store? Probably not.
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Back in the day (the late 90s), there were dozens of search engines and lists. I remember when Yahoo first started and then Google came along. Yahoo was a list or directory where you could search by categories. However, with Google, you could search the whole World Wide Web. Back then, you had to register
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Video marketing is the best thing that you can do to promote your small business. Today’s cell phones and apps combined provide easy ways for you to use video to get extra exposure. And it’s not just on YouTube! You can share the same video in many different places, including your website! See, video is
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