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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When business owners — no matter what size their business is — discover how much time is involved in doing their own marketing, they say, “I don’t have that kind of time!” I feel your pain. Not only do I have to run my business and do stuff for clients, but I’ve got to record
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If you try to reach everyone, you’ll reach no one. You need to determine and clearly define who your target niche is. Obviously, you can have more than one target market niche (market). They could even be both B2C AND B2B. Who’s Your Niche? If anyone can buy your product or service, then no one
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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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You’ve built your website. It’s gorgeous. Now how do you get people to visit it? Better yet, how do you get potential customers to visit it? Getting traffic to your website takes effort including creating compelling content regularly, like blogs and videos, and being active in social media. Here are 5 Tips to help you
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April 1995 marked 30 years that I’ve worked in digital marketing. I’ve seen it all! Well-meaning small business owners especially attempt to do their own marketing and fail miserably. Moreover, their failures and mistakes were 100% preventable had they asked an expert for help. Did they want to save money? Did they think they could
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Everything revolves around your website. Is your website working for you 24/7? You can be emailing and posting in social media, but if your website isn’t set up right, if you’re NOT capturing leads or getting sales, somehow, all your efforts are for naught. You’re wasting your time. Your website is more than a pretty
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This is a classic post, but it’s still VERY relevant! I once did a consult for an auto repair shop in the Phoenix Valley. He had poor SEO and needed to boost the business to his local, brick-and-mortar shop. He had some social media profiles setup, but had no idea what to do with them.
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LinkedIn is a powerful networking tool for both jobseekers and businesses, but there are rules to follow. There are things that you just don’t do. LinkedIn is the Facebook for professionals and it’s nothing like Facebook.
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Besides St. Patrick’s Day and March Madness, what else is happening in March? Here are national and global observance and awareness days which will more than likely be trending on Twitter. These are just some of the observance and awareness days. For the full list, visit these sites: These calendars offer some links to details
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