Let’s face it, marketing can be hard! In each marketing blog post, we hope you’ll find the information you need for your business marketing success.

The Top Social Media Platforms for Small Businesses

Social media marketing is no longer a negotiable part of a company’s overall marketing efforts. In fact, social media is so essential to the success of a business that it is often the central focus of any company’s marketing campaign. Small businesses need great social media marketing campaigns just as much as big businesses do.…

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Trends that Will Shake Up Marketing for 2016

It is that time of the year when every marketer and brands are preoccupied with what the trends are in marketing for 2016. This is understandable since the online marketing industry is complex and volatile, but it can also become friendly and exciting if you stick to the correct new trends. From the look of…

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Social Media Marketing – A Low Cost Sоlutіоn

Social media has brought a new wave of connection to the world. People from all over the world can connect with each other and this idea has sparked a lot of ideas and thoughts for businesses. If social media is free to sign up for and use on a daily basis, could it also be…

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3 Easy Ways to Dip Your Toe into Social Media Waters

While the social media has reached a feverish pitch, many people remain fearful that its perceived risks might be for real. They however understand the need for a website that is engaging and vibrant, since they have mastered the art of email marketing over the years. This is also partly because they would have enjoyed…

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How to make your brand more ” Pinterest -ing “

Are you looking for tips to make your brand strategy more interesting? Then, using Pinterest is the answer. If your business is benefitting from Pinterest, you might want to consider using it for your business more effectively. So, how can you make your brand more “Pinteresting”? Build relationships with influencers Each and every platform has…

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The One Marketing Strategy For 2015

Much like the world of whatever business you own is constantly changing, so is the marketing world you use. You need to update the way you market your products and services as much as you need to update the products and services themselves. That way you can be sure of continued success in the future.…

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Strategy is SO Important!

Remember the lyric, “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.” from the George Harrison song “Any Road”? Well, it’s especially true in business. But the cold-hard reality is that getting out of the day-to-day and into the strategy mode can be quite difficult. It takes discipline, and it takes dedication.…

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Your Sales Funnel is then #1 Reason You Don’t Have More Clients!

Let’s talk for a minute about leads and the sales funnel. We all get leads, but it’s what we do with them that matters (AKA do you have a sales funnel?). How well are we following up on them? How well are we creating a relationship with them? The reality is that the first time…

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Social Media Privacy and Advertising

Video Transcript Hi there.  How are you today? Hey, I wanted to take just a few minutes today to talk a little bit about a question I get asked a lot and that is, “How does social media privacy interact with advertising and where’s the line and what are my options?”  I thought it would…

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Instagram: Get Your Small Business In the Picture

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then how much better is it than a 140 characters? We live in a visual society, it’s one of the reasons TV beats radio, and has helped create the success of ‘FACE’book. It’s no secret that the most shared and clicked upon items on Facebook are pictures.…

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Facebook Pay To Play: What To Do – Small Business Oregon

For business owners Facebook is becoming more and more a “pay-to-play” model. You’ve put time and money into building your business pages ‘likes’, creating relationships, content creation and curation, So what do you do? On the one hand, businesses have never before had a free media platform through which to build our brand and communicate…

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How Lawyers Can Use Social Media

Most people are under the impression that lawyers will not do well with creating profiles for their firms on social media. However, this idea is very, very wrong. Law firms can actually benefit from creating social media profiles and could possibly use them to get more clients. There are a few things that law firms…

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Off-Page vs. On-Page SEO: How Do You Develop a Strategy? Part 2

In part one of this blog, we explained the difference between on-page and off-page SEO. We established that off-page SEO is often completed by a website designer or coder behind the scenes, while on-page SEO is up to you. The way that designers name your pages, write your code and house your website (i.e. search…

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The Importance Of Social Media At Tradeshows

Industry specific tradeshows have always provided businesses, both large and small, with the opportunity to meet with clients face to face and establish new sales leads. However, they have been irrevocably changed following the proliferation of social media, taking them into the virtual domain as well as the physical. With companies tweeting images and posting…

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Creating A Vibrant Social Media Buzz To Promote Your Dental Practice

Nowadays, it’s relatively easy to create a buzz about your business, whatever it is, with the help of the internet. If you are a dentist and you want to promote your dental practice in the most practical and effective way, you should try to use the social media buzz to attract new patients to your…

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If Your Nonprofit Isn’t Marketing Through Mobile, You’re Missing Out

Are nonprofits paying attention to the mobile marketing explosion around them? There is a golden opportunity awaiting traditional nonprofits for fundraising, social sharing of campaigns, charitable impact and more. Going Mobile More than half of all Americans are carrying smartphones in their pockets, and a majority of them are using these devices to search, shop,…

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Staying Up-To-Date With SEO Evolution

Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, is an intrinsic piece in gaining more web-procured business. By staying up-to-date with the changes in SEO, you can keep you site visible in users’ Google, Facebook or LinkedIn searches, and avoid any negative effects of SEO by ditching the outdated technology and practices that have been deemed problematic by…

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WordPress Tutorial: How to Push Content to Social Media Automatically [VIDEO]

One of the biggest draws for a new WordPress website owner is the ability to do one thing, and have it trigger multiple actions. For example, the ability to make a blog post, and have it automatically update your account on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Imagine, one action (writing a blog post) that automagically triggers…

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5 Reasons Your Business Needs To Be Using Google+ For Content Marketing

Whether you work in SEO, Social or Online Marketing in general, it’s highly likely that you’ll have come across the phrase ‘content marketing’ at least once or twice in the last year. Thanks to Google’s latest algorithm updates, creating great, high quality, shareable content is now more important and essential than ever before for any…

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What the Backstory for Your Target Audience?

I was talking with a client today about who their target audience was. And while we know what the demographic information was, we don’t often consider the backstory — but the backstory is so critical and necessary to really understanding who your target audience really is. To develop the backstory, we simply start pulling the…

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