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Sorting out Social Media Options for 2023
Are you looking for ways to up your social media game in the coming year? Social media is becoming one of the primary ways customers learn about products, services, and businesses and make buying decisions. What makes social media different than other marketing channels is two-way communication and engagement. Through social media, businesses can actively…
Leveraging Social Media as a High-Impact, Low-Cost Marketing Engine
The way we connect with our community has undergone a radical evolution. For many years, traditional advertising required massive capital and long lead times. Today, social media has sparked a new wave of connection, allowing brands to engage with a global audience in real-time. This shift has led many business professionals to ask a critical…
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…
How to Use Hashtags on Each Social Media Platform
Do you remember the Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon skit on SNL about hashtags? Back then, hashtags were a cultural novelty—a punchline about how we speak online. Today, they are a fundamental component of your social media hashtag strategy, acting as the filing system of the internet. What is the best hashtag strategy for social…
Are You Making These Common Hair Salon Marketing Mistakes?
In the beauty industry, your craft is visual, personal, and highly competitive. However, being a world-class stylist doesn’t automatically make you a world-class marketer. Many owners unknowingly commit hair salon marketing mistakes that prevent them from building scalable momentum and attracting their ideal “flock” of clients. If you are not intentional about how you communicate…
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…
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…
Making the Most Out of Your E-Commerce Business
In recent years, many companies big and small realized the potential of electronic commerce (e-commerce) in increasing profit and enlarging the target market. Nowadays, nearly all businesses have some form of Internet presence: websites, social media pages, and online stores. Not all e-commerce businesses are successful, though. What constitutes online success, anyway? It’s one thing…
4 Ways to Avoid Writer’s Block
When you write for a living, whether for your own blog or for someone else’s, it is expected that you are going to have writer’s block from time to time. Don’t let writer’s block get the best of you. These four tips will help you avoid writer’s block before it even strikes. Keep a Notebook…
Top 15 Finding Brand Blog Posts in 2012
I have a confession to make, somehow I blinked and January was G-O-N-E! Has that ever happened to you? I had intended to do another recap of the most popular blog posts on the Finding Brand Blog in early January. But, it appears that ship has sailed. So, a month late, here’s the annual recap…
Four Time Management Tips for Bloggers
Whether you work at home full time or you are just a part time blogger, you have probably experienced times where you have become overwhelmed by everything that needs to get done. It’s easy to sit down in front of the computer and get sucked right in, realizing a couple hours later that you have…
The Story of Pinterest – Image Sharing Gone Viral
While perusing Pinterest before writing this article I found a quote that said, “Every experience prepares you for the next one. You just don’t know what the next one is going to be.” That’s very true, and it reminded me of the one person who could probably relate to it the best, and that person…
Winning Social Media with Pinterest
Pinterest is one of the newest social media sensations on the web. It skyrocketed into popularity during the fall of 2011 and has been steadily growing at an amazing rate ever since. In fact, it has a 0% attrition rate – this means that either no users are stopping their use of the site, or…
5 Examples Of Effective & Unique Social Media Campaigns
Starting a new business has become much easier and more affordable now that advances in technology give even the smallest operations the power to reach millions of potential customers. Cloud services, for instance, provide inexpensive storage and business software solutions, while smart phone applications enable entrepreneurs to serve their customers from anywhere in the world.…
Growing Social Media Like Growing Bamboo
Growing Your Social Media: I like to refer to social media as “growing bamboo.” John Lennon was once said “We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got…
Pinterest for Real Estate: Building a Visual Acquisition Engine
For realtors today, a picture isn’t just worth a thousand words—it’s worth a thousand potential leads. As a visual discovery engine, leveraging Pinterest for real estate provides a unique opportunity to showcase neighborhoods, architectural styles, and local lifestyles. Unlike the fleeting nature of a social media post, a Pinterest “pin” has a long shelf life,…
Paradux Media Group to Present at Oregon Nonprofit Leaders Conference
Paradux Media Group announced that Mike Frey and Tisha Oehmen would be presenting a breakout session at the Oregon Nonprofit Leaders Conference, held on April 23, 2012, in Medford, Oregon. The annual conference brings together nonprofit leaders from across the region to share ideas, tools, and strategies that support organizational growth and community impact. Choosing…
The Real Enemy: Social Media Fragmentation
Fragmentation—whether in traditional media or across today’s social platforms—remains one of the biggest challenges facing small business owners. Social media fragmentation doesn’t just mean “more options.” In practice, it often means more work, more cost, and less effective reach. We’ve addressed social media fragmentation before, but the pattern continues to repeat itself. New platforms emerge,…
Have Interest In Pinterest It Could Be For You
So what’s the fastest growing social network? If you didn’t say Pinterest you’re wrong. So what is Pinterest you say? Pinterest.com is a virtual pin board, where you collect and admire images found all over the web. It’s like a bulletin board, only you are pinning up web images, on an online board. You can pin whatever…
Developing Transparency in a Digital Age
Even though we’re all adults here, let’s be honest; talking to strangers is sometimes awkward and uncomfortable. This is especially true when you have to contact a company that seems like a faceless organization out to get your hard-earned money. You can prevent this from happening to your company, though! When Dorothy and the rest…
