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.

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…

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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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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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How To Use Hashtags In Each Social Media Platform

Here is how Wikipedia defines the #Hashtag: A hashtag is a word or an unspaced phrase prefixed with the number sign (“#”). It is a form of metadata tag. Words in messages on microblogging and social networking services such as Twitter, Facebook, Google+ or Instagram may be tagged by putting “#” before them,[1] either as…

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How to Make Fewer Hair Salon Marketing Mistakes

Are you making some of the common hair salon marketing mistakes? If you are not working on marketing your salon in the right way, you can lose potential clients, and can even harm your relationship with existing clients. Hair Salon Marketing Requires a Message If you want people to come to your salon, you need…

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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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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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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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.…

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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…

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Link Building With Pinterest For Real Estate

Pinterest provides a virtual pinboard that allows users to arrange and share photos and images found on the Web. Users can organize pinboards by topic or purpose and give social media users a great way to learn about real estate properties, neighborhoods and lifestyles while providing valuable backlinks to real estate websites and blogs. You…

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Oregon Non Profit Leader’s Conference: Choosing Your Social Media Strategy

Mike Frey and Tisha Oehmen will be teaching a breakout session at the Oregon Non Profit Leader’s Conference in Medford, Oregon on April 23, 2012. Choosing Your Social Media Strategy Breakout Session “Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest, Facebook … Making the decision whether – and how – to participate in social media is not trivial. In today’s world there…

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Social Media Fragmentation

The Enemy, Social Media Fragmentation Fragmentation, whether it’s traditional media fragmentation or social media fragmentation, it is marketing enemy #1 for the small business owner.  For the small business owner fragmentation means more for less.  More work , more money, and reach less people. I have addressed social media fragmentation a few times but with…

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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…

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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…

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