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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…

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Paradux Media Group Participates in “5 Days to Kick Start Your Consultancy Business” Program

Paradux Media Group participated in the 5 Days to Kick Start Your Consultancy Business program in July 2014, a collaborative online initiative designed to support consultants, coaches, mentors, counselors, and other professional service providers as they worked to build and grow their businesses. The five-day program, held from July 7 to 11, 2014, brought together…

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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…

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Best Brand Book Examples List

Brand books are essential for any business looking to establish and maintain a strong brand identity. A brand book typically includes guidelines on a company’s logo, color palette, typography, voice, and messaging. It serves as a comprehensive reference that ensures consistency across all online and offline marketing materials. When it comes to finding the best…

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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 To Solve Your Biggest Marketing Problem

Let’s face it, we all have marketing problems. But what if you could solve your biggest problem with little effort and little cost? Would you be interested? Of course you would. That’s just good business sense. Now, what if I told you the single biggest marketing problem you have is something MOST businesses suffer from,…

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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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How To Create A Social Media Strategy For Your Law Firm

Many law firms have been pretty weary about social media in the past and a lot still are. Big law firms often instill policies that strictly say what their associates may and may not post on social media channels. Obviously there’s some sense in this since you don’t want your employees to negatively impact your…

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What Is Inbound Marketing and Why Should You Care?

What is Inbound Marketing? Inbound Marketing is a phrase that has been on the periphery of every business since the boom of the online marketplace. With 80% of Australians now with internet access, by implementing cost effective online marketing strategies, you can bring people to you in their droves. This chart shows the Breakdown of…

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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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Three Things the Best Custom Website Designers Should Have

An older website could seriously hurt your business’s credibility. Roughly 85% of American consumers shop for services and products via a search engine, which means that they’re going to see your website at some point. If you want to make sure that you’re ready for them with open virtual arms, it’s time to hire the…

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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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How to Manage Social Media Accounts with a Multilingual Audience

Navigating the world of social media is already challenging. Crafting the perfect message to understand your audience’s preferences requires attention to detail and authenticity. Now, imagine that your audience speaks multiple languages—adding a whole new layer of complexity. If some followers primarily speak English while others are more comfortable with Spanish, French, or other languages,…

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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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Upper Rogue Independent Features “Finding Brand” Book

The Upper Rogue Independent recently published a feature article highlighting the book Finding Brand: The Brand Book Tutorial, written by Tisha Oehmen of Eagle Point. The article examines the fundamental concepts underlying branding and the philosophy that informs Oehmen’s work as a partner at Paradux Media Group. Finding Brand is the result of years of…

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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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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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