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Social Media Giveaways: 10 Ideas for the Best Social Promotions
Social media giveaways remain one of the best ways to capture customer attention and increase engagement – particularly in this age of multiple social networks and growing acceptance of mobile social media. If your marketing efforts are feeling a little stale or not bringing in the response you want, use these ideas for maximum impact!…
5 Signs Your Business Needs an Answering Service
Good customer service is crucial to the success of a business. Often the interactions customers have when calling your company for the first time create either a lasting good or a lasting bad first impression. Many small businesses start out by addressing all customer calls and concerns themselves, but overtime this may become too much…
Paradux Media Group Launches DIY WordPress SEO Webinar Series for Small Businesses
Paradux Media Group has introduced a new Do-It-Yourself WordPress SEO Webinar Series, designed to help small business owners better understand search engine optimization and increase the visibility of their websites. The series was created in response to a growing need for practical, easy-to-understand SEO education explicitly tailored to small businesses. Search engine optimization continues to play…
Strategies for Jumpstarting Productivity — 4 Tips
Whether you’re coding websites, writing content or selling advertisement, time seems to slip away before that to-do list is kaput. With so many distractions (social media, Netflix, Reddit.com), it’s no wonder workers struggle to stay focused. A Gallup study found that employees with access to a desktop computer, paper document, mobile device and desk phone…
How To Track Direct Mail Results
What’s a “good” direct mail response? The one that reaches your stated objectives. As Steve Cuno writes at Deliver magazine, “I have seen companies launch costly campaigns without regard for such details, only to flounder about in an attempt to measure success afterward. That’s like throwing a dart nowhere in particular and then trying to…
Tips for Using Evernote in Marketing
You know how it goes, you find a great article online that has a great fact or tidbit in it. Later that week (or month) you are talking about just that article with a colleague and you want to send them the article…but here’s the rub. You have to find that article again. With so…
Whois the Owner of Your Online Presence?
One of the most valuable assets your brand has is it’s online location, AKA domain name, URL, website address, or www. It’s the very identity of many businesses (amazon.com) and a critical cornerstone of more traditional brick and more stores. Yet, you would be stunned about the number of businesses that are not named the legal…
Paradux Media Group Recognized as Bronze Winner in the 34th Annual Telly Awards
Paradux Media Group was recognized as a Bronze winner in the 34th Annual Telly Awards for its video project Asante: Principles of Place, an honor that reflects both creative excellence and strategic brand storytelling. The award was announced in April 2013 following a competitive judging process that included nearly 11,000 entries from all 50 states…
Making the Most of Social Media
Many significant aspects comprise digital marketing. From search engine optimization to web design, various components establish the foundation for success. Important as it may be to integrate all the different strategies, forecasts show that one channel will play a key role in shaping your online presence this year and for the rest to come: social…
3 New YouTube Changes And What They Mean For Businesses
Google has always been evolving and so is YouTube, Google’s video sharing website. Recently in December 2012, Google has made few major changes in YouTube’s layout. There are some technical changes that will help YouTube power users as well. As an internet marketer, you will be able to use YouTube better than ever with these…
Free and Easy-to-Use Animation Tools That Will Amp Up Your WordPress
Long ago in a Merry Melody land far far away, there were animators who used to slave away at their desks, drawing frame by frame pictures of dancing princesses, hopping bunnies, singing canaries and running horses. They used the zoetrope, rotoscope and even flip book techniques to bring their drawings to life. Animating was a…
Best On-Page SEO Advice for Beginners
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of adding targeted keywords to web text to ensure it receives a high search ranking via search engines such as Google. Indeed, SEO has been around about as long as search engines have been around. Those online marketers who don’t yet have a stake in SEO are losing…
The Social Traveler – The Importance of Online Reviews For Small Business
Summer is right around the corner, what that means for a lot of cities, towns and communities is tourists coming through town. Some will stop for a meal, some for window shopping, some for a day, week or longer. That makes now a great time to work on your online reviews and website presence. This past…
Avoiding Brand Name Confusion
Adidas, McDonald’s, GEICO – these are just a few of the thousands of successful brand names out there, and they’re shining examples of what every businessperson wants their brand to eventually become. Looking at just these popular brand names, you spot some commonality. For instance, these brand names are unique; they’re not common names you’ll…
Ways to Make Yourself a Trusted Online Authority Through Writing and Content Production
Whether you’re writing and producing content for commercial online consumption so as to make money from it directly or so as to utilize it to become known and trusted so that more Net surfers will make their way to your online place of business, it can seem daunting to determine just how to use those…
Small Business Marketing Expenses & Planning
Every enterprise—from the solo practitioner to the emerging corporation—must eventually face the reality of its ledger. Whether you are operating on a shoestring budget or managing a robust allocation, the goal remains the same: transforming small business marketing expenses into a high-performance investment. To build scalable momentum, you must move beyond simply “spending” and start…
Essential Communication Tools for Small Businesses to Build Scalable Momentum
Small businesses are the undisputed backbone of the U.S. economy, accounting for nearly 80% of all new job creation. In our experience, the transition from a “scrappy startup” to a “market leader” isn’t just about the product—it’s about the infrastructure. Today’s technological evolution has leveled the playing field, making it possible for any entrepreneur to…
Boosting Brands through Friends and Followers
Branding can make or break your business. It’s all about earning the trust of your customers and building a good name for your enterprise. Naturally, no one would spend a dime on a product they don’t believe in. Branding is one of your tickets to rise above your competition. Among all effective ways to promote…
