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.
Use Video to Increase Customer Engagement
With the growing popularity of YouTube and other similar platforms, video programming has continued to grow in reach, particularly for businesses to increase customer engagement. It has been proven time and time again that video content gets dramatically higher conversion and engagement rates than traditional types of media. Why does this happen and how can…
Social Media Optimization (SMO) and Brand Awareness
When operating a business, you need to make use of everything available to pull ahead of the competition. That said, technology has evolved into one of the most significant tools (weapons) in this fierce competition. With the use of social media websites, many organizations have expanded their client base and maximized their yields. It has…
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…
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…
What is Marketing?
Marketing, for many in the business field, is not a new concept. It is done to promote sales in the company and gain new customers, as well as keeping the old ones you already have. To be successful, you constantly need to keep a flow of those customers who are going to be interested in…
What is Content Marketing?
Content marketing is the art in which businesses communicate with their customers and prospects without selling their products. It is a strategic marketing approach that is focused on the creation and distribution of valuable, consistent and engaging content with the aim of attracting and retaining the audience. Moreover, the content marketing strategy is mainly aimed…
Super Bowl Commercials – How Brands Optimize Eye Balls In 2015
When did all this Super Bowl Commercial stuff begin? Some will say the corporate branding started with Coca-Cola’s Mean Joe Green commercial in the 1979 Super Bowl; others might point to Apples 1984 commercial in the 1984 Super Bowl. Regardless of when it happened, brands and advertising agency’s have brought a whole new demographic and…
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.…
10 Marketing Habits Killing Your Budget
When it comes to marketing it’s pretty easy to make a mistake. There are many different marketing strategies you can use and not all of them are good. The bad ones really kill your budget and so here are 10 habits you need to avoid. 1. Spam No one likes spam and it doesn’t work.…
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…
WordPress Tutorial: How to Add a Heading
Headings make your WordPress posts easier to read and easier to scan to find the information you’re looking for. They also help with Search Engine Optimization. If you can use your keyword in the body of your post or page, in the H1 heading, and in an H2 and H3 heading, you’ve come a long…
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…
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…
The 5 Most Shared Adverts Of 2013
The viral video is one of the most powerful tools in marketing today. But getting a marketing video to go viral is exceptionally difficult. The video has to have quirky content, mass appeal and must strike a chord with millions of people. If you can come up with a clever ad that ticks all the…
Using You Tube to Drive Traffic: 500 Million People Can’t be Wrong!
500 million people can’t be wrong! That’s the number recently estimated that visit You Tube looking for videos on a given month! That means, if that many people are on You Tube, as a business owner, you need to be too! It’s very simple to join, create your own channel, and set up a constant…
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…
Tips for Personal Branding in the Digital Era
It doesn’t matter if you have the perfect job and have no plans of leaving — consistent networking and personal branding efforts ensure you’ll stay on the top of your network’s members’ minds and be viewed as an authority in your field. Womenonbusiness.com suggests focusing on building a brand instead of a career. That starts…
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…
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…