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Online shopping is a consumer trend that is continuously growing. Traditional retailers, small stores, and boutiques might believe it hard to compete with Amazon and other large e-commerce companies. However, if you have a brick and mortar store, relying heavily on local customers, you can easily use e-commerce to bring those online shoppers into your store.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a valuable tool for small businesses, yet many small business owners are not certain of what SEO is, let alone what it actually does. Simply put, SEO is the methods used to increase a website’s ranking in search engines. These methods send signals to the engines, and the engines then use them to determine where the website should rank under what keywords. The better the rankings, the higher likelihood website traffic.

Video has quickly become an influential online marketing tool and the use of video marketing is a great way to set your company apart from the competition. However, knowing how to best use video in your marketing strategy is a feat in itself. Check out these video marketing tips to help you get started.

Business owners often read about hacking attacks that impact major international corporations. Based on those dramatic reports, owners of small businesses might assume that one advantage of being small is that there is little to tempt a cyber-criminal to hack their website.

Blogging is a great way for businesses to gain customers by covering more in-depth topics and getting creative with how-to entries and other specific posts. However, creating quality content that your customers will want to read is not always the easiest task. If you notice your blog isn’t receiving as much traffic as your other online methods, there are a number of reasons that could be contributing to the lack of views. Below are a few tips to help you get your blog back on track.

Using aerial drone video is no longer a new idea in digital marketing. Today, more businesses are discovering the value of drone video as a marketing tool. Here are 3 ways you can use aerial video footage as part of your marketing arsenal.

For many small businesses, blogging for business takes a back seat to other marketing and farming efforts. Therefore, the lack of original, high-quality content means less effective SEO, low search rank, and lower organic web traffic. However, strong content is a powerful magnet, attracting your target, building trust and credibility, and helping convert leads into clients.

Keeping track of who was present during business hours for various reasons can be a good practice, especially when it comes to following up with these visitors. For retail businesses, this could be a way to reach out to them with special promotions or coupons. For meetings or office check-ins, collect customer contact information with sign in sheets, website forms, business cards, etc. There are many useful and creative ways for a small business to use customer contact information to better market to their customers.

Many small businesses know the positive impact link-building can have on a website's ranking power on search engines like Google. However, coming up with unique ways to gain backlinks can be challenging. The following are five unique ways to gain links to your website:

What is one of the best ways to visually promote and brand your company on Facebook? If your answer is "video", you're spot on. But do you use video to maximum effect for your page? Unless you're also using video as your Facebook page's cover image, you're missing out on a powerful tool to catch page visitors' eyes.