In last week’s blog, we discussed what infographics are and why they are important marketing tools for your small business. This week, we’ll outline a few ways to use infographics to effectively portray your information. These polished visual depictions or graphic...
Infographics Part 1: A Helpful Tool for Your Small Business
Even if you aren't familiar with the term, it's highly likely that you've seen at least one type of infographic. Simply put, an infographic provides information using mostly pictures and/or icons instead of just text. This can be done through pie...
5 Benefits of a CRM System for Your Small Business
As we enter 2020, have you made any resolutions for your small business? Maybe one of those resolutions is to keep better track of your customers. If you’re a small business owner, you already know how essential your customer relationships are...
3 Online Advertising Techniques to Help You Generate More Leads
When marketing your products or services online, it's important to engage and connect with your audience. The key to managing your buyers' cycles and coordinated marketing efforts is first to understand your buyers' motivations. Check out a few online advertising techniques...
Tips to Leverage Your Online Presence
Whether you run a single-person operation or manage fifty employees, establishing a solid and consistent online presence is essential to your business’ success. Online basics such as creating a website and starting an email list are just the beginning. There are...
4 Ideas for Promotions During the Holiday Season
It’s the holiday season! With the holidays comes a major increase in online activity, making now an excellent time to boost your online marketing efforts. Even if your business isn’t offering anything seasonally specific, there are many brilliant ways to leverage...
Social Media Management Using Hootsuite and Buffer: Which One is Right for Your Small Business?
Hootsuite and Buffer are two social media posting solutions used by many small business owners who prefer a fully-integrated social media management dashboard. These tools offer a wide range of features designed for scheduling content ahead of time, making it easy...
3 Ways Your Small Business Can Thrive on Twitter
With the number of social media users continuously growing, it’s no surprise that social media platforms are quickly becoming a necessary marketing tool for small businesses. Companies effectively using social media continue to grow and expand their brand, while those that...
3 Ways to Use Online Advertising for Your Small Business
Maximizing organic efforts and generating leads with referrals, free resources, and networking is crucial to any business. However, in today’s world, online advertising is an especially effective marketing tool. Below are just a few of many ways small businesses can use...
Attract New Clients Through Co-Marketing
For small businesses, co-marketing can be a hugely beneficial strategy. Co-marketing is the strategy in which two, like-minded organizations partner together to promote each other’s product or service and expand their reach. If you’re looking for a fresh, new marketing tactic...
3 Tips for Small Business Success on Twitter
Millions of people all over the world use Twitter every day to discuss issues that are interesting to them, from news events to daily life. Among these discussions, users love to interact with and follow brands that are appealing to them....
3 Ideas to Consider When Using Images for Marketing Purposes
The use of images and how we perceive them is one of the most important marketing tools available. When shopping in a store or online, purchases are made when customers connect visually to the items in front of them. For online...
Trend-Inspired Video Marketing Ideas That'll Help You Smoke the Competition
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...
3 Ways to Use Drones to Capture Captivating Video
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...
Collecting Customer Contact Information Makes a Difference in Marketing
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...
Stand Out and Use Video As Your Facebook Page's Cover Image
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...
How to Choose the Right Social Media Platform for Your Business
Getting started in social media can be daunting. While the number of social media platforms available can seem intimidating, starting with one social networking site that works best for your small business will help you manage, maintain, and eventually grow your...
Use Facebook Groups for Marketing
The Group feature is not new to the Facebook platform, but it promises to be more relevant since Mark Zuckerberg's announcement in early 2018 that they're changing what content appears on users' News Feeds. This change includes showcasing fewer organic posts...
How Virtual Reality Affects the Small Business Market
Businesses and consumers will soon see the effects of recent advancements in exciting technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), 5G telecommunications, voice searches, and virtual reality (VR). In fact, some of these are being used right now! In the not-so-distant future,...
Add Flare to Your Business's Print Promotions to Attract Audiences
Online marketing is popular and is where many eyes are focused. Online marketing can be interacted with easily on computers, phones, and other devices via commenting, spreading through social media, upvoting on online platforms, or other means. Some online campaigns even...
Effective Outbound Marketing Still Drives the Bottom Line
In the growing age of the Internet and always being present online, it seems like everyone is talking about the advances in inbound and content marketing, drawing people in towards your business. Inbound marketing certainly helps businesses garner success, but strategic...