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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 we’ve highlighted to help you leverage your small business and generate more leads.

Amid such a digitally dynamic business environment, ranking highly in search engine results has become crucial to your small business’s success. With the majority of consumers turning to the web to find products/services, ensuring that customers can conveniently find your small business when they're searching online is essential.

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 numerous other ways to grow your online presence and just as many tools and tips to help you along the way.

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 your small business marketing during the holiday season. Check out these four ideas to help you maximize your online efforts and generate more leads through the end of the year.

As you know, simply having a website these days doesn't guarantee leads. The businesses that generate the most leads from their sites are making smart use of search engine optimization (SEO) and keeping up with the ongoing changes. It's all about making sure consumers can find your company online and that they find your business first when they're ready to make purchasing decisions. As search engines are constantly evolving their algorithms, how is a business to know what SEO practices work the best? While there are numerous SEO factors to consider, below are just a few to consider to help your ongoing ranking efforts.

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 for you to keep up with peak posting times, engage with your audience, and gain viewers.

We often hear about the large, nationwide company security breaches, whether it be database hacks or publicly shared user information, and it can sometimes seem like only the big corporations are targets. However, a recent study shows 43% of website hacks target small businesses. Victims of cyberattacks come in all sizes, but websites with lightened security measures make for easier targets.

We all know the timeless saying “A picture is worth a thousand words”. On the internet, though, that might not be so true – especially for search engines. Have you ever wondered what a search engine reads/detects when it comes across an image on a web page?

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 use it ineffectively or not at all are losing out on potential customers.

When it comes to writing content for online audiences, ensuring your content is engaging is essential. According to Nielsen Norman Group, around 79% of readers spend time skimming rather than reading online content; only 16% read pages word-by-word. From these statistics, it is evident that many businesses produce content that’s never read. In order for your website to stand out from the crowd, appeal to your target audience, and rank well on Google, it’s important to ensure that you’re producing captivating content.