Posts Tagged ‘Social Media’
5 Free and Easy Ways to Promote Your Small Business Today
Twenty minutes. That’s all you need. Ten minutes to read this blog. Ten minutes to carry out one of the five actions below. Time: twenty minutes. Cost: zero. Not too much to promote your business is it? OK, so let’s get on with this. Tell one stranger you meet about your business In a supermarket…
Read MoreThe 4 Quickest Ways to Improve Your Business’s Social Presence
A strong social media presence is one of the most effective ways for any business to market to their customers. Over eighty percent of the major corporations in America use social media to improve their consumer base and build relationships with these clients. The ability of social media to affect the success of a business…
Read MoreReal-Time Personalized Marketing: Engaging Across Channels
Customers today no longer differentiate between online and offline channels. Many of today’s purchases cross multiple channels and the customer considers them all part of the same brand experience. The new differentiator is providing an omni-channel experience to your customers. Brands with the most solid omni-channel buyer engagement processes retain roughly 89% of their customers.…
Read More5 Keys to Handling an Unexpected Social Media Disaster
PR isn’t quite as simple as it used to be. Thanks to the almost farcical activist nature and real time updating of social media networks like Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and more, now everything is politicized in spontaneous hashtag campaigns. While this may be off-putting to many, the keyboard warriors of social media are simply gleeful…
Read More5 Ways to Boost Your Business Using the Connection Economy
I believe it was Seth Godin who, a few years ago, coined the term “connection economy.” The idea is that value is generated by making connections rather than pumping widgets out of the tail end of an assembly line. I might put a little sharper focus on this and say that for almost every small…
Read MoreComing Crisis of Social Metrics
I think we’ve gone too far on marketing and metrics. We used to do most of our marketing blind, essentially guessing whether or not it worked. Now we have analytics to measure almost everything. Where we’ve gone too far now is we’re tempted to discount, entirely, what we can’t measure. And that’s just wrong. We…
Read MoreCreating Platform-Specific Content: JustFly’s Guide to Finding Your Audience
Content marketing isn’t about just writing great content and hitting ENTER. With the wave of different platforms that are out there, content needs to be tailor-made to the medium you are using to broadcast it. While some platforms have very stringent limits hardcoded into the experience (I’m looking at you, Twitter), other platforms simply require…
Read MoreWhy Your Business Needs a Social Media Calendar
Social media posts can be rushed last-minute jobs. “Writer’s block” can be a problem. You might be worried about a lack of engagement, or just need a dose of guidance about what to post and when. All of these are reasons why you should set up a social media calendar. This can streamline your social media…
Read MoreAdvertise Where It Matters
There are more media options available for advertising today than there have ever been before. From social media to billboards, old school television to internet streaming, and old fashioned radio to internet radio, the decision on where to advertise is harder than it has ever been. Finding the most effective and cost efficient platform for…
Read More7 Reasons Your Content Marketing Isn’t Working
We are often told that to be successful online we need to embrace content marketing. Content marketing helps aid your site’s SEO, gives you an outlet to promote our business and gives people a reason to stay on your website. Many of us heed this advice, only to find that we get nothing out of…
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