“Nobody follows me on social media anyway.” That is a common excuse that many businesses make for ignoring their social media accounts. Whether it’s Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, or something else, many businesses skip social media altogether, and simply let their accounts sit there inactive for months on end. Leaving your social media accounts “dead,” however, …
Are you trying to get more traffic to your website? Are the strategies you’ve been trying too expensive or too ineffective? It’s a common problem we see. Small businesses will get online, start a website and then wait for traffic with no results. Others will immediately pour money into AdWords or Facebook Ads and while …
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If you’ve seen a typical Facebook Page for a brand or company you know that most posts are pretty generic. They’re either observations of upcoming holidays, events or sales, or they’re links to blog posts or new pages on their website. Let’s ignore for a moment the Pages that break the unwritten rules of advertising …
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I use this word a lot and I realized this morning while on a call with a client that I don’t always fully describe what it means. So in this post I wanted to take a minute and tell you exactly what I mean when I talk about “engagement” as a metric of success in …
I cringe every time I read an article about how SEO is essentially free marketing. Search engine optimization is not free – not by a long shot, and for years I’ve had to untangle a lot of the knots that our competitors put out there among potential clients. It’s why I don’t use that word …
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Facebook is something of a seesaw when it comes to marketing value. At first it was a pointless endeavor for businesses, then it was the next coming of the Internet. Then it was a cash-sink and then again, the source of the best ROI online. It’s hard to know exactly what you can get out …
No More Endless Facebook Posts – Yet You Can Drive Twice the Traffic Read More »
In July we took on two new accounts, both of which had Facebook Pages with less than 20 likes. One of our first tasks, I told both clients was that we needed to grow those numbers to at least 100 likes, largely because the full scope of tools provided by Facebook – from promoted posts …
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Tell me if this sound familiar: Someone told you that Facebook was a MUST for a small business owner. So you created a Page, added a few images, invited all of your friends and employees, and linked to it from your site. Now your Facebook Page just sits there collecting dust and you wonder why …
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Sometimes there is value in cleverness. Even if you run a business not usually associated with showing its personality, there can be a usefulness in making sure that something about yourself – or your company – shines through. It’s the reason that social media is considered a big part of any new business. Social media …
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Over the course of the last two years, it’s become increasingly apparent that social media is not a passing fad. In some capacity or another, it will be apart of most online marketing campaigns. The biggest stumbling block for many companies is that, while you need things like Facebook Pages and Twitter Profiles, they operate …
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