Social media can have huge marketing potential, but many businesses fail to produce the results they want. Social media is saturated with businesses and marketers trying to shout louder than everyone else, which makes it much more difficult to reach your target customer with your marketing messages. Successful business owners and marketers know how to…
It’s more important than ever before to use legitimate link building strategies to improve your search rankings. Google’s Penguin spam filter now works in real time, so anyone using dubious linking techniques will be penalized. Backlinks are still essential to ranking high in SERPs. This was confirmed in March 2016, when Andrey Lipattsev, a search…
The Digital Marketing landscape is rife with creative strategies. Entrepreneurs are always coming up with new ideas to market their brands. A brand’s long-term success hangs on its ability to adapt and come up with fresh marketing strategies to keep interest going. Most of these strategies cost time and money to succeed, but there are…
Podcasts were a huge trend a few years ago, but fell out of favor as video started to take control of internet marketing. Now, businesses are again beginning to see the value podcasts provide. Many are seeing success as they learn to use podcasts to build their authority, audience, and reputation across social media. This…
Marketing events isn’t always easy. You need to work out who might be interested in attending, find their contact details, target them with advertising, and create the infrastructure to purchase tickets and confirm attendees. All of these stages take careful planning to get them right. If you let your guard slip, it’s easy to end…
Press releases are highly effective and relatively inexpensive ways of getting the word out about a new product or service. The drawback is that marketers know this, and so the average journalist will see dozens if not hundreds of examples every day. If you want your release to be noticed you need to hit the…
Email marketing continues to provide positive results for marketers, helping to capture leads and develop customer relationships. Even in the face of competition from social media, email continues to offer better conversion rates and greater engagement levels. Email, like advertising and search engine optimization, can be tweaked and scrutinized at even the most minute detail.…
Social media permeates everyone’s activities online. Properly integrating social media into your website helps drive traffic and conversions. Here are six things you can do to effectively integrate social media to your website. Feature fans’ content on your website Show appreciation to your fans by featuring them on your website. Share Instagram photos, testimonials, fan…
A blog isn’t something you can do once and forget about it, at least not if you hope to get anything out of it — namely increased traffic, solid leads, and a boost in revenue. While it may seem like a monumental task at times, there are ways to effectively manage your blog and stay…
Marketing isn’t just about the messages you send out into the world. In fact, it’s a two-way process. Without the ability to listen and absorb information about who your customer is and what they are saying, you won’t be able to formulate advertising messages and create content that reaches them effectively. Marketing professionals have…