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Why Choose the Top 3 Social Media Platforms For Your Small Business

Why Choose the Top 3 Social Media Platforms For Your Small Business

Social Media
When it comes to putting a marketing plan together, it’s important to know how to include a social media campaign into your plan. Because social media is an incredible tool to make use of in the modern day and age, and being able to utilize it to its full power is key for success in your small business. Before you get started with every single social media platform out there, it’s important to know what social media platforms are best for a small company like yours. So, here are the top three, with a little more detail about why they’re so powerful below. Why Choose the Top 3 Social Media Platforms For Your Small Business   Facebook Facebook is quite an old social media platform, and it’s been around the…
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3 Major Qualities of Great Brands

3 Major Qualities of Great Brands

Branding
When you are first starting out with your brand development, it can be challenging to know whether or not you are doing everything you should be doing to make it as complete and rounded as possible. The truth is that there are a range of important qualities which you need to look out for if you are going to develop the strongest possible brand. Here are some of the major qualities of great brands that you should be aiming for as best as you can, to ensure the brightest possible future for your business. No time to read the full post? No problem! Listen to it on the podcast: 3 Major Qualities of Great Brands Brand is Specific First of all, you need to try and avoid having a brand…
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Should You Focus On Customer Acquisition Or Customer Retention?

Should You Focus On Customer Acquisition Or Customer Retention?

Marketing Strategy
In a world where lead generation seems to rule the marketing funnel, it can be easy to focus on acquiring new customers. After all, you need to sell more to make more, right? So naturally, most businesses focus on expanding their customer base to achieve this increase in revenue. However, the old adage remains true as well. It’s cheaper to retain a customer than it is to acquire a new customer. Which means we should be focusing on customer retention at all times. Seems like a contradiction in focus, doesn’t it? Here’s the thing. A business should be focused on customer acquisition AND customer retention. You want to gain new customers while keeping existing customers. A natural churn rate is unavoidable. However, there needs to be a conscious effort to…
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Innovative Mobile Marketing Campaigns To Learn From

Innovative Mobile Marketing Campaigns To Learn From

Marketing Strategy
It’s estimated that there are over 3.5 billion smartphone users worldwide. In 2020, smartphones are an essential piece of kit for business owners and consumers. So, whether you’re a start-up business, small business, or entrepreneur, mobile marketing campaigns are a trend you can’t afford to ignore. There are plenty of ways to take advantage of mobile marketing and create innovative campaigns that engage customers, sell products or market your brand. In this article, we’re going to show you how other brands have been smashing mobile marketing so you can learn from their innovative campaigns. 1. Burger King - Burn That Ad Burger King’s Burn That Ad campaign launched in March 2019 in Brazil. The premise behind the campaign was to encourage consumers to ‘burn’ Burger King’s fast-food rivals by using…
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Small Budget? Here’s How to Market Like a Huge Brand

Small Budget? Here’s How to Market Like a Huge Brand

Marketing Strategy
Big brands spend an enormous amount of money on advertising and marketing, but as a solo entrepreneur or small business owner you don’t have to do the same. You can market your business just as effectively on a shoestring budget by utilizing some basic free or low-cost marketing tactics. If you engage with your audience effectively and provide high-value content, you can achieve all your business goals, just like the big companies do. Small Budget? Here's How to Market Like a Huge Brand Here are five ways you can do your own marketing online with little or no cost. No time to read the full blog post? No worries! Listen to it on the blog: Engage on Social Media Social media is a great way to interact with your audience…
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6 Essential Marketing To Do’s For Your Small Business

6 Essential Marketing To Do’s For Your Small Business

Marketing Strategy
As technology grows and changes, digital marketing presents us with many new opportunities. At the same time, best practices evolve to meet the changeable expectations and desires of our audiences. As Beth Comstock says, ‘marketing’s job is never done. It’s about perpetual motion. We must continue to innovate every day.’ To support your marketing strategy in 2020 and beyond, try these six marketing moves. 6 Essential Marketing To Do's For Your Small Business 1 . Produce long-form educational content According to Sword and the Script, ‘Long-form content earns 3-times as much traffic and 4-times as many shares than articles of average length.’ Long-form content usually refers to content of 3,000 words or more. The survey data also concluded that longer headlines frequently earn more backlinks and shares than shorter headlines.…
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Why and How to Make A Fortune Using Social Media

Why and How to Make A Fortune Using Social Media

Social Media
Around fifteen years ago, social media was quite literally an online hub where guests could post things about their lives for friends and strangers alike on the internet. The idea was to show off certain aspects of their lives, meet new people, and perhaps promote a thing or two cheaply and easily. It was a fairly new and fun little platform that not many people thought would take off – boy were those people wrong! Ha! Nowadays, our lives are pretty much ruled by these social platforms. We’re constantly checking for updates on the news of the world, while hoping to see if the content we produce gains any attention or traction. If you don’t have social media, then you feel like you’re missing out on free education regarding pretty…
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5 Ways To Enhance Your Social Media Marketing Efforts

5 Ways To Enhance Your Social Media Marketing Efforts

Social Media
It is crazy to think that just fifteen years ago Facebook was created. A college student’s dream has now turned into one of the most influential inventions in history. Facebook ushered in the age of social media, and now, social media has completely re-written the way humans interact and communicate with each other and the world around them. Social media has become ingrained in our lives. Millions interact with it each and every day. As social media has evolved, it has been adopted into the business world. Almost every major company in the world is active on social media. Social media has proven to be an effective marketing tool as well as a communication tool. While many businesses have adopted social media as a viable marketing tool, their efforts are…
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