Marketers are constantly looking into the future, trying to predict the next big trend, be it for their brands or their clients. Naturally, marketers are preoccupied with questions like: What is the next big campaign? How can we turn our client into the “next big thing”? What is the next hot trend going to be…
Online content marketing is no longer an option for your small business, it’s a necessity. Your prospective customers are spending their time looking for answers. They’re asking for recommendations through search and social media. If you’re business isn’t there when they’re looking, you are missing opportunities without even knowing it. Unfortunately, the world of online…
By Bryan Kramer Remember the Kodak moment? How far from sharing have we come, when a cleverly branded and epic moment was captured on traditional film and shared on prints or slide projectors? We hold onto these as memories and visit with them now and again for the nostalgia and connection. I believe we have…
They don’t care what you know you until… Social Selling for smart entrepreneurs means beginning where your customer already is. When we have a product to sell, from our perspective we tend to believe that everyone is going to be as thrilled and enamored with it as we are. After all, our product (or service)…
If your business is looking to bring about more engagement on social media then you might want to try image quotes or memes in your tweets and posts. There are a myriad of resources available for free that will help you create stand-out visuals for your target market. Sometimes a meme can be humorous while…
Chances are by now, you’ve heard of at least one or both of these new social media apps: Meerkat and Periscope. Both of these live streaming video apps have taken the world of social media by storm. It was all anyone was talking about recently at Social Media Marketing World. And I’ve seen blog post…
B2B SMBs have seen a lot happen in their industry over the past decade. First, came the rise of social, then the invasion of mobile, followed by the arrival of cloud and ultimately the incorporation of analytics in all this. For major Fortune 500 companies, this has been a boon for innovation. Hardware companies like…
Measuring your business’ social media impact is probably one of the most complicated aspects of online marketing, yet one of the most essential. The businesses that use social media often experience positive results with their online marketing efforts. Using social media as a way of making solid connections and developing relationships with their followers is…
You Need Traffic to Your Post Fast Why Not Use Promoted Posts? You just wrote an amazing blog post. Do you sit back and just wait for the traffic to begin to roll in? Of course not, you use promoted posts. In this blog post I am going to teach you a few tricks to…
Growing pains in a new small business are to be expected; and, can seem like a never-ending process. Or, maybe your business isn’t new, but you’ve lost that loving feeling for your business. The passion which propelled you to start your business in the first place can quickly become squelched by over extending your resources…
