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Your brand is your business’s identity. So, your branding is the reflection and culmination of your business’s personality, appearance, voice and overall vibe. It takes about seven seconds for consumers to make an instant decision about whether or not they like and trust your brand. … Continue reading “5 signs that your branding is broken”

Strong customer retention is just smart business. The cost of losing one customer equates to seven times the resources used to convert them. Customer retention is about maintaining your current customer base and increasing loyalty by offering better products or services and other benefits. Customer … Continue reading “6 tips to improve your customer retention rate”

With shopping habits rapidly evolving, it’s more important than ever for your multiple marketing channels to work together to engage consumers and ultimately lead them to purchase from you. Enter omnichannel marketing. Even if customers are in your physical store, about 42 percent of in-store … Continue reading “5 omnichannel marketing tips to help grow your business”

Often the punchline to a joke, Millennial consumers should not be overlooked. Born between 1981 and 1996, creative and tech-savvy Millennials are transforming our marketplace. Millennials care about saving, peer recommendations, reading and researching before they buy and environmentally rewarding experiences. In fact, Millennials were … Continue reading “6 tips for marketing to Millennial consumers”

Regardless of the type of small business you have, an effective and engaging website is critical to your brand’s success. With almost 2 billion websites on the internet and U.S. users visiting more than 130 web pages per day, you have stiff competition to not … Continue reading “11 steps to create an effective business website”

Looking for the 2024 List? Looking for a list of the best marketing conferences for 2023? Our up-to-date list of the best marketing conferences for 2023 will help you find one of the dozens of marketing conferences happening around the world this year. We’re also … Continue reading “Best Marketing Conferences 2023”

Growth marketing is all about your long-term strategy, but the term itself can lead to confusion regarding its true meaning. Because marketing is what’s done to grow a business, shouldn’t all marketing be growth marketing? The answer is no. Growth marketing is a strategy-based, data-driven … Continue reading “Growth marketing: What it is and 4 ideas to inspire you”

For local-focused businesses, you must seize the opportunity to rank high in local searches. In other words, developing your local search engine optimization. Local SEO is when search engines rely on signals (such as local content, social profile pages, links and citations) to provide the … Continue reading “11 local SEO tips to help you beat your competition”

BeReal is one of the latest social media apps to create a buzz. It generated more than 56 million downloads in 2022, catching the attention of TikTok, which launched a feature (TikTok Now) that is reminiscent of what’s making BeReal popular.  But what is BeReal? … Continue reading “6 things you should know about BeReal”

These days, there are two different types of PR: traditional and digital. PR, which stands for public relations, refers to a strategic communication process that builds mutually beneficial relationships between organizations and the public. Choosing whether your business should focus on traditional PR or digital … Continue reading “6 differences between traditional PR and digital PR”

For any small business getting into digital advertising for the first time, understanding exactly what your spending your money on can feel a bit overwhelming. Of course, about 87 percent of all small businesses are advertising in general, but only about 49 percent are advertising … Continue reading “The difference between cost-per-click and cost-per-impression”

If your business is targeting Gen Z consumers, you likely already know that what might work for most consumers won’t necessarily work for this audience group. Roughly speaking, Gen Z includes individuals who were born between 1997 and 2012 and make up about 20 percent … Continue reading “11 ways to better engage with Gen Z consumers”

No business wants a recession to happen, but they are inevitable.  Any shrinking of the economy can spur necessary changes not just in business plans but in your digital marketing strategy as well. Since 1945, the U.S. has gone through 11 recessions officially. While many … Continue reading “12 digital marketing strategy tips during a recession”

Social media negativity is a fact of life for both individuals and brands.  As a brand, however, you want to make sure that you handle any negative comments appropriately. Any misstep can become a problem for your business. About 94 percent of consumers admit that … Continue reading “5 ways to handle social media negativity”

For about as long as social media became a natural component of digital marketing, brands have wondered: “How often should I post?” Obviously, no one wants to post too much or too little. As of 2022, there are about 4 billion social media users across … Continue reading “Social media posting: How often should a brand really share?”

Successful brand collaboration can help your company grow its online reputation (in a good way) and reach a wider audience. But if your partnership is weak or not the best fit, your collaboration will fail, which could cost you your reputation or even your profit. … Continue reading “5 tips for successful brand collaboration”

An effective marketing campaign is so important to an organization’s success. Your product or service may be better than your competition, but without an effective marketing campaign, your audience will never know. Even the smallest adjustments to any marketing campaign your team creates can garner … Continue reading “16 of the best marketing campaigns in 2022”

Influencer marketing is easier said than done, especially when it comes to finding the right influencers for your brand and digital marketing campaigns. Simply put, influencer marketing involves increasing brand awareness, targeting new and niche audiences and increasing impressions and reach through a partnership with … Continue reading “7 tips for finding the right influencers for your digital marketing”

Fake accounts are a fact of life on social media. But how do you spot a fake Instagram account so that you don’t waste your time and (more importantly) don’t get scammed? More than 2 billion people use Instagram once a month, making it the … Continue reading “5 signs to spot fake Instagram accounts”

Digital marketing is a must for any business, but if your copywriting isn’t clean or compelling, it can drag down your results and the professional air of your brand. Specifically, copywriting impacts your landing page optimization, social media marketing, and so much more. Successful copywriting … Continue reading “11 best free copywriting resources to optimize your marketing copy”

Consumer trust matters. As a business, it’s in your best interest to invest resources into building trusting relationships with potential and current customers. Consumers do hold businesses to certain standards and want to build relationships with the ones that they believe in. They don’t want … Continue reading “6 ways to grow consumer trust (and your resulting sales)”

Twitter, like most social media platforms, aims to help cut through bots, trolls and misinformation by various means, such as Twitter verification. And if your business is active on Twitter, you might be wondering how to get verified and earn the blue checkmark badge next … Continue reading “5 tips to get verified on Twitter”

Marketing is one of many industries that has evolved over time alongside technology. For example, traditional marketing and advertising relied on bringing ads, billboards, and window advertisements. Now, we have digital marketing and advertising that requires a different set of skills. While the core skills, … Continue reading “How marketing jobs have evolved over time”

We’ve picked 9 of our favorite SMS marketing examples that you can use immediately for your business, team, or online store. Text message marketing is powerful. In fact, text message marketing generates response rates as high as 45 percent. And about two-thirds of consumers have … Continue reading “SMS Marketing Examples: 9 ways to use text message marketing”

If you’re looking to include TikTok, which is only growing in popularity, in your digital marketing strategy, you also should consider how to get your account verified. TikTok is a video-based social media platform that encourages engagement around short, vertical video clips. The app has … Continue reading “TikTok: 6 tips to get verified as a business”

If you’re interested in health and wellness, you might consider becoming a professional health blogger. Of course, starting a blog is difficult. You’ll need to be tech-savvy and take time to strategize how to promote your content. But if you want to share your knowledge … Continue reading “How to start a health blog”

Considering that the economy moves in cycles, a recession is likely to hit your business at some point. You have to consider how to tweak your marketing message when you find yourself in a difficult economy. Notice that we’re talking about adjusting your messaging and … Continue reading “Recession: 3 ways to tweak your marketing message in a poor economy”

Marketing automation technology has come a long way over the years. But your automation is only as powerful as the thought process behind it. Automation in marketing refers to any email, SMS text message or other marketing messages (or tasks) that automatically happens in response … Continue reading “5 ways to approach automation in your marketing strategy”

For many of Instagram’s nearly 1.5 billion users, Instagram verification is a critical validation. Instagram verification, otherwise known as that blue check on a user’s profile, is a signal to other users that your profile is the only one representing your brand. More officially, Instagram … Continue reading “7 tips to get verified on Instagram”

Evergreen content is a type of website content you create for your digital marketing that remains interesting and relevant over time. People will be interested in this type of content for many years to come. This helps you take advantage of content and use it … Continue reading “What is Evergreen Content?”

Content marketing plays a key role in many digital marketing strategies, but what metrics should you be following to ensure that what you’re doing is working? Content marketing is essentially described as the creation and publication of content in order to build an audience and … Continue reading “8+ content marketing metrics you should track”

The holiday season is a great opportunity to get creative so that your brand can stand out among the countless images of seasonal fun. But since the holidays come back around every year, you might be struggling to break out of a holiday marketing rut.  … Continue reading “11 ideas to inspire your holiday marketing strategy”

Digital marketing has become the primary way to spread the word about your holiday offers and savings.  And since the holidays are a hectic time for consumers, it’s critical to develop a holiday marketing strategy sooner than later that will help you stand out from … Continue reading “7 holiday marketing strategy tips to optimize sales”