Category: Marketing
Tips to Start, Build & Maintain Your Small Business Blog
There are many traditional and non-traditional ways to drive traffic to your blog – from ensuring you have RSS feeds built in to adding a link to your blog from other customer touch points such as your email signature and main business Web site.
5 Free Sources for Market Research Data
Are you considering writing a business plan, or extending your reach into a new market? Here’s some helpful resources you can tap for valuable insights.
Why Viral Video Could Be The Lifeblood of Small Business Marketing
For many small businesses viral video is nothing less than the lifeblood of a successful advertising campaign. Discover a few ways in which viral video is fast becoming a powerhouse tool.
3 Tips to Manage Social Media in Your Business Plan
Three steps to manage your social media business activities using your business plan. I’m thinking mainly of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+, but I hope these three steps will apply to any other social media effort or platform as well.
One in Three Small Businesses use Social Media: Why not More?
A recent survey, conducted by Network Solutions and the University of Maryland’s School of Business, shows that approximately one in three small businesses use social media for their businesses. While this may have seemed high five to ten years ago, these days it seems paltry.
Six Marketing Moves Small Businesses Can Make Themselves
Here are six key components of Internet marketing than startups should have no problem tackling on their own.
Social Media Management & Analytics with Statf.ly
The Statf.ly interface is designed to be intuitive, powerful, and affordable, enabling team collaboration, unlimited report generation with data point annotation, real time search for both Twitter and Facebook and social data storage for up to 1 year.
The Corporate Blog: Article Graveyard or Content Garden?
Some of the most invested in, and high quality, blogs on the internet are those set up by businesses for promotional purposes. So why is it that blog posts that get the most comments and the most buzz in social media sites are those written by John and Jane Doe bloggers rather than those posted [...]
Spreading the Word about Your Small Business Website
Here’s a basic step-by-step process for insuring that you put out an appropriate site and start driving people to it, thus leaving you room to worry about the many other issues that probably sit on your plate.
Brand Pointers for Small Business
Branding isn’t just for the big guys. Small businesses can launch, grow and expand through clear and consistent messaging and marketing, just like larger companies do.
Tips to Improve Your Email Marketing
A process called segmenting allows a business to target its e-mail marketing campaigns using information such as age range, buying patterns and location.
How to Build a Following Before You Even Open Your Doors
In order to have a successful business launch these days, businesses must turn to the web. Your Facebook and Twitter efforts should focus on three key tasks.
Polling Your Social Connections for Advice
Effectively engaging with your network on social media allows you to get more insights and input from those that you already trust.
Tagged Social Network Gains Popularity
With over 100 million people already registered in over 200 countries, Tagged can help you find your special someone or a bunch of new friends who share your interests.
Marketing Your Portfolio & Getting Noticed
Because a good online portfolio is an asset in a job search, it’s important to know how to get it in front of the right people.
Social Networking’s Next Step: Knowledge Networking
An easy-to-use online tool that already offers a great opportunity for knowledge networking is TrueThinker.
Book Outlines Why Your Company Sucks & What to Do About It
Mark Stevens is back with his straight-talk style that made “Your Marketing Sucks” and “Your Management Sucks” bestsellers.
