Five Steps To A Successful Email Marketing Strategy

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In our last post we showed you the benefits of email marketing for small businesses. This post is about building a successful email marketing strategy. Five Steps To A Simple Email Marketing Strategy 1| Determine Your Email Marketing Goal What do you want to achieve through email marketing? For most small businesses the ultimate goal […]

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Benefits Of Email Marketing For Small Businesses

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When I first started my business, even though I knew from previous experience that email marketing was efficient, I did not make it a priority. I did not collect email address right away nor did I set up a newsletter. It’s embarrassing to admit. I thought that with the rise of social media, email marketing […]

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Google Analytics – The Basics

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Why Use Google Analytics? The purpose of social media and other online marketing tactics is to drive your audience members to the online location that you own and can control – your website – in order to convert your online audience to email subscribers and eventually loyal customers. Your website is the foundation of all […]

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How to Optimize Images for Search Engines

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Optimize images for search … and get more traffic to your website. In our previous post: Finding Visual Content for Your Blog & Social Media Posts, we listed sites where you can find unique, Creative Common licensed images. In this post, we will show how to optimize your images for search.   Prepare your images […]

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Finding Visual Content for Your Blog & Social Media Posts

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Our brains love visual content. According to Trend Hunter, consumers are drawn to image-based social networks & sites. It’s easier for most people to process information based on what they see rather than what they read.  The rapid growth of photo sharing sites like Pinterest, Instagram and Slideshares proves the power and viral potential of […]

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12 Ways to Engage Customers Using Social Media

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In our previous post Your Social Media Checklist one of the recommended daily tasks is to engage with customers. One of my clients emailed me: “well, that’s just fine and dandy but how do you do that?” One important thing to remember is that social media is “social” and people value interpersonal communication online. Here […]

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Online Marketing Terms You Should Know

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Sometimes, it can be difficult to understand online marketing terms with all our SEOs, CTAs, ALTs and cookies (we don’t mean the ones you eat of course). Because, like any other industry Online Marketing has a language of its own.   So Here Is A List Of The Most Common Online Marketing Terms A/B Testing          […]

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Is Your Website Mobile Friendly?

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Mobile isn’t coming…It’s here!  Most businesses have seen an increase in website traffic coming from mobile users and starting April 21, 2015, Google changed its algorithm to reward mobile responsive websites by ranking them higher than non-responsive sites. We all know by now that ranking well in Google is critical to being found by new […]

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How to Get Your First 1,000 Facebook Fans [Infographic]

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So you decided to take the plunge and set up your Facebook business page to promote your business and engage with your customers; now the question is: how do you turn one fan into 1,000? Quick Sprout created this useful infographic below to show you how to accomplish this goal. Steps include: Make sure you […]

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What Is Online Marketing?

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Is Online Marketing Voodoo Marketing? Sure sounds like it, doesn’t it? With Online Marketing, it seems like all you need to do is to get various magic ingredients such as SEO, SEM, PPC, SM (just to name a few). Combine them with a sprinkle of emails and the right mix of content. Don’t forget the […]

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