Instagram has become quite popular in the last few years. This powerhouse social media site helps small businesses with branding. It also allows followers to see what's going on "behind the scenes." But, what really does work on Instagram? Well, each page is different and there are many factors involved. To figure out your particular situation, the Insights section works nicely. It gives you quick information about shared posts and followers demographics details. In this post, we will break … [Read more...]
Small Business Marketing Ideas Archive Page
Welcome to our Small Business Marketing Ideas archive page to help you and your business streamline processes. Read the archive posts for tips to use in your business.
The Most Important Areas To Review in Facebook Insights
While setting up a Facebook page and posting regularly help you get your business name out there, they are not the only tasks you should do to keep abreast of your audience. This week starts a new series that will examine the most important areas to review on various social media sites. When to visit Facebook Insights? Reviewing Facebook insights once a month works well if you do not have a large audience or your audience doesn't visit your page frequently. But, if you have a responsive … [Read more...]
Tips To Make Your Business Goals a Success
Being a business owner is freeing but also time-consuming. We can make our schedule and work with and spend time with people we chose. However, there are some downfalls. One such downfall is being able to keep focused on seeing the bigger picture for our business and creating new goals for your business. Lucky for you, here is a list of tips to make your business goals a success. Here are some questions to ask yourself first. Where we want our business to go? Where we want to be in 5 … [Read more...]
Why You Need To Get Testimonials For Your Small Business
Being a small business owner means you wear many hats. Marketing Director and Sales Director are just some of your titles. Promoting your business needs to be the main priority for your business, especially when you start out. And, testimonials are a way for you to show your value. I learned this the hard way. For many years, I forgot to take before and after photos, get recommendations/testimonials from my clients, and market my organizing business with this information. When I think of all … [Read more...]
NEW Facebook Slideshow Advertising Feature To Attract New Fans
I don't normally get excited about advertising. I sometimes think it is a necessary evil. But, this new Facebook Slideshow advertising was actually fun to do. It is easy to do too. Brief background information on Facebook Slideshow ads: You have 15 seconds which is equivalent to 7 images. You can add music, add transitions, and adjust the image duration. Facebook Slideshow shares timeline or uploaded images as your ad. They said it can be viewed on low bandwidth devices as … [Read more...]
How to Tag People on Social Media Sites
Do you know how to tag people on social media sites like Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, and Google+? I know this sounds obvious and on some sites, it is. But, other sites, you may need some guidance. First, let's start out with what the benefits are for tagging people. Benefits to tag people on social media sites: Bring another company's name to your readers' attention. On most of the social media sites listed above, after you tag a person or company, you will see a … [Read more...]
How To Respond Quickly In Facebook Messages
Corresponding through Facebook is an easy way to communicate with leads and other associates. It helps you speak one on one with people to be able to instantly get and give an answer to any question they may have. Do you receive messages through your Facebook company page? If not, you can do this fairly easily. First, go to your page, then click on "Settings" at the top right of your Page. From General tab, click "Edit" next to "Messages". Click to check the box next to "Allow … [Read more...]
How To Quickly Improve Your Online Writing
If you have read my blog, you know that I am big on getting to the point to inspire you to take action quickly and simply. The below FREE extension in Chrome has helped me speed up my online writing and helped me improve my grammar skills at the same time. Here's how I did it. Before using this Grammarly extension, I would write my post, then have to wait for a few hours or a day, before I would revisit the post for editing. I was told when I was in school to put the essay down before and … [Read more...]
How To Make Your Blog More Shareable
If you are like me and so many other bloggers, you probably want people to share your blog posts. But, if visitors feel that your site is too difficult or challenging to share your content, they may just leave and not share at all. Your visitor should not have to do the legwork so let's make it easy on them. This post will talk about how to make your blog more shareable. MODIFY YOUR SHARE BUTTONS: Most sharing plugins have a set of sharing buttons preset for you. But, if … [Read more...]
