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The different types of SMS marketing capable numbers There are 3 types of numbers you can use for SMS marketing in the United States. Short codes A short code is a special 5- to 6-digit number used to send SMS or MMS messages. For example, … Continue reading “Long code vs short code in text message marketing”

An often-overlooked digital marketing tactic involves engaging on question-and-answer websites, such as Quora.  But Q&A websites are a treasure trove of internet users who are seeking answers that you might have. In other words, a possible untapped opportunity for your brand. Quora specifically boasts at … Continue reading “7 tips for marketing on Quora and other Q&A websites”

Blogs can be a large part of your content marketing efforts. Each month, about 409 million people view more than 20 billion blog pages. If you haven’t already been maintaining blog content for your brand, you might be deciding that now is the time to … Continue reading “19 tips to drive traffic to your new blog”

Your performance data should be the lifeblood of your digital marketing strategy. But when it comes to using Google Analytics, are you more of a casual user than you’d like to be? Maybe you’re not checking as often or only get a vague notion of … Continue reading “9 tips to get the most out of Google Analytics”

Social media is a two-way street. Rather than just posting relevant, engaging content, you also have to listen. Enter social listening. In the simplest sense, social listening is essentially audience research. You monitor your brand’s social media channels for any customer feedback, mentions of your … Continue reading “9 tips to improve social listening and gain customer insights”

Gathering marketing data is a great first step to understanding your target audience and ensuring your campaigns are effective. However, after gathering data, you’ll need to understand that data by being able to read and evaluate it. Evaluation is key to ensuring you cut out … Continue reading “How to evaluate your company’s marketing data”

Instagram only continues to grow in popularity for sharing images and videos, which means it’s a great platform for your brand to reach a larger audience. About 1.22 billion people use Instagram each month, and Instagram is the ninth most-Googled search term, which is a … Continue reading “7 best Instagram tools to grow your followers”

Regardless of whether you’re about to launch a loyalty rewards program or already have an existing one, promotion is everything. Loyalty rewards programs can help grow your business. In fact, consumers who engage in high-performing loyalty programs are twice as likely to increase their frequency … Continue reading “5 tips to successfully promote your loyalty rewards program”

If you’re not keeping tabs on your brand’s online reputation, you could be shooting yourself (or at least your brand) in the foot. An online reputation comprises various strategies to shape the world’s perception of your brand online. If handled correctly, you’re able to build … Continue reading “10 tips to improve your brand’s online reputation”

Knowledge is power. And Google Alerts can notify whenever specific terms are published online. Wouldn’t you like to know when someone publishes something related to industry news, products, your business, competitive businesses or even just you as a person? Fortunately, Google Alerts are easy to … Continue reading “How to set up Google Alerts to stay in the know”

Website security matters now more than ever. In fact, there have been about 300 percent more cybercrimes reported to the FBI since the COVID-19 pandemic began. It’s clearly not just about building trust with your customers. Data breaches can also result in stolen data and … Continue reading “12-step website security checklist for beginners”

What is Help A Reporter Out (HARO)? HARO is a website that stands for Help A Reporter Out. It’s a service that connects journalists with a variety of sources but also gives you the opportunity to get useful media coverage for your business. How HARO … Continue reading “How to use HARO to grow website backlinks and boost SEO”

It might not be an age-old question, but many small businesses often ask which is better for marketing: Facebook or Instagram? Unfortunately, there is not a one-size-fits-all answer. Sharing about 4 billion users across the two social networks, the opportunities on both are immense. Of … Continue reading “Facebook or Instagram: Which is better for marketing your business?”

What is Domain Authority? Domain Authority (DA) is a search engine ranking score developed by Moz that predicts how likely a website is to rank in search engine result pages (SERPs). Many factors come together to make or break your search engine optimization (SEO), including … Continue reading “7 tips to improve your website’s domain authority”

Many businesses find Twitter to be an effective social media marketing channel. It offers the opportunity to build your brand’s credibility, engage directly with customers and reach a larger audience. Twitter, originally created as a micro-blogging platform, is an online news and social networking site, … Continue reading “14 biggest mistakes businesses make on Twitter”

Author biographies are an opportunity to personally connect with your blog readers. There are more than 500 million blogs out of 1.7 billion websites, and about 409 million people view more than 20 billion pages each month. Your goal as a blogger is to stand … Continue reading “7 tips to write an author bio that gets noticed”

The idea of marketing on Reddit might make many businesses nervous, but rather than avoid the platform, why not embrace it as an opportunity? Reddit has traditionally considered itself the “front page of the internet.” In other words, it’s a network of communities where users … Continue reading “4 tips to market your brand on Reddit”

While attracting new customers will always matter, you can’t forget about your existing customers (and building up their loyalty to your brand). Just a 5 percent increase in customer retention can lead to at least a 25 percent increase in profit. Fortunately, while consumers do … Continue reading “6 tips to create brand loyalty for your business”

With digital marketing and customer service both needing to be more real-time than ever to serve consumers, chatbots are more popular than ever. You’ll find at least 300,000 chatbots on Facebook alone (and climbing). In fact, about 53 percent of consumers are more likely to … Continue reading “14 of the best chatbot builders for small business”

No longer the “new kid on the block,” Instagram Stories represent an opportunity for every brand to connect in additional ways with its target audience. Launched in 2016, Instagram Stories allow you to multiple images and/or videos in a vertical format, where you can layer … Continue reading “9 tips to create engaging Instagram Stories”

Successful digital marketing incorporates sharing the story of your brand, sharing what you do, how you do it and why. To help nail down the focus of your story and the purpose of your business, you should consider creating a mission statement. They work externally … Continue reading “5 tips to create an effective mission statement for your business”

Depending on your experience, creating a new brand from scratch can either be really fun or really stressful.  Or both. But branding can be done step-by-step in a thoughtful way that results in something that connects with the customers you’re seeking. A brand consists of: … Continue reading “Branding: 9 expert tips to build your brand from scratch”

Social media is a key part of any business’s digital marketing strategy, but are you seeing enough followers and engagement on your accounts? About 3.6 billion people worldwide were using social media in 2020, and that’s expected to grow to about 4.4 billion by 2025. … Continue reading “11 best practices to help you grow your social media followers”

The key to any digital marketing strategy involves testing, tracking and refining based on the data. When it comes to Facebook and Instagram ads, you must incorporate the free-to-use Facebook Pixel to obtain the best data tied to your campaign performance. The Facebook Pixel is … Continue reading “5 tips to optimize your Facebook Pixel”

Workflow automation allows you and your employees to save time on administrative and repetitive tasks, so they can focus on more important business goals.  In addition, automating your workflow helps you avoid the issues associated with manual work, such as human error. Many stages of … Continue reading “7 advantages to automating your workflow”

Search engine optimization, also referred to as SEO, is critical for every website, but it’s also achievable, even for beginners. SEO is all about ensuring that your website content ranks high in relevant search engine results. Of course, the higher you land in search rankings, … Continue reading “12 SEO marketing tips for beginners”

Understandably, event marketing is a broad strategy that can be used within your digital marketing, based on the events you may or may not be hosting. But for businesses that do host or attend any sort of event (in-person or online), it’s critical to think … Continue reading “8 tips to make your event marketing better”

With more than 1 billion active monthly users, Instagram clearly holds an appeal for brands looking to reach key target audiences. But on the fourth-largest mobile app, it can be all too easy for brands to make very public mistakes. The following are the 14 … Continue reading “14 biggest mistakes businesses make on Instagram (and how to avoid them)”

Facebook is still the largest social media network today. As of the second quarter of 2021, Facebook had about 2.89 billion monly active users. At the core of the platform is the news feed, which is controlled by the Facebook Algorithm. The Facebook Algorithm controls … Continue reading “7 ranking factors to know about the Facebook Algorithm”

LinkedIn remains a popular social media network for professionals and B2B marketing in particular. The platform offers the ability to create a free personal profile, as well as a Company Page to represent your larger brand, LinkedIn currently has 722 million users, which doesn’t make … Continue reading “6 biggest mistakes businesses make on LinkedIn”

Instagram is a vital marketing platform for many brands. Are you using the right account type? The visual-first social media app boasts more than 1 billion users worldwide. More women use Instagram than men, and the majority of users are between 25 and 34 years … Continue reading “Personal, Creator or Business: The right Instagram for your brand”

User-generated content should be part of your overall digital marketing strategy. Why? About 85 percent of consumers think that visual user-generated content (UGC) is more persuasive than branded photos or videos. UGC is unpaid or unsponsored social media posts that consumers share about a product … Continue reading “10 tips to encourage more user-generated content”

Most marketing advice begins the same way, with “set your goals.” And while it may feel repetitive, it’s absolutely true. Setting goals increases the success of your marketing strategy by about 429 percent. Of course, in the simplest sense, goals help you understand where you … Continue reading “7 expert tips to set achievable marketing goals for your small business”