If you own your own small business, you already know just how much work it takes to keep everything in order and moving forward. Running a business is a lot of work, and there are a lot of different variables involved in finding success. Continue reading
Originally posted on February 4, 2022 @ 3:07 am
When it comes to business marketing you want to sometimes put your focus on something more singular, and not just on your company as a whole. Most of the marketing you do is likely to get your business name out, but when you have a new product or service that is launched or you want extra attention for, you will do some marketing that revolves strictly around that item.
Sometimes that focus is just what you need to increase product or service sales, or to get someone’s attention. Your business name is still getting out there, but you are also showing current and potential customers that you have something special that you want them to know about, and that it means enough to you to focus on, if only it for an ad or two.
Make A Specific Website For It
You can bet that the lawyers at Morelli Law Firm take on more than just talcum powder lawsuits, but in order to specify to victims that they are there to help for this specific need they have a website set up that is dedicated solely to this one need. You can do that as well, if you have a product or service that you want to bring direct attention to and not have lost in the shuffle of all of the others things your business offers.
Work With Social Media
You can start a page on Facebook for nearly anything. You can make videos and post them to YouTube. You can Instagram photos, Tweet about your day, and even create a board specifically for that one product or service on Pinterest. Do it!
People love social media, they love to review businesses on social media, and if you are advertising specific products and services in creative ways on social media they are going to get noticed. Cross promote from one social media outlet to others, as well. Make memes, create infographics, and do things that are shareable for the most views.
Create An Email And Texting Campaign
Email seems to go by the wayside more these days since social media seems to offer a more direct form of contact between business and customers, but it is still worth using when you can. Offer newsletters or email sign up for coupons. If you want to stick with the times, you can also do this with text blasts.
If people sign up through your website then you’ll know they want to receive these types of messages, but you still don’t want to overdo it. One email or text a week, or even one a month with a coupon, is plenty to peak their interest. Make those blasts about the products and services you want them to notice the most.
Originally posted on September 27, 2016 @ 2:15 am
Creating a successful website these days requires a different set of skills than was required even a few years back. And the primary reason for this shift is because of the importance of good SEO. In the past, you could hijack search engine optimization processes with word stuffing and paid backlinks. Now, a little more thought has to go into the process.
And that’s why supplementary content has become so important in the scheme of things. It’s not good enough anymore just to have valuable information in text form. Now you have to think about things like semantics and Google penalties. So, what are these supplemental types of posts you can make to help you out with this?
Testimonials
Publishing testimonials is a good start to your SEO project. What this does is add intrinsic natural value to the subject of your website. Because people will naturally be using keywords that are associated with your business as they explain that they had a good experience with you, this will organically translate into a much better score from Google, especially compared to a site that doesn’t bother publishing these kinds of reviews digitally.
Blog Posts
And no matter what your website is about, you should always maintain a blog section. This is not only good for business because it shows people the most current news going on, it also ups your SEO score every time you post, assuming you follow basic SEO rules, like making sure there are at least 300 words, paying attention to headlines and subheadings, ensuring that you don’t overuse anchor words, and all of those details.
About Me and Contact Pages
And you should never forget to make contact pages and about me/us sections. Not only does it tell visitors to your site more about ownership and add to transparency, it also gives you ample opportunity to make use of phrases that Google will look on as adding value to your overall website. You can really dig into SEO phraseology in these sections, while still maintaining a completely natural formatting system.
Social Feeds
You can also use social feeds to populate your website in a way that will help with your SEO scores as well. If you have Facebook or Twitter feeds run directly into your site somewhere, Google’s crawlers will see the text as well as the links and images and add that value to the authority of your site.
Authoritative Explanations
And lastly, if you choose to either have authoritative explanations and language directly near certain terms in order to define them more clearly, or even have a separate section where you can use these phrases, that will also give your site a comparative advantage in terms of quality of quantity.
Originally posted on September 18, 2016 @ 1:57 am
The winter months are a strange time for businesses. The holidays bring in a lot of business for certain retailers, while for others, the holidays are a time when companies are forced to count their losses. Of course, it depends on where you live in the world, but the winter months can be described as fickle at best. Sometimes they’re cold, sometimes they’re snowy, and sometimes the Christmas cheer is a little below the bar.
As a business, you run the holiday season. Your attitude and what you do during the winter months determines how excited the rest of the world is going to be about the holidays. When you embrace the season and start offering products and services that enhance the winter experience, people will be more apt to celebrate with you by purchasing from you. It’s your responsibility to up your marketing game so that business not only increases during the winter months, but so that it propels you into growth beyond the Christmas season. Here are some tips for creating a buzz for your business around the winter season:
Highlight Your Amenities
Every business out there is doing the same thing as you, especially during the cold season. They know that business will be up and down, so they’re doing everything possible to keep the trend high. If you want to be seen as a business with credibility during the winter months, capitalize on the amenities you offer customers.
In your campaigns, both online and offline, create a buzz around the fact that you’re offering amenities and services nobody else is. Talk about how clean the air in your shop is thanks to your air purification system; talk about how great your employees are because they’re trained by the best; talk about how you offer free hot chocolate to everybody who comes in the door. Gimmicks work. You’ve just gotta find the right one.
Holidize Everything
If holidize isn’t really a word, it should be. It’s actually more of an action verb. If you want to increase your business during the cold season, you best be capitalizing on the holidays like nobody’s business. People eat that stuff up. The skies may be gloomy and they might be crying white, fluffy tears of hell in your eyes, but when push comes to shove, the holidays represent a lot of positive things and people are all about it.
If you make the season a big deal for your business and you market the crap out of it on all platforms, you will have people coming in the door and being excited simply because you’re excited. Christmas cheer is contagious. Remember that. Also, people are more apt to spend during the holiday season…as long as for the cause.
Originally posted on September 26, 2016 @ 8:00 pm
SEO, it’s a term you’ve been hearing non-stop, a buzzword, if you will. Bloggers and businesses alike are utilizing search engine optimization in order to make their websites and blogs easier to find. If you aren’t using SEO it’s pretty likely you’ll never appear on the front page of any search engines, and that’s where most people click links.
SEO isn’t just for blogs, though that is one of the most important places to use it. It included keywords, links, and keywords phrases, among other things. You can get more out of you SEO work by using keywords in more places. Continue reading
Originally posted on August 4, 2016 @ 2:38 am