Part 4 of the Online Marketing in a Small Town series. The topic of this post is pay-per-click advertising, or sponsored ads and we'll focus on AdWords and Facebook today. There are a few ways in which your business located in a rural area can take advantage of this.
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If you've had a web presence for longer than 6 months, you've no doubt noticed that things change, a lot! They're not always big changes, but many small changes can easily equal a large change. It's best to plan for this as much as possible in your inbound marketing strategy. Simply expect to see surprised changes coming and they won't be as rattling to your work flow. Facebook announced yesterday that Facebook business pages are getting a redesign in the next week or so. The biggest change from a visual standpoint is that they will appear much more like a personal profile page now, shedding the 2nd column and unifying business page posts in a singular list. This makes it easier to ensure your images look correct in all places that they may be seen (posts, shares, etc...), a big plus! Missing A Column And What Else? It's really not clear what the new layout has done with custom tabs that currently show as boxes under your banner picture like so: Some online discussions have pointed to ...
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Welcome to Part 3 of Online Marketing in a small town where we will cover local search engine optimization (SEO). This will include both local search results powered by maps as well as optimizing your website for local SEO. Here's the difference between the listings:
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When you're laying out your web marketing strategy, it's imperative to include have an ongoing process of listening. That's right, listening. It's tempting to start broadcasting immediately, and you can if you want, but listening first will make sure you are broadcasting correctly. Who Should You Listen To? The first and most obvious question is, who should I be listening to? Here's a short list that may need added to for your industry: Clients Suppliers Leads Folks you'd like to have as clients Influencers in your industry Experts in related fields to yours Competitors Partners Professionals in fields like web marketing News sources Industry media sources What To Listen To? A list of what to listen to would include: Blogs Twitter Facebook LinkedIN Instagram Google+ Yelp/Foursquare/Other location if applicable Email lists Pinterest Industry news sites There're many things to listen to in the sources on the list above. Let's examine just a few with specifics, shall we? Clients & ...
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Welcome to Part 2 of the Online Marketing in a Small Town series. If you haven't read Part 1, Planning Your Marketing, I'd urge you to go back and read that first.
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This will be part one of a 6 part series that will cover online marketing for businesses and organizations in a very small town. I'm not even talking Bradford, PA small town (and believe me, we have a small town)...I'm talking really small towns. For the sake of these posts, let's say your town consists of less than 4,000 people and most of your potential customers come from surrounding areas. This will series will primarily be focused on local online marketing, meaning your customers will be looking for a local solution, not something from across the country or world.
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Content is one of the most vital pieces of a website project. To be honest, it is also one of the biggest delays to many website projects as well. Why? Because it isn't as easy as it sounds. When you are thinking about the content on your website there is probably a ton of ideas going through your head...but then you sit down to write it and it usually doesn't go as smoothly as you would expect. Many times this is the result of content writing not being your only job. During a website project you still are doing your normal job, you've just been put in charge of writing. Here are 5 tips to get you on the right track with the content for your website project so it turns out great and you avoid delays.
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As sales and marketing professionals we are constantly looking forward and trying to increase the return on our efforts, the number of leads generated, and ultimately sales. Most web marketing strategies are highly focused on increasing these same factors. To make sure we're not making the same mistakes twice and that we're maintaining flexibility in our efforts, we have to take time to review where we've come from. Internal Process Review A few questions to get you started with this review process include: Who's doing each of the following right now: Facebook status updates/commenting/Liking/sharing/following up/advertising Twitter tweets/retweets/favoriting/following/following up/promoting tweets Instagram photo taking/photo posting/liking/commenting/following/following up LinkedIN status updates/connecting/updating the company profile/joining groups/following up/advertising Google+ status updates/+1ing/circling/following/sharing/following up Email Marketing SEO Efforts Content ...
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It's not a secret that mobile devices have changed our lives. We're now connected to these devices and find ourselves using them probably more than we would like to admit.
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If you are executing digital marketing, congratulations! You are most likely already one step ahead of your competition, and making strides to meaningfully connect with prospects online. But, how do you know if you’re seeing continual success year over year, and improving your metrics?
Without the tools in place to analyze and benchmark your efforts, it is impossible to scale your online marketing and ensure continuous success.
