Choosing the Most Effective Social Media Posting Times

It never fails, you received a free eBook and get excited to read about the latest, and best, way to utilized Social Media posting for your business.  You hungrily tear through the information and then re-write your marketing plan to implement this new strategy only to receive entirely different information the next day, week, month, …

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Have you ever been to a horse track?

If you have, you know that right before the race begins the horses are chaotically ushered into their starting gates. The gates remain closed, until the gun goes off, at which point the gates open and the horses stream out like bullets from a gun, headed towards the finish-line. But until the gates open, nothing …

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Using Craigslist to Market Your Business

From e-commerce websites to furniture wholesalers, small businesses are discovering the marketing capability of Craigslist.org. If you provide a service or sell wholesale or resale products, Craigslist is a tool to add to your marketing arsenal.  On Craigslist, users know they will find what they are looking for nearby, so they don’t get stuck sifting …

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The Four Ps of Marketing

Marketing isn’t easy, and without a proper marketing plan in place, your company may suffer. The main ingredients for a successful marketing campaign are the four Ps. These essential marketing items are product, price, placement, and promotion. To provide a positive experience for your customers, it is in your best interest to ensure that each …

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What Millennials Want From Brands?

Whether you like it or not, millennials are becoming one of the fastest-growing demographics in the US. They will be your future customers and your future workers. With new demographics comes new ways of doing things. Millennials have gotten a bad rep. They’re lazy, they’re narcissistic, they’re entitled, and they’re the “me generation.” They’re addicted …

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How to Use Bing to Advertise

Bing Ads is an advertising platform used to display ads on the Bing network including bing.com, yahoo.com, and aol.com. Smaller affiliates like duckduckgo.com and slickdeals.net also fall under this umbrella. Ads show up on Bing when a visitor searches just as they would on any other search engine. The top and sides of the page …

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Tips for Triggering an Emotional Reaction in Your Sales Copy

The use of emotion in marketing goes back hundreds of years. Though, in the past hundred years, triggering an emotional reaction has become a science. Businesses have spent millions of dollars trying to learn which phrases, colors, layouts, images, and words are most likely to connect with people. You don’t need to spend millions to …

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4 Tips to Dramatically Improve the Quality of Your Content

One of the biggest obstacles that every entrepreneur faces is generating fresh content. You can only go so far with paid ads and a strong social media presence. You also need to drive traffic to your website. The best way to gain traffic, build backlinks, and increase your search rankings is to regularly publish new …

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Enhance Your Product Pages to Kick Your Conversion Rates into High Gear

Businesses that don’t have a brick-and-mortar establishment rely on their website to move their product. Content of the website is essential to convincing the customer to buy. It could be the difference between an idle shopping cart and a completed transaction. What about the website itself? Your content could be getting your message across but …

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