Data is a key component to business growth. Among the chief benefits to businesses being active on social media is the ability to measure data in real time.
In this issue, we’ll talk about ways you can use data gleaned from your social media profiles to grow your business.
Instagram launched Stories, a feature allowing users to post videos and photos that appear together in slideshow format. After 24 hours, they disappear. It may be a blatant rip-off of Snapchat, which operates in much the same way, but in just a few months, Stories showed who was boss. While Snapchat has 150 million daily users, about 300 million are using Instagram’s Stories each day.
In this issue, we’ll take a closer look at Instagram Stories, and how you can leverage it for your business.
Social media, when used the right way, can be a powerful ally for businesses – especially smalls ones with fixed marketing budgets and owners who have little spare time. The mainstays like Facebook and Twitter are obviously well known, but what about the many others?
In this issue, we’ll provide a snapshot look at several social media outlets so that you’ll be in a much better position to decide if some or all are appropriate for your business presence.
The National Retail Federation is expecting more than $655 billion in holiday sales this season. That’s up more than 3% from last year.
In this issue, we’ll talk about how you can utilize and tweak your online marketing so that your business can get a slice of that pie.
If Instagram is not on your social media marketing plan, it should be. Two months after its launch in 2010, it had one million users. Right now, there are 500 million active users. It’s bigger than Twitter, which has 313 million active users.
In this article, we’ll share tips for how you can position your business for success on Instagram with compelling content, which can be tricky since so much emphasis on Instagram is placed upon imagery.
As regular readers of our site already know, we’re huge proponents of helping businesses – big and small – to strengthen their brands through the sheer power of social media. In this article, we’re going to share a few more tips for making sure your brand’s reputation is as strong as it can be on social media.
There’s no doubt about it: for companies to survive in the competitive landscape on today’s markets, they must keep up with the trends – especially when it comes to marketing. In this article, we’ll talk about the personal customer experience – one of the most important trends out there – and how you can make it work for your company.
No getting around it: the digital age has revolutionized the way we buy things and do business. One aspect of business that has stuck around, though, is the importance of the personal touch. If you’re knowledgeable about your customer’s purchasing history and have a good understanding of what they’re after, you have a far better chance of turning that customer into an advocate for your business.
Having an online presence is a great way to reach customers on the other side of the country or even the world – but what about using it to optimize your local presence? In this article, we’ll talk about how.
Unless you’re a national chain, chances are good that the key to your business’s success is the development of a loyal roster of patients from your own community. To do that, you need to be in tune with local issues and needs.
A recent study from the Pew Research Center tells us that 63 percent of Facebook and Twitter users get their news from those social media platforms. In this article, we’ll talk about why it’s so important for business owners to move beyond simply having a social media presence so that they are actually engaging their potential customers.
Before we go any further, it’s important that you think of social media outlets like Facebook andTwitter as much more than gathering places for family and friends to share photos of their dinner plates and pets.
http://moz.com/blog/identifying-online-community
An online community is a group of users who have something in common. Hopefully, your online community will be composed of users who all want something that you have: products, services or information. How do you identify your own special online community and build it through the use of social media and other methods?
In order to build the right online community, it is important to first answer a few questions, such as:
