Small Business Marketing
Will Fear of Missing Out Spur Sales for Fragrance Company? I received a curious marketing email from Scent Matchers, a company that re-creates discontinued fragrances. Last year, I purchased a replication of my dad’s favorite aftershave from years past. Here…
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In This Hiring Environment, the Best Job Candidates Won’t Engage with This Awkward Interview Technique One-way video interviews are a new, unfortunate innovation in recruiting. The hiring organization asks applicants to record a video of themselves answering interview questions and…
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The 3 Most Critical Email Marketing Mistakes that Lower Open Rates Email marketing is an effective marketing tool, with 49% of consumers agreeing that they would like to receive a weekly email from their favorite brands and 81% of small…
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Salesforce Research Reveals Social Advertising has High Competition, While Google Pay-Per-Click Lags in Popularity “Buy low and sell high” is the age-old investment advice. The same can sometimes be said for marketing investments. When your competitors are spending much of…
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There’s a small word that describes an essential part of marketing today: content. This one word represents a huge commitment. Day after day, week after week, marketers need to publish something new, interesting and effective. The schedule keeps going, and…
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Why “See… You Looked!” Isn’t a Good Argument Advertising is ubiquitous in the American landscape, and most of us instinctively look past it. But occasionally, a small business owner will ask me, “Should we do bench ads?” The Answer is…
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Twitter Drives Only 0.66% of all Website Visits New research into 3.25 billion website visits by GrowthBadger’s Kyle Byers shows that 6.44% of all web traffic comes from social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc. Facebook dominates as a…
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Facebook Drives 65.36% of All Social Media-Sourced Website Traffic, but Google Still Outpaces All Social In a survey of 3.25 billion website visits, GrowthBadger’s Kyle Byers discovered that Facebook is far and away the most effective social media platform for…
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Google Drives 8 Times More Traffic than All Social Media Combined In a study of 3.25 billion website visits, Kyle Byers of GrowthBadger uncovered some striking results. Overall, Google search drives 60.68% of website traffic. When you break down the…
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Posting a job opening for your small business on Facebook makes a lot of sense. It’s easy to do, and it’s free. Here’s an example of a job posting for my client TriState Water Works. Benefits of Facebook Job Postings…
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