Building Your Action Plan for Social Media Marketing

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9 Reasons Why Social Media Has Become An Epic Fail for Your Business

Stop wasting your time; here’s what you can do right now to turn things around. Wish you were getting better results with your social media? Many entrepreneurs I talk to are frustrated they aren’t seeing anything come of their social media efforts. They’re ready to give up, thinking it’s all been a huge waste of time. This is when I tell them social media marketing isn't as easy as creating and posting content. Indeed, there’s much more that goes into making social media marketing work effectively for a business. So if you can relate and feel like you’re spending hours on social media and think it’s all been an epic waste of time fail, then it's time to take an honest look at what you are doing. Social media is a prominent advertising, marketing and lead generating tool for businesses today but the trick is being strategic about your efforts.

Affiliate Marketing Tutorial: Sharing Links

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What is affiliate marketing and how to make money with it?

A variety of online money making methods are available for the people in today’s world. Affiliate marketing holds a prominent place out of them. If you wonder how to make passive income, you can think about starting off with affiliate marketing without keeping any doubts in your mind. What is Affiliate Marketing? Before you make money online with affiliate marketing, you need to have a clear understanding about what it is. Affiliate marketing is recognized as the way of promoting someone else’s product to receive a percentage of sales as a commission. Affiliate marketing can help both you and the seller to earn profits. Most of the affiliate marketers start their promotions by creating a squeeze page that belongs to a certain niche. They can either use their blogs or websites to promote the products and gain the attention of potential customers. When a customer goes through one of their affiliate links and make a purchase, the affiliate marketer would be able to earn a commission. Therefore, you can think about following this method to generate a steady online income.

How to do PROPER Keyword Research and find BUYERS KEYWORDS with the Goog...

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How to Choose the Best Keywords for SEO

Are you wondering why your website traffic is few and far in between despite the impressive layout of your site and the amazing offers you have? Well, you're probably not doing it right with search engines. You see, increasing the amount of visitors to your website requires a high-ranking placement in the search results page. That is, your site should appear on the first page of Google, Bing or Yahoo, whenever users search for a term or keywords related to your website, company, or products or services. Say you're selling precious jewelry. If someone wants to buy precious jewelry, and type the exact term on a search engine, your website should be one of the top sites that will show in search results. If you are on the top spot, there is a 100% chance that a user will click the link to your website. That's 1 traffic right there.

Tips For A Successful Blog: Things Successful Bloggers Do!

Hey, guys! Here are some tips to make sure people read your blog. What do you think?  

Best Ways to Make Sure No One Will Read Your Articles Part. 1

I know you are very concerned about the traffic on your blog. You want to have many visitors that love to read anything you write. No wonder you try so very hard to get more traffic. Well, sometimes – you try a little too hard. And guess what? Instead of getting more readers and fans, you scare them away. You may not even know about it! That is why I prepared a list of ten sure ways to bore your readers, scare them away – basically assure that no one will visit your blog and it will slowly, but surely die! So if you don’t want this to happen, try learning a thing or two from this list.

How To Make a Wordpress Website - AMAZING!

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Top 10 reasons to use Word Press as your blogging platform

WordPress is one of the most powerful software that is used for content management. By using WordPress you can create a blog, website or both. Most of the people are using the WordPress for blogging. If you are interested to change your online business blog to real business site then the use Word press. Here you can easily convert your blog to website. Here we represent top 10 reasons to use word press in a blogging platform. 

1. WordPress is Free 

WordPress is totally free and built as open source. The other blogging software charge money for creating blogs or websites. You can download this software freely and install it on your server. So, first start a blog at WordPress.com and hosted on the Word press servers. WordPress.org is also completely free for you. 

Social Media Marketing for picking up clients online (FULL TUTORIAL) Fac...

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13 of the Best Ways to Generate Leads with Social Media

Since I just started the 14-Day Facebook Marketing Challenge yesterday (it’s not too late to join us!), I have Social Media on the brain. 

I’ve been thinking about one of the biggest reasons why businesses and entrepreneurs take the time to be on social media. Aside from showing off their cute pets or grandbabies, it’s to help grow their business. 

When wanting to grow our business, we often think of the more tradition methods of marketing and advertising. As an example, typical advertising channels are newspaper, radio and TV ads. Where typical marketing includes SEO, PR, and Direct Mail campaigns to name a few. 

But when we look to social media to help with this, the approach needs to be different than those more traditional methods of getting qualified business leads.

And that approach is through a method called "inbound, pull or relationship marketing". 

How to be a better video blogger

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5 WordPress Tips That Will Make Your Blog Better

WordPress is a cornucopia of plugins, themes, and countless different techniques that are supposed to help you beat the competition. Yet all these additions are getting massive, bigger and, to be honest, not exactly simple to use. Have you been searching for simpler ways to use WP but without success, for far too long? 411Locals will help you with some of the easiest WP hacks for blogging:

You Can Master the art Of Coding without Actually Coding

It’s about time for you to learn how to use shortcodes! They are special tags you can insert in the body of your post, which make a suggestion for more complicated coding. Whenever WordPress checks one of these tags in a post, it automatically replaces it with the corresponding HTML equivalent. Check out the examples:

[ audio ]– embeds an audio file and displays a basic audio player in the page
[ gallery ]– creates a basic gallery based on a set of images
[ video ]– embeds a locally-hosted video in the page
NB! type these shortcodes without blank spaces

How to SEO Your Wordpress Website - Search Engine Optimization & Insider...

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How to Optimize Your Website for Local Search

13 Strategies to SEO Optimize Your Local Business Website 

If you run a store-front business or offer a service that is within a specific local-based geographic area, then you will want to focus your marketing efforts on getting in front of local traffic. 

Since many marketing initiatives are of a more global nature that don’t help you at all, there’s actually a few specific things you can do to ensure you get visible in front of the local people that you want to attract to your business. 

Aside from using targeted Facebook and Google Ads, local search optimization can help your business be found in searches when people are looking for a business likes yours in their area. 

So what can you do to get your website to rank better for local search? 

Facebook Marketing Secrets With Amy Porterfield - WEBINAR REPLAY

Do you know how to efficiently use Facebook to up your business? Watch this video and tell me what you think! 

Facebook Marketing Secrets Revealed

Facebook Marketing surpasses all other Social Media Marketing as being on the must do list for Internet Marketers.

Why? Because...

Whether you are selling a product or service or promoting a network marketing or affiliate program, Facebook has the largest audience of active users and buyers.

Not only that, Facebook Marketing offers many unique opportunities to target your audience down to the last details, age groups, gender, nation, interests and that last one is a doozy. It allows you to be so specific in terms of what and who you like. Did you ever wonder why you are getting the particular little ads on the side of your screen. If you click on one them, rest assured you will get a lot more of the same type.

So, let's examine some Facebook Marketing Opportunities.

The Secrets To Online Marketing Success Revealed

Check out these secrets of successful online marketing... what are your thoughts?

The Internet Marketing Syndicate And Their Secrets To Success

Many years ago, Dan Kennedy, who is one of the pioneers of Internet marketing, put forth the idea of forming a cabal. A cabal is a group of like-minded businesses that help each other out. This is something he and his colleagues used in the infomercial industry.

Here's an example of how a cabal works. Let's say that I offer piano lessons. One of my students says he wants to quit my lesson but he still wants to learn piano. I'd then refer him to another piano teacher who might be more suitable.

Actually, I'm not referring him to my competition. I'm referring him to a friend. Me and a bunch of other piano teachers have this cabal where he hook each other up with students. When I send a referral to them, they either pay me a commission or we just have it worked out so they send me theirs.

Documentary- The Story of Content: Rise of the New Marketing

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Content Marketing - How To Build A News Portal That Digs Up Leads And Builds Profits

What is content marketing and how can you make more profits using it?

Content marketing is a marketing tactic that enables your business to attract new business and build up your brand recognition by offering helpful information to prospective customers in a neutral but convincing format.

The most up-to-date studies indicate that potential customers find old school advertisements invasive. Even sponsored online content -- articles that are highly self-promotional -- is being favored over contentional advertising. This is where content marketing comes into play.

As reported by Roper Public Affairs research firm, 80 % of business decision makers favor getting company related news from articles instead of advertisements. 70 % state that content marketing makes them feel closer to the company publishing the content. And, more than 60 percent say that content marketing assists to make greater purchasing decisions. 

There are literally more than twenty commonly used content marketing instruments. You can produce articles or license mainstream media's content and put it on your website. You can churn out informational videos, circulate email newsletters, put together webinars, write or try to get published in the mainstream media by resorting to conventional media relations activities. You can even write white papers or research reports and engage people in social media.

These are all effective tools, but... let's face it. Do these traditional content marketing tools really allow you to find highly qualified leads that you can convert to new revenues?

What Is Digital Marketing and Why It Matters - The SAS Point of View

Take a moment to unravel the importance of Digital Marketing even to small scale business. I'd be really happy to know what you think about this video!

Why Digital Marketing is Important to Small Scale Business

With time the competition is growing. Due to this digital marketing has become a significantly important part of the business. To grow you need to find more communication channels. To get this you need to promote yourself digitally. Global exposure is what every business needs. Without digital marketing accomplishing this would be difficult.

Now, what every start up and medium size business do and what you should never do is try to promote yourself without professional help. There are some reasons why professionals are there. They know which platform will be able to help you get the right exposure. For this reason, you should always try to find the digital marketing services.

The importance of the social media marketing is increasing by the day. This is the only platform which can help you compete with the large corporations. Such competition has been a dream for many for the past decade as broadcast media has never helped in promotion before. Since the inception of SEO, the digital marketing trends have changed. In fact, now people look for strong digital presence if they want to grow.

Sticking to traditional marketing strategy can create many barriers. Such marketing process will not allow you to reach out to a mass. Also traditional marketing requires a huge budget. If you are opting for global exposure in an affordable way, you need to turn digital.

Ecommerce SEO 101: Importance of content & SEO

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Seo Article Writing – Remember Important Things

SEO article writing is one of the most perfect approaches of creating well enlightening contents to encourage your products or your website over the World Wide Web. The term "SEO" stands for search engine optimization; and Seo article writing refer to write articles planned to be easily crawled and selected up by major search engines include Google or Yahoo so that it can ground on the front page for a selected keywords.

Considering the fact, this is the main function of SEO article writing; hence, you have to stuff it with the apt amount of keyword density in order to support its ranking. One of the various factors of triumph is use of the correct keywords for an article; hence, most importantly you need to do is to expend some time on explore so that your keyword on which the article is written can attract viewers of the same page. Additionally, having the perfect numbers of viewers may not be sufficient if these visitors do not even difficulty to read all your contents down to the last line; hence, it is also significant to make your contents very useful and valuable to the readers.

Publishing Content For Long Term Traffic

Although publishing content does involve a bit of work, especially in the preparation stages, it is one of the best ways to build traffic online! Marketers are learning that to succeed over the long term they must build a following and using content to do so makes so much sense! What you publish, if of good quality, tends to circulate online almost indefinitely and this can help you become recognized as an authority in your field! Additionally anything you create and publish tends to continue sending you traffic well into the future provided it remains relevant!

Here are 3 simple ways using content can keep you in 'front' of people online thereby building your authority and traffic well after being published!

The Perfect Content Marketing Strategy

Does your content marketing strategy have what it takes to generate traffic? Check this out and tell me what you think!

Can You Sustain Your Business with Right Social Media Campaign?

Most companies are taking to social media – Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, blogs, and YouTube – to hone their online presence and talk about sustainabilitythan ever before. Social media campaigns have; therefore, attracted much attention from businesses that want to engage their audiences, get new ideas and active dialogue with the stakeholders that are hard to reach in the world outside the internet.

While many are venturing into social media marketing, statistics shows that only a small percent succeed. This creates a big question: can you sustain your business with right social media campaign?Is this cake worth the candle?

The answer is yes. Yes, you can sustain your business with social media campaigns. How? Well, by using the right ones.

What is the right social media campaign for my business?

A large number of businesses is failing to gather fruits from their social media campaigns because they use the wrong ones. Then when can you get the right one and escape failure?

When you understand your business, brand, and resources- knowing the type of business your company is will help you in choosing the right social media network.

When you set your goals clearly – this helps you to measure your success. What do you want to achieve? Why do you want to achieve it? Additionally you will identify the behavior you want to drive to your audience. Maybe you want to increase brand advocacy and loyalty or brand awareness. Whichever the case, set you goals.

When you understand the buying behavior and personas of your audience – this helps you identify what they need and how they want it. Know who your potential and existing customers are. Are they young people, aged, female, male?

When you learn the type of content your audience like – do they like written content, videos, images? This will help you decide between a blog, YouTube, Instagram or Pinterest.

When you know the people scrambling for the same cake that you are – know the people who compete against you. Know what they are doing and what they are not doing. How are they doing what they are doing? Learn all there is to learn about them.Then organize your defense and attack.

When you learn about your geographic – If you are running a social media campaign, learn what is the most popular social media network in your targeted geographic. For instance, if you are targeting Japan, you want to trend on the paths of twitter and if your target is China, add WeChat, Weibo, and QZone in your arsenal.

Let us learn from example – a case of General Electric (GE)

I laughed when my friend joked about GE being the “most exciting boring brand.” What an oxymoron! It makes boring something to invite in your home thanks to their social media strategies.

The success in GE is in their effort to create an educational, playful and informative personal on the social media. The company’s campaign is focused on engaging the community and brand awareness. This makes GE the book example of a company that has sustained their business with social media campaigns.

What make them stick?

Their tagline, “Imagination at Work”.

The company has gone beyond their products and right at their audiences and customers doorsteps. They have redefined the meaning of dull into engaging and interactive videos and images.

Essentially, you can sustain your business with aright social media campaign. The right social media strategy is the one that fits your business. 

Article Source: http://www.promotionworld.com/marketing/online/article/170112-can-you-sustain-your-business-with-right-social-media-campaign

Social Media for Business

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6 Email Marketing Trends That Will Influence The Online Marketers In 2017!

Keep in mind that 2017 will be the year in which we come across lots of great and worth knowing email marketing trends.

And following those trends will assist you a lot in order to take your business to next high level. So make sure that you are ready for it.

One of the prominent attributes of an Email Marketing is that it enables you to build a great customer loyalty and that benefits your business in various ways.

Followings are some great Email Marketing trends of 2017, so never ignore them. And they will help you a lot to stand apart in the competitive corporate sector in 2017.

6 Tips to Improve Mobile App Conversion

App conversion makes an important part of economic efficiency, user engagement and overall assessment of interest in your product. Mobile conversion rates depend on a host of factors, which together can come to the forcible result.

CRO (conversion rate optimization) is a process of changing and improving different elements of the app (landing pages, design, images and even content). It presupposes calculated steps in improvement of your app as a whole ring.  

But what is good conversion rate? 1-2% is considered to be an average conversion for the majority of mobile apps, so surpassing 2% is a complete success. However, depending on industries, which can be mCommerce, Media, Social, Game, Travel, Entertainment, etc.,the conversion rate of mobile games can be up to 10% (game addiction as one of the explanations), apps in the travel industry with 1-5% also bask in popularity. In fact, there aren’t any perfect rates as we should aim for enhancement of our mobile application and the metrics of user engagement. Here appears the main objective, to increase conversion rate.

Tips to increase app conversion

Do's & Dont's of Email Marketing

Check out these do's and dont's of email marketing. What do you think?  I would go to around 9 minutes into the video as the good stuff start around then.

The Do's and Don'ts of Email Subject Lines

An effective email subject lines is the key to increase open rates and potential click through rates. No matter whether you are sending an official mail, monthly news letter or a daily digest; effective subject lines will compel your subscribers to open your mail. 

Even though subject lines are very important in email marketing but still it is one of the major obstacles that needs to be overcome. Depending on what it includes, the subscriber will decide whether to open mail or not. Also there is no secret to writing an email subject line that guarantee you an improved open rate and click through. 

So there are few tricks and tips that will help to increase the open rates and other things to avoid. Let’s have a look over with these Do’s and Don’ts to get an idea of writing an effective subject line. 

22 Brilliant Social Media Marketing Tips

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What Is the Importance of Social Media Marketing?

In the world of technology communication has become easier than ever. The world has now shrunk from a vast populated land to a network of communicating individuals living in a global village. People from all over the globe have come closer together and distances have decreased to the extent that an individual is merely a click away.

In this ever-growing network of people a new theory has emerged, the idea of 6 degrees of separation. The idea behind this is that between you and any another person in the world is only a chain no longer than six people. This emphasizes the significance of online communication and the way it has made the world a whole lot smaller.

This is the power of social media and the developments in online communication. A happening in one part of the world reaches to the second part in a matter of seconds. Imagine if that news or happening was about you. The significance of this technology is the ease it provides. Using this tool to your advantage can give you a large number of benefits.

How to make money with Banner Ads - 4 Best Ways

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Fundamentals Of Banner Advertising - How To Create An Effective Ad Banner

If you have any experience at all with the internet, then I'm sure that you have noticed the increasing popularity of banner ads. These are those small rectangular advertisements that float on web pages enticing you to 'click here!' While these ads can differ considerably in appearance and subject, they all share the same fundamental purpose....when you click it, your browser will be redirected to the advertiser's website. So how do these banner ads work?

Banner advertisements are typically a section of straightforward HTML code, but these simple banners can provide your business with huge results and generate tons of traffic to your website. So let's examine the tools behind these ads.

What is an Ad Banner?

An ad banner is simply a graphic hypertext link, working much like a text link. A special piece of HTML code tells our Web server to redirect to a specific page any time a viewer clicks on the banner image. However, instead of text, a banner ad is primarily a graphic. Some can even be animations that showcase multiple images. Unlike the common static image banner; these are GIF animated banners that display a progression of several different images, sometimes used to create the illusion of motion.

Digital Marketing Trends 2016-2017

Digital Marketing, a Must Today

The key purpose is to sponsor brands through various types of digital media. When one talks about digital marketing, it pretty much extends beyond just internet marketing! In fact, is also takes into account mediums that do not oblige the use of the internet. That comprises cell phones, social media marketing, search engine optimisation, search engine marketing, as well as any other type of digital media.

Most professionals consider that 'digital' is not as simple as it seems. A prerequisite is that an entirely novel approach to promotion and a novel understanding of customer behaviour is required. For instance, it requires companies to examine and compute the worth of tweets on Twitter, downloads of apps on mobile devices and the worth of likes on Facebook.

10 Ways You Can Make Money Online

Some great ideas on here, don't you think?