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Facebook continues to be an important marketing tool with 2.74 BILLION users. Do you know how to read your statistics and what to do with the info once you have read it?

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In the second half of 2020, you may have noticed that Facebook was promoting the use of hashtags on posts by offering predictive text suggestions. Are you watching to see if it will take and wondering how to do it right for your business?

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After the year we just had, it’s obvious that business websites are more important than ever. Also important are your website’s analytics for improving marketing efforts as well as customer experience. How comfortable are you at deciphering your Google Analytics?

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With a past year unlike any other, you may question whether blog-writing is a pre-pandemic marketing practice that is now obsolete. If you are asking in order to justify your poor blogging record, we have some bad news for you. 

December brings out the analyst in all of us as we look over the past months to plan for the coming year. Our Sprocket Report research reveals that the most-read articles of 2020 were a very mixed – and representative - bag.

Social Media for businesses has been around long enough to become an obvious marketing tool. We have written about it for years, but the platforms keep changing and overworked business owners are still wondering how to do it right.

Small business owners are a little tense in 2020, even during the holiday season. Like any organization, those in charge set the tone and culture for the rest of the group. What efforts are you making to set the right tone?

Just last year we updated our 2013 article about online shopping. But 2020 is a whole new kind of animal and the lessons we’re learning now will help in the coming year.  

We recently shared an article on our social media page from Small Business Trends that got Jim all riled up here in the office. Take a look and see if you agree with him.

What’s the magic trick that gets all the balls rolling in the right direction when you are launching your small business?  The trick is:  There are no tricks.