Your website and the marketing support for your website have costs in both money and time. Measuring your ROI is logical, but how can you know which analytic reports to watch and act on?

Hootsuite is taking automation to a whole new level. They’ve added the capability to boost Facebook content directly from Hootsuite. For those that don’t already know, Hootsuite is a social media marketing / management dashboard. It allows you to manage your entire social media presence with one easy to use management tool. The site allows users to schedule and post updates to any page or profile for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Instagram, WordPress, and much more. Instead of logging in to multiple accounts on multiple platforms, you have all of your social media posting and tracking available in one spot. 

Even if you never intend to use them, you should control your business’s assets on every platform – and sooner rather than later. Here’s why it is important:

I saw a post on Twitter recently with some great statistics. This post was generated from a talk given by Andy Lambert from the platform Content Cal at the UK’s three day social media marketing festival: Social Day UK 2018. What were the stats? 200 million people now use ad blockers. Content marketers experience 7.8 times more site traffic. And, while content marketing costs 62% less than outbound marketing, it generates more than three times as many leads. Content marketing is so incredibly important. 

Your business needed marketing help so you read/watched/practiced their program faithfully. So why wasn’t your marketing campaign as wildly successful as that of the guru you followed?

Email marketing and that opt-in email list are your golden tickets to growing your business. Once people have subscribed, they’ve given you access to engage with them in new and more influential ways. Email marketing can directly translate into an improved customer relationship, an increase in sales and a boost in brand familiarity. This only works in this way if you can keep those subscribers. The opt-out and the unsubscribe buttons are the death to your email marketing campaigns. So, how can you stop this from happening? Identify the top reasons that people are unsubscribing so that you can work to avoid these issues.

If you sheepishly admit you haven’t blogged for a while, you know you should and you know you need a new approach. Try this step-by-step process:

In marketing, it’s easy to find people stressing the importance of conversions. Most B2B marketers will name lead generation as a main strategy. But, should you be optimizing your website and marketing only for conversions? What about the importance of increasing traffic?

When you are so busy managing your business, it’s easy to say “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” But when it comes to your website, it’s better to fix it BEFORE it’s “broke.” Learn why:

Appearing on the front page of Google search results is a very big deal to many people in business. Considering Google’s partnership with Twitter in recent years, it’s a great reminder to keep your tweets SEO friendly. Tweets show up in Google search results, so you should utilize this tool accordingly. Taking this step further, certain brands with a very active presence will show up in a carousel unit in Google search results. This means that when you search a brand on Google, if they meet certain requirements and have been selected by Google, their Twitter page will appear in the search results with a carousel of their recent tweets on display.