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. 

Business owners are also consumers themselves, so setting an appropriate price for our own services can be a real dilemma. Read on to discover some tips for thinking it through.

Email marketing is an incredibly important asset for small businesses. This is a unique opportunity to turn your contacts into a front row audience. Email marketing has been proven to drive people to action. Buy now, subscribe here, register for this event, and more. Emails flood inboxes every single day. People are noticing, and further, people are engaging. So, when it comes to creating email lists, how should small businesses go about collecting email addresses to expand their email marketing lists? 

Spring’s promise of better weather means a wealth of events to attend and plan -- and market. But if you want us to come to your event, why do you make it so hard for us to get your information?

In looking back over nearly six years of articles, it’s about time for a revamp for some of my most popular posts. For those of you who want to ‘make it’ on all the top social media sites. It would be nice to have a cheat sheet handy of the standard photo sizes for these sites, wouldn’t it? Well in that case, you’re welcome! No need to start a riot with all the applause; really, it was my pleasure. Here are the updated 2018 Social Media platform image sizes!