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Set Up Shopping on Your Instagram Account: Sell Directly to Customers

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Breanne Bannon 1 1888 Article rating: 3.7

With the huge leap in popularity in recent years, it’s no wonder that Instagram is expanding its capabilities to include new tools to help people buy and sell on the platform. People are flocking to Instagram to find influencers and brands that are touting the products that they love. Instagram has made the process of buying through Instagram easy by setting up “shopping” through your business as long as your account fulfills certain requirements.

Marketing Tools: Using Canva for Work

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Breanne Bannon 0 6909 Article rating: 4.5

I’ve been using the free version of the program Canva for a few years now. Canva is a tool that allows you to easily create a never-ending amount of graphics. With Canva, you can design everything from social media graphics to blog graphics to ads to flyers to menus to presentations and everything in between.  They offer everything in one place that you need to create beautiful designs. They have countless layouts, millions of images, filters, fonts, templates, icons, shapes and more.


Is Your Approach to Marketing on Facebook Outdated?

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Breanne Bannon 0 2700 Article rating: 4.5

It seems funny to even consider that a marketing approach on Facebook would be outdated. However, now that a decade has passed, there have definitely been enough significant changes and shifts to the way Facebook handles business that you need to be aware of your marketing standing. Are you keeping up with the times? Is your approach stale?

Tips for Advertising Your Book with Facebook Ad

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Breanne Bannon 0 1901 Article rating: 4.5

Marketing from one small business to the next is always going to vary a bit. With the ever-growing importance of incorporating paid advertising into Facebook strategy for your business, some businesses may be left wondering how to best market their products or services. For authors, there are tools in Facebook Ads that offer great ways to target your most relevant potential readers.


Does Your Business Have Multiple Locations? Manage Multiple Facebook Pages with Locations

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Breanne Bannon 7 5047 Article rating: 4.0

Many business owners, both large and small, have more than one location that they are managing. Having a social media presence is essential and having a social media presence on a local level for each location has become essential as well. So, what is the best approach? A separate business page for each location? That’s one approach. However now, with Facebook Locations, business owners are provided a way to provide a local presence for each location while managing from one central page.

Using a Lack of Search Results to Create Great Content

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Breanne Bannon 0 1772 Article rating: 3.5

In any given business, there are common keyword phrases. Local bakeries pop up for “cakes” or “cookies”. Real estate agents will pop up for “real estate agent” or “home selling”. As a small business owner, it’s essential to brainstorm the search terms that will lead people to you. But when there is a lack of search results on a specific topic, can you jump in?

Email Marketing: Customers Want to be Treated as Individuals

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Breanne Bannon 0 2270 Article rating: 4.0

Email marketing campaigns constantly run the risk of being redirected straight to the spam folder. Just as often, recipients will follow the steps to unsubscribe to messages that they don’t see value in and that they view as junk. The truth is –no one wants to be sold to. In addition, people want to be treated as an individual. Email marketing runs in dangerous territory as the majority of campaigns are selling hard and marketing to the masses instead of tailoring an experience to the individual.

How Long Does Content Last and How Frequently Should You Post on Social Media?

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Breanne Bannon 6 61949 Article rating: 3.9

I saw an interesting graphic recently that outlined how long content lasts. It broke down several of the top online marketing avenues: a blog post, Pinterest, YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. What did it find? That each of these marketing platforms have a different expiration date for content.

Boost Facebook Posts Straight from Hootsuite

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Breanne Bannon 0 3474 Article rating: 4.0

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. 

Content Marketing Generates Three Times More Leads

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Breanne Bannon 0 2845 Article rating: 4.5

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. 


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