If you haven’t planned your marketing strategy for the upcoming holiday season, it’s not too late for you. Having said that –you should probably start now. We’re right around the corner from Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Christmas, New Year’s sales and so much more. If your business isn’t taking advantage of the opportunity that these holidays offer, you’re doing yourself a disservice. Online marketing is one of the fastest and easiest ways to reach customers, both existing and new, so why not take advantage?

Yes, it’s still summertime, but after Labor Day folks shake off their vacation mindset and reapply themselves at the office. They get busy and before they know it, 2016 is over. Take some time now to plan the rest of the year’s content for your blog and social media.

We all have bad habits. We fall into a routine, we get comfortable, and we do things because they’re easy. It’s human nature. When it comes to social media marketing though –this is a trap. Run far away! If you’re marketing your business on social media (which you should be), you need to start shaking things up. Get out of that rut. Jumble up that routine. Put a little pep in your step. We’re all guilty of getting too comfortable. Myself included. Everything on this list is something that I can improve on in my own marketing routines!

While we can all agree that social media marketing is important to every business, the return on investment for individual industries varies and the “investment” itself ranges from free to thousands of dollars a month. So how does the smaller business owner figure it all out?

Email marketing is long from being dead. It’s a top choice still in the marketing world. This is a great tool to get your content, sales, product, specials, etc. in front of your target audience. The problem? Getting the email addresses in the first place. So, how do you go about it? Honestly.

Everyone knows social media can be powerful. No one really has the time to update their platforms. And it’s anyone’s guess how to do social media successfully. If that sums up the situation at your organization, then read on for a quick master class.

Twitter Dashboard is a new app and marketing tool that Twitter has introduced to help businesses. The purpose is to allow you to better understand, engage, and grow your audience on Twitter –exactly what a marketer is looking for. As a social media marketer, I appreciate Twitter continuing to grow tools that help brands improve performance on the platform. It really is targeted towards the management of Twitter business accounts. So, how does it work?

This post shouldn’t need to be written, but we just experienced it AGAIN. Take a look at this case study, learn from their mistakes and make sure everyone in your organization knows WHY you need to follow the steps in the right order.

All the marketing gurus say you need to be on social media. But that’s time and/or money out of your business. If you don’t know what your goals are and aren’t keeping track of the return on your investment, you could be wasting valuable resources.  

This month we’re celebrating a few things here.  Here at Sprocket Websites we’re celebrating our 6 year anniversary! We’re also celebrating a great first half of 2016.  To end the first half of 2016, we’d like to take a look back at our most popular articles so far this year.  These are the articles that viewers have read and interacted with the most in the last 6 months.  We love seeing the topics that interest you, so we can give you more of what you’re interested in.  Happy Anniversary!