Category Archive for: Online Marketing

Google’s Hummingbird Update Takes Content Marketing to a New Level

Google loves its animals and now it has launched one of its newest changes to its Search Engine algorithms – The Hummingbird Update. I like the way Dan Sullivan of SearchEngineLand used the analogy of Google being like a car and Hummingbird being like a whole new engine, even though some of the other parts…

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Can Facebook Really Help Your Business?

Every Monday, I am usually checking the Google analytics of my clients and am impressed by those that use Facebook as to how much traffic I see coming to the corporate website via this Social Media Channel. Am I surprised? No. You might be asking why. If so, check out these interesting stats:   No…

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Branding For The Small Business

Posted by Cidnee on Jul 11, 2013 11:31:00 AM Find me on: Is branding really important? Cidnee will share some marketing insights on the importance differentiation makes to small business success.   Topics: customer experience, Service Based, rebranding, Professional Services, ideal client, Strategies for Success, Cidnee Stephen, Duct Tape Marketing, Small Business Marketing, marketing portfolio,…

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Timelines for Business Pages

It’s been fun transitioning over to Timelines for Business Pages. Wow does this give you much, much more functionality.   4 quick steps 1. Add a cover image – 851x315px – there is a free site a bit glitchy but it can help you design one in a few minutes – www.timelinecoverbanner.com. NOTE: You can’t…

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Inbound and Outbound Marketing

Which activities do you find you focus on the most? Column A Direct Mail Email Advertising (online & off) Tradeshows Networking Telemarketing   Column B Facebook Blogging Search Engine Optimization LinkedIn Twitter Constant updates to your website If you chose Column A, congratulations you are a control freak. You ight be exhausted and stretched monetarily,…

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Getting It Done

I was having lunch with a peer the other day and we were talking about how incredibly different today’s marketing tactics are from even 5 years ago. Quite frankly all these new shiny objects seem to be overwhelming small businesses instead of helping them grow their client base. This isn’t because they are in ineffective,…

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What Is A Prospect Looking For Online

I had to laugh at my 18 year old son the other day when he couldn’t connect with a friend because his cell phone was down and he wasn’t on Facebook. This friend might as well not exist, in my son’s world. I suggested he look up the family phone number in the phonebook which…

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Branding and Personality

Sometimes we get so caught up in following the rules with marketing that we forget its entertainment value. However, with marketing becoming more community based than ever (thanks to the onslaught of social media channels), you ‘gotta’ inject some personality or you are going to have a much tougher time engaging your prospects.   Without…

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Content Marketing

This article is meant to be a hands-on exercise. Why? Chances are you already know that you need to be submitting more content into the marketplace to grow your business, but you find this thought overwhelming. So I have a challenge for you, here today. Take one piece of content you have already created (this…

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Video and YouTube

I remember two years ago listening to a web expert predict that eventually websites would be allvideo instead of print. While it hasn’t quite reached that extreme, it’s hard to ignore the impact videos and YouTube are having as a marketing tool. As a small business owner, you may want to take a close look…

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