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Digital Marketing and Social Media

Does your business use digital marketing? You do if you email customers by mass eblast or e-newsletter. Do you use social media as part of your business strategy? In today's business climate it's critically important to communicate through a variety of channels. No longer is it enough to just have a website, email promotional coupons, or send out a monthly newsletter. In today’s digital world, companies have a growing list of (nearly free) tools that can help take their business to the next level. Where are your customers? Is Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, Facebook most popular with your customers/clients? Start by identifying the two social media channels where your customers are most active—just ask them—and then use those. Don’t spend valuable time posting to places your clients will never see. By understanding what’s important to them, you can tailor your marketing efforts to reach more of your target audience. And all of these are free tools! Ask permission B...

Local Business Listing

Claiming, adding, and validating your  on-line business listing  page in local classifieds will increase your business, draw new customers, and scale back your promoting prices while increasing your local business’ web visibility. By claiming your page, you can tell the search engines directly about your business by using your relevant, business-critical keywords and improve trust in your geo-location for better Local Search rankings. These  business listing  pages are often added to location-specific search results, giving your  business listing  more space on the search results page. Claiming, updating, and maintaining these business listing pages is easy and, in most cases, free. Key Benefits Submitting your  local business  to a  local business directory  has become very important since more and more internet users are now searching for products and services online and not making use of their telephone directories anymore. A go...

Online Advertising

Advertising   has long played an important role in media. Traditional media, such as television, newspapers, magazines and radio, have historically derived a large portion of their revenue from advertising, and in some cases, all of it. Online media is no exception. While there are many possibilities for revenue generation in an interactive medium such as the World Wide Web (retail, subscription-based services, etc), advertising has been, and continues to be, a simple and well-understood method for monetizing content or services. Why is  advertising  such a natural fit? To understand that, it helps to understand the basic wants and needs of the primary players involved in any web interaction. In this case, those players are the publisher (or service provider), the user, and, assuming an advertising-based model, the advertiser. The Advertiser Online advertisers , just like offline advertisers, are businesses that need to communicate a message. Whether the message i...