Category: Marketing

  • Five Ways to Engage Customers with Instagram

    Using Instagram, you can click a picture on your phone or tablet, apply any vintage filter that appeals to your imagination and then quickly apprise them to several social media sites in one go. But don?t let its fun and quirky ways fool you into thinking of it as an app with only entertainment value. Under all its playfulness and buoyancy is hidden a powerful marketing technique that most businesses fail to fathom.

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  • Lessons from Gmail – 3 Tips to Improve Your Email Best Practices

    If you haven’t heard by now, Gmail is rolling out a major change to how its users receive emails. Basically, Gmail will be sorting emails for their users and putting them in folders for them. Why would Gmail be doing this? I suspect at least part of the reason is because a common complaint from people who have an email address is “too much email.” Read on to learn how Gmail?s new practice could improve the way you currently use email in your marketing…

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  • How to Avoid Giving Freebies

    You have really established your business and your products and/or services are top notch and well developed. You aren?t the only person who understands how well you are doing. Other people seem to have a good sense of your capabilities as well. Whether you own a product- or service-based business, requests for freebies can be a touchy subject…

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  • LinkedIn Introduces New “Sponsored Updates”

    LinkedIn recently announced in a blog post that it will be rolling out a new feature called Sponsored Updates. The feature is being hailed as a way to increase the useful content available to users on the site. Currently, content comes from approximately 1.5 million publishers, 300 notable professionals known as Influencers, and about 3 million company pages.

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  • 3 Signs Your Website Has Been Attacked by Monsters!

    As I’m sure you’re intimately aware (probably more aware than you’d like to be) things go wrong in businesses. Lots of things. Lots of times. What you may NOT know is that, if you have experienced something going wrong in your biz, it may very well mean there is a monster lurking about — haunting your biz, sabotaging your success, and just plain wreaking havoc. Read on to learn more…

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  • Facebook Rolls Out New Ads Option

    The big Social Networking company has released a new update in their system which is directed towards advertisers. They have improved their ad formats which will make advertisements on Facebook more consistent. The changes that are made generally focus on Page post link ads, page like ads, event ads and offer ads as these formats could not work in certain placements in…

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  • How Mobile is Transforming the Way Emails Are Viewed

    Though smartphone usage was gradually increasing prior to the launch of Apple’s iPhone in 2007, the adoption rate of these devices has accelerated in exponential ways during the past half-decade. Whereas the device was once reserved for a small subset of the population, generally limited to serious business owners and other professionals who needed on-the-go email services, today the smartphone is used by people in virtually all professions, at all experience levels, for any number of diverse reasons. Proliferation of these devices has become the thing of headlines: As of 2013, 40 percent of all people under the age of 55 own a smartphone. That number jumps to a staggering 75 percent of the population when the age group is limited to those under 35 years of age. Even older individuals, those over 55, stand a one in four chance of owning a smartphone device of some sort.

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  • 3 Ways Being Creative Can Hurt You In Biz

    We all know being creative is definitely an asset when you’re an entrepreneur. But… Your greatest strengths are also your greatest weaknesses. And being TOO creative can actually keep you from building the biz of your dreams. So let’s dig into how creativity can actually hurt you in biz…

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  • What “Cut Throat Kitchen” Can Teach You About Business

    I’m not a huge reality television show watcher, but what I do like to watch are competition shows. Whether it’s sports or competitive cooking, I like watching how people respond to pressure. (After all, as entrepreneurs we’re always under pressure!) ?Cut Throat Kitchen,? a new cooking competition show, is the perfect analogy for how we view ? and react to – challenges in our biz…

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  • Google+ Posts Can Now Be Embedded on Websites

    With social media becoming the forefront where many users are spreading content around the globe through wireless networks, Google+ has finally caught up by allowing posts to be embedded in websites. This will make it easier for content to be shared over the internet more easily and quickly. The inclusion of this feature will give users the opportunity to have a far greater reach than what it was before. People who use Google+ frequently will now find…

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