Successfully Communicating Your Brand Through Graphics
Graphic design is a form of visual communication. It speaks for your brand in ways text cannot. Taking advantage of this correctly will help you successfully market your brands. How will you represent the company—what it does, how they do it, and why to choose them. In a B2B digital […]
Users Interests are Evolving, Stay Ahead by Offering Video
User attention and interests are continuing to transmute, with video leading the reason for this. We have seen user interaction alter even more the last few years, where engagement via link click posts, pictures, PDFs, and etc., are starting to take a slight sideline due to the attraction of video. […]
How to Grow Your Business with LinkedIn Pages
Last week I attended the annual Content Marketing World. I sat in on a few different sessions, but the one that caught my attention the most was “How to Grow Your Business with LinkedIn Pages” presented by Michaela Alexis, a LinkedIn Trainer and LinkedIn Learning Instructor. With LinkedIn becoming more […]
Promoting Through Video on Social Media
For the purpose of online marketing, we know to write out a well structured social media post that would include an eye-popping image in order to grab the attention of our followers/visitors. But a lot of people tend to overlook the current, most popular and engaging way to promote your […]
B2B Best Practices with LinkedIn Advertising
Companies have become more and more aware of the need to market in a unique way that also brings in qualified leads. With 756 million members in over 200 countries, advertising through LinkedIn is an effective means to bring new customers to your company profile or destination page of your […]
3 Ways to Adjust Your Social Strategy Right Now
Most of us are online more than ever right now. We are looking to social media to keep informed on the latest trends and news, share feedback and opinions, and simply for distraction and/or entertainment. According to Sprout Social, 91% of people believe in social media’s power to connect people. […]
4 Tips for Publishing Content on LinkedIn
It seems that within the last year or so, it has become more popular for individual users to publish articles on LinkedIn versus posting a status with a link. Although the latter is still popular, publishing allows for users to expand their knowledge while reaching a large professional network for […]
Why Less Can Be More On Your Social Media Accounts
While the 3.2 billion social media users across the world may have enticed your brand to pursue a following on certain platforms, there are many pitfalls that can be a detriment to your brands online presence. With over 68% of U.S adults and over 90% of Millennials using social media, […]
4 Benefits of Social Media for Your Brand
Social media usage is on the rise and is integrating more seamlessly into our daily lives. According to Hootsuite, 3.48 billion people now use social media, or 45 percent of the total world population. This is an increase of 9 percent from 2018. These numbers are significant. But what do […]
A Guide to Building a Social Content Strategy
Now is the time to build a social content strategy that aligns with your goals and breaks down barriers. Although it is important to have a presence – the right strategy is not jumping into creating an account for each social platform. If you really want to maximize your social […]
7 LinkedIn Best Practices for Your Brand
LinkedIn has over 500 million members worldwide, and while the number of users is reason enough to have a presence on the platform, what separates it from the other types of social media is that LinkedIn users are educated, affluent, professionals. 80 percent of B2B leads generated on social media […]
A B2B marketer’s guide to LinkedIn analytics
LinkedIn may have gained its reputation as a professional networking and job search platform, but its benefits in social media marketing especially in the business to business realm can’t be overlooked. When weighing the benefits of adding LinkedIn to your social media strategy consider these three metrics: Conversions Measuring conversions […]
5 Ways to Drive More Traffic to Your Website Through Social Media Platforms
To get your website the attention it deserves, your social media accounts may need a virtual facelift. Social media is an ever-growing medium that has endless capabilities. Actively engaging with your target audience on social media can help build brand awareness and ultimately drive more traffic to your website. Here […]
How to Use LinkedIn Targeting Options
LinkedIn advertising is a great way to effectively reach executives and decision makers right in their newsfeed. Compared to other paid advertising players like Google AdWords and Facebook Ads, LinkedIn’s targeting options are much more advanced. You’re able to target by job title, industry, degree, company, and much more. When […]
Social Media Engagement: What Is It and How Do I Improve It?
Do you ever feel like your social media is a one-sided conversation? Do you feel as if no one is ever responding to your posts on social media? This might be because your social media platforms have low engagement. What is Engagement? In the most simplistic terms, engagement is when […]
4 Social Media Updates You Should Know About
Keeping up with the latest trends and updates in the social media space is harder than keeping up with the crazy Kardashian family. It seems like every week we hear about Instagram copying another Snapchat feature in the on-going battle between the two platforms. Here are four social media updates […]
Aligning Your Social Media Marketing To Your Business Goals
Social media marketing can be an effective component of your overall marketing strategy when properly aligned with your marketing goals. But where do you begin? Here are several steps you can take to integrate social media into your marketing strategy. Establish a Content Marketing Goal When developing a content marketing […]
How to Tailor Your Content for Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn
There are many things that factor into running a successful social media campaign. Social media marketing is an ever-changing industry. As marketers we know that to run a successful campaign you need compelling and shareable content. We also need to know our audience and their interests. When writing content for […]
Social Media Marketing World: What Did We Learn?
Social Media Marketing World is the world’s largest social media marketing conference. The event took place in San Diego, California on March 25, 26 and 27, 2015. At Social Media Marketing World, we were able to learn from the leaders in the industry. What did those influencers have to say? A […]
#SMMW15: SlideShare & LinkedIn Techniques That Will Make Your Competitors Cry
LinkedIn, the leading content marketing platform for B2B marketers (and quickly-growing B2C platform) is being used in ways that weren’t even imagined a year ago. In this session, Todd Wheatland (author, The Marketer’s Guide to SlideShare and The New Rules of Recruiting) shared the six hottest new techniques for getting […]