How 5 B2B Brands Are Using Snapchat and Instagram Stories
B2B brands are usually slow to jump on the latest social media craze train, and with good reason. Their audience might not even be on those social media networks. For example, Snapchat was originally full of teenagers and controversy — not a great place to grow brand awareness or shareRead More
9 Ways to Market Your Small Business During the Holidays
It’s holiday season! And by “season” I mean months of costumes and celebrations and eating … lots and lots of eating. Many of the big holidays are already behind us, like Halloween, Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday. However, Christmas, Chanukah, and New Year’s Eve are still ahead of us.Read More
How Predictive Analytics Can Help Your Business See the Future (Infographic)
Your customers are supplying you with data that can help you predict the future. Now more than ever, predictive analytics are becoming available to small businesses looking to get ahead of the competition by mining their data and generating meaningful intelligence. From mapping customer purchase trends to optimizing product campaigns,Read More
Weekend Favs December 2
My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you to check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for theRead More
The Generation Gap: 6 Tips to Help You Understand and Serve Millennial and Generation X Clients
According to the National Association of Realtors, the last four years of reports have shown that buyers 36 years old and younger (millennials/gen Yers), are the largest share of home buyers at 34 percent. Buyers aged 37-51, generation X, make up 28 percent of recent home buyers. With millennials quickly becoming theRead More
10 Tips for Successfully Re-Launching Your Website
An outdated website sends a message that you aren’t up on the latest trends. There comes a time when every business needs to revamp and re-launch for maximum impact. For example, older websites might not be optimized for speed. About 40 percent of those who visit your website will bounceRead More
Why Storytelling Will Continue to Be the Go-To Marketing Strategy in 2018
This story appears in the December 2017 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe » For 2018 trends, we asked an expert on what entrepreneurs can expect this coming year in marketing. Traditionally, you raised money from friends and family, bootstrapped, lost money for one to three years and then you became profitable andRead More
How to Make Money With Facebook Ads
What was once deemed the wild, wild west of advertising has now become the mainstream method for reaching your target audience. Today, driving sales with Facebook ads is one of the fastest ways to make money. No matter what type of product or service or information you’re peddling, the quickestRead More
Digital Marketing News: F500 Are Visual, LinkedIn on Top, Business of Color
From golden arches to red bulls, color is fundamental to our recognition of familiar brands and color affects the way people react when they first encounter a company. Vistaprint worked with Dr. Sally Augustin of Design With Color to develop recommendations for the design of places, objects, and services thatRead More
How to Use Social Media in 2018
Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch About Social Media I thought I’d drop in and give you my take on where we are with social media. It hasn’t gone away, it hasn’t died out, it has a place, and it’s here to stay, but let’s talk about how to use itRead More