While Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter may be the social media pinnacles all modern businesses have a presence on, you shouldn’t forget about a few of the more alternative social media sites. These alternatives may actually prove to be more effective as part of your larger marketing strategy.
These four tips were compiled based on the interview I did with Algenon Cash: Locked In with Algenon Cash. In the interview we also discuss Trump’s policy impacts on small business and how young professionals can get involved in politics.
If you’re an entrepreneur and you’re on social media, there are four things you should consider doing immediately: Add Value, Review Metrics Often, Borrow a Brand, and Don’t Be Afraid to Make Mistakes.
Seventy percent of people in America use social media. If you are not reaching out to these customers, how many people are you missing? Learn why you should be involved in social media marketing and how to do it.
Small things like having voucher codes that automatically process at checkout versus typing the SAVE10PERCENT code helps them save time and aggravation. Plus, it shows that you understand that small step speaks to the core of who they are.
Your customers have made the conscious choice to do business with you when they could have gone to any of your competitors. Providing them with small rewards for staying is far cheaper than investing in a grand promotional campaign to win new ones.
Over this seasonal period, it’s easy to stress about your competition and worry that you don’t have the same budget that the big brands do. Luckily for you, it’s never been easier or cheaper to reach out to your customer base with social media, giving you the ability to deliver compelling reasons to check out your business, straight to their screens.
The primary objective for effective MarCom is to create and sustain a bond between your business and your target customers through consistent messaging and brand building. That bond, coupled with message consistency, builds a trust that enables your businesses to shorten the long-term sales cycle. Since this may sound more like marketing geek-speak than real-world solutions, let’s dial it back a notch and look at some steps to effectively communicate a successful marketing campaign.
If for whatever reason you don’t believe data equals money, consider that Amazon has over 40 data storage centers worldwide, housing millions of servers trained to measure, capture, and record every customer’s purchase, shoe size, mouse click, and sometimes even eye movement. Google has 20. Walmart, at least a dozen.
“Free Advertising.” For small business owners, those words are as beautiful as chocolate pie to a fat kid. Everybody needs advertising and everybody loves free. This may explain why there have been over 60 million business pages set up on Facebook by people gunning to be the next Jeff Bezos.