Wednesday, 22 March 2017

Reasons Why Videos Are Becoming Essential Tools For Online Marketing?




Internet marketing is a new age of marketing with the introduction of the Web and progressive innovations. It must not be a shock that more companies today are engaging, vibrant internet marketing methods to increase market presence and sales for much better profits and market exposure.

As innovation advances, online video marketing is creating a huge hit among online company promos as web customer habits modifications to like visual marketing methods over conventional text-based alternatives. A bigger viewership drives more companies to delight in video marketing to protect more traffic to their sites.

Appeal in Video Marketing

Tuesday, 21 March 2017

Steve Jobs's Top 10 Rules For Success



Learning from those that has been there and done that is something that we should never stop doing. We don't and can't know it all especially in this modern world where things change so often.

In my business career I remember using a fax machine for the first time, a computer for the first time, sending an email the first time, searching on the WWW for the first time, joining Facebook and Twitter etc etc. The list is long!

I try and learn something new EVERY DAY, it helps me teach my students and inform my clients.

By Martin Goldthorpe

Monday, 20 March 2017

15 Infallible Ways to Increase Your Followers in Different Social Media Platforms in an Instant


Social Media has become a global phenomenon which has made millions and millions of people worldwide to be engrossed in its use, but for a social media page to be a booming success especially in the world of entrepreneurship; one has to exhaust all the efforts to attract loyal followers. Here are some of the most valuable recommendations on how to make this possible:

  1. Market Yourself
Obviously, the very first thing to do is to encourage and persuade people to follow you and what best way to do this is simply to "ask them to follow you". This could be effectively done by making your page available in social media pages so social media aficionados will no longer take too much time to look for your profile. This can be done in ways such as: 

Friday, 17 March 2017

How to Optimise Your Website for Local Search - 13 techniques to improve your rankings locally


If you run a store-front business or offer a service that is within a specific local-based geographic area, then you will want to focus your marketing efforts on getting in front of local traffic.

Since many marketing initiatives are of a more global nature that don't help you at all, there's actually a few specific things you can do to ensure you get visible in front of the local people that you want to attract to your business.

Aside from using targeted Facebook and Google Ads, local search optimization can help your business be found in searches when people are looking for a business likes yours in their area.
So what can you do to get your website to rank better for local search?

Here's 13 techniques to improve your rankings locally:

Thursday, 16 March 2017

How to add or claim your small business on Google



How does your business appear on a Google Search or in Google Maps? If it is not as good as your competitors it may be because you haven't claimed your business on Google!

This really helps you as you can update your profile, add your opening hours, gather reviews and start getting found.

This video, from Google shows you what you need to do help your small business and your Google rankings.

Wednesday, 15 March 2017

Hootsuite Review: Save Valuable Time With Hootsuite!

As busy entrepreneurs our days often speed by and time trickles away before our very eyes. The struggle to keep up with the demands of business is a daily battle, and any "work-around" or time-saving tool that adds precious minutes to an already stretched thin day is not only welcome, but appreciated.

Social media, as necessary as it is for business growth and lead generation, is just one more task many business owners struggle to fit in their already busy schedules. When juggling multiple social media accounts, third party tools like Hootsuite can be a time and life saver. Designed as a dashboard, Hootsuite allows users to connect to Facebook (business page and personal profile) LinkedIn, Google+ and Twitter, and schedule content to be seen on these channels.

"Hootsuite is a third party service that allows businesses, organisations, and individuals to monitor, manage, and schedule their social media marketing activity by scheduling tweets and updates into the future."- Hootsuite

Click here for a FREE 30 day trial with Hootsuite to help you manage social media for your business.

Monday, 13 March 2017

Local Marketing Efforts That Will Gain You Strong Foothold In Your Community



If you are a small business looking for ways to trounce your biggest competitors in the industry, it would be a big idea to focus first on dominating the local market. The local strategy does not mean that you do not have big dreams for your business, but it is rather a plan to gain that strong foothold to the people closest to you before spreading your wings to the rest of the world.

Businesses that have a strong presence and good reputation in their localities have better chances of easily penetrating other areas. A local marketing plan will therefore always get you great rewards as long as you know how to best approach it. Below are some of the ways you can localise marketing efforts to find strong grounding and foundation right at home before exploring other markets.

1. Enhance Google local profile