The Rise Of Instagram And What It Can Do For Your Business

Why use Instagram?

Since 2010, Instagram has proved itself to be the fastest growing social media platform around! It has a user base of around 300 million and that is set to rise further. So why is this seemingly simple app growing so quickly? Well it all comes down to creativity really, Instagram have found new ways of sharing content across its platform and making users experience more seamless. For example, Instagram stories were launched to rival Snapchat, allowing for users to provide disappearing pictures or videos.

Sounds simple right? Well that's because it is. Instagram now has more sway over all its users who may have been using Snapchat in tandem to its own app, reducing the need to use both and stream lining these users to its own services.

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This aggressive tactic has paid off as Instagram has surpassed Snapchat in users. Instagram stories also encourage more sharing of content and giving it a chat element to its app, allowing it to compete with all the other direct messaging platforms. Innovation like this is the reason for Instagram's sudden growth.

What's all the fuss about Instagram?

Improving Your Google AdWords PPC Campaign Results

Previously, I have discussed why Google SEO is an important task to complete prior to undertaking Google AdWords pay-per-click advertising campaigns. If you were to watch Google AdWords tutorials themselves, they will tell you that where you place in a search result on their system when doing AdWords PPC advertising is a resulting combination of your bid price on a keyword phrase combined with your Quality Score - and this is defined by them as "useful information" to the consumer which means, in essence, how much they like your site and its content.

There is a lot of competition these days to get to Page One on a Google search engine paid search and to get there, you need to both outbid others and Google needs to like your site in relation to the end-user keyword phrase searching being done through their search engine.

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As you learn more about using Google AdWords to promote your business, you will also learn about their "Google Ad Extension" features which, if you implement them for your promotional ads, will increase your quality score and will give your site a stronger argument in Google's eyes for getting to Page One of a Google paid search. 

3 Common Mistakes to Avoid When Starting an Online Business

Although making money online seems to be very appealing and quite enticing, there are traps that one must avoid otherwise you will be another business failure statistic. More than 50% of business start-ups will fail within its first 5 years. In other words, your chance of failure is greater than your chance of success. If the failure rate is so high, what makes one want to start an online business?

There are many reasons why. Maybe you are totally frustrated with your daytime job and you feel trapped. You want to get out of the Rat Race. Maybe you are tired of working for someone else and it is time for you to be your own boss. Maybe you just lost your job and you have nowhere else to turn. Whatever the reason, an option of starting an online business has crossed your mind, otherwise you would not be reading this article. Let me make one thing clear. Starting an online business requires work.

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If anyone tells you otherwise don't believe them, run the other way.

If you want to start an online business allow me to share with you 3 common mistakes to avoid when starting an online business.

Email Marketing: Do You Want To Triple Your Return On Investment?

One of the biggest mistakes most marketers do nowadays, is think email marketing is dead. Many marketers today drop the email marketing scheme to go with social media. Come to think of it, social media look much more sexy than email. But, is a social media post really as effective as an email? Before we answer that question, lets state a well-known fact. It is easier to send a friend request on Facebook than to collect an email online. But believe me, email marketing is thrice as worth it as social media marketing. So, what is email marketing?

Email marketing is the targeting of customers through emails. Every emails sent to a potential customers can be considered as email marketing. Email marketing involves sending a promotional email or an ad to a subscriber. Via his email address. A great deal of organisations today use email marketing. Even more bloggers do use email marketing today than ever before. For example, have you ever been browsing on a website, and you see some field where you are asked to submit your name and email to get a free eBook or update? That is the front part of email marketing.

Most bloggers use email marketing because it enhances the customer experience. With a well targeted email list, you can reach established customers and prospective ones too. Any given subscriber will be informed better and more easily via email. The email will have a greater visibility than a Facebook post. The Facebook post will be drowned in a stream of content in the minutes following its posting.

Do You Really Need Email Marketing?

If you want to improve your customers' or readers' experience, then you need email marketing. Forget about the glamour and the flashy of social media marketing. We are talking efficiency here. We are talking greater engagement. Greater reach.  Greater click through rate and more. As many experienced marketers say, " the money is in the list". Some even say "your net worth depends on your network". In the following lines, I will explain the advantages of email marketing. In these explanations, I will use statistics.

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The sites which produced those stats will be mentioned at the end of this article. So, let's get into the advantages of using email marketing:

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Your Social Media Strategy Needs These Five Things For Success

So, you are a business with the hopes of making it big, right? Well, before you begin your ascent to the top, you need to really work on every facet of your business's image, and this is certainly the case when it comes to your social media strategy.

After all, social media is the hot thing right now that has everyone communicating, in an instant, about things they like & don't like, as well as what's 'in' or 'out'. If you want your business to be a success, you most definitely want to be 'in'.

But how do you make sure that your business is doing a good job? How do you know you're accomplishing all of your goals? Can you actually tell if you're reaching your target audience? It's these questions, and more, that need to be answered in order to keep from wasting time & money, two of your most precious resources.

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So, as you decide it's time to ramp things up with your social media strategy, you'll need these five things to take you to the next level:

1. Defined Business Goals

Key Steps Before Implementing an Online Marketing Plan

You Have a Website; Now How Do You Attract New Clients?

Having a website doesn't do much for your business if no one visits it. Try these initial steps to marketing your website online.

Whether a big corporation or a solo-entrepreneurship, there is likelihood some form of online presence is necessary. And for anyone dealing in business to consumer (B2C) space, a website can even be the business.

So you get a new website build, but what about getting qualified potential customers to it?

The truth is, traffic is the life blood of any business website and not having any can be very harmful to the bottom line.

This is where on-site SEO, off-site SEO, paid efforts, content marketing and social marketing can all work together (and should) for a complete online marketing approach.

What makes one component necessary is often the ability of the business owner to perform it. That can mean hiring marketing professionals, taking the time to attempt it themselves, or having a solid budget for paid methods and experts to navigate them for you.

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Ideally you want it all so all bases are covered. Many businesses have none of these tactics in place, or have them done wrong and as a result are struggling to gain qualified leads and traffic.

This article covers what you need to gain traffic to your website and next week we'll get into more specifics of what to do once these preliminary steps are done.

Do These Three Things Before You Start Marketing

Social Network - Facebook Marketing

It's 2017 and Facebook is still the largest social network on the planet. With over 1.2 billion active users, out of which almost 65% log in daily to this gigantic platform, Facebook was not at all famous back when it launched. A decade ago, there were no more than a few million people using Mark Zuckerberg's experiment of a social network. A decade ago, nobody expected Facebook to be a global success.

Is something going to stop it from growing at an even faster rate? With the momentum Facebook has been having over the last 5 years, do you think anything will stop it? The shocking answer is "almost definitely no", because Facebook is here to stay. Any social network or online platform with a user base that large will probably never go down, but simply adapt, instead.

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Most digital marketers use Facebook to promote their products to the massive audience, and there's no better place to advertise than Facebook, because everyone's ideal market is using it 24/7. But you may wonder - how can one target Facebook users with marketing?