Feel free to share...FacebookTwitterLinkedinPinterestRedditemailPrintDoing business has changed dramatically since the inception of the ecommerce market. Customers nowadays no longer need to visit brick-and-mortar stores to shop, all thanks to a wide array of available online stores and platforms. While ecommerce made shopping a streamlined, easy experience for consumers, there’s still a lot of room for
Melinda Emerson
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Feel free to share...FacebookTwitterLinkedinPinterestRedditemailPrintIt’s only September, but the time is NOW to prepare your small business for holiday season sales. One thing I’ve learned in my decades-long career helping small businesses is that you can never start too early for the holidays. Q4 sales can massively increase your bottom line, but to maximize your results
Feel free to share...FacebookTwitterLinkedinPinterestRedditemailPrintWant to use social media to convert sales? Excellent idea! Social media marketing is a powerful way to connect with fans and turn them into paying customers. If you’re looking for ways to start converting leads into sales on social media, enjoy part 1 of our series on how to use social
Feel free to share...FacebookTwitterLinkedinPinterestRedditemailPrintIn part one of this series on social media conversions, we focused on the three most prominent social media platforms: Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram. In Part 2 of this post, we’ll focus on the more niche players in the world of social media marketing. While their reach is slightly smaller, these sites
Feel free to share...FacebookTwitterLinkedinPinterestRedditemailPrintIn my last article, I started a two-part series on working with micro-influencers and why it’s so beneficial for small business owners to do so. We learned that: Micro-influencers are people with 1,000 to 100,000 followers on a social media platform who create content for a targeted niche audience. If your niche
Feel free to share...FacebookTwitterLinkedinPinterestRedditemailPrintEighty percent of marketers say influencer marketing is effective, and 89 percent say it works just as well (if not better) than other marketing channels. Seventy-one percent of marketers say the quality of customers and traffic from influencer marketing is better than other sources. This post is part one of a two-part
Feel free to share...FacebookTwitterLinkedinPinterestRedditemailPrintThere is no easy way to close a sale; many things are involved in creating an effective sales outreach strategy. To drive sales, you must: Be clear on your niche target customer Understand their biggest challenge Determine where they spend time online Create amazing content Position your business against the competition Communicate…
Feel free to share...FacebookTwitterLinkedinPinterestRedditemailPrintOne vital SEO tip is to never ignore user experience. Ranking high on search engines gets people to click to your website, but a great user experience is what makes people stay. Websites that are hard to error-ridden, hard to read, and impossible to navigate can turn off potential customers. Remember: many…
Feel free to share...FacebookTwitterLinkedinPinterestRedditemailPrintWhen it comes to marketing your small business, you need to be extremely strategic to ensure that you rise above all the online noise and get the attention you deserve. One way to boost your small business marketing is with the 4 M’s: Message, Market, Method, Money. Let’s dive in and learn…
Feel free to share...FacebookTwitterLinkedinPinterestRedditemailPrintIncreasing sales is crucial to your brand’s growth. But the truth is, with each passing year, it’s becoming harder to meet the sales target. Those of you in business who manage sales know this already and might be wondering if there’s a way to seamlessly increase sales from the available revenue streams.…