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Wednesday, 19 February 2020

8 Strategies To Increase Brand Visibility



The importance of having a good, healthy brand cannot be overstated. The brand is essentially the identity of your business, which gives it a unique personality. A lot of people tend to mix the brand with the logo, but the brand is much more than that. It doesn't refer only to visual aspects, such as colors, typography, and other visual elements, but also the model of storytelling, marketing strategies and so on. In order to put your brand in the center of public attention, you'll need to have a solid marketing strategy that will make your brand familiar with the right audience. This article will show you some of the most efficient strategies to make your brand cherished and well-known,


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Brand Identity


Brand identity is the clearest indicator of your brand's reputation. When people interact with products of a certain brand, brand identity is what gives them the impression of the given products. The brand identity contains the right brand language, story, theme, messaging, colors, and logo design. Those elements are then applied consistently whenever you want your products to be represented. However, there is not a universal brand identity, so in order to create one, you need to understand your target audience, competition, and strength and weaknesses with your brand.


You could also buy an existing franchise or found a new one from scratch. If you already have a store ready for business with an already established base of customers, all you have to do is to create engaging content that will keep your customers loyal. However, when launching a new franchise you need to lean heavily on all sorts of marketing strategies in order to attract new customers.


Native Advertising


Before we start explaining how to employ native advertising in order to increase your brand visibility, we should say what native advertising actually is. It is the concept of ads placement that is highly cohesive with the page content, adapted into the design and theme of the page in a way that the viewer feels ads are naturally belonging there. This sort of non-invasive ads is more than welcome in this time when most of the users grew intolerant on classic flashy web ads.

Considering that native ads fit right into the surrounding place and take the credibility from the site they are published on, their non-invasive nature helps your brand grow without getting too intrusive. Serving native ads on a large platform such as daily news sites will help you gain the favor of their user base. Native ads are the next big thing in digital advertising, and it's easy to see why. There are already platforms that will help you with the placement of native ads to the specific target audiences.


Influencers

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A good way to increase brand awareness and sales is to make a contract with influencers to mention your product. Influencers already have an assured audience who knows and trusts them, so it is a good way to increase your reach and raise people's awareness about your brand. Companies often work directly with influencers by providing them with their products and letting them showcase their products on social media. That way the brand recognition spreads over the influencers' public. Influencers become part of the company's sales team, even ambassadors of the brand. This relationship between companies and influencers is mutually rewarding.

Some companies offer to sponsor influencers at events and even use them as the face of their product. It happens a lot in competitive events, where contestants become walking billboards for various companies.


Social Media Ads


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Every established brand probably already has a social media presence, but not all of them have a good momentum of growing their audience and engagement. The things that could help are content promotion plans for social media ads. Brand awareness ads can help you approach new people who are potentially interested in your product. Those ads can even target audiences based on particular criteria, and help the brand to avoid algorithms that can damage organic reach.

You can launch a campaign on Facebook and Instagram to improve your reach and recall. Concerning Facebook, the most effective advertising strategy is using video and carousel ads (various media). The good thing about Facebook is that you can pinpoint your target audience by using multiple categories or even create a "lookalike" target audience that will mirror your existing public. Twitter offers a bit different brand awareness campaign, in the way that you are paying for impressions instead of engagements.


Visual Language


The most effective way of communicating with people is by using visual content and visual language. This especially works well with people who are too busy to read. In order to attract attention to your brand usually engage in various advertising ventures, both online and offline. In order to increase your reach and recognition of your brand, you should create short and effective video clips, images and graphical illustrations.

Step number two is the distribution of that graphical material on every possible platform. You can use ads, but also banners, flags, posters and such. One of the most creative ways of spreading brand awareness is using catchy logo mats with brand logos or other graphic content. It sounds weird, but everyone will look at the doormat, especially if they contain an effective picture. Depending on your budget for marketing you can even use billboards, but that might be too much of a stretch for guerilla marketing.


SEO Research

SEO textIn terms of Internet advertising, SEO is one of the crucial aspects. You have probably heard that the majority of consumers look only at the first page of search results, or even the first few results on the first page. The main question is how to get in those first few results. The answer is SEO or search engine optimization, which adapts your site to search algorithms in a way that it will appear as one of the first results.

The big companies are investing a lot of money into SEO research, which creates a competitive atmosphere in trying to get new clients. You can increase your brand awareness by researching SEO strategies. This will make you stand apart and make people believe that you are the leading figure in your industry.

Ad-Sense Auto Ads

Narrowing down the audience for your paid ads in choosing the right timing for your pitch can be complicated, although as are a great way to introduce yourself to the wider audience. Fortunately, Google comes to help with the development of their new AdSense Auto Ads. Those ads show publicists the best methods to design and optimize their commercials. Using machine learning technology, Auto Ads will place your advertising all over sites that are best for your brand awareness spread. That way you will reach your target audience more easily and get more of your investment back.

Guest Articles

Backlinks are one of Google's most prominent ranking determinants, as well as an elemental part of your online appearance. There are several ways to gain backlinks, the most effective still being guest blogging. You will help your brand increase visibility by creating quality content and publishing on relevant blogs. Soon enough you will become a valuable source of information, and people will want to visit you and see more from you. Backlinks are not only a way to increase portfolio, but they can also serve you to increase your professional network and cultivate your corporate trademark identity.


Conclusion

turned-on MacBookThe objective of every business is to bring its creator some profit. That is not always easy, because the market is still not optimized enough to accommodate every kind of business equally. Therefore in order to establish and increase your brand visibility, you will need to spend a lot of time and energy in your online appearance, advertising strategy, and visual presence. This might not guarantee you instant success but it will give you much better chances to stand apart from the competition.


Original Source: https://www.promotionworld.com/articles/digital-marketing/200207-8-strategies-increase-brand-visibility

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Wednesday, 22 January 2020

How To Use Social Media To Grow A Network Marketing Business

By: Rob Snyder

So what exactly is social media? Social media refers to a large group of tools and applications available on the internet that permits you to interact socially with a diverse group of people.


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According to Wikipedia, "Social media are primarily Internet- and mobile-based tools for sharing and discussing information among human beings.[1] The term most often refers to activities that integrate technology, telecommunications and social interaction, and the construction of words, pictures, videos and audio. This interaction, and the manner in which information is presented, depends on the varied perspectives and "building" of shared meaning among communities, as people share their stories and experiences. Businesses also refer to social media as user-generated content (UGC) or consumer-generated media (CGM)."




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Social media presents a huge opportunity for growing a network marketing business. Attraction is the key to this. As you attract more and more people to your sites, you have more and more opportunities to grow your business.

There are many, many sites on the internet that are free and that you can use to present yourself to your target audience. On these sites you can write blogs or articles and tell people about what's going on in your company and keep them interested. Some examples of these sites are Twitter, Facebook, Digg, StumbleUpon, Propeller and Reddit. But the total list of sites is enormous.

Let's look at Twitter. The first thing you do is to create a profile of your company. From there, there is a learning curve but you just start posting things that are going on with your company and following people, and it's truly like an enormous networking party. You can post as many times a day as you want, and you can post on others pages too. One thing you want to make of when you create your profile is that you enable direct messaging and email notifications. Then when someone follows you, you can follow back and say thank you in a direct message. The best advice is to not "pitch, spam or sell." Just be a real company person and interact with the people who are "tweeting" you. After time, you can include a link to your website or blog.



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In growing your network marketing business, you should consider strongly using Twitter. Research indicates that it is the fastest growing social media on the internet. IS THIS TRUE? EVEN OVER FACEBOOK?


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Social media is a great way to increase and grow your network marketing business. It is worth the time to study and learn it or hire someone to monitor it for you. You're missing out if you don't use it.

Original Source: https://articlebliss.com/Article/812250/How-To-Use-Social-Media-To-Grow-A-Network-Marketing-Business.html

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Monday, 13 January 2020

Where Social Media is Headed in 2020

By Susan Friesen


Social Media Trends to Watch


A social media marketing strategy is on the minds of many small business owners. And if it’s not on yours, it should be!

The major platforms like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram battle for market shares by adjusting their business models to balance providing better returns for shareholders with improving the user experience.



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As these platforms develop, how you use them for your small business must change too.

Let’s look forward to some ways to promote your business on social media in 2020.


Facebook


More than 18 months later, the Federal Trade Commission has officially ruled that Cambridge Analytica deceived Facebook users. The company had harvested the personal data of millions of Facebook profiles without people’s consent and then used it for political advertising purposes.

While Cambridge Analytica went bankrupt soon after the scandal, Facebook is still working hard to tighten up its data access processes and convince people to trust in its new dedicated news platform.

Facebook rolled out Facebook News to a subset of people in the US. That means that while you’ll still see posts from family and friends in your main feed, Facebook News will post content from a team of journalists (employed by Facebook).



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This year, the company is also focusing on cryptocurrency and establishing its Facebook Pay feature. This could mean that your small business could soon incorporate on-platform selling into your account.

While the Facebook Watch launch didn’t go as expected (only 140 million people daily are watching the videos and shows, which sounds huge, but isn’t compared to the platform’s 1.6 billion daily actives overall). Still, it looks like Facebook is going to make another attempt in 2020, so let’s see what that means for video marketing.

What do these changes mean for your social media marketing strategy?

We’ll have to wait and see. The more proprietary content the company creates, the more marketers may be competing to stay visible.


Twitter


The company recently announced it would stop running political ads, and is updating its global privacy policy to give users more information about what data advertisers might receive.

We’re also wondering what the company's vice president of design and research, Dantley Davis, meant by his recent announcement around a series of changes that might come to the platform as early as next year.



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Take a look at the image below to see what he said.

How will this affect how you promote your business on social media?

You could have the ability to limit who retweets your tweet (which I can’t see being a feature entrepreneurs would use much, we love our retweets!), and the ability to tweet something to a specific group based on their interests.

Learn more about how to use Twitter hashtags.


LinkedIn


Since launching in 2003, LinkedIn has become the world’s largest professional networking platform.

Microsoft acquired the platform for $26.2 billion in 2016, and with access to Microsoft’s resources, we’ve seen updated professional insights and more targeted ads.



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We’ve also seen LinkedIn groups make a comeback.

A LinkedIn group lets your business create a discussion board related to your industry. This provides you with the opportunity to start a special interest group of like-minded people that’s specific to your product, service and/or expertise.

Groups also provide excellent visibility for your business, since each member who’s a part of your group will have your logo showing in their profile. Group owners also now have the ability to post different types of media like images and videos, and immediate notifications enable real-time conversations.

Here’s an example of a popular group. Executive Suite has over 300,000 members, and brings together executives with a web series, practical advice and discussion boards.

What do LinkedIn Groups mean for your small business?

Hopefully, a better way to foster a sense of community, find candidates for open positions and gain brand visibility to name a few.


Instagram


You may remember Instagram testing the removal of likes in several countries, including Australia, Japan, Italy and Ireland. Likes aren’t gone—in the US and Canada you can still view the like count on your own photos and videos—just not posts from others.

So where did this come from? Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, has long dealt with people using hacks and workarounds. These come mostly from bots and unscrupulous businesses that manipulate the app to make themselves or other users appear more popular than they actually are. So, this is an attempt to make Instagram more authentic.

Instagram says "We hope this test will remove the pressure of how many likes a post will receive, so you can focus on sharing the things you love."



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While many entrepreneurs and small businesses are good with this, influencers and video marketing agencies aren’t.

How can they show businesses how popular they are? How will they demonstrate engagement?

But for the average small business owner who isn’t buying likes or gaming the system with bots, this could be a good thing.

If your social media marketing strategy includes engaging content and you’re happy to focus on comments and increased followers, you’ll be fine.

While IGTV got off to a slow start, it’s now considered one of the biggest social media trends out there. After Instagram announced earlier this year that Instagram would allow one minute previews of IGTV videos on the main Instagram feed, users (and companies) started taking notice.

Unlike your other Instagram videos, IGTV videos can be 10-60 minutes long. This offers a great video marketing opportunity to do interviews, behind-the-scenes features and much more.

Since we can now add landscape-orientated videos as well, I’ve been adding my Business Edge Show videos that have been getting a lot of traction.

These are just a few of the changes you can expect to see across the major platforms this year. I’m sure there will be many more as the year goes by, as things are always changing!

To effectively promote your business on social media in 2020, it’s essential to not only understand social media trends, but to embrace them.

If you’re finding it a challenge to stay on top of social media, consider hiring an agency who can create strategies that will be specific to your social media needs and goals so you can focus on building your business.


Original Source: http://www.articlebiz.com/article/1051653100-1-where-social-media-is-headed-in-2020/


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Thursday, 21 November 2019

7 Easy Ways to Increase Online Sales

by SUSAN FRIESEN


As a business owner, it’s your main purpose and what you focus the bulk of your energy on. However, it can be a challenge—especially when you’re so close to your brand—to see what’s missing and to make the necessary changes. Fortunately, there’s no shortage of ways you can improve your buying process and see results in the near future.

Whether you run a product- or service-based business, here are 7 ways to increase online sales:

1. Have a user-friendly website that looks good


This might seem obvious, but you’d be surprised how many small business owners neglect their online presence, even if they don’t have a brick and mortar store. They get so focused on selling they forget about the user experience. As a result, visitors get frustrated they can’t find what they’re looking for, wrestle with glitchy pages and outdated content and go elsewhere. Remember, many people are also going to be browsing and/or buying from their phones, so optimize accordingly.





2. Tell nothing but the truth


Don’t exaggerate what your product can do or oversell your services. This will only hurt your reputation in the long run and keep you from gaining your customers’ and followers’ loyalty. You might make initial profits, but people won’t return, will leave negative reviews and will tell family and friends. Of course, you want to market effectively, but don’t claim your coaching services will absolutely lead to a six-figure income or your skincare products will make anyone look 20 years younger.

Be honest and transparent while sharing the benefits of whatever you’re selling.

3. Spend time on SEO


You want your business to be found in Google, but that’s not going to happen unless you research your competitors, choose the right keywords (including longtail keywords) and properly optimize your website. For example, a wedding planner will face stiff competition when creating campaigns around “wedding planning in Vancouver”.

He or she could create targeted, longtail content around keywords related to wedding planning, such as fall flower arrangements, unique cupcakes, elegant Bohemian wedding dΓ©cor, his and her cocktails and so on—anything to drive traffic to the site while standing out from the competition.


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4. Create a sense of urgency


If users land on your site only to see an offer from a year ago is still front and centre, it’s disappointing and makes people wonder how much energy you put into your business or if you’re still in business at all. If you want to improve your buying process, it’s essential to help customers understand the value of what you’re providing, whether it’s a limited-time offer or a seasonal sale.

5. Understand that content is king 


We’ve been hearing this for a long time, and it’s still so relevant! Search engines reward fresh and useful content. Here are some characteristics of a user-friendly website:
  • Detailed, unique product descriptions
  • Blog articles about interesting topics related to your product or service
  • A FAQ page where you answer all your customers’ questions

6. Monitor and respond to reviews



Nearly 95% of shoppers read online reviews before making a purchase, according to the Spiegel Research Center, 2017. I recently talked about the importance of online reviews in How to Deal with Negative Reviews Without Harming Your Business. From Google My Business to Yelp, you have the opportunity to share your information and get customer feedback, whether it’s negative or positive.


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7. Be super social 



You NEED a social media presence, and the time has come to focus on content marketing storytelling. Not only do users check out online reviews and how responsive you are, they also look to see what you’re promoting and how often you’re active.

You should have strategies the major platforms you know your target market is using including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram.


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Don’t neglect your audience and they won’t neglect you! It’s worth it to put the energy into strategizing now for great results.

No matter what your brand is, boosting your online sales, brand awareness and loyalty can be a big challenge.

Original Source: http://www.amazines.com/E-Commerce/article_detail.cfm/6256321?articleid=6256321

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Monday, 21 October 2019

Instagram Tips - Tricks to help Grow your Account

More and more people are using Instagram on a daily basis, which means more and more businesses are flocking to the platform to create a presence and build an audience.

So with all this noise - what can you do, to give you the best chance of getting seen by your target market? 



Here are just SOME of the things you should be doing to build your Instagram profile.


Your Bio is Your Shop Window

  • Make sure you have given your bio the attention it deserves. This is really important because it’s an opportunity for you to tell your followers (and potential followers) who you are, what you do and why they should follow you.
  • It also will increase your chances of being shown in search results when users are looking for posts or accounts for particular search terms. 
  • Include an “I help” statement which demonstrates who you work with and how you can help them.
  • Include a call to action. This can be a link to your website, your opt-in form or a special offer you are promoting and want to drive traffic to. 
  • If you have more than one link you want to share - try a free tool like link.tree which helps you make the most of your one link by hosting several links on one page. Ideal if you have several offers and landing pages that you want to promote. 



Your Posts - Add Value, Entertain & be Consistent

  • Chose a frequency of posts and stick to it. Whether this is every other day or four times a day - Be consistent.
  • Use Instagram Stories to promote new posts. 
  • Always use the 30 hashtags that you are allowed for each post. 
  • Use an app like Plann to discover the most relevant hashtags for your business. Use a combination of high and low keywords to increase your chances of getting seen

Create different types of content and make sure you have a mix of all of them. For example:
  • Make it Personal. Show your audience who they are following. Let your audience get to know you, like you and trust you. You can even show them behind the scenes and get them interested in your life and you. Be real, genuine and authentic. 
  • Offer Value. Provide something of value that will educate your audience, inspire and motivate them or entertain them. This could be sharing motivational quotes that resonate with you, tricks hacks and tips that will help them in their life or advice that you can offer in your niche.
  • Promotions. It’s really important that you don’t use Instagram to just promote yourself. Of course that’s what influencers are doing but they are doing it indirectly, by providing value, helping for free and inspiring their audience along the way. That said your content should incorporate some promotional posts as that, after all, is why you are there.  This could be testimonials, reviews and any offers that you have running. 


Be Social! Like, Comment, Share - Engage!


People are on Instagram to be social, to network, to talk, to share ideas. So be one of them. Make sure you comment on other people’s posts, respond to comments left on your own posts, answer questions that people have and look for ways to connect with like-minded people that have the same interests as you. 


Don’t just focus on the number of followers and number of likes your posts get - focus on creating and building relationships and a network of similar people all around you.




I know that's a lot to take in, but if you just start implementing one thing at a time, you will start to really build your audience and get seen! It's worth putting in the time in.

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