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Building a Strong Brand Identity: The Key to Small Business Branding Success

If you want your business to succeed, one of the things you need to take seriously is branding. Your company’s unique identity is what sets it apart from everyone else, a representation of your story and goals to your customers. Take Dunkin Donuts’ latest rebranding, for instance — dropping the word “Donuts” from their name. This is their effort to show their vision of becoming the “store of the future.” As a customer, you will not go to Dunkin just for their donuts anymore, but for their coffee, sandwiches, and shakes as well.

As a small business, your job to create the kind of identity that differentiates you from everyone else may be challenging.…

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3 Reasons you should Consider Working with a Social Media Agency

Social media is by far one of the simplest and most cost-effective marketing strategies you could use for your brand. It’s also one of the most difficult to master. Not only that, but many business owners still don’t seem to see it as a valid marketing tool for some strange reason. But with the right team, social media could be your most powerful marketing tool and it will provide a much better return on your investment than any other form of advertising.

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Here are some reasons why you should consider working with a reputable social media agency.

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How to Make Your Business Popular Online

When it comes to running a business successfully these days, you have to have a strong online presence. Maybe, in the past, having a great ad campaign on billboards and mailed out to customers was enough, but now, having a great website and a strong social media presence makes a huge difference.

Whether you’re a dropshipping company that’s always working with wholesalers, or an eco-friendly forward-thinking ecommerce shopping business, you need to get noticed online. And if you aren’t sure how to do this, or you want to revamp your efforts and get your business’s name on the map, you have to use the right strategies.…

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How Small Business Owners can Use Online Writing Services to Build Their Personal Brand

Roy Spence rightly said that what you stand for matters more than what you sell. Every organization has a brand identity. If you don’t give it much attention, then it will be a lame one; but every company is inevitably going to have a personality. Therefore, it is essential that you build on that brand because how people think of companies is very similar to how they feel about people. People perceive brands as good, bad, elegant, or old-fashioned, depending upon the nature of service or products that those companies provide.

Personal brand buliding

We first judge people on their looks, their qualities, virtues, and everything else comes later.…

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Digital Marketing for Beginners: 5 Things You Should Know Before Entering This Line of Business

Digital marketing is something virtually every business needs. That fact alone provides good job security, but this hasn’t gone unnoticed by many others hoping to enter the field. If you want to be able to compete and secure a position as a digital marketer, there’s a great deal to know. These five facts can help get you started.

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1. The importance of video

Because most of the population is exposed to digital marketing, you have to figure that a great deal of them are doing so at time when they’re not interested in reading copy. Don’t rest on words, and don’t assume that photos will get the job done, either.…

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7 Trending Website Elements You Must Know

To make a trending website you have to keep on updating it. And for that, you have to focus on the part that hooks your users; the design. A new design can make your website a leading giant in its field. Sticking with the “same old, same old” because it works is like being the kid in school who wears the same clothes every day — they’re never popular for the reason most of us would like to be, right?

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Whether you’re using professional tools or free website builders, hiring a web designer or DIY, you need to know what works and what doesn’t.…

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How an Organic Search Campaign can Take Your Website to the Next Level

Your online success is a function of many factors. One of such factors is relevance. Do you deliver the product or information that the market demands?

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But relevance is one thing that many websites can target, especially that there are keyword search tools around that help content creators choose the right topics. There is still a need to rise above the noise, and there is no better way to do this than to aggressively promote your page or website.

Google offers pay-per-click (PPC) options. In this method, you specify which keywords you want to target. You then create a short ad that bears a link to your page.…

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How to Use Storytelling to Raise Conversion Rates

Many experts agree that telling your business’ story to customers helps them learn more about you and make you more personable. However, several marketing studies show that customers are not only more likely to ‘buy’ what you are selling if you attach a story to that item.

Indeed, storytelling has proven effective at improving marketing strategies, for everything from boosting purchase cost and rate to increasing conversion rate.

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Need some proof? Sure – you don’t have to purchase research paper on the topic; just try google it. For example, a study by Origin tested a group of 3,000 consumers by presenting each with a different product page for a bottle of wine; one that contained the typical product description with notes of flavor and a second that told the story of the winemaker who produced the bottle.…

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Live Video Promotions to Help Your Business Growth

If you’re trying to grow your business, you’re probably trying to approach that goal from as many different perspectives as possible. You may have worked your way through photography pretty quickly in your quest to get good digital imaging for your company. However, it’s a little bit more difficult to get video going, and then especially live video. That’s where you can get creative and really get cracking.

Live video streaming for marketing

What are a few live applications that you can think of right away? Facebook live is one. And then Instagram live takes you to another platform. And then Snapchat live is yet another way to showcase what you’re doing in the immediate moment.…

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5 Marketing Ideas for Food Trucks

Marketing can be a difficult monster to tame no matter what industry you are in. But in the fast paced lifestyle of food trucks, strong marketing is more important than ever. Owning a mobile eatery removes the ability for customers to associate your brand with a location. That’s the mobile part.

tips to market a food truck

Because of this, many people are only able to get information about the business through previous customers word of mouth or seeing the truck on the street. Not only is it hard to inform customers in such a short time, it is also hard to set yourself apart from the crowd.…

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