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The Importance of Social Media for Business

Marketing is changing and evolving. Social Media, Social Networks, and Social Technology have become the future of business marketing. Adding Social Media to your business marketing plan is no longer a consideration, it’s a must. If you’re a business owner and your business is not Social, you need to re-evaluate your marketing strategy. You are missing out on a big opportunity to connect with current and potential customers. Social Media can increase consumer connections, broaden and improve brand awareness, promote top of mind business recognition, improve customer service, and create the opportunity for new potential sales. Let’s get started, shall we!

Increase Consumer Connections: Social Media is the perfect media outlet to increase consumer connections for your business. Social sites like Facebook and Twitter allow you to directly interact and connect with consumers. You as the business owner are the moderator of these conversations. You provide the topic, you submit the content, and your fans and followers react and interact. Ask questions, request opinions, and create conversation through posting unique and interesting information. The more interested your connections are in your post, the more likely they will react to it, Like it, Re-tweet, or even share it. This will increase your consumer connections and grow the following and fans of your business.  

Broaden Brand Awareness: Your Social sites are your business voice. When you post and publish content you are promoting and marketing your business. With each character you share you are increasing the opportunity of growing your following and broadening your brand awareness.  With every Like, every Share, and every Re-Tweet your message is being sent and viewed by millions of new potential fans and followers. These potential fans and followers may have never heard of your business before, but if your post captures their interest, you may be on your way to them liking or following your business. Your social business voice can improve your reach, broaden your brand awareness, all the while hopefully earning you a new potential customer. Read More…

4 Fun Promotional Marketing Strategies for your Business

Promotional marketing strategies are an important piece to the puzzle in creating a successful marketing mix. Why? Promotional marketing strategies are great brand builders that create excitement for your customers about your business. Promotions encourage customers and consumers to visit your webpage, come into your store, and ultimately it reminds them of your company and brand. Here are 4 fun promotional marketing strategies to consider and use for your business. 

1. Contests: Running a contest for your business is a great way to increase site activity, generate store traffic, and even amp up the incoming business calls. The key is creating a contest that is effortless to enter and presents an attractive prize for the winner. Examples of contests include: writing contests, photo contests, best comment contest, most creative food dish, and so and so on. Promote your contest in the right manner through your website, in your print, and through other media be it digital or social, and contests can produce a great response rate and return for your business.  

2. Sweepstakes: Sweepstakes, enter the sweepstakes here! Fill out your name here and if we pull your entry you’re the lucky winner of a trip for two to Hawaii! Aloha! Okay, so maybe I’m getting ahead of myself and I started day dreaming. I apologize. Not all sweepstakes are trips to Hawaii but wouldn’t it be great if they were. Sweepstakes can be trips, prizes, services, and/or anything of value that you’d like to give away to one lucky winner. Pick a sweepstakes that you feel would be most attractive to your customer base. The more attractive the sweepstakes offer, the more entries your business will receive. Sweepstakes provide great publicity of your business and brand through the promotion, and not to mention that the response rate is relatively easy to track in that customers can enter online, in store, or over the phone.  Read More…

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