Category Archives: Social Media

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DIY- Low budget Internet marketing

Do It yourself Digital Marketing?

Marketing You Can AffordHow can a tiny company market online for free (or near free)? We’ll show you the must-have basics for effective online marketing that you will see results from almost immediately. With little or no investment, you can at least be found on search engines. Do I need a website to get started? No. There are places like Google and other companies that offer a “free” website, but we’re going to assume that you could not cope with the building of one or did, but it won’t show up on search engines (a common problem with free websites). In this article, we’re going to focus on just one thing – YOUR company getting found on the internet through ‘local search.’ Being found in local searches is absolutely, positively a must in order to survive these days . Local search refers to the local companies that come up on search results. Many times these local search results are not company websites, but rather online directories, listing services, or social websites. This is where you can capitalize! Get on these local listing, rating and social sites for FREE! We’ll give you a list of these further down. Continue reading

Create your own Google Plus vanity URL

The Google Plus vanity URL issue

Google Plus pages for brands and businesses long awaited launch came last week.  Everyone exploded in the doors almost like Walmart on black Friday, creating circles, running in circles, jumping over circles, posting pics, videos, hanging out, and immediately ranting and raving on what they love and what they think is missing. Continue reading

Paper.LI Your own social newspaper

Missing Cool new web stuff?

The problem with running a web design and marketing company is, sometimes your so busy, you miss some of the cool stuff coming out on the web. Recently, one of my team members tried to show me this cool new website Paper.il. I was too busy to really listen and went about my business. Today, paper.LI came up again when I noticed the same team member setting up and editing an account for one of our social media clients (we manage social media marketing accounts for our clients). I was curious, so I went to paper.li (.li instead of .com). Continue reading

Social Media in Marketing

Social Media in Marketing- Why you need in.

The practical purpose of so-called “studies” touting statistics favorable to advertising, whether directly or indirectly, in social networks is little more than a marketing tool designed to obtain feedback, ideally in the form of sales.  Such reports however have a tendency to overemphasize what may in fact already be quite obvious to the savvy entrepreneur regardless their level of computer literacy. Continue reading