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LinkedIn Adds More Ad Automation Options for SMBs

30Sep

By Andrew HutchinsonNo Comments

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LinkedIn Adds More Ad Automation Options for SMBs

LinkedIn has added some new options to make it easier for SMBs to create LinkedIn ad campaigns, including enhanced auto-targeting, AI-generated ad variants, and improved recommendations to help you optimize your LinkedIn campaigns. First off, LinkedIn has improved its auto-targeting tools, which are now able to help you reach the best audience for your ads with fewer inputs. As explained by LinkedIn: “Imagine a small B2B software startup looking to grow. Rather than spending hours tinkering with targeting settings to build a precise audience, the team simply provides LinkedIn with a few key signals - like a URL for what they’re advertising, a list of conversions or customer contacts, or the core industries and job functions they’re looking to reach. From there, Auto-Targeting combines the...

Twitter Will Offer Cheaper Business Verification Packages for SMBs

8May

By Andrew HutchinsonNo Comments

Social Marketing Strategies, social media, social media marketing, twitter

Twitter Will Offer Cheaper Business Verification Packages for SMBs

A quick update for brands on Twitter - SMBs won’t have to sign up to the new $1000 per month Verification for Organizations program to get a gold checkmark in the app. Twitter’s been pushing for brands to confirm their official presence by signing up to the program, but according to Twitter chief Elon Musk, there’s also a cheaper version in the works for SMBs, which will also provide a form of in-stream verification for their account. We will have a lower cost tier for small businesses, but need to manage the onboarding of organizations carefully to prevent fraud. The $1000/month is meant for larger organizations.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 6, 2023 So it won’t cost $1000 per month for all businesses to get verified, just big businesses, as per Musk. Which seems like the sort of detail th...

50+ Business-Building Local SEO Tactics For SMBs

21Apr

By Bill HartzerNo Comments

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50+ Business-Building Local SEO Tactics For SMBs

Do you have a local small to medium-sized business (SMB)? If so, you know just how difficult it is to get found and stand out in increasingly competitive search results. Local SEO strategies must adapt to new features and algorithm updates by the top search engines that affect local search results. Most local SEO tactics fall into the following three categories. Optimizing local listings and citations. Optimizing your website and its content. Optimizing and working on incoming links. In this column, you’ll find over 50 specific things you can do right now to help improve your visibility in local search results, divided into those categories above. Optimizing Local Listings & Citations Let’s start with your NAP (Name, Address, and Phone Number) data. In order to get listed and ranked in...

15Apr

By Bill HartzerNo Comments

googe optimize, google optimization, google seo, Local Search, pagerank, search engine optimisation, search engine optimising, search engine optimization, SEO, seo company, seo services

50+ Business-Building Local SEO Tactics For SMBs

Do you have a local small to medium-sized business (SMB)? If so, you know just how difficult it is to get found and stand out in increasingly competitive search results. Local SEO strategies must adapt to new features and algorithm updates by the top search engines that affect local search results. Most local SEO tactics fall into the following three categories. Optimizing local listings and citations. Optimizing your website and its content. Optimizing and working on incoming links. In this column, you’ll find over 50 specific things you can do right now to help improve your visibility in local search results, divided into those categories above. Optimizing Local Listings & Citations Let’s start with your NAP (Name, Address, and Phone Number) data. In order to get listed and ranked in...

Facebook Publishes New Insights into the Ongoing Impacts of the Pandemic on SMBs

12Sep

By Andrew HutchinsonNo Comments

facebook, facebook marketing, Social Marketing Strategies, social media, social media marketing

Facebook Publishes New Insights into the Ongoing Impacts of the Pandemic on SMBs

Facebook has published the latest iteration of its State of Small Business report, which measures the ongoing impacts of the pandemic on SMBs, and how the vaccine roll-out is being reflected in sales numbers, employment, and more. The report incorporates direct responses from over 35,189 small business leaders from across the globe, including 10,262 business leaders from the US, with the most recent survey period covering the 19th of July to the 7th of August. And given the impacts of SMBs on the broader economy, this is a crucial pulse of where business sentiment is placed, and what you can expect moving forward. You can download the full, 61-page report here, but in this post, we’ll look at some of the key points. First off, Facebook notes that SMB closure rates have fallen in the lat...

Ultimate Guide to Getting Started with Email Marketing for SMBs

2Aug

By Carrie HillNo Comments

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Ultimate Guide to Getting Started with Email Marketing for SMBs

Posted Aug 2, 2021 by Carrie Hill Your Small Business Competitors Suck at Email Marketing. …or they do it completely wrong. …or they don’t even do it. And this means with a little bit of planning and effort, you can get some big wins with this tactic. Why Email Marketing for SMBs? I have long been a proponent of any amount of time a small business can spend growing and cultivating an exceptional email marketing presence and leveraging that content across multiple channels and opportunities. The issue for small businesses has always been time, consistency, and content. Image via AlphaInvestors.com & Oberlo The truth is, a list of 70 past customers, or a list of 10,000 leads and customers are bot...