Pinterest is a great tool for driving traffic to your website even if you don’t sell gardening or home decor products. Here are 7 tips for using Pinterest to market your business: Make sure you have a business account. It doesn’t cost anything but allows you access to valuable analytics such as your most repined […]
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How can you tell if there’s a problem with your website? I’m not talking technical stuff here, but a problem in how visitors perceive your site? The answer is bounce rate. Bounce rate is the Google Analytics stat that tells you how many people came to your website and left immediately. Avinash Kaushik, Google’s Analytics
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This morning I sat down to write a new blog post. Wrote the entire thing and was getting ready to post it to my blog when I noticed from my admin panel a similarly titled blog post. Deciding I better check, I discovered a large portion of that post was telling the same story I
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You wake up in the morning and turn on the radio, check your Facebook page, then read the newspaper. Once you’re at work you delete some spam, do a few dozen Google searches and check your Twitter. Later you head out to meet a client and pass store windows and billboards. At the end of
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Earlier this week I did a workshop in Port Elgin for the Saugeen Shores Business Enterprise Centre. We were talking about social media integration. One thing I told people is to consider your social media marketing goals. One goal may be to get more followers – after all, if you’re posting on Google+ but only
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The word authenticity is often and bandied talking about marketing and branding. But far too often people are left wondering what exactly this means as it relates to their social media marketing. For me defining authenticity takes me back to the idea that all marketing is about getting people to know, like and trust you.
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There are so many social media sites it’s hard for the average person to know which one is right for their business. Really, it comes down to your goals – what are you hoping to achieve with your social media marketing. The chart below gives you an overview of what benefits you can have from
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Like all social media sites, in order to engage on Google Plus you need to first start following people. Unlike your personal Facebook profile or LinkedIn, the other person doesn’t need to approve you to follow them. It’s more like Twitter or your Facebook page where you can follow anyone. What the heck are circles?
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Whenever I mention Google Plus to a group of small business owners I get a collective groan. “Not ANOTHER social media site!” However, I want to tell you that Google Plus is not just another social networking site. It has rapidly grown from a site for nerds to a social media powerhouse that is now
Just before Christmas I was notified that I’ve been named winner of Broadview Network’s 2013 Best Blogs for Entrepreneurs Award. I put a lot of effort into each of my posts so it is exciting to be acknowledged. It’s a great way to end 2013. I’m looking forward to bigger and better things for 2014. Andrea
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