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If you’re wondering how to set up a Google Analytics Account and how it can help with your marketing – here are some simple tips.
Setting up a Google Analytics account is important if you want to analyze what’s going on behind the scenes at your website. To make it easy, here’s a step-by-step guide:
- Create an account: Go to the Google Analytics website and sign up for a free account by providing your website details.
- Add the tracking code: After creating an account, you’ll be provided with a tracking code. Add this code to your website’s HTML code, typically just before the closing tag.
- Set up goals: Define what you want to track on your website, like form submissions, pageviews, etc. These will be your “goals.”
- Track events: Set up event tracking to track specific user interactions on your website, like clicks on buttons or links.
- Configure your dashboard: Customize your analytics dashboard to display the metrics that matter most to you.
- Analyze and share your data: Once you have data coming in, start exploring your analytics reports to understand your website traffic, user behavior, and performance.
Hey, I’m not a super techie and never want to be. But even I can follow these guidelines.
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Are you new or not that familiar with using ChatGPT? Here are some marketing tips to help you get started.
ChatGPT is an AI tool that’s revolutionizing writing, marketing, and research. Here are some ways to make it easier to use for your marketing project.
- Define how you’ll use it. Determine what you want to use ChatGPT for. Is it content creation or customer service? Once you have a clear idea of what you want to accomplish, it will be easier to get the most out of the tool.
- Train the model: This is AI. You need to train the model on your specific language and tone. So that means taking the time to do it. The more data you provide, the more queries you give it, the more accurate your responses will be.
- Keep it simple: Don’t overcomplicate things. ChatGPT is a tool designed to make your life easier, so start by asking simple questions and gradually increase the complexity.
- Monitor and evaluate: Regularly monitor and evaluate your results. Keep refining your approach and take time to train the AI model so that it improves over time! It really may make your life easier.
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Looking to generate more leads on LinkedIn? Join the Club. Well, listen in. I’ve got some ideas for you.
Don’t overcomplicate getting leads or increasing visibility on LinkedIn. Here are some marketing tips to help you.
- Optimize Your LinkedIn Profile: Sounds like a no brainer. Just make sure your profile accurately represents you and your brand. Use keywords that describe your skills and services, and showcase your best work in the portfolio section.
- Join Relevant LinkedIn Groups: Find groups related to your industry and join them. Engage in discussions, share relevant content, and connect with other members to expand your network.
- Leverage LinkedIn Publishing: One of my favorites. Share thought-leadership articles on LinkedIn to establish yourself as an expert in your field. This can drive traffic to your profile. That’s the point, right?
- Connect with Your Target Audience: Use LinkedIn’s advanced search features to find and connect with potential customers who fit your target demographic. Be sure to personalize your connection requests to increase your chances of being accepted.
- Think about LinkedIn Ads: LinkedIn Ads are a great way to reach your target market. Target your ads based on job title, industry, company size, and more. Test slowly and track your results.
- Host Virtual Events: Host webinars, online workshops, or Q&A sessions to connect with potential customers. And, don’t forget to promote your event on LinkedIn to reach a wider audience.
Of course, you want to engage regularly and post content as an expert. But make room for these ideas in your marketing plan, too.
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Wondering what a mobile marketing tour is all about and how it can promote your brand? Listen in.
A mobile marketing tour is a great way to bring your brand directly to your target audience. It’s also a unique way to interact with customers, build brand awareness and create a personal connection. Should you add a mobile tour to your marketing plan?
Here are 5 steps to launch your mobile marketing tour
- Identify your target audience: Determine who your target audience is and where they’re located. This will help you plan your tour route effectively.
- Define your goals: What you do hope to achieve from your tour? Are you looking to increase sales, build brand awareness, or generate leads?
- Choose your vehicle: Here’s the fun part. Decide what type of vehicle you want to use for your tour. It should be eye-catching and representative of your brand. Remember the Oscar Weiner hotdog mobile?
- Plan your route: Now that you know your audience, goals, and have a vehicle, map out a route that allows you to reach your target audience. Market with intention!
- Promote your tour: No one will know about your mobile marketing tour if you don’t promote it. Use social media, email marketing, and other promotional channels to create excitement about your tour.
What’s so great about mobile marketing tours?
Mobile marketing tours allow brands to connect with customers in a personal and memorable way. They can help build brand awareness, generate leads, and provide a fun and unique experience for customers.
What’s not to like about that?
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Looking for video marketing ideas on Instagram? Well, here are 7 ideas to start with.
7 Types of Marketing Videos that Perform Well on Instagram
- Influencer videos: Collaborate with influencers to create videos. It’s a great way to reach a new audience and increase engagement. Find an influencer that shares your audience, values, and mission.
- Behind-the-scenes videos: You’ve seen a million of them. Behind-the-scenes videos give you a glimpse into the day-to-day operations of a brand or company. They humanize your brand.
- Tutorials and How-to videos: A How-to video doesn’t need to be a major production. You can produce these on your iPhone. They provide value to your followers by teaching them something new.
- Time-lapse videos: Time-lapse videos are great for showing the process of making something, plus they’re visually engaging. Experiment on your phone and see what you come up with.
- Product demos: Showcase how a product works. Product demos can help increase conversions and drive sales. Look at Amazon for inspiration.
- User-generated content: UGC or user-generated content is more believable than what you post. Reposting videos from your followers helps build community, increase engagement, and gives your audience social proof.
- Humorous or entertaining videos: Laughter levels the playing field. It’s a universal language and a great way to connect with your audience.
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If you’re wondering what’s the difference between digital marketing, digital PR and social PR, stay tuned.
Ok let’s get some marketing and public relations definitions straight here.
Digital Marketing
Digital Marketing refers to the promotion of products and services through digital channels, like search engines, websites, social media, email, and mobile apps. These are the channels you’re probably using every day to market your business.
Digital PR
Digital PR is the use of digital media to manage and build your online reputation and image of your brand or personal brand. It’s about creating and sharing content, engaging your community and influencers, and managing online crisis communication. Oooh, better be prepared for that. Don’t give your social media keys to just anyone!
Social PR
Think of it as a subset of digital PR. Social PR focuses on leveraging social media platforms to build your brand reputation and engagement. It involves creating and sharing content, enhancing engagement, and again – the necessary management of online crisis communication — specifically on social media channels.
There’ll be no quiz here, but I just want to make sure you understand the differences between digital marketing, digital PR, and Social PR.
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4 Ways Keyword Research Can Drive Marketing Strategy Want to optimize your search engine ranking? Look at keyword research to improve your marketing strategy. Write a Topical List Begin with a keyword list that describes your business. Say you’re a dentist. Start with services you provide like “Cosmetic Dentistry,” “Dental Checkup,” “or “Dental Cleaning.” […]
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Want to know how to build a better marketing plan and win more customers? Look at the marketing framework to see if you’re on target. Here are some tips to help you get there. Let’s talk about what it takes to improve your marketing plan framework. Market research is more important than ever Research counts […]
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Smart marketers understand that marketing and PR should be like best friends or sisters. How can you better align your marketing plan with PR? Listen in. PR Complements a Marketing Plan If you’ve invested the time to create a marketing plan, then PR should be part of it. It’s an important part of outreach with […]
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Hosting an event is still an important part of a company’s small business PR strategy. But how do you simplify the event marketing process with so many variables. The Reader’s Digest Version of Marketing Your Event 1. List your event Eventbrite, Facebook, Meetup. These are just a few places to list your event to reach […]
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What should be included in a marketing plan? Stay tuned. A marketing plan is a blueprint to connect your ideal target audience with your products or services, and turn potential prospects into buyers. What should be in your marketing plan? 5 Key Elements of a Marketing Plan 1. Market Research Market research sets the stage […]
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Want to find out how to create daily email content, without going crazy? Listen in for some tips. Finding inspiration to create daily email content isn’t that hard, once you realize what makes your clients open their inbox in the first place. Here are a 3 marketing tips to get you started. What’s New in […]
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Want to create sponsored content that doesn’t look salesy? Here’s how. While some savvy social media users can smell a sponsored ad a mile away, not every post needs to look so promotional. Here’s how to combine exciting sponsored content that’s engaging without looking too salesy. Create Value, Not Just Content Before you post anything, […]
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Do you Smile and Dial to bring in business? Here are 5 steps to make phone prospecting more productive. I joke sometimes when I ask a business owner if they ‘”give good phone.” The truth is, telemarketing is still an effective tool to reach new customers, as long as you have a strategy before making […]
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Do kids say the craziest things? Maybe we should celebrate their creativity! Here’s a marketing idea from a 7 year-old that turned a few heads. Listen in. Here’s a Business Idea that Got My Attention. Today, I’m going to not give you marketing tips, but talk about marketing inspiration from a 7-year old boy, whose […]
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Are you marketing to Gen Z? Here’s some insight you should know. A recent marketing study revealed 85% of Generation Z participants believe corporations should be making an effort to create a better world. If you’re under 30, you probably fall in the Gen Z category. Whether you agree with their sentiments or not, corporations […]
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How do find out if your business idea is marketable? Here’s some insight to help you decide. Although businesses are facing unprecedented challenges and adapting to survive, the ways to identify a great business idea remain the same. Ask yourself these 4 key questions to see whether your idea is worth investing your time, money […]
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Buzzfeed is synonymous with the “listicle” blog, a hybrid of a blog and easy-to-read list. Want to master their formula? Listen in. You can learn so much from mastering Buzzfeed’s formula for breaking down practically any topic into fun bullet points. Here’s how they do it. 5 Buzzfeed Marketing Tips for Easy Reading 1. The […]
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Is your device overloaded with clutter, making you feel unorganized and overwhelmed? I know the feeling! Here are some tips that will help you improve productivity and give you some marketing time back. 5 Tips to Improve Marketing Productivity 1. Delete old files. If you think you might need them again, store them on an […]
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Your “About Us” page can be a customer’s first impression of your business. Here are some marketing tips to make it great. 1. It’s not “about” you, it’s about your customers. This might seem ironic, but it’s key. People want to know how they can benefit from your business. So, tell them about the great […]
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Bet you didn’t know July is “Wild about Wildlife” month! Here are some ways your marketing team can take advantage of it! 1. Pets are good for business. Really! They make employees happier, and customers love it when you welcome their furry friends. You can allow pets inside, offer pet-safe snacks (like Starbuck’s “pup […]
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Want to know how to make the most out of online conferences? Listen to these 5 tips. 1. Set a clear goal. If you know what you want tolearnyou’re more likely to leave the conference feeling Otherwise, you’ll wonder why you spent all that time and effort to attend. Your time is valuable! 2. Make asolid plan. Did you check out […]
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Email marketing is alive and well and bringing in lots of money if you do it right. So, here are some tips to freshen things up, especially your newsletters. You know how much time and effort it takes to write a newsletter or blog. If you’re watching your numbers and the numbers are moving in the wrong direction, here are four […]
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Want to be successful in sales? Learn the Art of Prospecting and how to overcome prospecting challenges. Here are some tips to up your game. 3 Marketing Tips to Overcome Sales Challenges 1. What are you looking to do? Sounds like a no-brainer but clarity is key – know what you want and it will be easier to get. And forget about you in the get-to-know-you agenda, it’s […]
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Looking for some social media tools and resources? Here are some that I recommend to my clients. You can go crazy with all the social media apps and tools that are out there, but there are some that are better than others. Here are five that I’ve recommended to clients; some are free, others offer […]
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If you’re not taking advantage of customer testimonials, you’re missing a giant marketing opportunity. How to Market Your Business with Testimonials 1. Use your homepage to post reviews. Use testimonials to keep visitors on your site with the ultimate goal to get them in your sales funnel. And if you have a handful of testimonials […]
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Want to create a ripple effect by leveraging your press? Here’s how. If you’re like any business owner, you know how important it is to get the biggest bang for your buck. And, that includes leveraging all the free publicity you worked so hard for. 5 Ways to Leverage Free PR and Get More Visibility […]
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Ever notice that your logo and colors look different online. The colors aren’t right, the logo isn’t the most current or it just looks off? Here’s an easy way to fix that. Consistency in marketing is everything, right? Well it should be with your brand, the image of your business, who you are and what […]
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Think you just need hard skills to be a marketer? Not true. Check out these soft skills to add to your tool box. 4 Soft Skills You Need in Marketing It’s not always about being tough as a business person and marketer. Soft skills count too. What skills should you add to your marketing toolbox? […]
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Want to pool your resources to create a bigger marketing campaign? Think about co-marketing. Why would you want to co-market with another company and what’s the benefit? 3 Reasons Why Co-Marketing is Important Increase your reach. Co-marketing or cross promotion as it’s sometimes called allows your content to be shared with your audience as well […]
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How much do you charge? Pause, pause. Don’t get mad. Here’s what to say next. If you’re in business, you’ve probably done more than your share of free – when you started, for causes you believe in, or as part of giving back. For those who ask, “how much do you charge?, here’s what you […]
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Want to grow your business? Then you need a marketing plan. 3 Reasons You Need a Marketing Plan 1. A marketing plan is a comprehensive report. It analyzes your brand or business’ situation, and identifies your target audience, challenges, opportunities, and competition. It contains key industry information, data, and marketing insights that differentiate your brand, […]
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Ever dream of being famous? What’s the Secret Sauce? 5 Ingredients in the Secret Sauce of Marketing 1. Don’t Reinvent the Wheel if You Don’t Have To Set out to become an expert in your field by learning everything you can about your subject matter and then commit to lifelong learning. 2. Master the Art […]
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If you’re an author thinking about publishing a book, some research shows that the best time to release your book is in the winter, typically February and March. The weather is usually bad, people are stuck inside, and are looking for something to do. The hustle and bustle of the holidays are over, there’s some […]
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