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May Day: Small Businesses Need Social Media Help
May Day, May Day! Small businesses are drowning when it comes to social media. Research by Constant Contact shows that almost 60% of small businesses need help with social media marketing. Includes four tips to help small businesses create content. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog
Tags: Constant Contact, small business, SMB
Is Your Small Business Website A Dinosaur? [Research]
While small businesses are often considered nimble and digitally adapt, the reality is that most SMBs are dinosaurs in terms of their online presence across digital media.
By not keeping up with evolving consumer behavior that’s increasingly mobile-based and socially networked, many of these businesses are missing profitable opportunities because prospects and customers can’t find or contact them the way that they want to—fast and on-the-go via digital and mobile devices. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog
Tags: small business, SMB, Website
How to Improve Small Business Social Media Performance
While social media appears to be ideally made for budget conscious marketing small business, the reality is that social media can be a resource hog. This explains why social media strategy topped over half of small businesses’ list of marketing challenges according to Constant Contact’s Small Business Pulse Research from December 2012. With research, charts and 5 tactics. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog
Tags: Blog, Chart, Constant Content, Facebook, LinkedIn, Research, small business, Twitter
Social Media: 5 Small Business Lessons [Research/Charts]
When using social media, like other forms of marketing, small businesses must allocate their scarce resources, namely budget and employees, to ensure they’re attracting a steady flow of new prospects, keeping existing customers satisfied, and driving profitable sales.
Here are the major take-aways for small businesses from Ascend2’s research along with actionable social media tactics.
Small Business Blogging: The Key To Leveling The Playing Field
By effectively using a blog as the centerpiece of their social media, content marketing and search optimization, small businesses and solopreneurs can effectively compete against the big boys.
While small businesses can be more nimble and react more quickly to a dynamic environment, they still need overall planning to ensure they keep their business on track for success. Otherwise, if you’re only responding to the latest fire, you’re not working towards your long-term business objectives.
To help organize your small business and maximize your limited resources, you need a blog and a marketing plan. Here are thirteen tactics. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog
Small Business: How to Use Time Efficiently On Social Media
For most small businesses social media is a time suck. The challenge for many small businesses is that time is the most significant resource. While being nimble is the watchword for many small businesses, with regard to social media, you need a plan to keep your interactions on track and contributing to sales and profits.
To help your small business maximize its social media efforts including time utilization, here’s an actionable social media plan for your small business in ten easy steps. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog
21 Social Media & Content Marketing Tips Tailored For Small Businesses
Social media and content marketing are must haves for any business. This need is more important among small and mid-size businesses where additional marketing requires a trade-off for other scare resources.
As a small or medium-sized businesses person you know that it can be difficult to find the time to brainstorm marketing initiatives – specifically social media, content and search marketing initiatives that you can track (Here’s how to create a social media plan.)
Here are seven questions you can ask about your small business marketing efforts. By answering these questions, you can direct your time and resources to where they’ll yield the best results. (Note: 21 Actionable Marketing Tips included.) Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog
Tags: medium business, small business, SMB
Small Business Blogging: 17 Actionable Blog Tips
By their nature small businesses are small. This means you have limited employees or budget for extra stuff (Read: anything beyond the basics of running your day-to-day business). A blogs is necessary to small businesses (including solopreneurs and professionals) for the following seventeen reasons (Of course many of these points can be applied to larger businesses.) Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog
