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August 9, 2017 | Marketing

Social Media Content: What Businesses Should Post

So, you’ve committed. You’re ready to kick off your social media marketing strategy, and you’re going to kill it! There’s only one problem. What are you going to post? Social media is all about engagement. If your content is stale and lifeless,...

Kathleen Kelly | 5 min read

August 1, 2017 | Marketing

Google Posts: The powerful new feature to drive traffic to local businesses

You may have noticed over the past year that a Google search for a specific celebrity, sports team or even movie showed something a little different. Along with the usual web results, the search would include a social media post directly from that...

Vendasta Marketing | 9 min read

July 20, 2017 | Marketing

20 Ways To Generate B2B Leads (With Exclusive Tips)

Ever wonder how to generate leads online? Leads are the cornerstone of sales and marketing. Unfortunately, finding them can be like a game of “where’s Waldo,” where instead of minor disappointment, failing can result in waving bye-bye to your B2B...

Dew Smith | 14 min read

June 15, 2017 | Marketing

How to Engage Your Audience Through Social Media

Is your social media falling flat? Don’t sweat it; many hours have gone into perfecting the use of this not-so-secret weapon. Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram strategies are outlined in detail below. Once you understand how they...

Zack Meredith | 6 min read

June 7, 2017 | Marketing

How Your Website and Social Media Go Hand-in-Hand

The following is a guest post by Ashley Kimler at Heroic Search. Are you paying attention to the romance that your web design has with your social campaigns? Are you doing everything you can to nurture that relationship? Online success is directly...

Ashley Kimler | 7 min read

May 8, 2017 | Product News

[Case Study] How We Made One Hotel Facebook Famous in Two Months

What do you get when you combine social posting savvy and expert digital advertising tactics? For one local hotel client, it resulted in Facebook fame. Don’t underestimate the power of a strong Facebook presence, especially for local businesses....

Dew Smith | 3 min read

April 7, 2017 | Marketing

How to Hashtag: Is Your Business #Trending?

How hashtags can help you reach the out-crowd and engage the in-crowd The facts are in: if you are not using hashtags, you are missing out! When even one boosts post engagement by 12.6%, these handy hashtags can make the difference between...

Natahna Bargen-Lema | 3 min read

March 24, 2017 | Marketing

7 Social Media Tactics for Businesses That Struggle With Social

Humans are social creatures, and in the age of the world wide web and pocket-sized computers, we’ve created more ways than ever to stay connected, engaged, and conversational at all times. Since the first social media website “Six Degrees” went...

Brendan Swalm | 6 min read

February 27, 2017 | Marketing

The 7 Fundamentals of Reputation Marketing

In 2011, Google presented a profound new concept to describe consumer behavior online. Coined the “Zero Moment of Truth”, the concept sought to describe a new paradigm of shopper activity where online research prior to buying plays an integral...

Vendasta Marketing | 9 min read

February 14, 2017 | Marketing

Want 50,000 Video Views? How to Be Facebook Famous

The following is a guest post by Dennis Yu from BlitzMetrics. You’re here for one reason, and one reason only—you want to learn how to be Facebook famous. Well, you have to know the Facebook audience. What resonates with Gen Z is video—live video...

Dennis Yu | 4 min read

January 19, 2017 | Marketing

Marketing to Millennials: A Consumer Like No Other

There’s a reason that the biggest brands across North America are obsessed with marketing to millennials. 75.4 million. That’s the number of people born between 1980 - 2000 that are currently living in the United States alone (Pew Research). This...

Nelson Vo | 3 min read

January 16, 2017 | Marketing

Local Social Media Marketing SOS – Save Our Social!

As a digital content creator with Vendasta, I’m essentially a social media ghost writer. In an average day, I write for anywhere from five to 30 small or medium businesses. In a week, I write over 300 social posts. In a month, our team of writers...

Kathleen Kelly | 5 min read

January 11, 2017 | Marketing

5 Instagram Tips to Turn You Into a Social Media Sensation

We've given you Instragram tips before, and we'll give them again. There's a reason to this madness—trust us. 300 million—the number of people on Instagram every single day. Businesses are taking advantage of Instagram by using it as a resource to...

Carleigh Durette | 4 min read

December 9, 2016 | Marketing

Copyright Online and Fair Use in Social Media

Are your social media memes breaking the law? With visual content being 40x more likely to be shared on social, it's clear that images dominate the internet. So what's the deal with copyright online? Learn the basics of copyright law for images and... Read More

Aristo Lam | 7 min read

December 8, 2016 | Marketing

Buyer Personas 101: The Qualitative & Quantitative Process

Buyer personas are a must for any business. Knowing your customers is the foundation of building lasting customer relationships, just like getting to know a co-worker or a friend better. The more you know about somebody, the more likely you are to...

Zachary Yuzdepski | 7 min read

November 8, 2016 | Marketing

Psychological Marketing Techniques the Big Brands Use

The following is a guest post from Kate Simpson at Assignment Masters. How can you implement the psychological marketing techniques the big brands use in your digital marketing? What you need to do is spend millions of dollars on research to...

Kate Simpson | 4 min read

September 29, 2016 | Sales

Digital Customer Service: the 10 Cornerstones

While the medium has changed, the message hasn’t—customer service is about solving a problem for the customer. The difference now is that companies have to manage this communication across multiple channels. Whereas a few years ago customer service...

Nykea Marie Behiel | 7 min read

September 8, 2016 | Marketing

Advertise on Facebook: 7 Tips for Facebook Success

What would you do for the chance to market to a room of more than one billion people? Who cares that a room that big isn’t even physically possible? The real point is that you don’t actually need to do much. Facebook has over 1.65 billion monthly...

Dew Smith | 7 min read

August 23, 2016 | Scale

Project Management Technology Takes Productivity to the Next Level

Today's project management technology tools make yesterday's work processes look as obsolete as they feel. The days of pushing paper from desk to desk are over for good. Office moves requiring whole vans just to haul legions of dusty file cabinets...

Lindsey Patterson | 3 min read

August 9, 2016 | Marketing

10 Free Twitter Tools

Whether you see it as one of the best communication devices or the downfall of modern society, there's no doubt Twitter plays a role in most marketing departments. With the 140 character limit, Twitter is a good way to get information quickly and...

Nykea Marie Behiel | 3 min read

August 2, 2016 | Marketing

Online Reputation Management Fails

To our amusement (and to our dismay), there are countless examples of online reputation management fails. Have you ever witnessed a company make an online reputation management blunder and cringe a little on their behalf? In life and in business,...

Heidi Abramyk | 16 min read

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