Social media marketing can be a difficult concept for new business owners to grasp, especially if they have been brought up with a more traditional sales background. Though there are some definite similarities between traditional marketing and social marketing, it is the differences that can make the biggest impact. With that in mind, here are 3 simple steps that will help you to build a basic, but effective social media strategy. (more…)
Online experts are constantly raving about how important it is that every business gets involved in social media marketing. Unfortunately, many business owners do not take the time they need to get started simply because they do not understand what advantages are truly offered. Rather than allow your business to miss out on the opportunity, it helps to get a better picture of exactly what benefits social media offers. (more…)
Our writers caused a sales frenzy for two clients by employing one simple strategy: Respond to social media comments ASAP.
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Blogging is one of the most powerful ways to engage with customers and keep your business present in their everyday life. It also establishes a steady voice for your brand. Like every other form of business promotion, blogging takes time, planning and expertise. This means knowing what content to share and how to present it in a way that people can relate to. When you accomplish this, you can connect with your target customers and make the largest impact. (more…)
Though social media marketing has been accepted by most modern businesses, many of these companies are still having a difficult time accepting the usefulness of certain platforms. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and even Google+ are recognized as beneficial, but many of the other platforms are looked at suspiciously. This may leave business owners missing out on some of the most powerful social media platforms. Here are three reasons that Pinterest for business may be one of the most powerful ways to expand your digital footprint. [Read more…]
Social media marketing has become recognized as a normal part of every modern marketing campaign. For many businesses, this can present a unique challenge, as the traditional approach to marketing does not work in the online environment. Though Facebook has been universally accepted as useful to businesses, many entrepreneurs underestimate the influence Instagram can have on the everyday marketing efforts of their business. [Read more…]
Does it feel like you’re always hiring another communications person? Depending on the size of your company, you either have one person wearing multiple communications hats (writing press releases, handling social media and SEO, performing public relations work, writing blogs, managing your brand, creating videos… you get the idea) or one or more communications persons per category. Regardless, turnover is a pain (and sometimes crippling). This is why Brandsplat exists — to take on these worries for you and ensure you get consistent, spot-on communications without the headaches of turnover. Our stable of writers and communications consultants stand at the ready to assist you.
Case in point: Last week, we were able to help a client save gobs of money when he needed to replace two employees. Rather than hire another two employees with all the costs of benefits like medical/dental and paid time off, he came to us and was able to hire three of our freelance communications experts part-time AND get more years of experience and service out of the deal.
And don’t forget that turnover costs are largely hidden costs: Lowered productivity, overworked remaining staff, lost knowledge, training costs, interviewing costs, the HR staff that has to recruit your next hire, etc. An article in Inc. Magazine says these costs can run as high as 150 percent of the employee’s annual salary — “significant enough to make retention a high priority for your business.”
We have nothing against companies hiring workers on their payroll. But if you’re tired of hiring someone who’s not exactly what you need and watching them stay only long enough to start really performing before getting hired away, it’s time to consider hiring through Brandsplat. We’re experts at finding, training and retaining great people so that you don’t have to. When you’re ready to outsource your headaches, contact us.
In the digital marketing age, inbound traffic to your website is the primary concern when looking for ways to expand your marketing efforts. To accomplish this, it is important for a business owner to develop a well-planned content strategy that includes a variety of methods for pulling in new readers. Content curation can be one of the most powerful ways to bring in new readers without committing too much time or resources.
In its simplest form, content curation is simply taking updates, news, articles, etc. from a specific topic and sharing it with your audience. This can be as simple as taking an article written on the news and posting it as a link on your blog. Sometimes curation gets seen as some magical way to take other people’s work and use it to pull in new customers on your own website. In reality, there is absolutely nothing magical about curation, but like any other part of a marketing strategy it can go a long way in helping to bring more visitors to your website.
Though there are a variety of factors that influence a website’s search engine ranking, inbound links are one of the best methods to improve this ranking. By using content curation, business owners enable themselves to post new content as often as they like, which makes it that much more likely that someone will share a link to the business’s website. Through this principle, curation can help to draw in users who would never have found the site if it only contained original content.
A complete content strategy requires a schedule where every post is determined ahead of time. This means that original content will be posted on a regular schedule and that curated content will be included on a complimenting schedule. Though some individuals have used curation to accrue a large Facebook or Twitter following, this strategy is useless to a business owner without some original content. Remember that the goal of any business is to convert leads into sales, so having an effective, original content schedule is just as important as having curated content.
Regardless of how you schedule it within your marketing strategy, content curation is definitely a tool that any business should strongly consider when looking to expand its audience. The time investment is much less than constantly posting original content, and hiring someone to manage your content curation is less expensive than hiring someone to write original content. Despite this, remember that this type of curation is only part of your strategy and without original content you will never be able to convert these extra views into customers.