The currents that carry website visitors around the Internet are always ebbing and flowing. If you watch them over time you’ll observe some big changes. For as long as most of us can remember, the major current carrying referral visitors has been organic searches, mostly via Google, however that changed in the final quarter of […]
You’ve probably heard of gateway drugs, right? I’m starting to think of a personal Facebook page as a kind of gateway social media drug. Some years ago Facebook started letting anyone sign up for a free personal page. They also didn’t mind too much if you promoted your small business. Then they got strict about […]
The social media world is becoming more like Baskin Robbins everyday. While there aren’t 31 flavors yet, it wouldn’t surprise me if we got to that point pretty soon. That’s fine for users, but it can be confusing for small business marketers. I remember ballpark vendors at the entry gates shouting, “You can’t tell the […]
In social media, it can be easy to fade into the crowd. Staying fresh, interesting, and engaging is vital to the success of any social media campaign. An engaging and successful social media presence can be a tremendous boost to your website’s sales funnel. We’ve assembled five oft-overlooked tricks to take your social media game […]
When talking about global economics, for years it has been said that “when the United States sneezes, the world gets pneumonia.” I don’t know if that is quite as true today as it was 10 years ago, but in the social medial world, Facebook is the “United States” and whenever it does something, the whole […]