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How to Get Started With AI in Your Small Business: A 5-Step Plan
Not sure where to start with AI? A practical 5-step plan for small business owners: find the leaks, pick one problem, set guardrails and test small.
AI for Small Business: 7 Practical Uses That Save Time
Practical AI for small businesses in Sarasota and Southwest Florida: seven uses that save staff time or recover lost leads, plus how to start safely.
How context improves the effectiveness of your creative.
In this part of our sales funnel series, we’re addressing the influence creative has on your advertising…and the influence the context has over your creative. The creative process is vastly different for each platform you’re using. Unless your visuals and messaging line up with whom you’re speaking with, what need your product addresses, where they are in their customer journey, what platform they are currently on and why they should even be interested, then you’re probably wasting a ton of money in advertising spend, only to have a large majority of your creative fall on deaf ears. There is a…
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Why the custom audience is the secret sauce to every sales funnel.
I’m going to address one of the most important elements of social media advertising: creating audiences. By creating audiences you will not only be able to be more efficient with your dollars, but you will also (when done right) be able to maximize your R.O.I. Platforms like Facebook and Google AdWords allow you to create specific retargeting audiences based on an almost infinite number of parameters, including: page visited; number of page visits; time since visiting; and specific actions taken on your site. Creating audiences allows you to craft your messaging to be more contextually relevant to where your consumer…
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Why a having a solid content marketing strategy is a must in any sales funnel.
A solid content strategy is arguably the best way to make people aware of your brand. Also, sales is about establishing an emotional connection. After all, the way to the wallet is through the heart and it’s hard to pull emotions from an advertisement. So having a way to communicate with people that informs and entertains is one of the most powerful ways to grow your business online. But what does that mean and how do you execute on this? That’s a complex question that has a complex answer but, for the sake of brevity, I will outline some examples.…
Read MoreWhy the pixel is the most important part of any sales funnel.
In this blog series, we’re talking about the essentials of social media advertising, and the most essential part of any advertising system is the ability to track its effectiveness. The be all and end all of any successful sales system that leverages a digital platform like Facebook or adwords is the pixel. Proper Facebook Pixel implementation is THE pillar to successful advertising campaigns. The Pixel is a small piece of javascript that tracks the activity of your website visitors who came from a Facebook, Instagram or AdWords ad. It then ties that data back to your reporting, to calculate metrics…
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Sales funnel fundamentals and why they are important to your bottom line.
If you’re reading this, you’re likely looking for the most effective way to grow your ecommerce brand using social media advertising. If this is the case, you’re in the right place. So, first things first – let’s talk about The Fundamentals! These are all important on their own, but when used together can have a profound effect on your advertising efforts. It’s easy to make a sales system way more complicated than it needs to be. It’s also very easy to try and rush through it and have it cost you a lot of money and time in trial and…
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Social Influencer Marketing: Top 5 Things You Need to Know Before Diving into the Field of Influencer Marketing
Written by: Paige Samson Social Influencer marketing continues to grow in popularity among brands, especially with those who want to be efficient and targeted with their advertising spend. Before diving into this vast and exciting space, below are some things you need to know! 1) Be Careful in Your Selection of Influencers Looking for social influencers to promote your brand/product can be a daunting task, and it’s easy to want to try to simplify the process in an effort to get moving with your campaign. Now, does your influencer marketing checklist look something like the below? Does the Influencer fall…
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Going from zero to one.
I’ve been doing these blogs for a while now, and I try to give the best advice I can and provide helpful insight, but my goal through all of this is not to reason perfectly, or even to come across as the foremost expert on being an entrepreneur. My deepest hope is that you would feel inspired to get out there, go all in, and make something happen for yourself. If there was only one message I could communicate to you, the reader, it’s that all that is stopping you from doing what you want to do, is you. I…
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