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How to Promote Your Business: the Definitive Guide

How to Promote Your Business: the Definitive Guide

In many ways, the concept of “promoting” your business gives the wrong idea. It implies that your audience are sitting passively at their computers and mobile devices, just waiting for you to push powerfully constructed marketing messages at them. It’s as if people think that marketing’s like that weird fairground game where you spray water…
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The Most Popular Instagram Hashtags and How to Use Them

The Most Popular Instagram Hashtags and How to Use Them

When it comes to social media, Instagram has undeniably cemented itself as the ‘one to watch’ over the past few years. In a market so saturated with various platforms, trends, features and filters, it has continuously managed to reinvent itself to meet the demands of its audiences and to embrace each new trend head on….
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Black Friday by the Numbers: The Statistics Behind the Biggest Shopping Day in the World

Black Friday by the Numbers: The Statistics Behind the Biggest Shopping Day in the World

Black Friday is just a few weeks away, with shoppers and retailers everywhere gearing up for the event. Many have a love/hate relationship with it. On one hand, it can drive some major sales for businesses and customers can get some great pre-Christmas bargains. Yet, its popularity and size causes challenges for businesses as well….
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How to Market Your App with Social Media

How to Market Your App with Social Media

It’s tough being an “appreneur,” slaving away long days and nights designing the perfect app for your business that, if the mobile device gods smile down on you, will break big enough to make a positive difference in the number of people coming through the front door. You’re not looking to occupy the same rarefied…
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How Small Businesses Can Boost ROI through Email Automation

How Small Businesses Can Boost ROI through Email Automation

Marketers today understand the importance of using email as a predominant marketing tool. After all, with 3.7 billion active email users across the globe, leveraging email marketing is one of the best ways of fulfilling their top priorities of driving conversions and generating leads. In fact, email marketing when combined with email automation can work…
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How to Create a Winning Business YouTube Channel

How to Create a Winning Business YouTube Channel

With three billion searches per month and 400 hours of video uploaded every minute, YouTube is the world’s second-largest search engine. For many business owners, it’s an ideal medium for marketing. Whether you’re looking to build your brand, find new buyers or educate your customers a YouTube channel may be the answer. A lot of…
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Black Friday Marketing Ideas for Every Business and Budget

Black Friday Marketing Ideas for Every Business and Budget

Black Friday was commonly known as the day where retailers would go back into the “black” following a year of operating “in the red”. At a loss, in other words. The term didn’t come into widespread use until the 1980s. Since then, the day has evolved into a key event for many businesses – across…
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9 Cybersecurity Solutions for Small Business

9 Cybersecurity Solutions for Small Business

It’s a common misconception that larger organizations with hundreds of computers networked and as many or more numbers operating on them would be a prime target for hackers. But the reality is quite the opposite. It is the smaller businesses that are affected by cyberattacks the most, and this has been established through volumes of…
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