Digital Marketing Tips and Tricks
You hired talented professionals, but how do you keep them?
You can bring in all the clients in the world and have the most thorough strategy for your business, but if you don’t have a team that is on the same page with you, you have nothing. Having sincere, dedicated, motivated, and loyal employees mean everything. More so, you can hire talented professionals, but how do you keep them? There’s nothing more impressive than hearing about an individual who has remained committed to one company for the entirety of their career. How? What did that business do that was so special? If your employees are content, they will be your strongest advocates for your business.
As a business owner, you strive to get the word out to the public about your services and the success of your work. Many do not consider the power your employees have. They are walking billboards and free billboards at that! It costs $0 to have your employees tell their friends, families, former colleagues, and strangers on the street how wonderful it is to work...
How to Optimize Your Search Results in Google Discover
Google is at it again to ensure that consumers are seeing content that actually matters to them. Google Discover is “helping you stay organized and in the know about the things that matter to you.” Google is doing the guesswork based on the content you normally consume, search for, or are sent from others. You are fed content that you didn't even know you wanted or needed.
So, what’s the catch? There’s no way to optimize your search results in Google Discover. As a business, you’re probably wondering, “how can I appear on my consumers’ search page?” Well, that’s not the point of Google Discover. But there are two simple tips that researchers have found to be helpful in better understanding and utilizing the platform:
- Post content that you think users would find interesting.
- Use high-quality images in your content.
That seems like the bread and butter to most businesses anyway, right? If that’s...
The Marketing Resources and Updates You Need to Know In July 2020
We are living in a truly digital age. Our well-being is dependent on staying home and connecting through our devices. Big and small businesses are developing resources to help individuals succeed and learn more efficiently. With marketing being a fundamental contributor to the success of a business, it’s worth turning to a few helpful resources that highlight activities everyone should consider. If there’s one thing you do today to help yourself, read this. The Amplify team is here to shed some light on easy practices you can incorporate from the 2020 digital marketing trends.
Google Launches Free Tool to Help Businesses Create Short Promo Videos
Google wants to see your business succeed which is why they’ve created a free video creation tool for YouTube. If you’re a business owner with little-to-no video experience, this is for you! It’s a straight-forward, dummy-proof way of marketing.
Instagram adds stickers for restaurants to sell gift cards...
How To Build An Online Community From Scratch With Ash Czarnota of Go Galavanting
When I moved to Los Angeles in 2016, I immersed myself in everything outdoors. I took up peak bagging in the mountains of Southern California and Sierra Nevada. It didn't take long for me to notice the uneven ratio of men to women sharing the trail with me.
While the gender scales have balanced out over the years, the outdoor industry still suffers from a noticeable lack of diversity. In the same vein, it was hard to find online communities where women of the outdoors could share their experiences in a safe and moderated environment.
Armed with a background in marketing and a mission to cultivate a space to celebrate and empower wild women, Go Galavanting was born. Since 2018, the community has grown to over 17,000 community members with the #GoGalavanting hashtag accruing over 20,000 unique posts.
In this post, I’ll lay out the steps I took to achieve that growth and, with enough time and dedication, you can too with your own community.
Laying the groundwork
When...
Grow Your Email List With The Right Prospective Clients
Email is used by almost everyone in the first world.
More so than social media, email is the hub of communication and creates more conversions than any other platform. Email is a direct and effective line to your clients and leads to a larger, highly targeted audience. Let’s dive into how to grow your email list like a pro with tried and true content marketing tactics.1) Create something of value they want – Draw your prospective clients in with an enticing lead magnet. A lead magnet is a piece of content you offer to your audience in return for their email address in order to gain access to the content. That content piece could be anything; a cheat sheet, checklist, eBook, email course, or a white paper.
2) Deliver content consistently and ask them to share with someone who might find the information valuable – Your email subscribers are your brand’s biggest advocates. Having...
3 Reasons Why Your Brand Needs To Be Using Video
Any growing brand needs a video marketing strategy.
1) Different people absorb information in different ways – Visuals like video is an attention grabbing medium and is processed by the brain 60,000 times faster than text. As humans, we tend to avoid cognitive strain; video is more entertaining and digestible for your audience since it’s easier to process information when it’s in that format compared to any other. If 65% of people are visual learners...
Do You Need A Facebook Group?
Maybe!
Do you need a facebook group? You would absolutely benefit from one if you answer YES to any of the following: 1) You have a large team that you want to motivate, engage with several times a week, keep pertinent information relevant, start conversations, etc. 2) Have a dedicated community that wants more from you and your business that you can engage with regularly.If you’re ready to take the next steps, keep in mind a Facebook group requires consistent oversight, engagement, and administration. You’ll need to have the proper infrastructure from the start and the desire to keep things going for the long haul. While overnight success is a rarity, consistently nurturing and engaging with your group members is something that will lend itself to a healthy, growing, and prosperous Facebook community.
Unfortunately, the majority of business pages on Facebook cannot capture the amount of engagement the page owner desires or...
The Power Of Consistency For Your Brand
Consistency Is The Secret Sauce To Success
Thinking of all the ways you can scale your business from a marketing and sales standpoint is either a FUN or OVERWHELMING idea. If you’re leaning towards the latter (like many of our clients do), then it’s time to do one of two things – or maybe two of two things:Get back to the basics. This means training your focus and resources on your core 4-5 tactics that generate the most engagement and conversion for your business, and doing them exceptionally well. CONSISTENCY is the number one indicator of success or failure. Consistency defines your business practices and can make a lasting impact on how your business thrives. The best marketing strategy in the world is doomed to fail if you don’t execute it consistently. It also allows for effective measurement of strategy. Until you have tried a new tactic for a period of time and in a consistent manner, you can’t determine if...
Tips To Creating Better Content That Converts
Content is king.
Maintaining a consistent content calendar can help your brand convert. Content is king and it’s the ultimate inbound marketing practice for a reason. When you create content, you’re offering valuable information at no cost to your community, attracting more leads to your website in addition to retaining existing customers through quality engagement. If you’re at a loss of how to begin building out a robust content strategy of your own, we’ve compiled a few tips and tricks below: 1) Create a list of topics you can build content for – Build content around trending topics in your industry your audience will be interested to read about. You can organize your brainstorming session through topic clusters. Build out your topic cluster around your main keyword to create a pillar piece that covers that topic in depth. Moving forward, you can then craft shorter pieces like...
Build An Editorial Calendar You Can Actually Manage
Simplify your content management with an editorial calendar
For many of our clients, being active on their blog, with their newsletter, and through their social media channels is most challenging. And it’s not the idea of posting that’s overwhelming – it’s keeping a consistent flow of content on their feed that makes “content” hard.
What if I told you that you could take a lot of the stress out of your content strategy, simply by using an editorial calendar and being diligent about the planning process? That you could worry about what to post once a month, and just implement your calendar on an as-needed basis throughout the month.
Truth be told, this is how we work with the majority of our clients – and I’m going to walk you through the basics of our process below:
- Build Out Your Content a Month At a Time
While it may be appealing to build your editorial calendar...
