Chances are that your business already has a social media presence. Whether you’re sharing your latest promotion or offering a behind-the-scenes look at your business, your social media content allows you to build a relationship with your customers and prospects. With 2.8 billion active users worldwide – that’s 37% of the entire population – social media has become a cornerstone of most digital marketing strategies.

But as the social world has grown more crowded, it’s gotten harder to stand out and grow your audience organically. That’s where social media advertising comes in. It offers an opportunity to make your social media content – content you’re already creating – work harder for you. Done well, social media advertising can help build your brand awareness, increase engagement, and ultimately, improve your bottom line. And done poorly? You risk wasting your money or alienating your prospects. So let’s take a look at what you need to know before you click the “Boost” button on your latest Facebook post.
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Have you ever visited a website and then noticed as ads for that business follow you after you leave? Coincidence, right? No. That’s remarketing, a simple and cost effective tool to help you connect with potential customers. Done correctly, remarketing can help you build brand recognition, drive repeat traffic to your website, and increase your sales. And if it’s not already a part of the digital marketing strategy for your business, it probably should be.

Let’s take a closer look at what remarketing is, how remarketing works, and how it can help your business grow.
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We live in a digital age, and that means that every business – regardless of size or industry – must have a website. Because most customers will visit your business online before ever setting foot in your brick and mortar shop or contacting you for services, your website is the first opportunity you have to make an impression. No matter what, your website needs to be a professional looking, authentic representation of your business and your brand.

Chances are, you spent a good deal of resources – likely both your time and money – on developing a website you are proud to be the face of your business online; don’t let it fall into disrepair! Regular website maintenance is an imperative part of running a successful business.
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Have you ever happened upon the term “responsive design” when researching how to improve your web presence? Responsive design is a phrase that gets thrown around a lot in small business marketing forums and pops up frequently on marketing blogs, but what is it, really, and why does it matter so much to small businesses wanting to expand their online presence and perform well in today’s digital world?

What Is Responsive Design?

A website with responsive design has been constructed in such a way that all of the content is viewable to a user regardless of whether they are accessing that site via mobile phone, desktop, tablet, or on any other platform. Responsive design allows for the optimum user experience across all these varying platforms and on screens of any size because the website is automatically adapted to the best-fit for the device, layout and screen size of the user accessing it.

Put simply, if your website is built with responsive design, it will be unified and easy to navigate every time, from every device.
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Google Search Console is a tool developed by Google to help website owners monitor how their site is performing in the Google Search index. Originally known as Google Webmaster Central and then later renamed, Google Webmaster Tools, this tool was eventually rebranded in 2015 to Google Search Console with the hope of expanding the tool’s user-base.

Google explains that the rebranding choice was made in order to communicate that this tool can be helpful to a wide spectrum of users – not just webmasters. Google Search Console wants to be useful to anyone who owns a website, including businesses. Everything that the original Google Webmaster Tools offered is still available on the Google Search Console, and Google is still continuing to add new features and additional functionality to make it more useful for all website owners who want to improve their web presence.
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If you’re like most business owners, you might be stumped by all of the conflicting advice out there on how to expand your customer base. You know that you’re going to need to start investing resources in a marketing strategy, but figuring out which marketing method(s) to employ and designing a strategic marketing plan can be daunting. Fortunately for your business, the marketing professionals at EmoryDay are here to help.

Firstly, you need an understanding of the types of marketing methods available to you. All marketing, from the sign on your door to the business cards in your wallet to your company website, can be divided into two categories: Inbound and Outbound Marketing.

 Outbound marketing is the term used to describe what most think of when they picture the work a marketing agency does. Outbound marketing tries to grab the attention of the greatest number of potential customers, broadcast a message and create name recognition and awareness in hopes that any potential customers out there will take notice.
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When it comes to researching comprehensive marketing strategies for your business, it is easy to get lost in the sea of bad advice or be overwhelmed by potential costs.

If you talk to a professional content marketing specialist, however, they will tell you that inbound marketing – and all the tools that inbound marketing strategies encompass – is the most affordable and effective online marketing tool today that a business can use to grow their customer base.

When building a marketing strategy, there are two different paths you can take: Outbound Marketing and Inbound Marketing.
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There are conflicting opinions as to what the optimal number of keywords is to include in webpage content. One thing all strategic online marketing professionals can agree on is that there is a fine line between having too many and too few keywords in your content. Gone are the days when you could simply include a high quantity of keywords in your content to get ranked higher.

These days, choosing how many and which keywords to use, and then using them effectively in your online content, is certainly more complicated than simply stuffing in as many as possible.

But, fear not! Now that websites with relevant content are prioritized over keyword stuffers, your business can expect to see not just better rankings in the SERPs, but better targeted traffic to your site in exchange for implementing some simple, strategic keyword placement in your online content.
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Email drip campaigns provide businesses a way to source leads, communicate regularly with customers, increase sales and re-engage customers.

The idea is a simple one: create a series of emails that follow a particular theme, target a specific audience, and accomplish a definitive goal and send them out on an automated schedule. It’s easy to see why email marketing has become an integral part of any strategic marketing campaign.

The practice of using email campaigns effectively is less cut and dry, however. In the act of trying to come up with the perfect formula for a successful email campaign, quite a few myths have developed about email marketing, and many of them are not only wrong, but may actually be harming your business.
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When a user enters a query into a search engine, there are two ways results are found and listed on the search engine results pages (SERPs):

• Organic Search
• Paid Search

Optimizing your website content for search and using paid search will set up your business so that Internet users are able to find you easily. Both organic and paid efforts share the same end-goal: to increase your online visibility, drive traffic to your website, and generate valuable leads. Employing the two strategies to get the most from your efforts is the balancing act all online marketing strategists work towards.

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