Halloween has come and gone, so we all know that it’s just about time for the marketing to start up for the holiday season. If you maintain a Facebook page for your business, you may be wondering how best to get your audience into the holiday spirit. With that being said, here are five Facebook ideas for the holiday season:
Although we’re well into the month of October, there’s still time to optimize your website’s landing pages for the holiday season. If you sell products on your website or are running an online holiday promotion, take some time to review your landing pages to make sure your website is doing its job. Keep in mind that people could be coming to your website and landing on a number of your pages, not just the homepage or the ones you link to in your advertising. When reviewing your website, here are a few landing page tips to remember:
Rethinking Your Email Marketing Strategy
Love it or hate it, email marketing continues to be a strong marketing tool. For most people, including myself, our love-hate relationship with email marketing exists mostly due to spammer misuse. Thankfully, most of the obvious junk mail is usually filtered out, but even so, there’s also the issue of companies sending too many marketing emails, which can quickly become an annoyance to most people and cause recipients to opt-out from future communications. Read More “Rethinking Your Email Marketing Strategy”
By now you’ve probably had a chance to review some information about the new European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that went into effect in May. This new regulation applies to any company that interacts with European Union citizens, which makes it applicable even to small businesses in the U.S. who have a website or collect personal information from customers.
Reporting is one of the most important parts of any marketing campaign due to its ability to gauge success and identify weaker areas that need to be improved. One component of your marketing strategy where analytics may be particularly useful is email marketing, where there are an abundance of analytics at your disposal. When it comes to analyzing your email marketing campaigns, you may not know where to start. Here are three metrics you should care about, and why: Read More “3 Metrics to Help You Understand Your Email Marketing Campaigns”
GIFs are a lot of fun, and they can help you become very creative with your social media marketing strategy. If you have never made a GIF before, don’t worry— there are several apps out there that can help you make some fun GIFs using your smartphone and easily share them on social media, like GifBoom and GIPHYCam.
Making a GIF is simple: think of something that will resonate with your target audience and tell a story, record a short video clip, add some text to it (optional), and voilà! Read More “Consider using GIFs in your social media marketing”
Have you ever stumbled across a company who uses colors that clash with their logo, multiple different font types, logos with white backgrounds when they should have been transparent, or something else that makes their company’s aesthetic inconsistent? Maybe you’re guilty of a couple of those things, too. It can be hard to keep your company’s branding consistent across platforms, plus different employees handling branding tasks may have different ideas of what looks visually pleasing. If you’ve run into any of these issues, you should consider creating brand guidelines to use for your business. Read More “What You Should Include in Your Company’s Brand Guidelines”
Here at Pulse we have many opportunities to attend events, conferences, presentations and meetings. During these outings, we hear various people tell their stories to show audiences how they became successful. Every speaker uses their story to evoke an emotional response from the audience. It doesn’t matter if that audience includes one other person or several dozen, their story helps others understand why their business is an integral part of their personal story, and why that influences the way they operate the business.
Read More “3 Resources That Will Help You Become a Better Storyteller”
Have you ever wished you could find out what people do after they’ve clicked on your Facebook ad? Facebook keeps track of the actions users take while they’re still on the social media platform, but when a user chooses to click on your ad and ends up on your website, an entire collection of useful data about the actions they’re taking may seem lost. That’s where the Facebook pixel comes in.
“World’s Most Popular Search Engine” I typed into Google (the default search method on Chrome, also owned by Google), knowing full well the answer I’d be given. It’s Google, of course. With 72.48% of the world’s market share of search according to Search Engine Watch, Google is a powerhouse when it comes to finding information on the internet.
