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Marketing Basics on LinkedIn

LinkedIn is a professional social media platform that provides a valuable opportunity for businesses to reach and engage with potential customers.

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Content for Lead Generation

One of the most common strategies that many companies utilize when uncertain times are ahead is investing in promotional content that focuses on the final stages of the buying journey for customers.

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The Pillars of Branding

Brand pillars are important for brand recognition purposes. They form a framework for developing a brand strategy. An organization uses brand pillars to define their unique position in the market. Brand pillars can be anything from values, visuals, to the workflow. Understanding brand pillars well increases the chances of success of a business.  They are an extremely important part of the business strategy and the important brand pillars are given below.

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Podcasting as a PR Tool

Today, podcasts are very popular as a form of audio entertainment. They are also an easy way for content creators to connect with their target audience. Publishing podcasting content is also easy as a broadcasting license is not needed.

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Advantages and Challenges With Social Media Marketing Efforts

There are many companies that have decided to invest in marketing and public relations  campaigns on social media platforms these days. In fact, according to a recent survey, around 90% of all US companies tend to use social media platforms as part of their overall marketing efforts. That means, for a company to be successful with its own social media marketing efforts, it needs to invest a lot of time and effort. This is an important aspect of social media marketing that companies need to keep in mind, and one of the best ways to circumvent all that competitors is by working with social media influencers or experts. Aside from that, companies have a few other challenges, as well as advantages when it comes to social media marketing.

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Overlooked Strategies for Improving Conversion Rates

There are some aspects of psychology in the marketing industry that have proven to be effective at converting potential customers, or at the very least, encouraging them to take the next step in their buying journey. One of those aspects that tend to be quite overlooked is specific words, also known as power words. The companies can use power words in their marketing efforts that are quite effective at generating more loyal customers for businesses and improving conversion rates.

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Creating an Email List

Building an email list is an important step towards a successful email program. Several approaches can be taken, with some working better than the others. An email list can be built from scratch. The option to subscribe to the email program of a business should be offered on every existing touch point possible. For potential subscribers, the email program should be easy and visible.

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Off-page SEO Essentials

Most companies tend to begin their SEO efforts with on-page SEO. Yet, one of the most important ranking factors on search engine rule pages isn't the efforts on a website, and instead, it's all of the backlinks that are generated from other websites pointing to the company's website. According to studies, some of the top results on Google tend to have an average of nearly 4 times more backlinks than the results that follow. However, on-page SEO isn't all about building backlinks, and it goes a lot deeper than that. Another essential element of on-page SEO is brand mentions, even if they're without a hyperlink. At the end of the day, off-page SEO is all about what search engines and other people think about a website.

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Why Keyword Research is Essential

Nearly 70% of all activity online starts with search engines and queries from users. That's why companies need to base any digital marketing and many Public Relations campaigns they create on keywords. The goal of keyword research is for companies to figure out what their target audiences are trying to find when they're searching online, and then determine what they need to do to rank on the various search engines for the exact same keywords that the audience is using. However, if a company doesn't know which keywords and needs to target, it won't be able to optimize its business website, know which content it needs to create to reach the target audience, or which phrases and queries it needs to use for more link building efforts.

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