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Social Media Trends
Making an Impact in 2015
The internet now presents many
exciting possibilities for small
businesses to reach out to potential
customers, and the use of social media
platforms have helped countless
business owners manage customer
engagements and promote their
products and services in an extremely
targeted way. Here’s some of the
trends making an impact in 2015.
How to Dominate Local SEO
& Outrank Your Competitors
As a local business, there’s nothing
more important than dominating
local SEO. Your traffic is much more
targeted than online retailers and
it can’t be stressed enough the
importance of focusing your SEO
strategy on the right keywords and
phrases.
5 Fatal Beginner Mistakes
That Will Kill Your PPC Budget
Thanks for checking out our newest
issue of Marketing Soup, your online
marketing resource guide for small
business. Each month we will be
covering topics that resonate with local
businesses just like yours.
Our goal is simple. We want to enable
you to do big things online, and it all
starts by breaking down the complexities of marketing your business online.
It doesn’t matter if you’re are just
starting out, or an established business
owner in your local community, you
can always benefit from increasing your
brand’s visibility online.
To your Success,
Drawing in traffic to your Web site
takes time and a great strategy. This
especially holds true when you’re
using search engine optimization.
What a lot of small business owners
are finding to be quicker and just as
effective are Pay-Per-Click ads.
M a r keti n g S o u p is b r o u g ht to yo u B y
How To Monitor
Your Social Media Presence
in 10 Minutes a Day
Dojo Nation is the leading small business
marketing service in the Martial Arts for over five
years. We help small businesses connect with
more customers online.
Keeping an active presence on social
media means consistently adding
content, responding to comments
and posts, and listening to what your
followers are saying – which can be
daunting time consuming. These
five steps will help you monitor your
business’ social media presence in
only 10 minutes a day.
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Welcome To
Marketing Soup!
Randy Reid
Editor-at-Large
If you want to build your business, you need
to market, it’s that simple. But you can lose
thousands of dollars if you don’t know what you
are doing. So we urge you to take action with
some of the strategies we recommend.
For a more“hands off”approach, we offer affordable
solutions and can deliver results. We hope you
enjoy this issue of Marketing Soup and feel free
to reach out to us anytime.