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If you’re anything like me, this year has flown before your eyes and now it’s almost 2022. As we approach the end of 2021, the holiday season is slowly creeping up on us all. For some, this is a time full of festivity, but for others, the thought of the new year approaching is all too much.

This season brings about great opportunity for businesses to employ marketing endeavors before the new year. The planning stage however is short, giving little opportunity to organize what will happen and when it will happen.

Holiday retail sales in 2020 reached $789.4 billion in the US, despite the pandemic and between 2018 and 2020, grew by over $66 billion. These numbers are set to continue to grow during 2021, as online shopping demands increase, rising by 6.4 million between 2019 and 2021.

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According to Statista, the US will have an estimated 301 million smartphone owners in 2022. The number of smartphone users will continue to rise as smartphone ownership is significantly higher across advanced economics such as the US, Australia, South Korean, and Japan.

Mobile devices are closely embedded into our daily lives. What once was seen as an exclusive form of telephone service is now a staple item for every individual. When Steve Jobs walked the stage at the Macworld Expo in January 2007, he introduced the world’s first all-touch interface, the iPhone. Who knew that the iPhone would become a key driver in the smartphone revolution? Ultimately, transforming how websites are being built and used.  

Here is why a mobile-friendly website is becoming more important: 

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As we once again reach the end of the year, we find ourselves again beginning to look ahead. With such drastic changes to the recruitment industry in the last two years due to the pandemic, our marketing strategies have also had and will continue to adapt to these changes. So, when it comes to looking forward to 2022, it is a reasonable assumption that a lot of change is ahead of us. Here are the Top 7 Recruitment Marketing Tactics that could put you ahead in 2022: 

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Having a positive user experience is a vital part of every business’s success story. User experience can be defined as the understanding of user needs to help create products and provide meaningful experiences to customers. Customer satisfaction is key for the adequate growth of your business, since it generally can help a business create more revenue and see growth. One of the most important ways to have a message reach your audience is by publishing content that is engaging, but also offering direct value.

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It takes a great deal of effort to increase organic search visibility and rankings. If you want to optimize the amount of traffic attracted to your website, you need to get smarter with your content.

The problem faced by marketers is how to effectively increase search engine rankings whist being innovative in the way they do so.

Search engine optimization (SEO) and content marketing are usually considered as two separate entities, when in reality, they are very much interconnected and complement with each other. Understanding how to incorporate the two and how they can work in harmony with one and other is the first step in addressing search engine ranking.

So, what is search engine optimization (SEO) content writing, and why is it important? Read more to find out: 

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What is video content marketing? This form of marketing is simply adding engaging videos to your marketing strategy. This is integral to modern day marketing, as videos are a growing social media trend due to their engaging nature and ensuing success in achieving sales. In the digital era, it is essential for businesses to be up-to-date with the most effective and successful forms of marketing trends. Video marketing is expected to be a permanent trend and therefore essential marketing technique for your company’s tool kit. Research exposes that 74% of consumers that view an online video explaining a product end up purchasing it.  It would be impractical in the digital era to not include videos in your marketing campaign.

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There are no two ways about it. Email marketing is one of the most popular, cost-effective and highest performing marketing channels currently available. A recent eMarketer study shows that the average ROI of email marketing is 122%. The ROI of email marketing is approximately four times higher than its next closest competitor. Every study shows us that email marketing is performing well and looks to remain the case for years to come.

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When hiring a new marketing professional in your organization, you must think a little differently. The same can be said about the marketer you are hiring.

High performing marketers have certain traits and a mindset conducive to success. What that looks like is more similar than you may think.

While it may be scary starting a new role and learning the ropes, it can also be your biggest opportunity to star in a show that you take center stage.

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The world of accounting is ripe for disruption with recent reports from a Sage Survey acknowledging that being "reactive" the most common complaint of small to medium sized businesses with their accounting services providers.
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The current landscape between financial services firms and their customers remains precarious and dubious, to say the least. Firms are having to navigate boundaries that stand between complete transparency and understanding to develop symbiotic relationships with their customers. Digital marketing helps to bridge the gap between these firms and their customers – something that has been realized and become increasingly essential to firms all over the world amid the Covid-19 pandemic. 

Read on further to learn about 5 powerful and proven digital marketing strategies for any financial service firm.

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When you look at financial services firms, the first thing that comes to mind is accounting, financial planning, legal and management consulting firms. Although the breadth of professional services firms is much greater than that and includes marketing and recruitment, it’s our financial and legal counterparts that really struggle to stand out from the crowd.

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Atlanta has become one of the biggest hubs for technology companies in North America - with good reason. Not only is the city a great place to do business, it also has an abundance of talent, affordable real estate and cost of living.

With so many technology company startups, the need for out-of-the-box marketing solutions that help brands stand out from the crowd is heightened. "If you always do, what you've always done..." you may not have clients moving forward. 
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Facebook is the largest and most popular social media platform with 1.39 million active users. Facebook revolutionized social media and can be accredited with monetizing social media platforms with the use of Facebook advertising. Facebook's ad platform offers companies the chance to specifically target not only their prospective customer group but go a step further and target segments within your potential customer base.

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