One of the most significant parts of a marketing strategy nowadays is social media, and there is no escaping it. Gone are the days of solely relying on traditional marketing, especially if you are a small business just starting up. If you want your business to reach out to as many audiences as possible, social media is your best bet for helping.

Companies and businesses spend a large amount of money investing in influencers to bombard consumers feeds and stories with #Sponsored, #AD and #Gifted posts, but is it worth it? Is it triggering their followers and overall audiences or motivating them to run out and purchase the items they promote?

The micro-blogging platform, Twitter, bombards users daily with the odd 500 million tweets and provides live updates and information that ranges from the daily habits of someone’s pet cat to information on political speeches and issues, and just about everything in between.

Social media has forever changed the way we market, by allowing us to reach audiences from all over the world. When it comes to marketing your business nowadays, you must ensure you are utilizing all social media platforms to their full advantage. 90% of marketers consider social media marketing to be important to their overall marketing strategy. Social media engagement is a great way to help you strengthen your customer relationships. Here are 5 tips your business can use to improve its social media engagement. 

With the rise of social media, it is no shock that companies are reaching out to the top influencers on these platforms to help with their marketing. With over 1 billion monthly active users (and more than 500,000 of them active every day) it’s no surprise social media influencers use Instagram as their primary platform. 

Instagram influencer marketing is only predicted to grow. According to HypeAuditor’s latest report, the influencer sector is predicted to grow by $8.4 billion over the next three years and reach $22.2 billion by 2025. We broke down what exactly an Instagram influencer is and how it works. 

In this digital age, we’re often looking for new ways to keep occupied, especially now more than ever with the pandemic. We, like many, decided to give TikTok a go. At the start of 2020 alone, TikTok was downloaded 315million times, which set a new record for the most installed app in such a short period! Today TikTok has had more than 2 billion downloads, with over 689 million active users, and is only getting bigger as the days go on.

This is one of the many reasons why your business should start using this giant social media platform (if not already) to generate new leads, connect with customers and develop a stronger brand presence. 

Here are a few reasons why your company should be using TikTok as a part of your marketing strategy. 

With the increase in content marketing and decrease in traditional marketing, many organizations struggle with finding new and innovative ways to increase website traffic. There are various different ways to go about increasing your website’s audience, but using old strategies over and over again can cause your business to see negative results. If you are looking to increase website traffic for your business, here are 10 methods that are proven to provide positive results.

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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