Social media marketing, also called SMM, is the practice of connecting with your target audience through social media channels — think of brands promoting their products, creating content, or running ads on LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, etc. In today's day and age, SMM is especially important considering the following: 5.85 billion people are expected to join social media…

If you're like most business owners, you know that marketing is essential to your success. But what many business owners don't know is how to use marketing analytics to hone their campaigns and grow their businesses. Marketing analytics can help you measure the performance of your campaigns, understand your audience, and make data-driven decisions about where to allocate your resources.…

What are transactional emails? Transactional emails are emails that are sent anytime the customer takes a specific action such as buying a product, signing up for a service, downloading an ebook, requesting to reset a password… Such types of emails play a critical role in driving customer engagement. According to AtoZ Email Marketing, transactional emails have an average CTR of 4.8%,…

Improving your email open rate is mostly about understanding who you are targeting and why. While this may sound simple, most emails used for marketing go unopened simply because they don't find the right audience, nor do they have the right content. Luckily, there are some straightforward ways to improve your email open rate. How to improve your email open rate There are several ways…

Marketing a small business isn’t cheap, and few entrepreneurs have the budget to build a marketing department when they’re just starting out. And since the cost of startup branding services could range from $5,000 to $20,000 or more, many aspiring entrepreneurs can’t afford to hire freelancers or agencies when developing their brand messaging or using different marketing channels to promote…