Instagram For Local Businesses: Find Your Theme

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Having trouble defining a theme for your local business Instagram account?

Instagram users offer tons of insight as to how people use your product or service.

And the good news is there are all kinds of free tools to help you hone in and find out what your current and potential customers want to see.

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Instagram For Local Businesses: Define A Strategy

local-business-social-media-marketingEvery Internet platform used to successfully market a business needs a strategy, and Instagram is no different.

Getting started on Instagram can be tricky…

Don’t travel too far down a road, get lost and THEN pull out directions.

Create a road map that works for you and …

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3 Mobile Photo Edits For Better Pictures (Snapseed App Review)

local-business-social-media-marketingBefore we even get into this post, let me make a disclaimer.

The businesses used below for examples are doing more than 90% (my math) of other local businesses in regards to internet marketing.

This post isn’t about what they are doing wrong…

it’s about what they …

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How To Start A Blog For Your Local Business

local-business-social-media-marketingYou’ve heard that blogging can help increase sales (which it can!)…

And you’re convinced that it can help your local business too.

But most local businesses never create a game plan to insure that they launch their blog successfully.

Don’t start blogging in hopes that that if you build it they will come.

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3 Tricks For Selling More Tickets To Your Local Event

how to use yelp for your businessWhere I live we have these people called “local promoters.”

If you’re not familiar with the term think Don King but for events that are 1/32 the size of Tyson vs. Hollifield (keep Kings’ ego).

Then take the promotion budget for …

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Easily Generate Ideas for Facebook Business Page Posts

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Chances are, as a local business, you have a hard time thinking of ideas to post to your Facebook community.

As a page owner you may be overlooking a tool that can vastly increase the amount of comments and likes you get on your next update…

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How To Show Up Higher On Google (The Ultimate Local SEO Guide)

ultimate google local seo guideHow do I show up higher in Google?

2 out of 3 local business owners that I consult with start the conversation with this sentence.

It’s a natural question to ask in today’s competitive local business market.

Compiled below is a list of …

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The Minimalist Guide To Marketing Your Business On Foursquare

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There’s a certain allure to coupons.

Even though they have been around for years they still seem to have that magical feel to them.

I personally love that feeling. I did however start, help run, buy out, and publish my own coupon magazine; so I’m a …

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3 Little-Known Uses for Yelp Check-In Deals

how to use yelp for your businessYELP. The new four letter word for local businesses.

Let’s face it, you either love Yelp OR hate it…

Chances are, you hate it.

Regardless of how you feel about Yelp there are some serious benefits for using it!

Let’s …

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Create An Endless Supply Of Blog Posts With This Simple Trick

local-business-social-media-marketingAre you looking for ideas to blog about for your local business?

There is a really simple trick that you can use in Google Analytics to help supply you with an endless flow of unique ideas!

Start writing for what potential customers want, today…

Take The Bad …

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