The Pitfalls of Social Media Marketing: How to Steer Clear of Common Mistakes

Social media marketing has become an essential part of any successful digital marketing strategy. It's an effective way to promote your brand, engage with your audience, and drive traffic to your website.  Not understanding your audience  One common mistake that businesses make in social media marketing is not understanding their audience. It's essential to know …

The Ultimate Guide to Understanding SEO and Its Importance in Digital Marketing

What is SEO?  Search engine optimization, commonly known as SEO, is the practice of optimizing your website and its content to improve its visibility and rank higher in search engine results pages (SERPs). The ultimate goal of SEO is to attract more organic traffic to your website from search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo. …

Finding the Right Balance of Self Promotion

How do you feel about promoting your business or your brand through your personal networks and social media channels? Do you think it's appropriate, even vital, for someone to share news about their business or professional accomplishments? Or do you view this as tacky, uninteresting, or even annoying? It's likely you fall somewhere along this …

Reasons Why Your Website Visitors are Not Converting

There is no shortcut when it comes to website conversion. You might run various marketing strategies, invest in advertising, or endlessly optimize your pages. But none of this could provide a sure conversion, especially if not done correctly. You might get hundreds of visitors on your websites but less than 1% become a customer. Why …

Is Tiktok Selling Something You Should Consider for Your e-commerce Business?

TikTok is a social media app where you can make and post short videos. These videos can be of anything but are usually of people lip-syncing to songs or doing stunts. The app has been around for a few years, and it has since skyrocketed to extreme popularity. This is in part because celebrities have …

How to Properly Market Your Brand on Instagram (Guest Contribution from Jennifer Hahn Masterson)

The following post comes to us from Jennifer Hahn Masterson, an experienced content strategist with a focus on business communication. Learn from Jennifer's best advice on how to properly market your brand on Instagram. Thanks to the modern era that we’re living in, and the technology that’s evolving day by day, we have an opportunity …

Appealing to Culture: How to Effectively Reach Small and Diverse Markets

Over the last decade spent at the helm of Bennis Public Relations, I've had the distinct pleasure of working with a vast and varied network of vendors, businesses, organizations, and fellow consultants whose goal is to reach unique markets with highly customized messaging. It's been rewarding to team up with these individuals to craft the …

Writing Social Media Business Messages: 5 Essential Tips (Guest Contribution from Jessica Fender)

The following post comes to us from Jessica Fender, an experienced marketer and blogger who has been writing professionally for 3+ years and enjoys sharing her expertise with others. When you decide to become an entrepreneur or manage your own business, you know that you need to be visible on social media to have success. While the …

5 Marketing Psychology Tips to Boost Sales (Guest Contribution from Keith Coppersmith)

The following post comes to us from Keith Coppersmith, an experienced business consultant who serves small businesses and startups. Learn more about Keith in his bio following this article. If selling a product or service was as simple as meeting a need, businesses wouldn’t have to compete with better-designed websites, authentic brand identities, stronger SEO, …

PA Home & Garden Design Expo Establishes New Brand, Grows Attendance in 2020

Description The PA Home and Garden Design Expo is the Home Builders Association of Metropolitan Harrisburg’s annual four-day event that takes place in late February/early March at the Farm Show Complex in Harrisburg. As the largest home and garden show in Central Pennsylvania, this is a well-established and long-standing event that makes up a significant …