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Feb172017 by VELOCENo Comments

Things You Should Do If You Want To Be Successful

Business

Things You Should Do If You Want To Be Successful (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); So.. What should you do if you want to be successful. No matter who you ask, you will get the answer "Keep learning". Every so often, you should ask yourself, “Am I still learning?” If not, then it is time to switch jobs or schools or the people you associate with. What kind of learning? Valuable learning is usually self-evident. Learning facts is useful, if the facts are important ones (the US banking system, for example, vs the batting averages of baseball players). You should focus on learning things that can help you come closer to your goals and improve your skills. Skills are important, and similarly to facts, you can tell what’s important (e.g learning how to be a manager

Feb162017 by VELOCENo Comments

How to Protect Your Online Reputation

Business, How-To

How to Protect Your Online Reputation (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Online reputation management has evolved in the past two or three years in response to the explosion of social media that amplified the voices of Internet users. More and more companies are becoming aware of the need to have some sort of tracking, as they should. In the online world you have to monitor what is being said and be careful what you are putting out there in the public sphere. While there is no doubt that the Internet has proven a phenomenal way for people to reach a global audience, this has its drawbacks. Like anything, it's open to abuse and people often use blogs/forums/review sites and so on to defame brands and people. Unfortunately, you can't always stop people say

Feb162017 by VELOCENo Comments

Things to Consider When Planning Your Marketing Budget

Business

Things to Consider When Planning Your Marketing Budget The answers to this question will vary depending on your organization’s size, but the core concepts will stay the same. Key Concept: Determine Purpose Before Budget Size & Budget Size Before Allocation 1. What’s your purpose? Are you acquiring users fast in hopes of monetizing them later? Are you building a marketplace where supply side and demand side must be kept in equal size to work? Are you cracking into a new market where no one knows you? Are you disrupting, preserving or catching up? (hint: you’re often doing all three but one is usually ahead of the others) Disruptors are heavy on acquisition and awareness marketing. Preservation marketing is heavy on thought leadership, sales enablement and ubiquity in your mark

Feb132017 by VELOCENo Comments

Social Media Marketing Tips For 2017

Business, Social Media, Social Media Marketing

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Social Media Marketing Tips For 2017 Social Media Marketing will become an even bigger thing in 2017 than it was in 2016 and there is a lot to think about for a brand that is just starting out or looking to expand its social media territory. The transformation of social network into digital marketing media has been a game changer for several brands. The exponential growth and evolution of social media has made it a primary focus of all kinds of brands for marketing. In this article, we´ll therefore write about Social Media Marketing Tips For 2017 that you need to follow if you want to be successful on Social media. 1. Make a plan It is hard to build a house without a map and like so run a successful social media witho

Feb72017 by VELOCENo Comments

Unique Ways To Build Brand Awareness

Business, Online Marketing, Social Media Marketing

Unique Ways To Build Brand Awareness (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Awareness should be regarded as the first step on the path to conversion. It, alone, rarely does much, yet without it nothing else is possible. To build awareness, regardless of which tool you use, you have to accomplish two things: 1. Relevance. The human capacity to ignore what doesn't matter is stupendous. The human capacity to notice what does, regardless of distractions, is truly impressive. Decades of advertising research have proven again and again that an ounce of personal relevance is worth a ton of GRPs. 2. Passive exposure. This is something even Google has come around to accepting, and they now advise marketers to model communications plans accordingly. The process of conve

Feb12017 by VELOCENo Comments

How Do I Generate Leads Through Email Marketing?

Business, Online Marketing

How Do I Generate Leads Through Email Marketing? (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Email marketing is a great way to generate leads but how do you do it? In this article, you´ll learn some answers to the question "How Do I Generate Leads Through Email Marketing?" 1. Write an awesome subject line Out of all the emails that have successfully landed in an inbox, you should be happy if 30% are actually getting opened. However, an open rate that is too low (under 10%) can show that there’s something wrong with your subject line. If you don’t have experience in marketing, I advise you to hire a copywriter to help you. For the best results, the subject line shouldn’t exceed 50 characters. Also, it should be cleverly designed to arouse interest. Some of the

Jan312017 by VELOCENo Comments

Things To Think Of Before Starting your Business

Business

Things To Think Of Before Starting your Business (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Coming up with sound investment ideas is as important as systematically carrying them out during the actual execution stages. Your question is as such vitally relevant for any inexperienced individual mulling over the prospect of starting a new commercial enterprise. Discussed below are some worthy considerations to weigh as you begin a new business. 1. Know Your Market Well You cannot achieve much out of a blind investment idea thoughtlessly carried out without any thorough study and analysis. Figure out the exact extent of your market reach. Have a deeper peek into the consumer traits of your likely customers beforehand. This is the only way to tailor-make your brand outloo...

Jan312017 by VELOCENo Comments

How To Sell Products Through Email Marketing?

Business, Online Marketing

How To Sell Products Through Email Marketing? (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); There are several great ways and answers on How To Sell Products Through Email Marketing?. Among my top favorites is the cart abandonment email. If you're in e-commerce, you know that cart abandonment is a big problem. Fortunately, you can use a perfectly timed email to remind the would-be buyer of items left behind in a cart. Statistics show that these types of emails can rescue up to 12% of abandoned products. How To Sell Products Through Email Marketing Proven step-to-step strategies that maximize sales with your prospects and customers through email marketing: Incentivize customers via email to review the product they’ve bought Use A/B testing To optimize open and

Jan302017 by VELOCENo Comments

How Often Should I Send Marketing Emails?

Business, Online Marketing

How Often Should I Send Marketing Emails? (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); The answer varies but we´ll try to break it down for you in this article. Context is king when it comes to frequency. There is no magical number that will apply for everyone. The amount of communication I can stand from your company depends on how I interact with you and how you respond in return. Use your conversion rates, click rates, open rates, and unsubscription rates to guide you. If you learn to understand your metrics, you will be able to tell when something is working and when you're being annoying. In the end, the golden rule is that you should provide your customer with something of value, however that value may be defined. It could be a tip to save time or a coup

Jan282017 by VELOCENo Comments

How Can Google+ Help me With SEO?

Business, SEO

How Can Google+ Help me With SEO? (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Google Plus is the product of Google so it will always give plus points to you and your SEO. Google is trying to rank the best, most relevant content higher, therefore it is your responsibility to not only create high-quality content but (for your own sake) to help Google identify your content as high quality. Presence and quality participation on Google Plus would help you achieve this and get several other benefits of Google Plus. So.. How Can Google+ Help me With SEO? 1. High Correlation between Google Plus Ones and Search Rank The quantity and the quality of shares on Google Plus on a particular piece of content were found to have a very high correlation with higher organic

Jan282017 by VELOCENo Comments

Tips for Successful Email Marketing

Business, Online Marketing

Tips for Successful Email Marketing (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Email marketing is one of the cheapest ways to strengthen your brand, promote products, and keep in touch with your customers and potential leads. However, getting people to sign up to your list can be difficult in this day and age. After all, would you give your personal email address to just anyone? Still, it's worth the challenge, to build a large list of email addresses that belong to real people who are interested in you, and what you have to sell. This is why we have made this article to teach you some Tips for Successful Email Marketing. 1. Make the Process Easy and Enticing! If you expect to get someone's personal contact information, you'll need to provide a tasty carr

Jan272017 by VELOCENo Comments

Does Email Marketing Work?

Business, Online Marketing

Does Email Marketing Work? (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Simply put, YES it does work. Stats say that email marketing is still one of the highest performing ROI channels. Higher than social media. There are a couple of things to be aware of, however: Make sure you are building a real list. Buying lists is rarely effective. Build the relationship and trust with your audience, by creating content that ADDS VALUE to your audience. Don’t always try to SELL SELL SELL! This rarely works. See above. Make your email list feel special. After all, they took the time to give you their email address, give them something back. Early access, additional value on a product, things like that. Don’t be boring and simply send out 10% offer codes, people

Jan232017 by VELOCENo Comments

Why Do I Need a Blog For My Business?

Blog, Business

Why Do I Need a Blog For My Business? (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); To build a successful business you need to have a deep understanding of your customers. Blogs allow you to do exactly if you know how to use them. So, Why Do I Need a Blog For My Business? Continue reading and you´ll soon find out. Let’s say you are a bakery shop owner and most of your customers love your cakes. Now with a blog, you can engage with your customers and they can constantly give you feedback on which flavors are good and which are bad. Additionally, you can ask for their opinions of which new flavor to launch and even more ask them to share your content on social media. A blog for your business can also help humanize your brand like no other. A lot of companies use their blo

Jan222017 by VELOCENo Comments

How To Advertise A Product Online

Business, Online Marketing

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); How To Advertise A Product Online Considering the contemporary advertising landscape, I would suggest using a mix of Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and Display advertising. As for SEM, try gaining experience in Google AdWords. This tool allows you to attract consumers looking for similar products or even your products. That way, you attract an audience that is already stimulated or have a clear intent to buy products within your category. Display advertising, on the other hand, mostly targets an audience that is not actively looking for your product category. Moreover, Display advertising allows for remarketing (e.g. target people who visited your website, but didn't buy anything). An important source for Display advertisin...

Jan162017 by VELOCENo Comments

How Do I Increase Traffic to My Site?

Blog, Business, How-To, Online Marketing

How Do I Increase Traffic to My Site? (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); How Do I Increase Traffic to My Site? There are lots of ways to increase traffic to your website and by adapting at least some of the tips in this article, you can increase your website traffic. In this article, we are bringing up a whole lot of tips, so our recommendation is that you bring your notebook, get a coffee and get ready to focus. So, How Do I Increase Traffic to My Site? Let´s begin and you'll soon find out! If you want to learn more about how you can use social media in order to get more website visitors, read How to get free website traffic from social media. Think about 1: You need to ensure your blog's value proposition is clear, focused and appeals to your targe

Jan132017 by OWNo Comments

How do I Convert my Followers to Customers?

Business, Social Media

How do I Convert my Followers to Customers? (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); If you are at the stage where you have a pretty decent amount of followers on your business's social media account(s) you have the chance of leveraging that and ultimately increase sales. Social media actually is a pretty powerful marketing tool in today's society and the best part is that it is free! At least most of the time. That is a free exposure opportunity that can improve your brand's reputation and increase sales - that you should be using. Now to the big question: How do I Convert my Followers to Customers? To begin with, the first step might be to first get them to your website. That means posting content that will interest your followers. After that, you ca

Jan92017 by VELOCENo Comments

How To Increase Website Traffic With $0 Budget?

Blog, Business, How-To, Online Marketing, Social Media Marketing

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); How To Increase Website Traffic With $0 Budget? With zero marketing budget you need "extraordinary content strategy" which should operate at different numbers/different platforms of user base as you grow. Okay, so How To Increase Website Traffic With $0 Budget? In this article, we´ll be showing you some of the ways to increase website traffic for free. Either get a person with great content strategy onboard, excite him/her with your vision, your obsession to succeed and give him/her equity. Alternatively identify a person/team who wants to work on exciting ideas, sell you idea, gauge their level of passion for your idea, ask them to work with you on deferred payments terms till you get revenue or funding. If you be

Jan82017 by VELOCENo Comments

What Are Good Startup Ideas For 2017?

Business, Entrepreneur & Lifestyle

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); What Are Good Startup Ideas For 2017? This is actually a great question. The world is getting more and more digitalized so if you have some knowledge regarding IT and computers, 2017 might be the perfect time for you. However, let´s get started on listing some answers to the headline What Are Good Startup Ideas For 2017? 1. Serverless Computing Think of this as the natural progression of Amazon Web Services etc. Instead of renting compute resources per month, you rent per CPU cycle. The economics are stunning - 10x-100x reduction in costs. Practically speaking this makes bootstrapped freemium a practical model (not just for VC backed). I expect this to drive a mushrooming in new SaaS startups, especially where compute cos

Jan82017 by VELOCENo Comments

Why Should Small Businesses Do Social Media?

Business, Social Media, Social Media Marketing

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Why Should Small Businesses Do Social Media? So.. Why Should Small Businesses Do Social Media? The reasons why your business should use social media are endless! In the list below, you can find some of the most important reasons to why you should setup social media accounts for your business ASAP! 1. Branding: It provides an alternative platform for people to identify your company. (Not everyone is searching for your company directly.) 2.Generate Buzz: Social media provides businesses with the opportunity to have conversations with you about things that also matter to you. (You can post things directly from your website, or post content that present you as someone who's well-informed about your company.) 3.Learn Your Audie

Jan62017 by VELOCENo Comments

Benefits Of Social Media For Businesses

Business, Social Media, Social Media Marketing

Benefits of social media for businesses (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); It's scary to see just how many business owners there are that still see social media as something for kids, but then spend thousands of dollars on a TV spot where they have little way of knowing the reach and success of the TV spot. Social media is becoming an indispensable part of the marketing mix for many businesses and one of the best ways to reach customers and clients. Social media is becoming an indispensable part of the marketing mix for many businesses and one of the best ways to reach customers and clients. Social media platforms are playing a bigger role in businesses these days. The benefits for companies of social media are many and creating "the past's" media mark...