Posts in Content Marketing
Grow Your LinkedIn Social Presence

Many people build social media accounts without ever utilizing them to their full potential. While it is important to be on as many platforms as you can, it is even more important to make sure your accounts are actively doing what social media does best: connecting you with your audience.

Here are a few tips to help you get the most of your LinkedIn page.

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Law Firm Marketing During a Crisis

The marketing response to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis has been between exploitation and abandonment. Many businesses have employed marketing messages that take advantage of the change and others have shut off marketing completely until things start to clear up.

Law firms that want to succeed during and after the crisis need to avoid both of these options. Instead, they need to shift their efforts and show their community the leaders that they are.

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Cross-Posting Facebook Stories

Facebook and Instagram are introducing the ability to cross-post stories on both platforms. If this is successful, it will make cross-platform users happy while simultaneously cutting down on regular posting times.

This is particularly important as social media managers and users spend a lot of time on content creation, sometimes even on duplicate content creation. With more stories available on Instagram, the algorithms will be able to do a better job of ranking what to show first.

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Branding Techniques for 2020

Businesses that are operating in 2020 have to focus on a variety of things to stay afloat. On top of boosting sales pipelines and ensuring they are always one step ahead of customers that are going to buy their products, one important aspect that all businesses have to focus on is branding. If you brand your products and services effectively, there's a high likelihood you'll reap the following benefits: increases in sales, better customer retention, boosted engagement, and much more. Below are four branding techniques most business owners and companies can utilize to make their 2020 branding efforts successful.

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Business: A Story of Humans

For the past several years, I haven’t gone a single month without saying something along the lines of “Your customers aren’t buying from a business, they’re buying from you.”

This sentiment that I often share with clients, prospects, and colleagues is all too often lost in the modern-day world. For the vast majority of our clients, they fall in the small or medium-sized business bucket. These are individuals who are going out there each and every day, sharing their experiences, telling their story, and connecting with others on a more intimate level.

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Marrying Marketing & Sales

Often, we find that when we speak with a potential client, they’ll frequently say something along the lines of “I don’t need marketing. I need sales!” If we had a nickel for every time we heard that one.

But the truth is that there’s a reason why every successful Fortune 500 company has a distinct department for both (and sub-departments within those departments). So, today we’d like to talk about why it’s important to marry marketing and sales together.

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Small Business Marketing Essentials

Believe it or not, starting a small business is always a huge step forward. Despite the plethora of competition, in time, you’ll find that you have much more freedom, cash flow, and ownership than you ever would working for a much larger organization.

For me, one of the early lessons I learned is that I can’t do it all. For instance, you might be effective at running the day-to-day operations of your business, however, marketing might be a foreign concept.

But it doesn’t have to be daunting. As a matter of fact, there are four easy ways to launch your digital marketing strategy.

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Building a Brand

When I was in college, one of the first marketing concepts I learned was about the power of a brand. “A brand is a promise,” my professor would say. “It’s a promise to your customers to uphold certain values that represent how you want to do business and be seen by the rest of the world.”

These values can range from creating the expectation of excellent customer service to following a code of ethics with each transaction. The important thing is that those values are consistent throughout a business’ life.

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How I Beat Anthony Rizzo

Our marketing agency is based in Chicago, a town shared with extremely popular World Series champion, Anthony Rizzo. And articles on the champ dominated search results.

When we first formalized our company at the beginning of April, Rizzo Young Marketing’s SEO was virtually nonexistent. Being a new company, this makes perfect sense.

But with our combined backgrounds, Maria and I knew exactly where to start: Organic Content. We created social media profiles across every mainstream platform, created a secure, mobile-friendly website, and set up our Google My Business listing. But there was one major issue.

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