Digital Marketing Blog.
Our digital marketing blog breaks down countless marketing concepts, talks about industry news, and explores material that otherwise remains surface-level. A large part of the fun of our work is the education process, sharing ideas and concepts with clients and readers while bettering Rizzo Young in the process.
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.
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.
A Website’s Bare Bones
Many business owners have at one point in time or another discussed building a website. While countless follow through on it, there are just as many who don’t.
Maybe, it comes down to budget. Perhaps, it’s more about indecisiveness with the site’s direction. In either case, perpetual inaction has a severe opportunity cost in credibility and even missed leads.
For those who don’t have an extensive budget (or time) to build a grand website, or aren’t sure how they want to portray their business, there are still three vital pages worth incorporating to provide your website with the bare bones treatment.
Parallax Isn’t Passé
Web development and design techniques are constantly in flux. Within a single year, a multitude of new trends will pop up to phase out the “old” ones.
In the case of parallax, it’s been incorporated in web design since 2011. Yet, this design technique is still picking up steam with the mainstream public.