Most review articles are about the mechanics of how companies can get more reviews. Not this one! In this article, you will find out how to write high quality Google reviews. If you’re a small business owner, you can share this article with your customers when you ask them to leave a review. Any reader will discover how high quality reviews help other people make buying decisions. And you’ll learn about how high quality reviews help your favorite small businesses. You’ll find out why you should leave more reviews for companies that you like, not just for the ones you dislike. You’ll discover why you should write at least 3-5 sentences and include an image. And you’ll learn why mentioning your location, not the company’s location, is important.
Category Archives: Sales and Marketing
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From articles about blogging for small businesses to whether or not social media marketing makes any sense for small industrial companies, to great tips on how to maximize your marketing at trade shows, these marketing and sales tips are useful for most small business-to-business companies, regardless of their niche. These articles, however, are especially useful for our primary target niche of small and mid-size B2B industrial, manufacturing and fabrication companies.
Our goal is to cover newer marketing topics such as how search engines work, Google My Business, local SEO, general SEO, targeted geographic marketing for regional businesses, Google’s E.A.T criteria, and more to help you in your marketing endeavors.
We know that marketing is very often a weak component for most small companies. In fact, the responsibility for marketing in a small business often gets dumped on a receptionist, an office manager, a human resources person, or simply the person in the office who seems to know the most about computers… But this person is usually not someone trained for the tasks and the full scope of marketing. So our sales and marketing blog articles try to make their life easier and their marketing efforts more successful!
We aim to remove some of the mystery of marketing, inspire some creative thought, and show you simple ways to boost your marketing efforts. And since marketing is primarily online nowadays, internet marketing is generally our focus. We’ll help you drive traffic to your website in hopes of converting those site visitors into prospects and eventually to new customers is the goal.
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Trade Show ROI for Manufacturers
Two articles combined… How to Make The Most Of Trade Shows and Are Trade Shows Still Worth It for Manufacturers? Timeless marketing wisdom on how to get the most ROI from your trade shows and a more recent article summary with great advice about sending the right people… sales, not marketing people.
What To Blog About In Your Business?
I highly recommend reading this great article 83 B2B Social Media Blog Post Ideas | Social Media B2B. It is full of ideas to create blog posts. Some of the ideas are great and others are completely weird. What 5 Experts Say About… Interview internal employees and ask them to answer simple questions (by email even) […]
7 Ways to Amplify Your Small Business Blog | Business 2 Community
An excellent article with 7 tips on what to blog. All small and mid-size businesses should follow these blogging tips! LINK: 7 Ways to Amplify Your Small Business Blog *** by Brian Baer, BaerMarketingNetwork.com
Social Media? C’mon, you gotta be kidding me!
Industrial Companies Don’t Do Social Media! Really? 9 points to consider and thousands of industrial users waiting for you! Do you remember back when people thought that fax machines were ridiculous? And then email… it’s too hard and time consuming… plus, who would use that? A cell phone? Why would anyone need a big, […]
Why Are You Making It So Hard To Buy From You?
If your company is like this, then you’re in big trouble and you need to fix it quickly! Here is the maddening experience I recently had. I’m in the market to purchase a treadmill so I was trying to keep my business with local companies before I went to a big box store. And here is […]
Does B2B Social Marketing Work?
“How One SMB Makes B2B Social Marketing Work” @thebyard @IVCiLLC @garyvee “Someone can search for a product name and we come up, which is great, but it doesn’t really show our value… Through social media and our blogging efforts, we can put out thought leadership content.” This is what Adam Kaiser, director of marketing at IVCi, […]
Easy Blogging & Bookmarking As Part of Your Social Networking Strategy
Serial entrepreneur and blogger Brian Wong had a great post about “How To Automate Your Blog Work Flow And Increase Your Search Engine Ranking.” http://ow.ly/7xciW So with a little bit of one-time effort setting up all of your social networking accounts, the workflow methods suggested by Brian can make your ongoing efforts very automated and very […]