Image with text: “#MarketingTipMonday Just starting to market for your business? Ask yourself: ‘How many hours am I willing to dedicate to marketing each month?’ BrightOathMarketing.com”

#MarketingTipMonday No. 80

If you’re just beginning to invest in marketing for your small business, figuring out how many: social media posts to create weekly emails to send monthly webinars to produce annually seems like a good place to start. In fact, the […]

Image with text:”#MarketingTipMonday The only purpose of your business' website is to convert. BrightOathMarketing.com”

#MarketingTipMonday No. 79

Your business’ website has literally ONE purpose: To covert. Depending on what your company does, that conversion might be: to get people to contact you to get people to buy to get people to donate to get people to demo […]

Image with text: "MarketingTipMonday Every image on your website needs BOTH a title and an ALT text. BrightOathMarketing.com"

#MarketingTipMonday No. 78

Yes! Every image on your website needs BOTH a title and an ALT text.  Here’s why: The ALT text is used to describe the image to both search engines and to website visitors who can’t see the image (either because […]

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#MarketingTipMonday No. 77

While you shouldn’t manipulate or fabricate your small business’s online reviews (on google, facebook, yelp, etc.), you can take strategic steps to improve them. Here’s how to improve your online reviews (in 3 steps!) … Step 1: Ask everyone right […]

#MarketingTipMonday Don't perfectly line up your staged content marketing pictures. Leave lots of extra background.

#MarketingTipMonday No. 76

To veer from stock photos, many small businesses will take “casual” (i.e. staged) photos of people working around the office to use on their website or social media. Smart! But here’s the tip to make your picture day even more […]

#MarketingTipMonday - Content marketing is a LONG-term strategy.

#MarketingTipMonday No. 75

If you’re expecting new business leads from your marketing investment this quarter, content marketing is not the strategy for you. Invest your money elsewhere. [yep, I said it] Yet, content marketing can be an extremely lucrative strategy with a killer […]