GOOGLE REVIEWS are a great way to get your business to rank higher!

Did you know that Google gets over 63,000 searches per second? That’s pretty amazing! GOOGLE REVIEWS are a simple way to get your website higher search rankings as a part of your SEO strategy. It takes a strategic plan for all SEO strategies….however, Google reviews are a great and easy place to start.

Google wants to see your business is valuable and trusted. Ask your customers to share their experience and give you a 5 star review. The more they can write the better! This will also allow potential customers find you more easily and trust they’re going to have an amazing experience before they visit or contact your business.

Make sure you respond to all reviews the great, good, and not so good. This shows your commitment to your customers. And again, it shows Google you are a business owner that cares about your customers.

Due to COVID-19 reviews left for your business will not show up immediately. However, once we are back up and running Google has assured us all reviews will show up under your business information. Ask customers for reviews now during these slower times to help increase your rank when things are back to normal.

As always, please reach out if you have any questions or if you would like more information on how Smart Marketing can help your business develop an SEO strategy and strategic marketing plan.

Facebook – New Guides to Help Businesses Deal With The Impacts of COVID – 19

The Impacts of COVID – 19 & Your Business

SOCIAL MEDIA TODAY – ARTICLE AUTHOR: Andrew Hutchinson

What a year the first three months of 2020 have been.

It feels like such a long time ago that Facebook was providing guidance for businesses impacted by major bushfires across Australia, and now, The Social Network has published a new set of guides to help businesses dealing with the latest major event – the COVID-19 pandemic, which has effectively shut down the majority of the world.

With a wide range of sectors being hit hard by the ongoing impacts of the COVID-19 shutdowns, Facebook has published three new guides:

The short guidebooks offer practical advice on keeping yourself and your staff safe, while also protecting your customers, and maintaining connection, and operations, where possible, via your Facebook properties.

That includes advising people of potential impacts:

Facebook COVID-19 Guide
Facebook COVID-19 guide

There’s a range of ways in which you can utilize Facebook’s various tools for these purposes – and there are likely some you haven’t thought of. As such, it’s definitely worth taking a look at the tips and notes provided to ensure that you’re tapping into all the relevant options.

Facebook COVID-19 guide

Facebook also offers notes on alternate tools for connection using its platforms:

Facebook COVID-19 guides

And practical pointers, which apply to all organizations, across all your various access points:

Facebook COVID-19 guides

There are some helpful notes here – and while not all businesses will be able to operate through alternate channels, the considerations in these guides could provide key pointers on how you can make the best of the current situation, and minimize losses where you can.

How Retailers Are Using AI to Build Trust and Boost Conversions

One of the most effective ways AI is reshaping the digital retail experience is through conversion optimization. Explore how AI will power the digital retail experience in 2020, enabling retailers to boost conversions in ways that build trust with customers.Access now

Of course, online tools can’t totally replace what’s being lost, which is why every Government across the world is working to provide stimulus packages and prop up their respective economies. But with the lockdowns looking likely to stay in place for some time yet, it’s worth exploring ways in which you can maintain connection with your customers, and ensure that you’re maximizing all available opportunities to keep things moving within the environment we now find ourselves.

Nobody wants to be operating within a pandemic, but the more we can find ways to operate within the situation as it is, the more we limit the losses, and position our businesses to come out of the crisis on a stronger footing.

These notes from Facebook provide some key guidance and pointers on this front, and are definitely worth a look.

We are here to help you!

Smart Marketing Advertising Agency – Anderson, SC

We have a NEW LOCATION!

We have a NEW LOCATION!

 

We have recently moved into a NEW LOCATION! Please make a note that our new address is: 105 Crayton Street, Anderson, SC 29621

We are very grateful for all of our clients that have made this move possible!  We are looking forward to new and exciting adventures in 2019!

 

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

Smart Marketing Advertising Agency

105 Crayton Street

Anderson, SC

Website Design | Logo Design | Social Media Marketing | Google Marketing | Printing Services | Direct Mail | Graphic Design | Consulting | Facebook Marketing | Instagram Marketing | Advertising |

Smart_Marketing_Anderson_SC
We have a new location!

The Future in EVERYTHING Marketing – Smart Marketing Digital – South Carolina

The Future of EVERYTHING that Matters in Digital Marketing

POST WRITTEN BY

Bill Carmody

CEO of Trepoint, Author, Speaker and Executive Leadership Coach. I create breakthroughs for those brave enough to build a better future.

PexelsPEXELS

When TheWall Street Journal first had the audacity to create a magazine and event series called The Future of Everything, I had to stop myself from rolling my eyes. But then my curiosity got the best of me and I started reading about everything from the problems with fully autonomous vehicles to the new jobs being created as the era of artificial intelligence shows up in the next generation of software.

All of this got me thinking about the future of marketing. Having been in the digital marketing industry for the past 24 years, I’ve witnessed the utter chaos that has plagued the industry (and some would argue it still does). When I first started my career in 1994, all the industry pundits were advocating that television was dead and that broadcast media would soon be replaced with on-demand programming.

Twenty-four years later, television still commands more than 30% of total U.S. media ad expenditures, according to eMarketer, despite the decline in gross rating points and incredible fragmentation. Time-shifting DVRs haven’t stopped the sizable investments in television ads, and yet all of the networks are scrambling to create their own apps that force viewers to watch ads in order to stream content. Meanwhile, ad-free Netflix continues to be the platform of choice for cord-cutters. Or at least, that’s what investors believe according to The Wall Street Journal. And according to Pew, 61% of young adults in the U.S. mainly watch streaming TV.

What’s Next For Marketing?

In my last article, I questioned the power that content marketing still holds as we reach a saturation point. We already have a sea of content available today, with more being published every minute of every day. While it took a quarter century longer than the pundits of 1994 thought it would take, we are starting to see some fundamental changes in the way businesses go to market. A number of important themes are emerging:

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Despite all the hype, machine learning and intelligent systems enable real-time decision making and are becoming more affordable and accessible to all businesses. If we take a cue from Wall Street, the stock exchange floor traders simply couldn’t compete with machine learning, capable of analyzing more data points than a human brain can wrap its mind around. Marketing is already in the throws of this disruption path and will be fundamentally transformed by AI.

Automation, Chatbots And Growth Hacking

As businesses continue to mine their own data, they will begin to automate more of their process and become more interesting and relevant to their best customers. While chatbots today are still clumsy, they are getting better and will eventually become an expected tool for solving problems. The spirit of growth hacking will remain strong as businesses look to do more with less, leading to more technology-driven solutions to common business problems.

Blockchain And Cryptocurrency

For marketers, blockchain has the potential to build back trust, security and a more transparent and customer-driven value chain. For all the nefarious players that made their way into the Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), cryptocurrency still has incredible potential to impact everything from how consumers take back control of their data (and monetize its value) to changing digital marketing compensation models. As the kinks get worked out, the underlying technology framework will likely lead to some new innovation and much-needed transformation in advertising’s data security and compensation models.

Deep Personalization

Ever since Peppers & Rogers envisioned The One to One Future in their early 90s book, companies have worked hard to better segment their customer personas and speak differently to these groups. However, only recently has the technology actually caught up to deploy the true vision for a 1:1 future. And it doesn’t just stop with marketing, as we’re seeing the rise of products being built on-demand (and not just with 3D printer prototypes). We’re moving away from the one-product-fits-all model in favor of a build-me-a-product-just-for-me model.

Gig Economy

The very nature of work has changed. According to a Gallup study, the State of the American Workplace, there are roughly 100 million full-time employees and 51% are not engaged at work. That is, they don’t feel a connection to their jobs, so they do the bare minimum. Another 16% are “actively disengaged.”

When you couple that with agency retainers being replaced with project work, what you get is a growing freelance pool of resources and a host of companies and websites catering to the gig economy. This workforce on-demand changes the nature of how agencies can and will be able to service their clients going forward. There’s no indication this will change anytime soon.

Privacy And GDPR

This will mark the year that consumers begin taking back a degree of control over their personal data, thanks largely to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). As consumers take back this control, companies are going to have to reevaluate how they charge consumers for previously free services when no data is provided. This also has the potential to become an online version of the “Do Not Call” list for telemarketers.

Virtual (And Augmented) Reality

While still struggling to find critical mass, the early virtual reality (VR) work has been impressive. However much I loved Charity:Water before I was transported to Ethiopia, their VR experience was the first time I felt like I could teleport and actually be in the moment when a well was installed for an extremely appreciative village in Africa.

And yes, of course, there’s so much more that’s happening in the field of marketing. With 6,829 marketing technologies available today, digital marketing can be overwhelming. What hasn’t changed is the need to map your customer’s journey and understand how you can continue to add value (rather than just sell). It’s an exciting time to be in marketing despite the massive upheaval of so much of how we used to do things.

_________________________________________________

 

Smart Marketing: Digital Marketing Agency located in South Carolina

 

Article Credit: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesagencycouncil/2018/06/15/the-future-of-everything-that-matters-in-digital-marketing/#364818572bf8

 

5 Reasons Your Business Should Be On Snapchat

With a user base of over 100 Million:

Why is Your Business Not on Snapchat?

We found this interesting article on Forbes.com explaining: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ajagrawal/2016/04/05/5-reasons-your-business-should-be-on-snapchat/#3efb3b2b3db5

Want to know the no. 1 reason why your business can no longer afford to ignore Snapchat? Its user base has reportedly hit 100 million people. This alone should tell you all you need to know about why you can’t afford to dismiss Snapchat as something that’s not for business.

This guide is going to go into more than that, though. It’s going to show you why your business should be taking active steps to make a profit on Snapchat.

Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg

Reach The Younger Audience

Ever since Facebook went mainstream, young people have left the network en masse. The only way to actually reach the younger audience is through Snapchat now. This is the only proven social media network where they are regularly hanging out. If you are running a business with products and services targeted towards this audience, you are going to have the most success here.

It gives you a chance to have one-on-one interactions with this younger audience.

Show A Behind The Scenes Look

It likely isn’t the first time that you’ve heard about the importance of taking people behind the scenes of your company. It’s the ultimate act of transparency and it provides some exclusive content that can encourage people to get involved with your website. This is the way to build an immensely strong following and engage your audience.

It’s easy to do this on Snapchat and it doesn’t have to be planned or polished in advance. You can show off a slice of life working in your office. It’s an opportunity to show how real you are. Furthermore, Snapchat’s expiring messages mean that you can literally pull back the curtain, then close it again.

Get Real One-On-One Engagement

Speaking to someone on a one-to-one basis. For other social media networks, it’s almost impossible to do this. But Snapchat enables you to send content directly to your individual followers. As long as they are following you, you as a business have the power to send messages directly to them.

You can send them whatever you think works, but if it goes down well you can build a deeply personal relationship with someone. It can turn them into a loyal customer faster than ever before.

So what could you send them to get them engaged?

If you have a loyal follower who has made regular purchases from you, you may decide to send them a personalized video thanking them for their support. This simple act can go a long way to building bridges and giving you a positive reputation.

Easy To Partner With Influencers

Influencer marketing is all about connecting with influential people in your industry in order to reach their audiences. It’s also something they can do for you. There are so many personalities using Snapchat these days, including Vine stars, YouTube celebrities, and well-known Twitter accounts.

It’s easy to discover big names on Snapchat. They can help you craft great content and reach audiences that you’d never before considered.

Partnering with influencers on Snapchat can also spread brand awareness among your chosen demographic. It can even help you to discover new demographics that you’d never previously considered. A simple five-day campaign can completely transform what your business can achieve.

Prove How Cool You Are

Facebook made a $3 billion offer to acquire Snapchat. This was turned down, much to the surprise of the whole tech industry. The reason why Facebook wanted the company so badly is because it wanted to be cool again. It’s the only way to grab the younger audience.

Using Snapchat, which is a cool platform, will naturally make you into a cool company as well. When organizations attempt to be cool it nearly always leads to them looking stupid. But the Snapchat frontier is a path that can pay incredible dividends.

Conclusion

Hit the ground running with Snapchat and you are going to get a long way ahead of your competitors who have yet to consider using this social media platform. At first, you should simply get used to using the platform. Work with it on a personal basis to get an idea as to how it feels from the other person’s point of view.

Once you understand the customer viewpoint you can better engage with the platform through the eyes of a business.

 

How are you going to take advantage of Snapchat today?  We would love to help you – Smart Marketing Advertising Agency

 Credits: 
_____________________________________________________
Smart Marketing Advertising Agency
Digital and Social Media Marketing – RE: Snapchat
January 14th, 2018
Anderson, SC
864-224-6002
www.thinksmartmarketing.net

 

 

Social Media Marketing: Facebook, Instagram, Google, Twitter and more – Anderson, SC

Social Media Marketing: Facebook, Instagram, Google, Twitter and more!

Do you really need to market your business on all of these social media platforms? Yes, you do and more! Social Media and Google platforms are more important today than ever.  If you’re business is not on these platforms, you are missing out!

If digital advertising and social media marketing have you confused, we would love to help you! Contact Smart Marketing Advertising Agency in Anderson, SC at 864-224-6002 or visit https://www.thinksmartmarketing.net

socialdigitalimageonpage


https://www.forbes.com/sites/jaysondemers/2014/08/11/the-top-10-benefits-of-social-media-marketing/#736a2bbd1f80

The Top 10 Benefits Of Social Media Marketing

I demystify SEO and online marketing for business owners.  

 

 

socialdigitalimageonpage

Social Media Marketing

Social Media Marketing and Digital Advertisingsocialdigitalselecttion02

Digital advertising is growing exponentially, with endless possibilities. From developing websites and engaging email campaigns, to search engine optimization and social media, the key is presence and improving your search rankings within the local market. Individuals consume media across more platforms than ever before, and at Smart Marketing, we know how to put you there. With the ongoing revolution in digital media, it takes an innovative, fully integrated marketing solution to engage customer’s and deliver results.

Our Solutions

  • Google
  • Social Media
  • Online Directories
  • Website and Landing Page Development
  • Direct Email Marketing
  • Rich Media (Video)
  • Display Advertising
  • SEO and SEM

Every Business has a Story to Tell

Marketing tells your story – EVERY Business has a Story to Tell

At Smart Marketing Advertising Agency we focus on small, local businesses and people like you, who have a story to tell. We don’t just deliver customers, we create relationships.

Our unique approach begins within; learning, teaching, and branding. We are a full-service marketing agency. We bring value to your brand, by creating a campaign that is useful, measurable, and up-to-date. You know your audience, let us help you find and engage them.

We would love to help you tell your story – Smart Marketing Ad Agency

https://www.facebook.com/smartmarketingadagency/

socialdigitalimageonpage

Hi, How Can We Help You?