Over 2 billion people in the world are connected through social media, with 20% of the world’s internet users having an active Twitter account. Twitter is a great platform to boost your business. We at Be 1st Online are equipped with the knowledge and resources to help you reach your customers through Twitter. Here are […]
Does Social Media Marketing Work?
LinkedIn has 467 million users. That’s a huge audience. Facebook has an astonishing 2 billion daily users. There are 974 million Twitter accounts. The list goes on, and the audiences continue to grow. It’s obvious that if you want to succeed you should be interested in this huge pool of potential clients. Ninety-one percent of […]
Your Small Business Can’t Afford to Make these Online Advertising Mistakes
Are you new to PPC (Pay-Per-Click) digital advertising campaigns? Or, maybe the time and money you’ve invested in your PPC campaigns haven’t been paying off? At Be 1st Online, we have run hundreds of successful PPC campaigns. Take our advice: Here are the top 5 PPC campaign mistakes we see all the time that you […]
The Importance of Customer Lifetime Value
When starting a business, it’s easy to overlook some of the more important details once you start getting a customer base. Most businesses rely on getting as many customers as they can as cheaply as they can. This may have been the way to do things in the past, but now things have changed. So […]
How Using Multiple Social Media Sites Can Grow Your Business
Today’s customers are not only sticking with one social media site. Your target audience is active on many different sites every single day. Actually here are some statistics from a recent study that show just that: – 28% are on 1 site – 24% are on 2 sites – 16% are on 3 sites – […]
7 Digital Marketing Trends You Should Act On
Have you ran a digital marketing campaign for your business before? What tactics and channels did you use? Here are 7 digital marketing trends you should know: – Content marketing is still the dominant technique. – Top 3 B2C content priorities: a) providing engaging content, b) utilizing visual content, c) measuring content results. – Facebook […]
To Hire or Not to Hire a Full-time Marketing Director?
To get your digital marketing performing at its optimum, you would need a Marketing Director to oversee the strategy and implementation. However, a Marketing Director would cost you $11,000 to $11,500 a month. This is a huge cost to deal with for most small business owners like you. As with any HR activity, there is […]
5 Easy Ways to Better Engage Your Audience
Every time a user comes to your website or social media page you have the opportunity to interact with them and turn them into lifelong customers! We want your customers to enjoy coming to your page and to look forward to viewing your content. So that leaves us with the question, what does your target […]
Effective Social Media Marketing Involves Two-way Conversations
Your social media marketing initiatives must be built on building a dialogue, where YOU speak and listen to your audience and responding to their wants and needs. Get them to talk. Then so can you listen and respond. Is your brand into monologues in social media? It should NOT be that way. You should take […]
How Much Should I Spend on Digital Marketing?
It is recommended that you invest about 15% to 20% of your monthly profit into online marketing. Internet marketing agency pricing varies, as does the online marketing cost for different strategies and packages. Why do companies engage in digital marketing? Companies invest a lot in online marketing, mainly because it is effective in more ways […]