10 SEO Techniques (You Needed Yesterday)

10 SEO techniques (you needed yesterday)

I see you working incredibly hard to keep your social media updated and to have the most beautiful website. How come you still aren’t seeing any major results? Sadly, if you’re not steadily improving your SEO (Search engine optimization), it could all be for nothing.

When people search for a company like yours in their browser, you need to be one of those first results. Otherwise, your website will be greatly overlooked.  Employing SEO techniques is one of the most powerful tools any and every business can use to increase web trafficContinue reading

Marketing Evolution in 3 Infographics

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In many ways, marketing is as old as civilization itself. Since before the times of ancient Greece, culture has based its trading and selling upon the ability to move products faster than the man next to him. As a result, marketing was born–a concept birthed from the need to set an individual or group apart from the crowd. In many ways, marketing seems akin to Darwin’s “survival of the fittest.” The recent marketing evolution is a small part of this bigger picture and it is about survival.

To help you up your marketing game, we’ve put together 3 visual representations of the marketing evolution of recent years. Most of us don’t want our businesses to merely survive–we want to thrive. Transistioning to the new era of marketing is the only way to maintain (or gain) a position as a frontrunner or at the very least, stay in your client’s view.Continue reading

How Buyable Pins Radically Change Pinterest for Business

How Buyable Pins Change Pinterest for business - With Pinterest's buyable pins feature the opportunity is hotter than ever for businesses to make a name for themselves with a solid ROI and more. Check it.

Pinterest has a user base coming in at 72+ million and counting as of mid-2015, and with their new feature, buyable pins, they just radically changed the game for businesses.

Pinterest launched its buyable pins feature for iphone/ipad users at the end of June and in the coming months will expand to desktop users. This is an enticing opportunity for businesses, big and small.

Buyable pins means that now businesses can sell products directly through Pinterest, instead of using Pinterest to redirect shoppers to their own website.

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What Does Social Media Strategy Mean for Small Businesses?

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The concept of “social media strategy” is not new. Facebook, the flagship of social networking worldwide, has already been around longer than a decade. Since the inception of the Internet, people have used the web to make purchases, express opinions, and share content. For an artist, “media” means such things as wood, watercolor, and celluloid. For a journalist, media includes print, radio, and television. As social creatures, our media for interacting with one another include Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and all the other platforms made possible through the magic of the Internet. Looking at it this way, it’s fair to say that the Internet has been used for social media all along.

Just as commercialization occurred in earlier eras of the Internet, businesses are coming in droves to sit at the table of social media. The food is there, but feasting can be difficult for businesses that don’t know where to start. At Jemully Media, we’ve seen that social media and especially forming a social media strategy can be confounding for uninitiated business owners. How can something be simultaneously so personal and impersonal?

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