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13 Mobile Marketing Software Solutions for Local Businesses

If you run a local business, then you may want to look into mobile marketing for your business.

According to research from The State of SMS, 90% of SMS messages are read within 3 minutes of receiving them and an estimated 48.7 million consumers will opt in to receive SMS messages from businesses by 2020.

Comparatively, according to a Hubspot study of over 25 million emails, the average email open rate is 37%. Other studies show that average email open rates may be as low as 20%.

Furthermore, SMS produces an average of 6-8 times more engagement for retailers than email marketing. They can also get customers to your business and result in an average of over 30-50% redemption rate for coupons.

So how can you get started with SMS marketing?

There a lots of software solutions for SMS marketing. Here are some that you may want to look into if you want to get started with mobile marketing.

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7 Unpopular Marketing Tactics that are Still Great for SEO

7 Unpopular Marketing Tactics that are Still Great for SEOAccording to a study by Forrester Research, 93% of internet traffic to websites come from search engines.

Another study by Outbrain looked at 100 million sessions to websites in their network and found that search sends 3x more traffic than social media.

SEO is still one of the most important ways to get targeted leads and traffic to your website.

But with all the information available about SEO, why are people still struggling with it?

Marketing tactics become less effective when everyone is using them. Sometimes it’s actually more effective to use tactics that aren’t as popular because there’s less competition.

And here’s the best part…

Some of these tactics actually make SEO easier than what most people are trying to do.

Want to know which tactics influencers are using to outrank their competition? In this article, I’ll cover 7 unpopular marketing tactics that are still great for SEO.

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7 Steps to Hosting a Virtual Summit that Drives Massive Leads and Exposure

7 Steps to Hosting a Virtual Summit that Drives Massive Leads and ExposureInfluence and traffic are two things that online marketers struggle with. Blogging is very competitive and if you’ve tried guest blogging, social media and other tactics, then you might have found that growing your email list, generating sales and building your influence is a really slow and difficult process.

One of the fastest ways to grow your influence while building relationships with influencers is by hosting your own virtual summit. If you host a really good summit, sometimes speakers will even share the event with their own email list.

In this article, I want to discuss my experience with hosting my first virtual summit, which will launch on October 6, 2017. I called it the Traffic and Influence Summit and the goal was to get successful influencers and business owners to share how they were able to grow their influence.

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10 Things Experts Haven’t Told You about Email Outreach for Content Promotion

10 Things Experts Haven't Told You About Email Outreach for Content Promotion

If you’ve been reading other online marketing blogs, then you have probably heard about how important it is to promote your content.

Experts also recommend using email outreach as a mean of promoting your content.

I’ve sent out hundreds of emails over the past few years to promote articles on my blogs and in this article, I’ll share a few things I’ve learned that other experts don’t usually mention when they talk about using email for content promotion.

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19 Competitor Backlink and Mention Monitoring Tools

19 Competitor Backlink and Mention Monitoring ToolsOne of the biggest challenges for SEO professionals and social media marketers is getting links and social shares to their content. One way people find opportunities is to find competitors, discover which sites are linking to them and then asking those site owners to link to their site.

However, a shortcoming of this approach is that sometimes your competitors continue to get new links and social shares long after the article has been published. Being able to monitor those articles or domains for new links and social shares would help you to continuously gets links and shares to your own content, wouldn’t it?

Fortunately, such tools exist. Here are a few tools that can help you monitor your competitors for new links, social shares and content.

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