3D Printing: 4 Small Businesses Cashing In On This Revolutionary Tech

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] In with the old and out with the new. That seems to be a common trend with technology today. Almost everyday the technology industry is flooded with new devices that are more advanced, affordable and efficient than the last. From dial phones to cell phones, computers to laptops and boom boxes...

How to Use Keywords to Target Customers on Twitter

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] There is dispute about which people did what to get Twitter off the ground in March 2006. As a result, we may never know if the company’s founders realized the breakthrough the micro-blogging service had stumbled upon for marketing. By limiting users’ posts to 140 characters, Twitter provided something no other advertising...

Matt Gottesman Shares How to Increase Traffic to Your Website

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] Are you having trouble driving traffic to your website?  In this weeks episode of Ignition,  Matt Gottesman, expert in digital marketing, shares how businesses can use one common tactic to increase traffic to their site. This is box titleQuestion of the Week: My business sells surfing gear online. We get a respectful number of return customers...

Create a Strong Digital Footprint By Utilizing Your Digital Channels the Right Way

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] How Americans (and the rest of world, which is quickly catching up) interact with technology is a remarkable transformation, circa 2014. According to a ComScore release, mobile app usage has exploded, leading online publishers are posting revenues that should shame traditional print industry, and traditional TV ratings saw pronounced declines with...

Facebook Launches New Call to Action Feature for Business Pages

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] Facebook launched their Call to Action (CTA) feature for business pages over three months ago, making now a perfect time to ask: have you tried out the new feature, how are you using it, and what kind of results are you seeing? If you didn’t know about it, or haven’t tried...

Six Shark Principles That Are Key to Unlocking Infusionsoft Success

Ever wonder what technologies Daymond John, from ABC’s “Shark Tank” uses to grow his Shark Tank companies? While there are many technologies out there to grow small businesses, one of our premiere software partners, the one that outshine the rest, is Infusionsoft. Infusionsoft allows us to get organized, grow sales and, ultimately, save time....

4 Golden Rules of Driving Traffic to Your Blog the Natural Way

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] So, you want to launch a blog, but aren’t sure where to start?  You’re not alone. There are literally thousands of blogs that are started on a daily basis, so how do you get yours to stand out from the crowd? Photo credit: Northeastern University   With 78% of marketing officers believing that...

Goodvidio CEO Dimitrios Kourtesis

GoodVidio: The Startup Story of Entrepreneur Dimitrios Kourtesis

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"]About 10 minutes after landing in Austin, TX for SXSW, I met Dimitrios Kourtesis, CEO and Co-founder of retail video engagement curation platform GoodVidio. GoodVidio is a product that helps online retailers engage and convert their customers, by improving their product pages with high-quality video content that has already been put on social...

remarketing tools

8 Remarketing Tools You Should Be Using

8 Remarketing Tools You Should Be Using Members of the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) share their favorite, and most effective, remarketing tools with us and tell us why we should be using them too! 1. AdRoll Adroll partners with companies like Facebook and Google for advertising, and it's particularly well-suited for geo-targeting and customer segmentation. It comes with an easy...

INC 500 study results

For the First Time in 8 Years Blogging Declined Among Inc. 500

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"]Nora Ganim Barnes, Ph.D, Director, Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts – Dartmouth, and team recently conducted a longitudinal study of its annual in-depth study on the usage of social media by the fastest-growing corporations in the U.S. in the Inc. 500 list. Among the findings, they discovered that...