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Ephemeral Content Development: How to Utilize FOMO Strategy in Brand Marketing

With its soaring active user count, Instagram has become the hottest social media property. And a lot of the platform’s growth can be attributed to the rising popularity of ephemeral content. As more and more people gravitate to both creating and consuming this type of content, brands have also jumped on the bandwagon.

If you haven’t crafted an ephemeral content strategy yet, this article serves as a guide to how you can use the trending format to grow your brand, and ultimately, your business.

Have you ever played or heard of a battle royal game called Player Unknown Battlegrounds (PUBG)? Bunch of players dropped on a large map with a constantly changing environment, fighting to be the last one surviving. Either you adapt to the environment and fight for your survival, or you die.

This could be an exaggerated comparison. However, considering the competition and desperate need for survival, the game is not different from the eCommerce market today. In the eCommerce arena, you are not just competing with the players of your corresponding level but also the pro players who have already captured a huge section of the map. If you are not watchful, the opponents will take no time to load their AWM (eCommerce marketing ideas) and outrank your business after looting your body (customer base).

Just think about where are you in the map of current eCommerce adventure. Maybe you have just set up an eCommerce store recently, or maybe you have been in the market for a while now. Regardless of your business age, nothing works better without building an impressive plan. A plan that will help you leverage every marketing opportunity of what that is left of 2018. More importantly, a plan that will help you to stay prepared for what 2019 have in its store for you. Aside from marketing, you can also start using other platforms like ShippingTree to meet the needs and expectations of your customers.

Hence, here are the five biggest eCommerce marketing trends of 2018 that will also help you to survive the market in 2018 and generate innovative eCommerce marketing ideas for the next year as well.

What does content mean for you? Is it just something you create, or someone else creates for you to publish? So you publish it and promote it. Then what? Do you abandon it?

No.

Content is your asset.

Like any other brand, yours also strives to develop an online presence. That’s why you focus on posting on your blog and website, as well as on other blogs where you appear as a guest.

As Seth Godin once said, “content marketing is the only marketing left.” Content is not just something you publish and abandon. It’s your biggest marketing asset, and you have to learn how to take care of it. This means finding ways how to reinvent existing content assets and breathe new life into them.

We’ll give you four tips on how to do that.

Be it any successful lead generation formula or an academic conference, a webinar is something which is one of the most buzzing digital trends of the contemporary era. But, all the perks of any webinar goes into vain when there’s no qualified audience available for it. So, if you are going to lead a webinar at any time soon then to ensure that there is a perfect audience for you is quite obligatory. In such a scenario, if you want to entice a remarkable section of people then social media could be one of the finest options!

Yes! You read it right. Social media is not just for communication and promotion. It can be even an integral approach to increase the webinar attendance.

Do you want to know how? Then, just read ahead:

Marketing Strategies

It almost seems trendy nowadays to say that people spend tons of money on marketing than any other aspect of their business. We hear large businesses spend hundreds of thousands to improve their advertising to increase audience exposure, or a couple thousand more just to produce mindblowing content.

That’s good and all, however, if you’re a startup or a small business that’s struggling to get by, the thought is in the realm of impossibility. The great thing about modern marketing strategies, however, is that a lot of the effective ones aren’t costly, and even sometimes free (yay!).

In this post, we’ll be covering seven strategies that are sure to delight penny-pinchers or business owners looking for a way to cut back on marketing costs. They’ll give you the opportunity to re-invest your savings back into your business or perhaps use it for a different venture you have in mind.

Are you struggling to create viral Facebook videos? How well are your videos performing on Facebook? Are you getting much traction with your Facebook videos? Do your videos go viral on Facebook?

These are just a few questions to consider as we go down this article.

Facebook videos have taken over the digital marketing landscape in recent years, with nearly every marketer investing and using video content to grow their business.

Startups companies, B2C, and B2B marketers, etc, are using video marketing in their digital marketing strategies and they are going viral with their video content marketing campaigns. However, inasmuch as some marketers are able to make videos go viral on Facebook, many others are struggling to create viral Facebook videos. Why not check out a viral video like this Jimmy John Shark video here and know the reason how it went viral?

The truth is that you’re one of those marketers who is struggling to create viral Facebook videos. In that case, this article is for you.

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Featured snippets can increase organic traffic to a page by up to 516%, as found in a study by Search Engine Land. While many webmasters focus solely on ranking in the regular search results, featured snippets create a new opportunity to surpass the competition.

Ahead, you are going to learn how to optimize your content and SEO to achieve featured snippets in Google, and ultimately generate more organic traffic.

What are Featured Snippets?

Every marketer aspires to achieve the #1 rank in Google, but how about position #0? This is what many are starting to call featured snippets, as they appear higher than other search results.

Featured snippets are specially selected answers that are placed in a block below any ads but above the other organic results. You’ve most likely seen them before, and they look like this:

The future of SEO is right behind the corner whether you like it or not. That is why you have to accept this fact and move on along with upgrading our SEO and digital marketing strategies to make them even more appealing to the future realities.

In the article below, I would discuss 8 the most outstanding SEO trends and techniques that are waiting for us in 2019. Also, I would touch on the challenges and pitfalls in the way of obtaining a top rank in your search engine in the new upcoming year.

Many of you are pretty familiar with what search engine is and what it was back in the days, however, it is really intriguing to observe how it is evolving right now. Stick and stones might break my bones, but things like domain authority, backlink profile and for instance, authorship is the SEO of the past. Now, it is all about your reputation.

Nevertheless, despite the fact that reputation is undoubtedly essential, you got to continuously amplify it with new technologies keeping pace with your fastidious client; which means you have to improve your user experience all the time – no excuses.

Let’s see how user experience might show itself off in 2019.

The past decade has seen the rise of influencer marketing as one of the most important and common marketing techniques for many businesses and brands. In fact, as per stats, the field of influencer marketing has grown by around 200% in the year 2017 alone. Here are some other interesting stats about influencer marketing:

In the past year, there has been a 325% increase in the Google search for the term “Influencer Marketing”.
Almost 70% of the marketing firms have increased their budgets allocated for influencer marketing.
There is almost twice the increase in the number of influencer marketing platforms and agencies.
51% of the business owners think that they get better leads from influencer marketing.
Studies show that businesses generate more than $6 for every $1 invested in influencer marketing.

Now as we approach the third quarter of 2018, businesses have begun reviewing and analyzing their influencer marketing plans and strategies. Most businesses no longer think of it as just a social media marketing technique, in fact, influencer marketing is termed as the best for ROI and the fastest growing marketing technique.

When you improve website conversion, you increase the amount of revenue that you earn per visitor. Whether the user is navigating a website on their laptop or mobile phone, you must be ready to convert them to your cause. Optimizing conversion rates allows you to get the best results from visitors that you already receive, and you can attract new visitors simultaneously.

Differentiating what is most unique and valuable about your company and offer from those of competitors is a primary step, but you can do more than that. Consider these simple website conversion optimization tips to boost conversions for any purpose.

7 Marketing Strategies That Can Get You More Sales While Spending Less

How to Optimize Your Website for Featured Snippets

What are Featured Snippets?