10 Ways to Improve Your Online Marketing Game in 2017



10 Ways to Improve Your Online Marketing Game in 2017

If you plan to run a business in 2017, you need an online marketing strategy. And if you plan to up your online marketing game in the new year, you might be able to benefit from some advice from members of our small business community. Here are some of their top tips for upping your online marketing game in 2017.

Create Awesome Headlines That Convert

When creating content for the new year, you need to make sure you have strong headlines. Those headlines can draw people’s attention and help you ultimately gain more customers. Here, Hassan Ud-deen shares tips on creating headlines that convert on the Hardenbrook blog.




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Get Customers to Trust Your Ecommerce Store

If you sell products online, then garnering trust between your business and potential customers is a must. If you’re looking for your store to gain some traction, take a look at this post on Getentrepreneurial.com by Megha Parikh.

Promote Affiliate Offers on Facebook

Affiliate offers can be a great way to increase the income for your business. And Facebook can be a great platform to promote those offers. In this post on the No Passive Income blog, Erik Emanuelli points out a few methods you can use to promote affiliate offers on Facebook. And BizSugar members comment on the post too.

Use This B2B Marketing Strategy That Works

When marketing to business customers, your strategies might vary from businesses that market to consumers. But there’s one simple strategy that you can use to increase your sales, as outlined in this post by Stefan Schulz on the Orpical Group blog.

Maximize Results for Your Products Using Technology

Technology can help you innovate and come up with new offerings. But it can also help you market and maximize results for those products. This Techlofy post by Nitesh Mishra includes some tips for using technology to make the most of your products.



Stop Trying to Innovate With Your Content

While content marketing can be a great strategy for all different types of businesses, some go about it the wrong way. In this Content Marketing Institute post, Marcia Riefer Johnston explains why you should stop trying to innovate with your content. And the BizSugar community also shares thoughts on the post.

Read More and Become an Expert Blogger in 30 Days

If you want to use blogging to market your business in 2017, then you need to become an expert blogger. And one of the best ways to improve your writing is to read more. This Process Street post by Ben Mulholland explains how you can accomplish that in just 30 days.

Generate More Comments to Your Blog Posts

Blogging is a great way to increase engagement between your business and customers. But if you can’t start conversations, then it isn’t likely to do your business much good. In this post, Ann Smarty of MyBlogU shares some tips for generating more blog comments.

Use These Resources to Up Your Webinar Marketing Mojo

Webinars can be another great resource for small businesses looking to gain traction online. And there are plenty of resources you can use to up your webinar game, like the ones listed in this Resonance Content Marketing post and podcast by Rachel Parker. You can also see commentary on the post over on BizSugar.



Drive More Repeat Visitors Through SEO

Repeat visitors are necessary for any business hoping to be successful online. And you can ensure some of that repeat business through the tips in a post about SEO by Neil Patel.

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Annie Pilon Annie Pilon is a Senior Staff Writer for Small Business Trends, covering entrepreneur profiles, interviews, feature stories, community news and in-depth, expert-based guides. When she’s not writing she can be found exploring all that her home state of Michigan has to offer.

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  1. These tips are already quite common and out there. Don’t get me wrong. They work. But it really does take some actual doing to see if something converts or not.

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  2. It is important to be a little bit creative. Knowledge is all around. What you know is certainly known by other people as well so better go with tips that are not well known or at least put some twist to what you know.

  3. Hi Cool tips to boost online Presence in 2017. Driving more relevant organic traffic through SEO plays an important in determining the success factor of online marketing strategy. Also Semantic search will be a game changer in 2017.

  4. Annie,

    Great ideas…

    I have to tell you-generating more comments is tough. I have not been able to for a long time. One or two here and there. I wonder if comments are starting to lose their importance?

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  5. Hi Annie,

    Good post. I particularly appreciate the focus on technology. With the growing abundance of cost effective marketing technology available, the playing field is really leveling off for small businesses taking on bigger players with bigger budgets. Technology should help scale and create efficiency. One thing to avoid is throwing technology at problems. Before long you end up with a bunch of individual pieces of technology and no scale. In theory, marketing technology should work together, creating a snowball effect to create momentum. To do that a business needs a rough framework for how they want to adopt technology. The easiest one to adopt is one that looks like you buyer journey. Find tools that help in each stage, relate to each other and then you’re in business !

  6. Hello,

    These tips will are really unique and so important for any business company. Should we use instagram to promote affiliate marketing?

    Waiting for your reply. Your views about instagam will help others.

    Thanks
    Sarah

  7. The article you linked to about content is a great one. The advice of looking to improve on your current content instead of trying to predict the future of content marketing is accurate. Most importantly, it’s important to have a solid content marketing plan in place that involves a professional content writer and an experienced SEO converter.

  8. The ROI a business owner can receive from the money they invest into a solid marketing plan will more than awaken them to the concept that marketing can’t be free or it won’t work. Sure, there are organic things every business owner can do to help things along, but real growth will happen when you invest in a professional team.

  9. Nice points By reading and applying this anyone can make money it would be so easy for everyone all because of you. Thank you so much for such wonderful blog.

  10. #1 is so important for your copywriting, when you learn to create catchy headlines your conversions go up quickly in my experience

  11. I think your every point will help me to grow my online business in the next level. Waiting for such a kind of post from you in the future. Thanks a lot.

  12. Great article!!

    You have shared are very important tips for a successful online marketing

  13. Thanks for given the nice presentation, Annie Pilon. Not for 2017 but till effected your guideline. Love you dear.

  14. Thank you for these marketing suggestions. Marketing seems very important. Hopefully, any business looks into getting the best marketing company.

  15. I have been wanting to get into online marketing for small businesses. It is awesome that you link to so many different resources linked in this blog post. I will have to focus more on SEO so that we can have more repair visitors.

  16. These are really great tips for improving online marketing strategy. I’ve been following some of these tips and yes repeat visitors are necessary for business success. Thank You for sharing, Keep up the good work!!

  17. I really like the post, always wanted that type of content where I thorough understand about digital marketing. It’s really helpful for me to for understanding what actually I have to do. Please post on affiliate marketing as well. Thanks

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    regards

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