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Social media marketing is here to stay and now is the time for your business to be taking advantage. Today there are over 3 billion internet users and over 2 billion of them are active on various social media accounts. The important social media sites you should be using to benefit your business are Facebook , Twitter , and LinkedIn . Here are the top 4 reasons you need to be using Social Media Services to expand and improve your business: Gain customer insights : You should be using social media to collect data about your customers in real time. Every day there are over 500 million tweets sent out and 4.5 billion likes on Facebook. Behind these tweets, posts, and likes is an abundance of information about your customers- who they are, what they’re interested in, how they behave, and how they feel about your business. Use this information to adapt, grow, and appeal to your target audience. Incre ase brand recognition and loyalty : Your social media networks are new channels to s...

At DMC, we provide our clients with a myriad of online marketing services. We aspire to be a one-stop marketing shop for any business looking to grow and attract new clients. That said, as much as we’d like to be able to handle every one of our client’s needs, we know we can’t be masters at everything. Over the years,we’ve learned the importance of building business alliances and partnering with others to help our clients achieve their goals. Have you heard the saying, “two heads are better than one”? When you partner with a complementary business who can support your client’s goals, it’s a win-win situation for all involved. Collaboration is key. Working with a partner(s)allows you to brainstorm and innovate on projects in a way you may not have been able to do before. Ideally, partnerships will open the door to products, resources, and contacts not currently obtainable to your business. When you form strategic partnerships, it’s important all businesses involved are on boar...

While winter may be the season to withdraw and hibernate, it’s been quite the opposite here at DMC! We’ve been busy helping our clients achieve their event marketing goals using unique video solutions. Here’s a look at some of our recent projects: On the Quick We worked with one of our past clients to create collateral for an upcoming event on the fly! We had just 2 weeks to use our InstaVizion solution to create video handouts for event attendees that included a special event-only offer. Although not the ideal timeframe to work within, our team rallied together to get the job done for our clientwith production, shipping, copywriting, design, and video editing all completed in record time.“The event went well. We got a good 7 solid leads from there and the InstaVizion Video Handouts were a good conversation starter.” –Tony Aveiro, Director of Marketing, Endurance IT Show Up Big for Big Decisions We helped along time Marketing Masteryclient of ours prepare for an upcoming...

No matter what industry you may be in, keeping an eye on what your competition is doing should always be a part of your business strategy. Without doing a little digging, how else would you know what your business is up against? These days, the internet and social media make “spying” on your competitors extremely easy. Here are 3 simple ways to monitor your competition: Read Their Reviews Reading a business’s online reviews can be very telling. You can quickly learn what they are doing right and what they are doing wrong by what customers and clients are saying. If reviews are boasting a specific product or service, it might be worth adding to your offerings if you aren’t already. If you’re reading about what the business is doing poorly, use it as a means to differentiate your business and get a leg up on your competition. Sign Up for Their Email Lists Subscribing to your competitor’s public email lists is a no brainer. Quick and easy; you literally get their latest new...

If you haven’t already heard the news that’s been buzzing in the marketing industry, Facebook has updated their algorithm, again . This time, the update will affect what content is shown in users’ newsfeed from businesses, brands,and media outlets. The updated news feed is designed to surface content that is best performing amongst a user’s family and friends. So, to put it in layman’s terms –when a business or brand posts content to their Facebook page, the chances of the post being shown in its fan’s news feed is slim. Your friends at DMC are here to help. We’ve found a few ways to help your business thrive during these hard times in Facebook land: 1 – Join Facebook Groups There are thousands of Facebook groups out there. Within these groups, posts are prioritized based on how much of a discussion they spark. Do a little research and find which groups are most relevant to your target audience. You may find some groups with just a few hundred people, while other groups can...

At DMC, we truly put our heart and soul into our work. We recently worked with our longtime client, Keystone Heart, to create a one-of-a-kind keepsake for their global team. Our team worked with them in researching a gift that would last, then we created unique packaging and even completed the employee gift with a hand-written envelope. Here’s what Austi Hawk, Marketing Director at Keystone Heart,had to say: “We wanted to give something special to our team members around the world and DMC made it super easy! They helped research our “The North Face” jackets that turned out amazing. The message and design of the thank you card that went with them was heartfelt and professional -not to mention personalized with each team member’s name on it!I think the most impressive thing about this gifting project was how it was packaged: it had handwritten envelopes, the card and jackets were placed in bags to maintain their shape, which was tied with a beautiful red ribbon, and then mailed...

Last month, TV icon David Letterman launched his new talk show My Next Guest Needs No Introduction on Netflix. His first guest was President Obama. In his first televised talk-show since leaving office in 2017, President Obama and Letterman discussed everything from parenting and family, the Civil Rights Movement, the last presidential election and even social media. As marketers, our ears perked up to see what President Obama had to say about social media. President Obama discusses being an early adopter of social media in the political sphere for his campaign in 2007/2008. He shares how his team of volunteers and young 20-something’s “built the most effective political campaign probably in modern political history.” This gave him an optimistic feeling on the influence of social media. Fast forward to today, we know just how influential social media can be and not necessarily always so positive.Whether there be “interferences,” paid ads, or just the backend algorithm of...