How to Create a Small Business Budget in 6 Steps (+Templates)

If you want to be successful in business, then you need to know where every dollar goes. It’s not enough to have a rough idea—it needs to be on paper. That’s where a business budget comes in. But according to a study by Clutch, 46% of small businesses don’t have a declared budget. That’s almost half 😮. Budgeting can be intimidating, but don’t worry—you don’t need a financial or accounting background to create a small…

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Best Image Editing Tools to Create Killer Rich Media

[video src="https://neilpatel.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/8.-Instagram-story-ready.mp4" poster="https://neilpatel.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/8.-Instagram-story-ready.mp4"]I’m just going to say it: Visual marketing is the wave of the future. There’s no denying the power images have on gaining traffic, shares, and rankings. In fact, if you have at least one image on your blog post, you are much more likely to rank on the top page of Google. Images should […] …

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How to Optimize Your Facebook Ads: 10 Tips & Tricks from the Pros

Facebook advertising may have been hit hardest by Apple’s privacy updates, but it is by no means losing its effectiveness. In fact, according to Sprout Social, Facebook’s ad revenue grew 56% in 2021 alone, and according to Statista, there are 10 million active advertising accounts. That’s 150 football stadiums’ worth of Facebook advertisers. So: Facebook ads are still strong, and Facebook advertisers are a plenty—which means you need to know how to optimize your Facebook…

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12 Easy & Effective Ways to Increase Engagement on Instagram

Marketers and business owners are constantly looking for ways to interact with their audience. With more than 1.4 million monthly active users (Source: Statista), Instagram offers serious potential for building your brand. But you need more than just an account and an audience to experience the full potential of this platform. You need engagement. Comments, shares, likes, saves, and other actions that show your content resonates with your audience. In this post, we’re going to…

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How to Grow A Team of Influencers (And Why You Need Them)

Curious what an influencer is? Let’s start with a definition.  An influencer is someone with the power to affect (or influence) buying decisions due to their authority or public position.  Influencers are also content creators, publishing regular reviews, videos, and blog posts to engage their audience and encourage sales. Many influencers are minor celebs, but […] …

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Your Facebook Ads are Not Performing? Here’s Why

Looking for a diverse online ad platform that will put your marketing campaigns in front of tons of people? Facebook Ads is the way to go. With an almost endless amount of detailed targeting options and features, you can reach virtually any Facebook user with an ad. Combine those targeting options with the functionality of […] …

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The Big, Easy Cheat Sheet to Google Ads Audience Targeting

When you think of Google Ads targeting, you probably think of keywords. What you probably don’t think of right away is audiences: showing ads to people based on who they are rather than what they’re searching for. Audiences are one of the most powerful and underutilized targeting strategies in Google Ads, and you can target audiences in Search, Display, Discovery, Video, and Shopping campaigns. (Performance Max campaigns use “audience signals,” which is for another post!)…

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