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Implementing a social media strategy is not always a simple task, and can take more time than you have on your hands. When properly executed, a social media campaign can generate website traffic to your website, while bringing in new leads for your business, allowing you to connect with prospective buyers.

Whether you offer your products and services to local consumers or nationwide buyers, it is essential that you make sure you are optimizing your website for local SEO.  When people perform a search in a major search engine (i.e. Google) for your products or services only one of two outcomes is possible: they will find your website, or they will find your competitors. Sure, you may have a loyal, local customer base, but you won't be able to attract newer and younger customers without the help of online marketing tactics and local SEO. There are several ways to approach the SEO factor for a local business based on whether you have just one, or multiple locations.

Inbound websites should be structured based on a few principles. You want your website to engage with users like the kind of engagement they would have if they set their foot into your store. You want to address their interests, their pain points, and provide them with ideas and solutions. Your website needs to take visitors through their own personal buyers journey.

If you are running a business website without a blog, you are missing out on some major opportunities to engage your prospects and increase web traffic. A static website that doesn't change or feature new content is essentially an online brochure. In today's social media-driven world where engagement with your customers is expected online, blogs are essential for marketing your business.

If you haven't figured it out by now, content is a very useful (and necessary) part of the wonderful world of inbound marketing. Many successful companies use content in a number of ways including videos, blogs, and infographics to improve their lead generation and to grow their businesses. For many inbound marketers however, business blogging has become one of the most effective platforms for publishing and maintaining great content.

Being a blogger is easy, anyone can sign up and begin writing, but to become successful at it? Now that's a skill coveted by most.

Marketing isn't always the easy concept to grasp, and often times people who are looking to employ such tactics need to seek outside guidance. If you need help starting your marketing campaigns for your business, searching for a local marketing company will be beneficial to you.

I have always believed that you’ll learn 10 times more about any subject through experience as opposed to a classroom, an article or a second-hand story. My time spent as an inbound marketing intern only reinforced that belief. There was almost too much to learn and I feel like I only scratched the surface, but here’s the big take-aways that I’ll carry with me for the rest of my career.

Traffic is something every internet marketer or blogger needs to survive online. It's not always kittens and rainbows, (although we'd like it to be) and sometimes you put a painstakingly enormous amount of time into a post only to find out nearly no one has viewed it. You have a stellar topic, an epic title and some solid content. So, where did it go wrong? The blogosphere is a big, busy world. With over 100 million blogs (and growing) it can be easy for your blog to go unnoticed.