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How to Move Your Mobile Site to Responsive Before Mobile-First Index Rollout

What to Do Before Mobile-First Index Rollout? - Sachs Marketing Group

Though we aren’t exactly sure when Google will roll out the mobile first index, we have indication that it is happening soon. As such, everyone in our space needs to prepare by ensuring their website is responsive before the roll out. There are indications from Google that you should make sure your website is mobile…

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How Writing for SEO-Friendly Content is Changing in 2018

Writing SEO-Friendly Content is Changing - Sachs Marketing Group

  In the world of SEO and content marketing, the only reliable factor is change. No matter how you approach writing for SEO or what strategies you use, those strategies will become obsolete within a few years. This is how Google and other search engine giants prevent people from gaming the system. As time goes…

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How to Create Instagram-Worthy Photos to Grow Your Account

Instagram-Worthy Photos to Grow Your Account - Sachs Marketing Group

Creating Instagram-worthy photos involves understanding good lighting, composition, and the use of color. Utilizing the rule of thirds, experimenting with different angles, and ensuring high image quality are key. Editing photos for a consistent aesthetic and using filters judiciously enhance appeal. Capturing unique, authentic moments and storytelling through imagery resonates with Instagram audiences. Taking fantastic…

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8 Surefire Ways to Increase Content Engagement For Your Brand

Increase Content Engagement For Your Brand - Sachs Marketing Group

If you’re struggling to get engagement on your content, you may be discouraged. It’s a little disheartening to spend hours crafting content that you poured your heart and soul into, only to find it’s not resonating with your audience. But, it’s not the end of the world. If you know you’re creating quality content, here…

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5 Steps to Teach You How to Use Power Editor for Facebook Ads

Steps to Use Power Editor for Facebook Ads - Sachs Marketing Group

The Power Editor tool for Facebook ads allows advanced ad creation and management. It’s useful for handling large ad volumes, offering precise targeting options, and bulk editing features. Understanding audience segmentation, A/B testing, and detailed performance analytics are essential. Familiarity with its interface and features like custom audiences and lookalike audiences can maximize ad campaign…

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37 URL Shorteners and How to Create Custom Branded Shortlinks

37 URL Shorteners and Branded Shortlinks - Sachs Marketing Group

When you start adding UTM tags to URLs, they can get even longer, and more complex. We need these tags to help us track the URLs, but the longer they are, the less likely people are to remember them. That’s where the URL shortener comes in to save the day. They shrink the number of…

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The Ultimate Guide to Running Successful Facebook Ad Campaigns

Facebook Ad Campaigns: Ultimate Guide - Sachs Marketing Group

I’ve written a post on how to optimize your Facebook Ads strategy, but I’ve never taken the time to break the process of creating a campaign down step-by-step. For us here at Sachs Marketing Group, we’ve implemented countless social media ad campaigns, so we’re familiar with the process. But if you’re not – this guide’s…

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Best Practices to Building an On-Demand Content Strategy

Building an On-Demand Content Strategy - Sachs Marketing Group

In today’s fast-paced world, we consume content much differently than we did just 10 years ago. Thanks to the advent of DVR, it became easier to watch our favorite shows on our own terms, rather than at their scheduled air time. And as more people cut the cord in favor of streaming services like Netflix…

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Learn How to Keep Automated Outreach Marketing Personal

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How can something be automated and personal? Don’t the two terms contradict one another? In marketing, you hear two things preached more often than anything else: focus on building quality relationships with your customers through personalization, but automate your marketing where you can. After all, there are only so many hours in a day, and…

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Tracking Social Media Campaigns in Google Analytics

Google Analytics: Track Social Media Campaigns - Sachs Marketing Group

Your website and social media presence work together to build the foundation of your business – whether you actually conduct business online or not. While there are many tools to help you measure the success of your social media efforts on the platforms themselves, translating that success to measurable results for the business itself can…

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Is it Too Easy to Become an Instagram Influencer?

Is it Easy to Become an Instagram Influencer? - Sachs Marketing Group

Influencer marketing is far more than a hit new trend in marketing. Statistics. Being an Instagram influencer alone has reached $1 billion as an industry. It’s even poised to hit $2 billion by 2019. But, it may not be worth the investment to businesses that they once believed it was.   The Experiment One Agency…

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Tips for Creating a Stellar “About Us” Page for Your Website

Tips for Creating a Stellar "About Us" Page - Sachs Marketing Group

It’s safe to say nearly every website online today has an About Us page or a variation thereof. It’s essential to tell your visitors who you are, what your company does, and what they can expect to find on your website. It’s your chance to showcase your brand, your people, and your purpose. There’s more…

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Your Complete Guide to Creating Native LinkedIn Video Content

Guide to Creating Native LinkedIn Video Content - Sachs Marketing Group

LinkedIn is one of the last platforms to add support for uploading videos. Video marketing has a remarkable return on investment, and with the addition of native video, now those in the B2B space have an even better shot at using LinkedIn. Though the rollout has begun, if you don’t have the ability to upload…

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Do You Have What it Takes to Be a Great Content Marketer?

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In online marketing, you can find a slew of content marketers all across the spectrum, ranging from freelancers who focus on blogs, to agency professionals handing the content for Fortune 500 companies. Regardless of who’s producing it and why, it results in a flood of content – all at varying levels of quality – pushed…

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10 Tips to Avoid Writing Content No One Will Read

Tips to Avoid Writing Content No One Will Read - Sachs Marketing Group

Content is everywhere – and with the increase in content marketing, we can be sure that it’s not going anywhere. Of course, written content like this blog post is just a fraction of the content out there, but because it’s one of the most accessible things out there, it’s what many people turn to. After…

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The Best Practices Guide for Using Facebook Messenger Ads

Guide for Using Facebook Messenger Ads - Sachs Marketing Group

If you’ve ever spent time working in sales, you know the one thing that’s important is to make sure your customers know you’re there and available to them. Usually, that means greeting the customer quickly and asking how you can help them. It works when you’re in person, or speaking to a customer over the…

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Your Complete Guide to Repurposing Video Content

A Complete Guide to Repurposing Video Content - Sachs Marketing Group

Video marketing is hot, there’s no doubt about it. 43% of people want more video content from marketers, and 51.9% of marketers say video is the content with the highest return on investment. 85% of businesses now have an internal staff and resources to create videos in-house. Business have an average of 293 videos in…

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How to Write Faster to Supercharge Your Content Marketing

Content Marketing: Write Faster to Supercharge - Sachs Marketing Group

Writing is a necessary part of content marketing, and even if you’ve got a team of writers working for you, you may find yourself writing some stuff on your own. And if not, feel free to share this advice with your team, to help them improve their productivity.   Create an Idea Capture System That…

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Top Los Angeles SEO Firms… Clutch Names Sachs Marketing Group Again!

Los Angeles SEO - Clutch

Clutch named Sachs Marketing Group one of the Top Los Angeles SEO firms of 2017. If you’re new to reading the blog, we were also given that distinction three times in 2016. Clutch offers a leading online directory of SEO, digital marketing, and web development firms, aimed at helping those who need help with their…

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Is a Job Working in Social Media the Right Fit for You?

Is Working in Social Media the Right Fit for You? - Sachs Marketing Group

According to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) social media specialists are grouped in with other types of public relations specialists. In 2015, their median annual wage was $56,770, which is higher than the overall median wage of $36,000 for all workers. Social media specialists are the ones who are posting content on various…

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Don’t Waste a Penny: How to Allocate Your Digital Marketing Budget

Allocating Your Digital Marketing Budget - Sachs Marketing Group

When you’ve been in digital marketing as long as I have, you tend to notice when brands are making mistakes with their strategy. A lot of brands believe they must be using all available marketing channels to be successful, but in doing so, find they don’t have the budget to properly manage and execute campaigns…

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What is Dark Social and How Do You Track It?

What is Dark Social and How Do You Track It? - Sachs Marketing Group

Dark social doesn’t refer to some odd meeting of “chosen” social media professionals. It’s the term used to describe social sharing activity that can’t accurately be tracked, as it isn’t picked up by your web analytics platform. For instance, when someone shares links to your site through private messaging apps, email, or a plain old…

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Factors That Affect Website Speed

Factors That Affect Website Speed - Sachs Marketing Group

There are several factors that affect website speed. Website speed is affected by the quality of your hosting service, the size of your images, and how many add-ons or extra features you have. Making sure images aren’t too large, keeping extras to a minimum, using simple caching methods, avoiding unnecessary redirects, and using a content…

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Our 14 Step Website Migration Checklist

Our 14 Step Website Migration Checklist - Sachs Marketing Group

If you’ve determined you need to make changes to your website – either through a re-design, changing your URL structure, making the switch to HTTPS, or switching to a different CMS, it’s not a one-step process you can just decide to do on a whim. Making changes, particularly to the URL structure can have negative…

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Learn How to Properly Optimize Your Facebook Ads Strategy

Properly Optimize Your Facebook Ads Strategy - Sachs Marketing Group

If you’re running any kind of ad campaign on Facebook or Instagram, you could be spending way more money than you need to. Before you start running any new campaigns, take a few minutes to read through this to make sure your ads are as optimized as possible. Are your ad conversions where they should…

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