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Influencer Marketing Strategies to Drive New Retail Customer Acquisition in 2025

Retail brands benefit significantly from influencer partnerships, whether as a results of expanding potential customer reach, driving new customer acquisition, or simply serving as a source of organic, user-generated reviews and tutorial content, expanding commerce growth in 2025 will be much more effective with influencer partnerships

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3 Tips for Digital Marketing During the Holiday Season

Believe it or not, the holiday season is just around the corner. These next couple of months are jam-packed with gift buying, discount shopping, and splurging on our family and friends. With that being said, it is vital that your brand is ready to compete for the attention of holiday shoppers, or risk getting left behind by your competitors.

In this article, we will go over three tips for leveraging your digital marketing strategies during the holiday season. What your brand should be doing, how they should be doing it, and what to expect for upcoming trends.

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31 Facebook Ads Trends for Ecommerce Brands

E-commerce is perhaps the most thriving industry that utilizes Facebook Ads. With so many different strategic elements, objectives, and audience enhancements, selling your product on Facebook should be easier than counting to ten. So why is it that so many companies struggle to reduce their costs, see a positive return, or even see any sales at all? In this article, we’ll dive into the latest Facebook Ads trends for the E-commerce industry and how companies in E-commerce can optimize their Facebook Ads.

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3 Easy Ways to Decrease Your Facebook Ads Costs

Running Facebook Ads is a constant battle between strategic elements. Keeping an eye on your daily metrics to ensure your creative is not fatigued, audience is not over concentrated, and tracking is accurate are all keys to keeping your overall ad costs down and return up. If you notice that over time your costs are not decreasing or worse, have been increasing, it’s time to take a look into what may be causing that.

In this article, we’ll dive into three easy ways you can keep your Facebook Ad costs down.

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How to Run Facebook Ads with $25 a Day

Knowing how to run Facebook Ads on a small budget is not only critical for local businesses, but for anyone looking to generate high-quality leads through paid advertising. A small Facebook Ads budget provides the wireframe that shows us just how to turn a cold audience into a warm audience and a warm audience into leads, all with a simple campaign funnel.

A small budget on Facebook forces you to set up multi-step processes that take time to screen potential leads and drive volume through the top level of your sales funnel. In this article, we’ll show you just how to generate qualified leads and drive more sales volume by spending just $25 a day on Facebook Ads.

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How to Create a Cost Effective Facebook Ad on a Small Budget

62% of small business owners believe that Facebook Ads are ineffective. The largest reason behind this belief is because Facebook Ads are seen as too expensive. While it is true that advertisers with a larger budget drive up costs, there are a handful of ways that local businesses can actually reduce their costs and avoid being outbid by the larger companies. Here’s our quick step by step guide on how to create an effective Facebook campaign on a small budget.

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7 Facebook Ads Trends for 2021

Facebook is a platform that is constantly changing. Whether it’s new policies, new partnerships, or current events, the way companies run ads and the way Facebook chooses to show ads to consumers is constantly changing. After analyzing several industry reports from a variety of sources, we put together this list of 7 Facebook Ads trends for local businesses in 2021.

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The Differences Between Facebook Ad Bidding Strategies

A common question for marketers who are just starting out is how to bid on Facebook Ads. Knowing the differences between each bidding strategy will help you optimize your costs for your chosen strategy and objective. The truth is, the right bid strategy can help local businesses compete with larger competitors and still produce great results. Here’s a breakdown of Facebook Ads bidding for small businesses.

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Which Marketing Platforms to Use for Small Business

Deciding which platforms your business should be on is crucial for connecting with new customers and growing your business. The most common mistake small businesses make is thinking that they should be on every platform possible. The truth is, you only really need to be present on a couple of platforms to be successful. So how do you know which platforms your business should be on?

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Social Media Trends for 2021

2020 permanently changed the way people use social media and there’s no doubt this will affect how businesses leverage social platforms in their marketing strategies. There is a handful of important data that small businesses should be aware of when developing a social media marketing strategy for 2021 (and on). Here are a few notable statistics and what they could mean for your business.

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Consumer Industry Reports: Restaurant Trends for 2021

Restaurants were arguably the hardest hit industry during the pandemic in 2020. With mandates limiting public gatherings, indoor dining, and business hours, restaurants experienced little to no foot traffic, forcing them to adapt and find innovative ways to cater to their customers. Delivery services like UberEats and Doordash experienced a skyrocket in market share and more than doubled their revenue from 2019. While 2020 brought devastation to many local restaurants, 2021 brings hope and plentiful hard-earned lessons. Here are some trends for the restaurant industry that will help them thrive in 2021.

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Consumer Industry Reports: Ecommerce Trends for 2021

The ecommerce industry experienced a massive increase in sales and profitability in 2020 and that trend is projected to grow even more in 2021. The Covid-19 pandemic forced businesses and consumers alike to adapt and change the way they buy, sell, and interact. The result was a new, innovative way to shop with convenience and ease. After experiencing the convenience of ordering a product and it arriving to your door within hours, it’s highly unlikely that consumers will regress from this trend after the pandemic. It’s essential that small businesses understand what that means for their industry so they can stay ahead of the trend and not fall behind.

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