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Adobe Slate Review
We review a free mobile app, Adobe Slate, which promises to help even the busiest of businessmen become amazing designers. Watch the video below and click HERE to see the product guide we created via Adobe Slate. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kIr4HbjK1E
3 Tips for Avoiding Bad Social Media Headlines for Your Garden Center
The right headline can be the difference between your followers (and their friends) clicking on your post or ignoring it. Marketing great David Ogilvy, who created advertisements for companies like Rolls Royce, once said “five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you...
Finding and Engaging Your Target Audience
This presentation was given at the 2016 Kansas Department of Agriculture Farmers Market Conference. Topic: Finding and Engaging Your Target Audience on Social Media.
Social Media Benchmarks for the Green Industry
How to Get Amazing Online Reviews For Your Garden Center
Whether it’s Amazon, Yelp, Trip Advisor, Google, or Facebook, we all love a five-star review while at the same time feeling hurt or angered when someone gives our business a low review. While some of us have been on that roller coaster, other small business are hesitant to jump into allowing...
11 Tips for Social Media Marketing
This presentation was given at the 2016 Kansas Department of Agriculture Farmers Market Conference and presented at a Western Nursery and Landscape Association Webinar.
Can Adobe Voice Help Answer Your FAQ’s ?
Every day we are inundated with tons of new mobile applications, websites, online tools, and a plethora of other stuff that promises to make our digital lives and online marketing easier. The big question is "Do they?"Â We've decided to offer a new series on ruralengagement.org that focuses on...
#NationalCatDay…at the Nursery?
Nimbleness and creativity can set your nursery or garden center apart in the social media marketplace.
Going International
Managing director Scott Stebner presents original research about garden centers and their use of social media marketing to the 2015 Marketing Edge Research Summit. Direct marketing researchers from across the globe presented their findings on October 3rd at the annual event held in Boston, MA....
Podcast Review: Is There a Way to Build Your Brand Without Paid Advertising?
Online marketing podcast: Is there a way to build your brand without advertising it? Podcast Title: Facebook Growth: How to create huge Facebook communities without advertising Podcast Date: June 19th, 2015 Michael Stelzner is the founder of one of the world’s largest business blogs, Social Media...
How to Measure Facebook Engagement – Part Two
We constantly hear from small business owners and social media marketers that they have a hard time engaging with their fans on Facebook. In this video, we introduce you to Facebook engagement metrics and how to use a simple formula to identify what type of content your audience is craving....
Podcast Review: How to Create Captivating Social Media Content
Podcast Title: Getting Attention: The Science of Being Captivating Online Podcast Channel: Social Media Marketing with Michael Stelzer Date: August 28th, 2015 Guest: Ben Parr In this episodeBen Parr, former editor of Mashable, shared his insights on his book Captivology and focused on three stages...