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2023 Guide to Franchise Social Media Marketing

Hootsuite

Fear not, franchisor: Here’s how to plan, execute, analyze, and maintain a successful franchise social media marketing strategy that all your franchisees will get excited about. Bonus: Get a free, customizable social media guidelines template to quickly and easily create recommendations for your company and employees.

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What is social media marketing?

Search Engine Land

Just like that – in the blink of an eye – social media goes from hero to villain. And that’s only part of the reason why social media marketing continues to be misunderstood (at best) or divisive (at worst). What does social media marketing mean? Nothing in marketing is new.

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5 Steps to Create an Outstanding Marketing Plan [Free Templates]

Hubspot Marketing

Do you take a good, hard look at your team's marketing strategy every year? Without an annual marketing plan, things can get messy — and it's nearly impossible to put a number on the budget you'll need to secure for the projects, hiring, and outsourcing you'll encounter over the course of a year if you don't have a plan.

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Small Business Marketing: 6 Proven Strategies for More Reach

Backlinko

And how you can use them to create an effective small business marketing plan. Building brand mentions and engaging in social media marketing also affect your off-page SEO. Sharing your content on social platforms where your target audience is active increases your visibility.

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Local SEO for new physical locations

Search Engine Land

Best practices for aligning your efforts with paid search, social, PR and other marketing initiatives leading up to opening day and beyond. Local SEO: Setting the groundwork Marketers should optimize a client’s onsite and off-site presence to reach people in local markets.

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The Best Inbound Marketing Agencies of 2023

Hubspot Marketing

As recently as 2008, influential marketers were using inbound marketing to describe drawing in customers instead of outbound mass marketing. While every inbound marketing agency is slightly different, they have one thing in common: a focus on helping businesses attract customers by creating helpful content.

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Social Commerce and Accessibility Marketing Trends

Calvyn Lee Blog

Across markets, brands need to get creative with new platform features while emphasizing the legitimacy, value, and quality of in-app shopping Accessibility Marketing Trends About three in every 20 people worldwide live with disabilities, yet excluding them from marketing plans has long been the norm.