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Social Media Marketing 2010: Trends, Tips, and Tactics

Just as you were getting comfortable with web analytics, here comes Social Media!, presenting a new set of opportunities and a new set of confusion. The overriding goal still is to integrate Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and any other social media tools into your marketing mix. However, following last year's overwhelm of social media as the latest and greatest, companies are now taking a more sober look at its ROI. That means finding ways to measure it, a new search for meaningful metrics.

Optimize Your Online Spend: Web Analytics Can Boost Leads and Closing Rates

If there were a tool that could help you land more qualified leads and close more deals, wouldn't you want to know about it--and use it--yesterday? There is. And if you're not using Google Analytics, you should be, says Boris Bugarski CEO and president of mUrgent, a company that specializes in franchise websites.

Improve Your Internet Spend

If you are not experienced at effectively analyzing "tech talk," take the shortcut to better buying and zero in purely on sales results. Conduct your research on various websites using direct-response questions. The sole purpose of your online franchise advertising is to generate quality prospects to sell your franchise to, just as you normally do. If you can't get satisfactory answers to the following questions from a website in business six months or longer, hold on to your wallet!

Who's on Hold?: Hosted PBX Offers A Cost-Effective Fix For Customer Service

With the downturn in the economy, good old-fashioned customer service can be a major differentiator for businesses trying to keep their existing customers and attract new ones.

Watch Your Words: Text Ads Remain An Effective Online Advertising Spend

Despite all the buzz about "rich media," the simple text ad is still one of the most effective ways of bringing prospective franchisees to your website, according to a report from market research firm iPerceptions. The study is especially intriguing, given its substantial number of participants: 14,000 people were surveyed about their ad preferences after they visited leading media websites.

Franchise Update Media Group and Oneupweb Join Forces to Deliver Comprehensive Digital Marketing Services

Franchise Update Media Group (FUMG), the leading industry resource for franchise development, and digital marketing leader Oneupweb today announced a unique pairing of resources. Oneupweb will deliver comprehensive digital marketing services to Franchising.com, including enhanced search engine optimization (SEO) and social media marketing. The companies have joined forces to develop industry-leading white papers and studies, and Oneupweb will also deliver important online marketing resources, including webinars and white papers to the franchise community through Franchise Update Media Group.

"How Have You Used Technology To Help Your Franchise System Gain An Edge In This Sluggish Economy?"

I stand in awe of how much technology has adapted over the last few years and how much of it I have adopted. Just a few short years ago, franchise portals seemed innovative and the potential silver bullet for finding more qualified leads. That space has now been overrun with new and exciting technologies, known to many as Web 2.0.

Site Selection Grows Up: Improved Tech Tools Make The Process Faster, Better

There was a time when franchise site selection was as simple (not to mention as rudimentary and often random) as pushing pins in a map on a wall. Maybe they turned out to be good sites, maybe they didn't. But as technology continues to evolve and the tools are recalibrated to further refine the site selection process, the art is becoming a science.


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