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Your brand is more than just your company or product name. It’s one of the best ways of setting yourself apart from your competitors. Unfortunately, many business owners are confused as to what “branding” really means and how it affects their company. In a nutshell, your...

Small business owners understand how crucial it is to have a handle on their finances. Unfortunately, most small businesses can’t afford to hire a full-time accountant. However, a good accounting software makes it easier to monitor business accounts. It can also track...

BrightLocal teamed up with ChamberOfCommerce.com to conduct an insightful piece of research into the attitudes toward and usage of Digital Marketing by SMBs (small and medium-sized businesses). (In the survey, we used the phrase “Internet or Mobile Marketing” to make it clear to...

In the larger context of Google and now Bing’s Mobile Friendly algorithm updates comes a new consumer survey from SEO firm BrightLocal. The data show overall that consumer expectations of mobile sites, even for local business owners, have grown significantly since 2013. While...

Voice assistant offers basic business information via audio, additional details in its mobile app. From Siri to Google Now and Cortana, local search has always been a killer use case for search/personal assistant technology. And now Amazon’s Echo is playing in that space, too....

No two businesses are alike. Your products, services, goals, perspective and definition of success are undoubtedly unique. Your marketing should be, too. So why are so many marketing solutions inflexible and one-size-fits-all? Here at the Bing Network, we’re committed to helping...

Columnist Lydia Jorden discusses techniques to digitize traditional marketing in a way that allows your brand to connect with its traditional audience while maintaining competitive local SERP positioning. For local brands and companies, it can be hard to initially bridge the gap...

Columnist Andrew Dennis explains how link building is built on the same fundamental principles as effective marketing: thorough research, strategic promotion, carefully crafted messaging and sustained effort. The principles that apply to good marketing are the same principles...

With deadlines for 2017 budgets just around the corner, columnist Will Scott discusses why local businesses should be allocating more of their dollars to digital marketing. I’m sure you’ve heard the saying, “You need to spend money to make money.” But for small and medium-sized...

Only 2.62% of recipients click links for “more information” in marketing emails; however, we will send a collective of 361 billion emails per day by 2024. More along, 90% of marketing professionals say email engagement is the number one metric that can help them measure content...