By Karina Tama Are you wondering how much more you can do to improve your Social Media Marketing ? Have you already tried the most popular social media marketing outlets without results? Well, stop worrying about it! I will explain in details four unique ways to engage people. First, you can start to host Social Media Events by organizing a virtual event on Facebook. This can be done by creating nice images and posting them on your Facebook FanPage . Plus, you can also send them to all your contacts. However, you need to think about an eye-catching name for the event such as: Happy Get Together. Then have the event for at least 24 hours so that you allow people to publish their Facebook Fan Page on your wall. Furthermore, you can get a lot of new fans, build loyal followers, and be the leader of this kind of event in your community. Welcome to our Facebook Party! I recommend using this approach once a month so that it will always build excitement. Send the event invita...

By Karina Tama CrucialClicks.com , leaders in Internet Marketing, is excited to announce that they have been selected to host an exclusive Google Partners Connect Event in Coral Spring, FL. The FREE event (link removed) aimed to educate business owners about how to best leverage their online presence and increase brand awareness across digital platforms. Local Business Owners of all industries located in Broward, Dade and Palm Beach Counties are welcome to attend. A panel of three top executives from Google Arjan Dijk, Fred Vallaeys and Ben Wood will be sharing their ideas on how to grow your businesses online. Arjan Dijk, VP, Global Small Business Marketing - Arjan , author of The Small Think Big Book, will share unique insights, inspirational stories, and actionable ideas to help small businesses thrive in a hyper-connected marketplace. Fred Vallaeys, Google AdWords Evangelist - Fred will examine how businesses can navigate online advertising and expand their online presen...

By Karina Tama Today, everything has gone global. That’s why Internet Marketing plays an important role in any business. Your business needs Social Media Marketing in order to inform, engage, generate leads, and acquire new customers. First, people are looking for solutions not for products. Now, Customers are trusting peer recommendations. Your business has to inform the audience about how your products or services work. Social Media is the best way to do it because traditional marketing will not reach out to all people. Internet Marketing does do this by using Social Media outlets. Therefore, you will get your audience updated about your business. Second, using Social Media and its tools, will engage your audience through different Social Media Outlets such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram, etc. Facebook is the biggest Social Media outlet. It has 1,310,000,000 billion active monthly users. Facebook gives you a huge exposure for your business. Twit...

By Karina Tama Here are this week's latest updates in Social Media. Enjoy reading and take advantage of the amazing things that are happening now! Facebook Facebook’s new feature: with a single click you can manage your groups "NEW Facebook feature: Manage the Groups you Admin with a single click" Announcing FB Newswire "Today, we're excited to announce FB Newswire, a resource that will make it easier for journalists and newsrooms to find, share and embed newsworthy content from Facebook in the media they produce." Facebook Nearby Friends "If you turn on Nearby Friends, you'll occasionally be notified when friends are nearby, so you can get in touch with them and meet up" LinkedIn LinkedIn Launches Sponsored Updates API and Partner Programs "Sponsored Updates Partners help companies improve the ROI for their campaigns" LinkedIn announced Certified Content Partners "They help connect companies with publis...

By Karina Tama Email Marketing is a piece of cake that needs your attention. Many people said that Email Marketing is dead, but it is not true. 3.3% is the Click-Through Rate (CTR) for Email Marketing . All of this depends on the way it is performed. Why lose that 3.3%? It would be better to go and get it. First of all, don’t buy any list. If there is a good list of Email Contacts, it won't be on sale. Nobody likes Spam, and when you buy a list, you are doing Spam. Buying a list will hurt your business because people will block your emails, and then you will never reach them. You are better off building your own healthy organic list. Now you say to yourself: “easier said than done”. Well, it will take time and effort, but hard work pays off. The best way to get your own Email Contact List is by Blogging. Begin by writing relevant content for your audience. Then you will build traffic and get conversions. I will explain this better here: Writing Blogs with titles that yo...

In order to make a difference, it’s important to create your own images . There is a reason why it is important to go an extra mile and work on designing copyright images. The reasons are: Google can't read an image, pictures have copyrights, and images are a great storyteller for Social Media. First, Google can't read images. We need to give the Search Engine extra information when we use an image. How do we that? Image ALT Attribute (ALT Tag) describes the image in readable text format and helps Search Engine crawlers to interpret the image content. However, how will we Image ALT Attribute (ALT Tag) an image that doesn't belong to us? We can only use some keywords. It works better to use your own images and use the ones that we can give titles to. The titles will include a keyword that we want to target with the name of our business such as: <img src="mylogo.jpg" width="257" height="329" alt="My Logo is Awesome">. ...

Building a website is a task that can be done by anybody. It just needs some templates and plenty of time to figure out how to build it. Developing a good website that meets your business needs is different. After an interview with Michael Schulman, Chief Technology Officer at CrucialClicks.com , I understood the difference better between a website that displays information and an optimized website for a successful business. Schulman said “A good website should be organized, friendly, fast, and have a mobile version”. First, an organized website should have a useful layout that meets any business needs. In the Self-Storage Industry, the customer should be able to navigate easily through the pages and find the information that he is looking for. The most relevant information about this business is the location page, the prices and the space availability. CrucialClicks.com specializes in the Self-Storage Industry. They have developed an API interface to integrate the website with Se...

The Self Storage Association (SSA) has recently updated its statistics, facts and forecast for 2014. It has a total of 52,500 storage facilities across the country with a market value of 83.9%. We can also say that it has 2.3 billion square feet that are destined for rental space in the Self-Storage Industry. This can be compared with 7.3 square feet of storage for every person in the U.S, or 21 square feet of storage for every household in the U.S. The properties that are used as facilities or spaces for rent can be compared with three times the space in Manhattan. The number of households that need Self-Storage has increased since 1995. It has increased to 65% by 2012. This year looks really good for the growth of this industry. Furthermore, Self-Storage has been a growing segment of commercial real estate over the last 35 years. In the real estate recession of 2007-2009, this niche of commercial real estate in the Self-Storage facilities only lost 2% in comparison with other com...