With the impact of COVID-19 slowing down business for everyone, ImageWorks leadership decided early on to take a step back and examine how we could use this time to better develop our business. We revamped how we deliver some of our services, like our web design plans, and, afterwards, realized our digital branding should get an update as well.

Social media engagement is an enormous factor in bringing traffic to your website. Beyond the standard Facebook and Twitter presence, it’s important to branch out and use other platforms to maximize the benefits. Learn more about why Pinterest is a great, underused tool for driving web engagement, and the best way to use it!

The very big advertising problem

A fundamental problem with many advertising platforms, like radio and TV, is that the message they deliver often reaches the wrong audience, or reaches the audience at the wrong time.

Honestly, even a well-meaning businessperson could be using modern advertising platforms and still be making this mistake.

What constitutes “the wrong time”? Well, you can base that on where a customer is in their customer lifecycle. If you know what this is, you can go ahead and skip this next section.

You may already be active in your social media marketing with Facebook or LinkedIn, but is it worth branching out to Twitter?

Well, as always, that depends. There are a lot of things you should consider before diving in, and we mean it when we say every business is different. But we made this post to help you find out if Twitter is right for you.

In general, you should branch out to Twitter if you can answer “Yes” to two or more of these questions.

Contently.com is back at it again with another great article on social media marketing. They highlight four common misconceptions that can negatively impact all the effort you put in to your posts. It's a great reminder about what really matters in marketing; the end result, not just the upfront metrics.

If you'd like to read the article, click here!

Let's take a multiple choice quiz.

It’s almost the 4th of July, and that means you probably:

a) Have a ton of work to finish before Wednesday

b) Are super excited for the fireworks and fun

c) Need to come up with an awesome social media post & email campaign for the 4th of July

d) All of the above!

The IWC Team picked d, and to help out others in the same boat as we are, we decided to come up with this post to help you promote your business on the 4th of July!

But first, as always, some statistics.