Podcasting in 2021

Whether you’re launching full-blown podcasts or embedding audio clips into written pieces, brands should be experimenting with audio.

Like many of you, I commute to work every day. I’m working from the office most days, so I hop in my car and prepare for a 40 minute drive each morning, knowing I’ll be bored out of my mind by the time I pull into the parking lot. Very early on, someone told me…

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6 Facebook Mistakes You’re Making for your Small Business

Is your small business doing everything is can on Facebook? If you can't answer that right away, we've got six tips for you.

You’ve been killing it all through 2020, working hard and surviving the pandemic. But you have this gut feeling your business isn’t living up to its full potential. What more can you do? You have social media, you have a website, you have a storefront, you have great customer service … what’s missing? Well, I…

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What is Content Strategy?

It may be through calendars or sticky-notes or color coded highlighters, but we have a process. At the root of it all, is content strategy.

Every plan needs a plan before you can plan it. Does that make sense? If you work in marketing, it’s the only way you live. We are always thinking ten steps ahead and, if our schedule falls behind, everyone is catching up. It’s a weird world, but it’s how we can stay structured and on…

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Party like it’s 2021!

Remember socially demanding parties? Social media apps are kind of the same thing. Just like those parties, our presence is needed.

Do you remember the before-times? The days pre-pandemic when being invited to a party was not only allowed, but something you looked forward to without fear of illness or public shaming? But, what about those parties you HAD to attend—the office party, the one at your parent’s house, the one where you only really know…

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7 TikTok Trends to Up Your Social Game

TikTok is bigger than most people realize. Here are seven TikTok trends we’re seeing right now at Rooted Web.

TikTok is bigger than most people realize. Not only is it the fastest growing social media platform in the world, it’s also insanely addictive and fun. From a business standpoint, there are a number of trends to pay attention to as the app’s popularity grows in 2021. Here are seven TikTok trends we’re seeing right…

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Improving Your Digital Diet

Your business or organization is interesting. It’s unique, successful and strong. Don’t sully that by resorting to empty calorie marketing.

As someone who’s been on a diet off-and-on most of my life, empty calories are the worst. Nothing can set a hungry person off more than craving something you know isn’t “good” for you because it’s nothing but sugar, fat or alcohol. It exists, you want it, you have it, you get nothing positive from…

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5 Types of Email Marketing That Can Help Your Business

Anytime a company sends out an email, aside from order confirmations and direct responses, it can be considered a form of email marketing.

If someone asked me what I thought about email marketing ten years ago, I would have rolled my eyes and walked away. If someone asked me the same question five years ago, my eyes would have rolled and I’d chuckle. Today, when someone asks me that same question, I have a lot to say. Like,…

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What’s a Landing Page, and Why is it Important?

A landing page is a standalone web page that someone can “land” on when they click through from a digital location. Should I have one?

As someone who has done marketing for a number of industries for a good chunk of a decade, I’m never surprised when I learn something new. Things in this industry are constantly being developed or evolving—it’s part of the fun of being in marketing! One thing I learned about recently was an SEO tool called…

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Creating The Ultimate Local Business Listing on Google

You may have an amazing company, but if you don’t show up as a local business listing on Google, no one knows who you are.

Here’s the thing about the internet—you can have an amazing company with skills no one else has and prices lower than your competitors, but if you don’t show up in a Google search, no one knows who you are. People aren’t using YellowPages anymore and, though word of mouth is still a fantastic reference tool,…

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10 Ways to Increase Engagement on Instagram in 2021

There are so many helpful ways to maximize Instagram engagement and visibility. Here are ten ways to get ahead of the game in 2021.

Ah, Instagram—one of my favorite social media channels of all time. The little sister to Facebook, this channel focuses on images and video to share experiences, products and information in a beautiful flowing news feed. But, as a business, just like any other social media channel, we have to think about it in a more…

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