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When we get time, we like to share things we find interesting – enjoy!
Time to Optimize Your Mobile Website
The importance of having an optimized mobile website design that is responsive on all devices is becoming increasingly important to all businesses big and small. The amount of time and money people...
How to Create the Perfect Social Media Post
If you’re using social media outlets for your business, I bet that you are always on the hunt for the “magic formula” to creating the most engaging social media posts possible. As businesses, you...
4 Common Online Marketing Mistakes for Small Businesses
Online marketing has been growing more and more in popularity. This trend is very common among start-ups and small business owners that have minimal advertising budgets. Online marketing can be a...
Local Business Listings on Google – What Is It And How Does It Work?
Google unveiled a new search engine result page (SERP) layout for small businesses in certain industries that will bring them front and center. This new local search layout allows for small...
How To Verify Your Business’ Online Listings
When you’re searching for a local service, what steps do you take? Do you ask your friends? Drive around town looking for a place of service? Search the web? A recent study estimates that roughly...
Branding for Local Businesses
When starting your own business branding isn’t the first thing on your mind. Although it might seem like something trivial at the beginning, establishing your brand ‘voice’ is an essential part of...
The Basics on Social Media
As a small business we know you have to be extremely creative with your marketing budget (that’s if you even officially have one!). Most of the time your best bet will be using a “free” source such...
Make Your Next Promotion Mobile Friendly
Are you ready to embrace the demands of your mobile customers? Over two-third of Facebook and Twitter traffic is coming from mobile devices! That’s an astonishing number. Furthermore, according to...
How Much Should You Spend on Marketing?
How much to spend on marketing and advertising is a question all businesses ask at one point or another. How much should you spend, and how much can you truly afford to spend? This is an important...
Social Media Networks
It seems like social media is EVERYWHERE now. Everyone is using it now, consumers and businesses of all sizes alike. But as a business have you ever stopped to think which social media network is...
Now You Can Manage Your Mobile App Via Your iPhone!
Here at Amplify we are on a constant quest to ensure our clients get the most out of their services. With this in mind, we are happy to announce that our clients will now be able to manage their...
How to Deal with Customer Reviews
As a business we face the reality that not everyone will be happy with our services or products. So, what happens when an unsatisfied customer takes their complaint online or onto social media? How...
Digital Marketing in 2013
The Rio Grande Valley, as mentioned before in a previous blog post, is a unique place to be for a business. We adopt trends and innovation at our own rate, despite what is going on in the outside...
Are You Missing Out on Social Media Monitoring?
As a company you should want to know what your customers are saying about you on your social media platforms. Is it good? Is it bad? Or are they just not that into you? But how can you do that you...
Advertising in the Rio Grande Valley
The Rio Grande Valley is one of those special places that seem to always stay the same. As a native RGVer, who left and came back from larger metropolitan cities it is extremely obvious how slow the...
Social Media Management Tips
As a local business owner you probably feel as if you never have enough time for anything. Between ensuring that your inventory is current and dealing with the latest employee issue, do you really...
Can Google catch up to Facebook?
A recent article by Anthony Wing Kosner on Forbes.com poses this question. When you think social media you don’t automatically think Google, you of course think Facebook. Although Facebook has...
Quick Tips for Writing a Blog
Ever thought about starting a blog for your business’ website? A recent study indicates that companies that have a blog generate more then 55% more website visitors, 97% more inbound links and 434%...
Welcome to Amplify
Thanks for stopping by and checking out our new website and blog! We are still doing a few 'touch-ups' here and there, but thought we would go ahead and get a blog posted. As you have probably found...