Category: Social Media

What is Facebook Shops and How to Use it for Your Business

Taking cues from their success with Facebook Marketplace and Instagram for Business, Facebook has revealed a new point-of-sales opportunity, Facebook Shops. Facebook Shops allows businesses to use their Facebook account to sell their products online through the social media platform. This is big news for small businesses who either already sell items online or would […]


How to Use YouTube for Business Marketing

As video becomes more and more prominent in search behavior, it has become a viable medium for business marketing. Use this guide for YouTube marketing tips to create your own YouTube Marketing Funnel and develop your own video marketing strategy to start getting results. Before we continue, please keep in mind that this guide is […]


What is a YouTube Suggested Clip and How to Get a Featured Snippet

“How To” videos are on the rise. Data shows that video is becoming more popular as an answer source. Likewise, Google is serving more YouTube videos in search results, especially for “how-to” type questions. Using video to answer questions in Google Search is increasingly relevant, and is a big opportunity for reaching a bigger audience. […]


YouTube Optimization Guide

Are you looking for help optimizing your YouTube channel? This YouTube SEO guide is the first place to look to get started! Optimization Guide Overview Everyone knows that Google dominates the world of search marketing. After all, whenever we need an answer, we say “just Google it”. It may not come as a surprise that […]


Why You Should Be Thinking About SEO Content

Search engine optimized content is one of the most misunderstood aspects of web marketing, but it is also one of the most important. SEO content makes a world of difference between abysmal and competitive ranking. When it comes to search results, keep in mind that Google puts the user first. Google is cracking down on […]


SWIVEL: A Website Conference for Website Owners

Do you own or manage a website? Then you should be at the Swivel conference in Bend, Oregon this October! Swivel 2015 is aimed at website managers and owners. This conference is built to bring energy to your website, inspire new creative ideas, and ultimately help you get the most out of your website. Promoting […]


Ongoing SEO – Content, PPC & Social Media

From Smart Solutions On this blog, we discuss a lot of aspects of web marketing, but if there’s one thing that we can never stress enough, it’s the importance of continuing with SEO practices and tactics on an ongoing basis. Web marketing today is never “complete,” and it’s time we stopped treating it that way. […]


Wanelo Marketing

From Smart Solutions We, as business owners and marketing teams, are always looking for new ways to market our products and services. Whether it’s starting a Pinterest account or putting up flyers all over town—we understand the value of widening marketing avenues and we want to get our products into the right hands. Wanelo is […]


Analytics for Pinterest Profiles are Here!

From Smart Solutions Yesterday morning, we were excited to get an email announcing the analytics tool that we’ve been waiting for—Pinterest Web Analytics seem to have come along with the new Pinterest update. This is a feature that business Pinterest users have been anticipating for some time, and the wait is finally over! We’ve started […]


Pinterest Changed!

From Smart Solutions Social media channels don’t stay the same for long—this is a fact that anyone who has had a Facebook for longer than a year knows. They update on a regular basis and there’s no reason to not embrace the change. However, every change comes with a few ups and downs, and when […]